jpeps @ jpeps @lemmy.world

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Absolutely love that this is a Newsround article

100%, the comments have been infuriating to read. This is the obvious interpretation.

I've just started playing Factorio. Played a bunch before but never with the deck. It feels like it should be completely viable honestly but the official controls and the top community controls confuse me. I'm taking the time to craft my own 'perfect' control scheme and loving it.

As far as I understand it, there are political interests too. Not just the obvious, ie a city council wanting to see economic movement within the city. Any regular person with a pension likely has money tied up in real estate. Ensuring those pensions maintain value is a concern for governments.

I have this power, and one little caveat of it is how much I crave dozing, ie being awake, sleepy, and cozy but not needing to get up. I guess could just set my alarm earlier but I need the sleep more

The 20mph part is most infuriating. Obviously not paying 'rip-off fines' sounds great but I honestly don't even know what he's talking about. But 20mph is great, and from a driving experience perspective the difference to 30 is so arbitrary. How changing that back is letting drivers 'live their lives' I have no clue. What if I want to go at 35mph, Rishi?

I agree. I really do feel for these people, but with a provider as accessibility friendly as Google, it's really no different than any other set of people losing a specific brand of service.

FYI 'boy' here just comes from the phrase 'oh boy' and is a generic expression of excitement, having nothing to do with the gender of the person being addressed.

If the phrase was 'I have news for you, boy!' then it would be addressing you as a boy.

Speaking of not knowing things, how do you know the attacker's pronouns?

To pile onto that, I was recently disturbed to find I was the dissenting voice in a comment thread by saying that we should not use AI to produce generated CSAM. The top comment defended the idea.

Without giving it tons of thought:

An Awesome Wave - Altj

Camp - Childish Gambino

Dear - Keaton Henson

So Long Forever - Palace

High Violet - The National

Trouble Will Find Me - The National

Romantic Works - Keaton Henson

Up From Below - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Ha. I just meant staring at the oven is not particularly fun. Fair dos on the decorating though.

What do you mean by 'never neutral'?

I know at least for French it's been more controversial as there was no direct they/them equivalent. Instead new language has started to be used, though it's not standard. I find it interesting as they/them is often defended (beyond the fact that it's been in use in English for a long long time) as being a language tool in English that's readily available and a far more palatable alternative to neo-pronouns. However in French (and other languages) I wonder if an invented gender neutral equivalent is culturally perceived as being no different.

"I went to see a doctor about my headaches today."

"Oh good, what did X say?"

Anyone that doesn't use 'they' here either has more information than I provided or is a bit sexist.

I think this is the most basic change to make that simplifies everything. Particularly online, until you described yourself as an 'old man' I had no idea of your gender. Traditional language would mean even without this information I'd still refer to you with he/him pronouns, or broader terms like 'this guy' etc, but to be more welcoming to everyone, we should be starting out using generic they/them for everyone.

Thanks for your reply. I can't say I relate to be honest, I would always want a good amount of all of those ingredients in stock. I can't really see how mixing powder with water for 2 minutes constitutes an activity for a whole afternoon either.

How much of a thing is using a cake mix? I bake often but just using simple ingredients that I buy separately, but cake mixes seem to be really popular, especially in the states. Is that true?

While travelling in the states, I was so perplexed to see that in some car parks where you'd expect to see disabled parking that there were parking spots for veterans.

Haha well that's fair enough then!