Sounds good. Tell you what, why don’t you write a complete list of every problem that needs sorting, objectively ranked in order of importance, and we can make sure no-one addresses problem #2 until problem #1 is fixed.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I don’t know why but I thought they were some special inaccessible computers.

It’s their marketing. Marketing, marketing, bullshit and marketing. Macs get viruses, Macs have vulnerabilities, Macs crash. Doesn’t matter how much their indoctrinated fans might claim otherwise, Macs are just weird PCs. In that context, their refusal to allow their owners to control them is all the more jarring and makes owning the older models like you mentioned all the more sensible.

I’m stealing that line, thankyou.

You remind me of the babe.

Yeah, being the slightly dangerous uncle is a pretty sweet gig, NGL.

I’ve never wanted to eat something more than the imaginary feast.

Just in case you needed reminding how good Flight of the Navigator was:

https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8

Have no fear, have no fear! ZigZig the Grand Visir is here!

That whole movie is an utter fever dream spectacular.

I agree with your point about education and communication, but I’d counter that plenty of informed/educated voters assuming an foregone result has caused some unpopular outcomes in the part; a voter who would be otherwise be disenfranchised enough to not bother might as well vote for what they want if they’re going to be voting anyway. Having thought about this a bit in the past I’d like to see all of these changes made to the process:

• As mentioned, mandatory voting with a fine for nonattendance calculated as a proportion of income.
• Postal voting by default. Your polling cars is also postal voting card and can be returned up to four weeks before election day.
• In addition to the right to leave the polling card blank or spoil it, specific options for formal protest options along the lines of “No vote due to inadequate candidates” and “No vote due to lack of faith in the electorate system.”
• Constituencies three or four times bigger than they are at the moment, since people are more travelled and communities are more spread than they were in the past, leading onto:
• Single Transferrable Votes with the number of representatives returned calculated based on the population of the constituency; currently the biggest and smallest have populations of 113,000 and 21,000, but both have equal representation.

Tell me you’ve never had good Mac & Cheese without telling me you’ve never had good Mac & Cheese.

I chug it straight from the bottle as I wait for my porridge to microwave.

Two pillows. Two duvets.

Okay, so, yeah. “Righty tighty” never worked for me but you know what did? Turning Clockwise would eventually make the screwhead block up against the wood. “Clockwise, blockwise”.

Oh, like me? When I saw it coming and threw my arms up and stared at it as it passed.

Have you ever read that Wikipedia article, Timeline of the Far Future? “Median half-life of the ThinkPad X220” is listed between “The Sun reaches the top of the red-giant branch of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram” and “the Moon spirals below Earth’s Roche limit, breaking into a ring of debris”.

-> Paul Harrison -> John Lennon

Landlords > Leeches

I just do that dog thing where I hitch my legs up and use my arms to drag my ass down the hallway runner.

Wikipedia article on fried dough? What am I missing?

Fucking Home Assistant. It does so much. I won’t entertain any smarthome gadget that doesn’t support a local standard that gets it into HA. It’s so liberating to be able to buy any old shit from any old vendor and have it work locally 95% of the time.