And the person has waay too many benches to last ten lifetimes. And yet, instead of using the benches to help people needing benches to sleep on, they choose to use it to trip kids.

Huh. I always thought homonyms need to both sound the same (homophone) and spelt the same (homograph). But a quick search showed they could be either.

My whole life has been a lie.

I love English. Where “fuck it” (let’s do it) and “fuck this” (walk away) have completely opposite meanings.

Also turn off the adblocker at some point. Kids gotta learn what’s an ad and what’s not.

And install Windows while you’re at it. Ransomware builds character.

The chronic pain relief by itself was enough to keep me motivated. Asthma, joint pains (hypermobility sucks!), etc are now down to manageable levels – if not completely gone.

And yeah, I don’t enjoy it and sometimes look for excuses to slack off. And right on cue, my knee pain starts flaring up after a couple weeks. Followed by the rest of the body.

On unfamiliar machines, I just faceroll over the function keys hoping to hit the right one…

Haha honestly I have no idea. I live near a train station so not a lot of opportunity to catch either taxis or uber…

Depends on where you are. In Australia most taxi companies have an app that works like uber. Shows you the route and a fixed price. And when a driver picks up your fare, it’ll show you where they are.

You’re a good friend. I wish everyone has someone like this. I have a very small group of mates where I can be vulnerable without being judged. But not everyone are as privileged, unfortunately…

No. But when the options are either:

• Shitty friends who have better things to do than hearing you vent,
• Paying $400/hr to talk to a psychologist, or
• A free AI that not only pays attention to you, but actually remembers what you told them last week,

it’s quite understandable that some people choose the one that is a privacy nightmare but keeps them sane and away from some dark thoughts.

I’m sorry…

I really hate how em-dashes are now being used as an AI indicator. I’m old—old enough to know how to use them—and have enjoyed the last couple decades of touch keyboards making it easy to type them.

Now i have to stop using them again because some stupid regurgitation machine starts overusing them…

Yeah that’s the one!

> qbasic nibbles.bas

Was Encarta the one with a trivia game? Or was that Britannica? Cause I remember my antisocial young self playing it to death.

I still got some useless facts stuck in my head, taking up valuable space… I can’t conjure any of them on demand; but someone could randomly mention a species of frog and I would go, “oh yeah, they’re native to Madagascar!”

Triple, even. Boxer: Sportsperson, container, and dog.

Teufel

It’s hilarious that you literally have to make a deal with the Devil for this.