The doom of all ADHD blokes who can’t stand being behind people walking slower than him.

‘I’m not following you, I just have places to be faster than your leisurely dawdle down the pavement will allow’ is a phrase I wish we had a polite word for.

Now if this isn’t a source of pan-European solidarity I don’t know what is!

Personally I think the group of people it is most essential to prevent the reproduction of is eugenicists.

Here in the UK that tactic is futile, our trains are delayed and cancelled at such a high rate I’d suspect Russian interference if they suddenly started working properly.

I thought I was being paranoid dropping Google like a hot dog turd around 2018, but everything they’ve done since then has made me glad I’m no customer of theirs for the most part.

Yeah the David vs Goliath fight is a lot less one-sided when you remember David was a shepherd and a dab hand with a slingshot, he’d have been using it to defend his flock from predators from childhood and ancient armies fielded them as weapons of war. The man basically took a gun to a sword fight.

The lesson I think is less ‘the weak can defeat the strong’ in general and ‘don’t engage your enemy on his terms, engage him where you are strongest’.

Yeah the British and French efforts to colonise the Falklands were probably the least morally questionable act of colonisation ever, since there was no indigenous people there to repress. They genuinely were terra nullius, in the actual original sense not the inhumane imperialist meaning of ‘we don’t consider the inhabitants human’.

The Penguin’s Republic of the Falkland Islands will rise again!

+1 for Escapology being a cracking album.

The Falkland Islands, population about 3000 or so, would suddenly find itself one of the few territories in the world capable of deploying an aircraft carrier.

From what I understand it’s only WMDs that are internationally banned from space, while obviously a rather distasteful thing to do it’s not unlawful to put conventional weapons in space. The Soviets armed some of their space stations with autocannon for example, which isn’t even the best example of their space programme making Bond villains everywhere look like complete scrubs.

Locked down is relative, while I use both I find the OS gets in my way a lot more on macOS than Linux.

And a talented engineer is a talented engineer! Pulling that off at 20 is mad, when I was 20 I didn’t have as much skill in my little toenail. Massive respect for her.

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Is it that relevant in this day and age? I was taught you put £ (or whatever currency you’re using) first when you’re writing so Johnny Fraudster can’t turn your 100£ into 1100£.

That all feels a bit immaterial on the web.

I’ll be honest Americentrism annoys me too, but we can hardly complain when we’re on lemmy.world of all places.

America is the largest Anglophone country so you can’t really complain about them being numerous on an international English-speaking audience, not exactly their fault they did a lot of baby booming in the late '40s.

UK 🤝 USA

Getting fucked up the arse by FPTP electoral systems.

I think being the only browser with a credible stance on ad blockers will help them in the long run.

Safe from people scraping it and proving how damn robotic a lot of their content is these days no less.

If you like anchovies, try Colatura di Alici if you can get hold of it. It’s a direct descendant of Roman garum and is like a magic button for improving a lot of dishes.