khannie @ khannie @lemmy.world

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Also a h person on herb as is my entire country.

I have two:

I pronounce the d in Wednesday. Like wedns-day.

Vagaries - vag-air-ees. I think this is an Irish thing.

I say it as two syllables: cray-on.

I have never heard it pronounced any other way. Not American though (and I suppose you may not be either!).

I agree with all of that but some folks just aren't clear communicators and / or English isn't their first language so unless it's a real workload to read, I'm generally grand with it.

I actually find the general standard of text posts on here very high. I'd bet money that the number of correctly used commas per post here is way higher than the internet average, though that's purely anecdotal.

It's from a TV show called "The IT Crowd" and it's an excellent watch. Highly recommended.

Couldn't agree more.

Our kitchen table was pretty expensive when we got it and is destroyed from a heap of kids use and family meals over about 22 years. It is firmly agreed (by them too) that when my wife and I die it will be the only thing the kids fight over possession of.

They were so good though.

Haha. They're bouncier than they look. There was a huge craze of them in the late 80s where I live. People definitely lost teeth.

5000 consecutive bounces on a lolo ball (aka pogo bal)

I'm not sure they can spin their way out of this one. The number of new car manufacturers that are spinning up in the last ten years compared to the fifty before it is mind blowing.

I see Tesla getting swallowed whole in a very competitive market in the next twenty years. Their early mover advantage is all but erased.

Edit: and the European manufacturers are catching up fast. I heard the new Renault is a super little car. There will always be some bias to buying European in Europe (as I'm sure is the case with other places, but Tesla had genuine caché for a while). That God awful cyber tank thing will never sell well here.

European view: I always thought I'd love a Tesla when I make the move to electric.

Would never, ever buy one now and it's purely because of mister half a trillion election purchasing oligarch.

My dad used to say that all you really need when traveling is your passport, tickets and cash and that's true enough IMO.

It's brave though. At a minimum I always take clean t-shirt, undies and socks. It has paid off more than once.

How goes it?

Good luck with it. Retro game corps does a decent overview of his setup which would probably help someone starting out. Pretty fascinating watch actually.

SBU doing a superb job offing senior folks inside Russia. Hats off to them.

The latest android versions on quite a few phones allow you to stop charging at 80%.

On my phone it's: settings->battery->charging limit.

It may be different on your phone so maybe just search for "80" in the settings menu.

Yeah spot on. Deleting.

100% fair and I do generally follow that rule with my phone and mostly enable the "stop charging at 80%" feature but I've noticed two downsides to it:

1. It occasionally needs a full charge / discharge cycle or it loses true 80%
2. If I do it overnight I find the phone unusually warm in the morning which is quite disconcerting so I mostly manually manage it these days (OnePlus Nord 2T 5G). I'm hoping they fix that in the future.

I'm a bit more carefree with the headphones partly because it's harder to tell and partly because it's a much, much easier battery replacement.

Having travelled a lot, I feel I was born into what I consider a great country just as it was starting to pull itself out of poverty. Pure chance.

I got a good education and college was essentially free.

I have a lot of kids and work really hard at being a good dad so I am surrounded by love. I am very lucky that I am married twenty years (some better than others) to someone who still loves me and who I still love. Some days that love is all that keeps me going because fuck me I am exhausted haha.

I feel uncomfortable typing all that out but it's a good exercise in thankfulness so thank you.