Is Owl House mainly a kids show? It seems like it.

Same question for Knights of Guinevere? Kids, YA, a bit of both but also interesting for adults?

Or buy a second hand pc for not much more than 50 euros/dollars. Install linux and it’ll be more than fast enough for torrenting, playing media and a bit of surfing. Companies are off loading anything that can’t run windows 11 right now.

Also means you’re not torrenting stuff on your main system while gaming.

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TBH in the past, I’ve argued both for the -um ending, and for the -ium ending. It really annoys some people. It’s even more annoying, when they realise that you’ve managed to annoy them with such a pedantic point.

Another one is skeptical/sceptical. “I think you’ll find it comes from the Greek, so it should be with a k.”

Or the plural octopus. “I think you’ll find it comes from the Greek, so it’s octopodes. Octopi is certainly wrong, because it doesn’t come from latin.”

I think I may be an energy vampire.

You’ll probably hate me for saying this, but when I worked in an office, I often pretended to be stupid when it came to IT stuff.

Sometimes it’s nice to have a little break on the company’s dime. I get that it’s annoying, but on the plus side, it helps prevent management from making unnecessary and existentially threatening cuts to the IT department.

Boomer boss gets the importance of the IT guy replacing the deskjet printer so they can print off a 100 page colour manual on how the company’s ‘going green’. They don’t understand the IT department fixing something like sievelike data security. That’s a problem for after the shareholder meeting, if anyone ever finds out.

It’s a bit like how I’m not great at scanning stuff at the self-scan tills and make mistakes. Don’t want it to be too profitable to replace a cashier with a machine. Everyone’s got bills to pay.

I used to do IT support, so now I sometimes pretend to be an idiot outside of work too. “Mom’s friend Sarah has an issue with windows and wants me to help fix it for free? Sorry, I only know how to use the apples.”

A kilometer is 1000 M16A4s.

Also: the latin for lead(Pb) is plumbum, not plumbium. Same thing for gold(Au). It’s Aurum, not Aurium. Same for Iron(Fe). Ferrum not Ferrium.

I’m honestly a fan of having the option to use standardised/latinised chemical element names.

Cu = Cuprum = Copper.

Hg = Hydrargyrum = Mercury. Hydrargyrum is still sometimes (very very rarely) used in English.

Pb = Plumbum = Lead. The French for lead is plomb, for example. Would clear up a lot of confusion with homographs. We already use plumb in English, as in plumb line. (The fact that it’s plumbum, not plumbium, does undermine the whole aluminium>aluminum argument obviously).

Argentum instead of silver. Plenty of languages use a variation of that already. English already uses argent in some contexts, like heraldry.

Same thing for natrium instead of sodium, also common to have a variation of that in plenty of languages.

IRC Silicium was the originally proposed name for silicon. Plenty of languages also use a variation of that.

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I could see it being written about a lot of straight men. The world is full of deeply insecure emotionally stunted man-children, bullied at school for being supposedly ‘feminine’ or ‘gay’, who now overcompensate by riding around in huge trucks, being right-wing douche canoes, and pretending to be ‘alpha’. It’s no coincidence that plenty of those types end up killing themselves too, despite supposedly being in a position of privilege.

Society is patriarchal and heteronormative. This hurts almost everyone to a certain degree.

Not that I’m discounting the very real predjudice the LGBTQ+ community faces. It has cost me a job or two. Fortunately I’m bi and look stereotypically masculine, so I’m able to fly under the radar most of the time. And coming to terms with my sexuality has really opened my world and broadened my horizons, which has helped me immensely.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Look at all the straight men, who are performatively masculine. Look at how angry and insecure they are, because they’re unable to be honest about their supposedly ‘feminine’ characteristics and interests.

Look at tradwives and performatively feminine women. Often unhappy because they can never conform fully to an artificial and socially constructed female ideal. Look at how they often project that frustration on other marginalised groups.

