In my experience, Sarcasm and Satire appear to have cultural hooks that prevent them from translating well online.

I’m not a Telegram user, but the internet says: https://www.ticktechtold.com/export-telegram-chat-messages/

How do you know your mom didn’t prank you with the other set of keys from inside the house 😇

Drill holes in your wooden base so moisture can escape, or change the base to slats for the same reason.

Hmm … style over substance 😇

I just went down a rabbit hole as a result of your reply. Thank you!

The horsepower was defined by James Watt as a way to compare his steam engines against draft horses. The unit of power in use today is Watt and is named after him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower

For a giggle, if you’re into SI units, look at the definition of a horsepower.

That makes me queasy.

Why do you need more than one horsepower to move a single person from A to B? If one horsepower is equivalent to the power of one horse, then a galloping horse will get you there faster than your average moped.

VLC over a VPN?

I’m physically quite large, but most people will outrun me for medical reasons, but you can’t tell just by looking at me. It wasn’t until #metoo that I considered what it might be like to walk on the street and be afraid for your safety all the time.

My partner shared a few historic experiences which made me want to throw up.

I’ve read the responses here so far and I’ve done similar things for the same reasons, noise, humming, nodding, etc… I’ll also cross the road if I think my presence might make someone feel uncomfortable, or if I feel uncomfortable.

I have also walked off a footpath onto the verge to give the person coming towards me, space to move.

I’d be interested to hear what that feels like for people who are experiencing this kind of interaction.

Does Hungary abide by the International Criminal Court?

If your partner dies before you do, consider what happens to your joint mortgage, your internet, email and phone accounts, your car repayments, if it’s coming out of a joint account that’s suddenly frozen because one account holder has died.

What happens if your partner sets up your home network and TV subscriptions and their email account is locked because you’re not the account holder.

For example, Netflix doesn’t have “multiple account holders” as an option, it belongs to one person, the one who pays the bill. Neither does Google, Facebook, Disney, Amazon, Apple, or anyone else.

This is repeated across every single aspect of modern life. Your robot vacuum cleaner is linked to a single person, as are your IoT lightbulbs. It’s absurd.

The list goes on, public transport payment system, car ownership, home ownership.

I know people who have had to borrow money from family and friends, just to eat food because the bank needed a death certificate after their partner died, but the process took weeks, some even months.

One person was an executor of their recently deceased parent who was required to produce the non-existent death certificate for the other parent who had died 40 years earlier. Took more than a year.

Dying during a holiday is a special form of torture for the family.

None of that is easy, convenient or handled.

Why not?

I write software for a living, an exception in software means something unexpected, out of the ordinary, it’s treated as a “special case”.

In a lifetime, death is not unexpected, it’s expected, even guaranteed. The only variable is time, but that’s true for many aspects of life.

Take for instance moving house, it’s got a high likelihood of happening during a lifetime, multiple times. There’s processes to update your address, tell your bank, the utility company, insurance, etc. There’s address change services, some even run by government that all but automate this.

Why is it that such a thing doesn’t exist for death?

The absurd amount of effort that family members after a death need to get through to deal with things like this is insane.

I know that the company Functional Software brought out some Functional Sockware, I wore them for years.

It’s on purpose and AFAIK for two main reasons:

• To confuse the buyer
• To be able to trademark and protect the brand

I’m extremely sceptical about any such service. They require your personal information, so they can prove your identity to delete it elsewhere. I get the argument, but this is giving your stuff to yet another organisation.

Not only that.

Imagine the communication between the service provider and the organisation you want your data removed from.

How do you know that the service provider doesn’t provide all your identity data to that organisation to identify you, so they can remove your email address. What’s to stop the organisation creating a record in their private database with all your details, when previously they had just your email address?

Just because your data is visible with a Google search, doesn’t mean that this represents all records pertaining to you. Adding data and sharing it around just exacerbates the issue.

I stay well clear.

😂

Until reading the replies here, I had no idea what you were talking about. It did make me wonder which other words are banished with only their letter to show for it … and it made me wonder if there are multiple words referred to by the same letter, causing more confusion in communication, the X-word, you mean the X or the other X word?

These are what I have so far:

• c
• f
• n
• s
• r

Hmm … the author uses a hotspot connected with a SIM. Their whole argument hinges on not being tracked, but their hotspot is with them all the time. Seems like a massive hole in their privacy argument.

Hmm … the author uses a hotspot connected with a SIM. Their whole argument hinges on not being tracked, but their hotspot is with them all the time. Seems like a massive hole in their privacy argument.

If you have a roof, you can put a sprinkler on it and spray water with a tap timer. Just enough to wet it, so that the water can evaporate and cool the roof.

If you have windows facing the sun, get blockout curtains and close them before the sun hits them.

If your front door has a window, get an expanding shower rail and hang a blockout curtain.

If you have internal doors, keep them closed.

Wear clothes made from natural fibres.

Drink extra water.

Move slower.

Eat cold meals, like salads, rather than cooked meals that heat up your home.

Install a ceiling fan and keep the air moving.

When the sun is off a window, open it to encourage ventilation.

Keep air moving at night.

Put a thin cover on your bed.

Have cold showers.

Source: I live in a hot climate.