@herdingdata I nominate successfully plugging a cable (USB, HDMI, whatever) into a socket you can’t see on the first attempt.
Excuse me, I'd like to return this dire wolf, it's just a dog in a costume.
@herdingdata the Dr Bashir one is perfect for posting under something questionable.
@herdingdata apparently my server isn’t accepting image uploads currently, so please enjoy my favourites via the least awful image hosting site: https://imgur.com/a/Vfe0Ywy
@anon_opin when making a half sandwich you should make a whole one instead. Nobody ever needed only half a sandwich.
@internetsdairy I refuse to believe the horndog emoji aren’t cringe.
Finished The Last of Us Part 1 this evening, which I’d been putting off until I had a decent chunk of time because I knew I was near the end, only to find I had 15 minutes of it left. Anyway, what a game that is, genuinely moving in places, gorgeous to look at, and the sound design is some of the best I’ve heard in a game.
I was homeless when the Cat Distribution System recruited me. Camped under a bridge alongside the old canal, I shared my food and blanket with some homeless kittens.
“You’re a good person” a voice said.
I jumped and clutched my blanket, backing up against the concrete. “Leave me alone! I don’t have anything to steal.”
“Sorry to startle you. I’m here to offer you a job”
“You don’t know anything about me.”
The stranger indicated the kitten nose-down in a nearly empty tuna can. “I’ve seen what i need to see.”
“What’s the job? I won’t do evil.”
“Kitten smuggling. We get them to a safe country, find them homes. Subsidised accommodation but a lot of travel.”
That was six months ago. If you’re on a train, plane or suborbital and you see a kitten poking its nose out of a human or augmented human’s jacket, no you didn’t.
@jasongorman the but being unsaid here is “incentive to work in crappy jobs”. UBI means having to pay an actual wage for cleaners and shelf stackers, rather than redirecting that money to shareholders.
"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.
@jackeric and for the truly unhinged, different audio tracks in each ear.
@jackeric Apple TV supports multiple headphones, it really should support streaming different audio tracks to each pair as well.
@gwagner the company’s statement on this is quite astonishing corporate weaseling as well, acting all surprised that people would think a product labelled “a paper bottle” might believe it was in fact a paper bottle. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56687585
I was just surprised to see a photodiode emoji had been added, and trying to decide what it meant as a reaction to a Discord post. Turns out it’s a salt cellar and my brain is broken. 🧂
@hughrawlinson yeah, that feels like unions being stuck in the Victorian era to me. Low level managers are just as much under the boot of executives as the workers below them.
@hughrawlinson at what level of management do unions generally refuse membership? I ask as someone who has been a manager in the past but at a company so large I had less input into company policy than a Financial Times oped.
@catsalad Edge of Tomorrow (I think called Live Die Repeat in the US). I could watch that film any time.
@anon_opin when I was young and stupid I decided to deal with this by using an electric fan heater to dry myself. Only afterwards did I realise that while it was incredibly effective it was also incredibly stupid.