Vashti @ vashti @feddit.uk

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Disconcertingly close to the truth tbh.

Yes, it was a chest freezer with one of those little filing cabinet locks. It genuinely never occurred to mum that her eight year old could pick it with her hairpin.

... Have you honestly, genuinely never heard of test tube babies? Do you not realise we've had them since the 70s?

Think about that, then realise we had all this shit about "but the poor children" back then, for that, and none of it ever materialised because nobody gives a shit or ever knows the difference or cares at all.

It's no different than giving birth by c-section, or indeed vaginally. There is no difference.

Who the hell is getting bullied for being a test-tube baby?

We had all this shit in the 70s before the first IVF baby, and to the best of my knowledge, bullying over it has simply never been a thing.

Thank you! What a great explanation. I'm always amazed by how much cooler things are than I expect.

Please accept this lemmygold: 🥇

I've got to ask, though—how is breathing CO2 pollution? Aren't we just taking in air, removing the oxygen, and exhaling the waste gases? Isn't there the same net CO2 afterwards?

Have I misunderstood something as simple as breathing? Please say no.

I figured out one of those locks when I was eight. Used to unlock the freezer with a paperclip

Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.

I mean, I'd never use Notepad. Download Notepad++, it's better in literally every way.

Doesn't have formatting, unless Notepad has got really adventurous at some point in the last decade or two.

Slightly annoyed about this, as I do use Wordpad (it's lightweight and useful for quick notes that I want to mark up with bold and italic). I don't always want to watch Word or Libreoffice load for twenty to thirty seconds.

Shitty decision, happy to be Wordpad's one fan.

So are Irish conditions different from conditions over the sea in Wales, or...?

From what I can tell, the secret is rubber boots.

...for entertainment. For fun.

I don't think many of us would come here if it wasn't fun.

Wasn't the issue with this one that money was changing hands in exchange for a printed, physical book? Like, I know the team wasn't making money, but it's understood in fanfic circles that this is a Bad Idea and this was a very high profile (and, sadly, professional-looking) project.

The work is now on AO3 alongside countless other Star Trek fanfics that exist with no trouble. If they'd done that all along, I suspect there would never have been an issue.

Linehan being attached to something isn't a plus these days...

Populist really just means telling people what they want to hear. Bernie and Trump are both populists, they just have (largely) very different audiences.

SMS was free on some networks initially. They only even realised they could charge for it later.

I promise you, we had massive generational debt all the time I was growing up in the seventies, eighties and nineties, and when my mother was growing up in the 50s and 60s. We had way better public services then than we have today. Whether or not the government is making debt repayments has no bearing on public services—that's all about the attitude of the government, and a government that wants to privatise everything and destroy the public trust will always find some pretext to do so, such as the triple lock being the biggest votewinner in the land.

Seems like only yesterday I was co-admining my first public server in 1996.

Fun times.