99% of issues people have with Word are because they never bothered to learn how to use it. Remember those IT classes back in school where they taught you how to do a mail merge? Yeah I bet you can’t remember how to do that now.

Technically it can be, since PEMDAS is not an immutable law, it’s convention so we can communicate maths and come to the same answer.

I’m always careful with loud noises, and yet… I’ve had tinnitus ever since I can remember. There’s always been this high pitched whine whenever I’m in dead silence, and it’s always been the case. I used to think I could hear the electricity running through the walls or something.

The whole “Italians reacting to people doing food wrong” thing always seemed so performative.

The only retail workers I’ve seen that appear to be enjoying themselves are people working in Games Workshop. If you express even the slightest interest in Warhammer, they’ll be talking to you for an hour gushing about lore, and it’s a remarkably good sales tactic because I’ve only ever talked with a GW employee once without buying something.

Technically libraries don’t give away books for free, they lend them out but they also pay for them. There’s a reason publishers are more than happy to sell books to libraries, but hate Internet Archive, and that’s because a library can only lend out however many copies of the book they have at a time, but Internet Archive lent out hundreds of generated copies.

You say that, but then there’s the coastal towns in the UK that used to get all their money from tourism, then tourism dried up and now they’re all shitholes because there’s nothing else going on there.

I wonder if you could get away with some kind of payment for locals in tourist heavy locations, like the Canary Islands are HEAVY tourist locations. Stick a tourist tax on hotels, holiday rentals etc. and a large property tax on villas owned by foreign companies and non-Spanish citizens, and then distribute that money to any local working and living on the islands as a flat “Dealing with the tourists” payment. Couple that with lower/no taxes for locals that are employed on the islands (not just those that own property and rent it out) and that might make things seem nicer for them.

Could be worse, it could be Japan where the purpose of X vs Circle is swapped.

Me too, I tried using Firefox on Mac but for some reason its power consumption is insanely high.

I would say ‘no’ on principle. No child of mine will EVER receive virtual currency as a present for Christmas. I would sooner buy them £120 worth of games than even £5 in Robux.

They get elected President.

How do you force people to give according to their ability? What if they don’t want to?

In a world of no consequences, my ‘helping’ people would inevitably result in hurting others, because there are some people out there that deserve to be hurt. As a result, I would make for a terrible Superman. I don’t like being the villain in games, but I’m 100% certain if I got power IRL, I would abuse it and use it to destroy people.

My guess is they’re going to do what Microsoft do (or used to do until about 6 months ago) when you want to sideload anything on their consoles: They charge you. You buy dev access for your account and use it to unlock your phone.

It does when you’re collecting multiple retro consoles, all their cables, any adapters you need for modern TVs. I’ve had to make do with a Series S in dev mode running Retroarch for my retro gaming needs, and even then I can’t get it to use anything other than an Xbox controller.

It’s times like this I wish I had a bigger house. There’s so much of this old tech I just want, or at least I want to see and hold them. Basically I want a hands-on retro gaming museum.

Technically that’s down to Imgur. Basically the UK government told Imgur to stop selling children’s data to advertisers and Imgur was like “No, we’re going to keep doing that and you’re blocked”.

But, OFCOM basically said “Okay sure you can block the UK and that will stop you selling any children’s data going forward, but you still sold children’s data in the past, so the fine still stands” and now it’s kinda in limbo because Imgur doesn’t have a UK office so there’s nowhere to extract the money from. However, even if Imgur did introduce age assurance (which is increasingly likely given that Imgur is based in California and California is flirting with age assurance requirements too) and therefore would be in compliance with the Online Safety Act, they would still be fined because they failed to protect children’s data in the past.

…Yes it does, Sprite, Schweppes, even the own-brand stuff you get in the shops is all called Lemonade colloquially.

That’s because “A Coffee” means ‘an espresso’, as my Portuguese friend told me. She also told me that “Lemonade” doesn’t mean sprite like it does in the UK, much to my dismay when I asked for one in a restaurant.