Potassium (K) is called Kalium in New Latin and a variation thereof in plenty of languages. It makes far more sense. The symbol’s K in the periodic table an the eymological link with alkali is in the word. The Brits don’t have a leg to stand on.

Then again, Americans are stupid about the metric system. Think they can’t visualize what 1 meter is, but almost every American can visualize the length of an M16A4 just fine.

America would sooner arrest someone for bypassing the firewall on an article about a prolific child rapist, than arrest an actual child rapist.

Exactly a year ago:

before the match, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were filmed pulling Palestinian flags from houses, making racist anti-Arab chants such as “death to Arabs”, assaulting people, and vandalising local property. Plans to attack Israeli fans were subsequently shared through messaging apps. After the match, Maccabi fans were ambushed and assaulted across the city centre, while a group of Maccabi fans around Damrak was recorded assaulting people and vandalising local property. … a report compiled with the chief prosecutor and chief of police which said the events were caused by a “toxic combination of antisemitism, hooliganism, and anger about the conflicts in … the Middle East” … The Maccabi Tel Aviv fan base is known to include far-right ultra groups that have been involved in racist incidents in Israel in the past, including directing racist abuse at Arab and black players on their own team.

Honestly, who needs that much hassle over a football match? Birmingham dodged a bullet.

The media coverage of this has been poor, but let’s not get started on UK social media, where I think it’s becoming increasingly obvious that bad actors who are already amplifying far right voices and trying to sow division, jumped on this whole debacle to once again be level 9000 bad faith wankers about the whole thing.

You’d be surprised.

Bit of a tangent, but I once read an article about professional Santas. Apparently a surprising amount of women (and I assume men) are into the whole jolly old fat man with a beard thing. Outfit and all. And not necessarily in a good way either. Apparently constant sexual harrassment is one of the serious downsides of being a professional Santa.

Yep.

And it doesn’t even have to be something they find particularly interesting. People are social animals. The socialising is less important than the subject of discussion.

Hell, people will watch/do stuff they find boring, just so they can have something to chat about with colleagues or friends on a monday. A bit like that IT Crowd episode, where they pretend to care about football/soccer.

In this case, the guy picked something he guessed they probably both played as children and had some nostalgia for, resulting in a low stakes conversation while they figure out if they’re attracted to each other.

It’s actually a good flirting/bonding tip. Talk about something you both enjoyed as children, so the first interaction has positive associations and is relatively low stakes. Having differing opinions on some aspect of roblox isn’t ever going to be a deal breaker, is it?

IT RUBS THE DECONTAMINATION GEL ON ITS SKIN OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!

Bit of tangent, but IRC the thing with depictions of Jesus, is that the bible doesn’t really describe what he looks like. In early Christianity, depicting Jesus was still considered idolatry. When depictions do become more common, they’re often not meant to be an accurate representation of what he looked like.

So when they did started depicting him, they were likely inspired by Greek/Roman gods like Orpheus, Hermes and Apollo. Often with a Zeus beard tacked on and wearing the robes of a Roman emperor.

I’m Dutch. The article mentions this, but I think it’s important to reiterate that the idea the Netherlands is especially progressive has always been a bit of a myth. It arose partly because people mistake tolerance for acceptance. The Netherlands has long been a tolerant country. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an accepting country.

For example, the Nazis were able to murder 75% of the Dutch-Jewish population in the Holocaust. Statistically, you were arguably safer being a Jew in Nazi Germany. My countrymen tolerated their Jewish neighbours. But they didn’t care enough about them, to not look the other way or prioritize their career when the Nazis came along. The Dutch are often in denial about this, a bit like how the country still hasn’t fully come to terms with its colonial past.

Anyway, it’s not a huge surprise that right wing populists and Russia have had such success in the Netherlands. They’re exploiting a nasty seam that has always been there.

Alternative if you want to be hardcore: air gap the system you run questionable software on.

If you’re bored, you can even try to infect it with as much shit as possible.

Doesn’t work as a test system though. Stuff lies dormant waiting for network access.