I live in a country where our ISPs are required by law to keep a record of our internet metadata. When ISPs have been subpoenaed in the past ths answer has often been “we don’t keep that data”.

So in that case we’re looking at a likelihood of 1 vs less than 1. So you’re wrong there.

Plus, I would love to hear your source on these probabilities you proclaim. Can you share how you know this?

You said “far more likely”, so one assumes you have the numbers.

Also weirdly accepts the premise of the story then calls it a lie. Like at least have some narrative cohesion in your snark, people, it’s not hard.

Yeah, this is just the thin end of the wedge.

Although I suppose you could call windows itself the thin end of the wedge, this is a slightly wider part.

I use librecalc - I would’ve used excell in a previous life, but most spreadsheets will do - and what I like about it is that I can keep a running tally of the entire calculation chain as I go. And once you learn to use the tool, it can do much, much more powerful things.

If you like factory designing games, I can recommend anything by Zachtronics.

They’re all esoteric programming/automation type puzzle games, and they all have their own unique solitaire games built-in for whenever you get tired of the main game.

My personal favourites are SpaceChem - scifi molecule factories - and Opus Magnum - steampunk alchemical molecule factories. Something about the molecules just works for me, don’t know why. Plus the Opus Magnum solitaire game is really unique and fun, and it has a user-made level feature, so you can keep playing.

Last Call BBS is a collection of minigames they made as their final release before shutting up shop, so it’s a lot more casual than the others, but a lot of fun.

The full list of her titles is a short book.

Even the “full honorifics” are usually a long and boring paragraph.

People usually don’t use them because a) it’s annoying, b) it takes too long, and/or c) we don’t particularly want to honour her and the extremely long list of genocides that those titles are formed from.

That doesn’t make her not the queen of England, though, so the other person isn’t wrong.

The thing that makes her not the queen of England is being dead as shit.

I’ve always had a lot of success with holding out my hand towards the cat, palm down, limp, and allowing the cat to inspect it in their own time.

I’ve heard this is also a technique from experts, but I just found it when we had a cat. It seems to work on dogs too.

It’s non-threatening, and it doesn’t put any pressure on them for a response. Just get it close enough to be just outside their personal space. If they stretch their nose towards it to sniff, you can bring it closer, and then you may just get the coveted nose bump and cheek nuzzle.

You may also get the, “what are you doing, you freak, leave me alone” body language, in which case you just have to wait and try again later.

My kid wanted to watch it together, and I was like, that’s fine as long as you let me tell you that Rick isn’t always right and he’s not the hero.

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All you gotta do to know the plastic bans were bullshit is to look at the sheer volume of disposable plastic that goes into your shopping cart.

Shopping bags and straws were targeted because they impact consumers, not corporate supply chains.

It’s the classic move of individualising a systemic problem to distract people from focusing on the actual source. It was pioneered with littering, then recycling, carbon footprint, and others. The research shows it works to take the heat off of corporations, and the “solutions” that get sold to us don’t work. None of them do.

Cut to a different version of that scene where they just start humping the computer.

Untethered occupants are a serious danger to other occupants in their own car. I wouldn’t agree to drive with someone who wouldn’t put one on tbh, partly because it hints at a lack of judgement and I wouldn’t want that person in charge of the car.

892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.

Like you already got unbelievably lucky.

Moccasin behaviour, fr.

Cool story, you’ve got loads to say but no ability to listen. Thanks for wasting my time.

It’s high speed rail. I’m guessing the general attitude in here is that we don’t want this to fail.

Cool well this sub is called “fuck cars”, not “fuck everything that’s not a pedal-powered bicycle.”

Like sorry, but you’re arguing against something that just hasn’t been said.

Cars are bad for motorbikes too. Bikes are still way better than cars.

But also, walkability and bicycle friendly infrastructure isn’t out of the reach of south east asian countries. That’s not a feature of wealthy countries - like I said, it’s very cheap.

I don’t have the details to hand, but usually when poorer nations have bad infrastructure, it’s mainly down to structural adjustment policies stopping them from investing in their own people’s welfare to keep them more desparate and easier to exploit as cheap labour.

Anti-car people in general are going to want to end poverty in general, which means the squalid conditions of a lot of these places would change. It’s not a matter of changing one thing and leaving literally every other variable untouched. Anti-car advocacy is part of a wider a holistic change in society.

Like I’ve spent time in Ho Chi Minh City, and yeah, the place is a sea of motorbikes. It’s a health & aafety disaster. But it’s a flat city. There’s nothing to say bicycles couldn’t be used there.

Feel free to make a point if you have one.

“this crazy lesbian feminist said all sex is rape!”

Not all sex, just all the sex in their world. So by saying it was “all sex” they were kind of telling on themselves by agreeing.

I should probably read that book, thanks for that.