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  • The implicit part of OPs question is ".. that I might want to read.".

    The correct answer to OPs question is to provide a full listing of something like feedly's RSS feeds. Millions and millions of them.

    This is why one frames a question (gives constraints) so that the answer is immediately useful to the questionnaire.

  • The need for such a device depends where you drink. And life skills.

    Ever bought any illicit drugs? Taken or done anything that could enhance your life? Own a gun? Thought about using it for a split-second?

    Do you see yourself a potential Darwin Award winner? Are you in training?

    Everything is a risk-reward balancing act. If your day-to-day analysis of that continuous series of balances is repeatedly flawed then best not go. Best not step out of your house. Or room. Or Bed. Depending.

    Vietnam is lovely. Went a few years ago as part of a group thing. And I checked today: I am still alive. I prefer the north to the south: people with nothing will share and engage with you, the south provides you with all the opportunities to buy stuff from curbside ventures you could ever wish for (read between the lines).

    They will bombard you with details of the 'American war' which as a British bloke was rather sad. Maybe some of you know that history.

  • Same question in 20th century: recommend a book.

    If you can't see the problem with this question, .. Sheesh! ..nvm.

  • "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -- G. Michael Hopf

    If I am left wing and the body-left moves left then I am right wing. Extreme Left wing circles around to become extreme right and then moderate.

    They call it history. You spell it P-R-O-P-A-G-A-N-D-A, and the most well read of you think that it's a small country in east central Africa.

  • Thank-you very much. I knew about the shooting but didn't recognise the name.

    Again, thank-you very much for your service!

    I'm having difficulty deciding whether that was what the US second amendment was intended for, rather than letting their kids shoot each other in school.

  • Presupposes that you've used some of my other five words.

    Reserves an Honourable mention, though.

  • They had the whole market and fucked it up by ignoring all of us beta testers who were telling them the firmware was crap (because it has been ignored for years).

  • Five.

    1. Beer
    2. Taxi
    3. Restaurant/Food
    4. Train/Airport
    5. Hello

    Extensive research conducted all over the world. I love Asia but am awful with the language(s). French/France is my favourite place.

  • Clothes are meant to be used

    Only if you're not the one doing the frigging washing and ironing.

  • The (apparent but elusive) hole in my bottom lip and Spaghetti Bolognese are the primary cause for my disquiet.

    Context: am old fart from the time of white work shirts and still like white or pale colours today. Wtf are dark suits and dark shirts about? That's clubbing clobber.

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  • Flip a coin.

    Not because it's anything to do with the coin, but because, by the time it lands, you will either be trying to rationalise the way it landed or be happy that it landed that way.

    In other words, you'll have already made up your mind what to do by the time it lands.

    The coin only represents the finality of being good with what you've chosen; some might say the urgency element.

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  • This.

    Old fart here. Loyalty doesn't figure in business anymore. That's not a cynical position, it's a true position, especially in relation to staff.

    Loyalty actually stops you doing what's best for the company because you will be disinclined to present momentum which might undermine (accidentally or otherwise) someone to whom you are loyal.

  • Yes, pretty sure no-one is going to (be able to) look back on Gen Z and remember their achievements, except maybe in a negative way.

  • "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -- G. Michael Hopf

    "If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court.":: Primal Fear

  • When your wife says she's ready to move to the next level.

  • Upvoted with caveats

    I choose clean OSs with minimal additional code and settings added by distro maintainers. Fedora is fairly good. ArchLinux is excellent.

    ArchLinux actually makes quite a good first distro if you're willing to learn GNU/Linux. If you grew up with the early non-NT (DOS) Windows then you're more than used to trying to squeeze the most out of Windows by learning how it works. That was a long time ago now.

    I moved from Windows to Linux just after the turn of the century because Microsoft were making it more difficult to use your own OS on your own machine.

    After Fedora Core 4+ I ended up using ArchLinux for the longest time. It's early adoption of systemd was a factor, as was the rolling nature.