https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/patriotism

My favourite kind of updates are those that happen on a Friday afternoon where you push all the buttons you think you have to, and it looks like it’s getting on with it, so you switch the monitor off and go home for the weekend, then when you come back in on Monday there’s another popup that says “you have to push this button for no reason before I’ll install these updates” and then you have to sit there watching it update because it’s sat there for the entire fucking weekend waiting for you to push that stupid pointless button.

I wish there was a checkbox that says “Complete updates without requiring any further user input. Wanna reboot? Reboot. Wanna download some shit? Download some shit. Wanna start installing some shit? Install some shit. Wanna repeat over and over? Repeat over and over” or something like that.

The worst that my country wants to do with my data is attempt to sell me shit I don’t want. (OK yeah we have one or two taboos: antisemitism and actual terrorism, but that’s about it.)

In some other countries, drawing parallels with certain emperors and certain A.A.Milne characters could cost me my freedom and possibly my life. Ain’t nothing stopping me standing outside #10 and yelling Rishi is a wanker!

No it doesn’t. “Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, as in the list of time zones by UTC offset.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

Time now in UTC is 10:33, no matter where on the planet you are.

Well you can. Just switch your clock to UTC and you’re done. You won’t even have DST to deal with.

A Sony mobile phone that couldn’t remember the time when it was switched off.

True it’s going back a while. But not so far that battery backed clock chips were uncommon.

What rules can we add that solve this problem? (I’ve tried DDG but didn’t find any results)

Maybe it’s a UK thing but at large public transport terminals we get lines of taxis waiting for “zero wait” business.

“fictional AI CP” isn’t a thing. AI is trained on existing data. It does not create new stuff. If you want AI to generate CP then you have to train it on CP.

I hope he was wearing a sonky

OK so next time you’ve done your work for the day, try going home early. Do let us know how it goes.

You aren’t paid by the hour as long as it suits the company. As soon as it suits you, you’re damn well going to sit there until 5pm staring at the ceiling if you have to, THEN you can go home.

I had the misfortune to have to share an office with a bunch of sales morons. I can recommend Bose idiot-cancelling headphones. What a bunch of selfish noisy fuckwombles.

That’s actually quite an interesting approach and I wonder what the limits of implications are.

Could we for example imply that Bo and Luke are not only shagging Daisy and each other, but in addition have raped and/or murdered numerous other people? Could we imply they’ve lynched anyone? If we can, what else could we infer? If not, why not? What limit did we exceed?

Or could we go the other way and imply that they do lots of anti-racism stuff offscreen and that they’re using Confederate symbology and names not to glorify it but to mock it? And that they are therefore non-racist and (with additional implications) non-incestuous?

Since one aspect of racism is ascribing negative traits to a particular people group regardless of any evidence that those traits are true (like for example the English thinking of Irish people as stupid, although for the most part I don’t think we do that any more), could ascribing incest and racism to citizens of southern states in itself be racist?

Well if Brutus took over, Brutey?

What about the incest?

Non-Yank here. Enjoyed and still do TDOH. Names like “General Lee” and “Jefferson Davis Hogg” are meaningless to me, except as they appeared in the show, and the car could equally have been called Lieutenant Bob or Sergeant Pete. The flag on top of the car was just a fancy design.

If at all possible could you consider this an educational NSQ? Please?

So aside from the use of those symbols and specific names, where exactly - with reference to timestamps and episode numbers - are the racism and incest?

Are you assuming that just because Bo and Luke were frequently within 100 yards of Daisy that they must automatically be shagging her off camera? In which case it’s a gay show too because for exactly the same reason Bo and Luke must be shagging each other.

And I have no idea why you think it’s loaded with hate crimes. Please refer to a specific instance so that I can understand.

This whale is near. That country is far away.

Heh, I wonder how the ml tankies are spinning this one and what browser they’re going to use instead of Nazifox or whatever stupid name they’re using for it now.

So which non-capitalist country/countries allow disabled and economically inactive people to migrate there for free healthcare?

Nice one Samsung! FOAD