Cost of car use: Had to call the breakdown out today because it's been six weeks since I last moved the car and the battery was flat.
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Cost of car use: Had to call the breakdown out today because it's been six weeks since I last moved the car and the battery was flat.
*Shivers*
Like, one of biggest problems with database work is *inaccessible context*. The data model is schema+effective usage.
One of the nastier systems I've worked with had four different data models coexisting (fighting?) in the same schema.
Schlagzeile Weil sich keiner dran hält: Tempo 30 wird aufgehoben
Deutsche Regierung und Völkerrecht Symbolbild
An infinite number of mathematicians enter a bar.
The 1st orders a beer.
The next says: "I'll have 1/2 of what he ordered"
The next says: "I'll have 1/2 of that..."
The bartender stops them, pours two beers and says:
"I get it, but you need to know your limits."
Wazzockmobile is also a well understood term.
You can probably imagine what kind of vehicle is meant...
Spuzzock is new to me but makes perfect sense.
Couldn't ask for stronger proof of long-term UK residence.
One of the best-value purchases I ever made was a sack of extra-hot chilli from a random middle-eastern grocer in the Black Country a quarter-century ago.
It'll probably last me the rest of my life...
Habeck is the only DE politician I can think of who approached a problem with some degree of systems thinking.
Part of the picture is what I call 'legislator brain': Thinking you can legislate for a desired outcome and have done, rather than for the systems that create the outcome (which then also have to be implemented).
Not unique to DE, but DE has a particularly bad case.
Winning thread
A very well deserved result for Labour.
Gorton and Denton by-election result:
GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Channelling the man who mistook his wife for a hat: Bouba with a Kiki excrescence.
This was the triangular walrus I didn't know I needed.
Kopfkino der Extraklasse
Merz unser
Merz unser in den Vorstandsetagen,
geheiligt werde dein Markt.
Deine Rendite komme,
dein Wachstum geschehe,
wie im DAX so auch im Land.
Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Doing the work to help people facing appalling abuse, because you're someone who can.
Character all can learn from.
3/3. Watch out for the double-negative question.
2/3. Your IP address is captured for possible deduplication (may be an issue for multiple respondents on the same connection)
A few things to note about this, especially if you're in a hurry:
1/3. There is no 'confirm send', it autosends after the last question (further comments about drpendents)
Languages I know a bit and ought to learn properly because I'd actually use them: Italian, Slovene, Romanian
Languages I want to learn because I've sort of fallen in love with them: Icelandic, Welsh
Languages I want to learn because they really scratch my linguist nerd itch: Basque, Lithuanian
Very much a YMMV thought:
I remain utterly bemused by all San Francisco discourse.
I found it rather like Lisbon: An interesting and rewarding place to visit that I have no inclination ever to visit again.
Reading There is No Antimemetics Division then opening BlueSky is a trippy way to mess with your headmeat.
I have pulsatile tinnitus myself, but I got that from one of the vaccines.
I take it as an indication that an actual infection would be a Very Bad Idea.
Anecdata:
I know multiple people with clearly attributable long-term impairments from a C infection. Of these, only the one effectively forced into early retirement might - might! - qualify for the LC diagnosis referenced in this paper.
Also:
"... diagnoses were made in hospital settings and thus predominantly capture severe presentations. As a result, only a fraction of individuals experiencing post-acute sequelae are likely represented, underestimating the true risk of sequelae following SARS-CoV-2 infection."
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse-2 #smbc
The best of bad falls a lot way short of the worst of good.
I tried to re-read The Caves of Steel a while back, (a) sharing this opinion (without having couched it so succinctly), and (b) remembering having enjoyed it as a mid-teen, and.
Oh. Oh, no. DNF with a vengeance.
I finally purged my shelves of Asimov thereafter.