spittingimage @ spittingimage @lemmy.world

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Good: I have free speech.

Bad: You have free speech.

I think that sums it up.

I don't know what the US congress is any more, but in other countries it's because they really really want to expel someone and the deportee's home country might say "no thanks, they're your problem".

Why not tell us, if you know?

Followed by "but I don't like to complain".

I don't know why anyone would prefer that.

What's this, an attempt to kick an addiction?

I've never heard of an extension like that.

Memory training tools. Like the memory palace, the person-action-object method, acronyms and mnemonics.

Visualisations like using the abacus method to do fast and accurate arithmetic.

And human-executable techniques like the doomsday algorithm and George Marsaglia's random number generator.

Obviously because everyone outside of your particular generation is a hivemind that shares a single un-nuanced thought on every topic.

A company I worked for announced that it had come to management attention that staff were socialising in the office, and that wasn't allowed. To prevent it the doors would be locked until ten minutes before our official start time in the morning. I showed up at 7:30 the next morning for my shift and the whole team were milling around the front door because they couldn't get in. Seems like they never delegated a manager to open up for us.

The policy was never rescinded, but they never tried enforcing it again either.

A patient escaped his police escort through a crawlspace above the showers. The whole building went on lockdown (with loudspeaker announcements about not interacting with any naked men you come across) before they eventually found him a mile away, still starkers.

I say that when I'm about to ask a question that sounds disingenuous but I honestly feel like everyone but me got the memo about it.

Loved the Revenger trilogy.

Recent, certainly. I don't know if it's newest.

I'm getting into Adrian Tchaikovsky myself. He certainly loves painting the future as a capitalist hellscape, doesn't he?

I'm part way into Shroud, where whole solar systems are being strip-mined for resources, and the people doing the work are skinny because they can't afford to eat well but they get auto-dosed with drugs to help them focus when hunger is distracting them.

Sounds a lot like burnout to me.

A toasted English muffin, with peanut butter. My usual breakfast.

I assume a large percentage of Lemmy users have the 'tism.

Yes. But you have to understand - to my mind, the purpose of a pet name is to entertain me, while mildly annoying her, by being unforgivably twee.

I call her my little Smoddy-Dimble.

I feel like it's probably good to study it, but there's no need to report it to the news media.

Your average proper kiwi bird who complies with the right order of things can fit into two large human hands, yes?

Yes, of course. You just need to have your hands further apart than you might think.