I dropped a friend because she made vicious transphobic remarks about a woman we both know, and who I personally like and respect. I was taken aback by the sheer malice she showed. We've had a lot of differences of opinion over the years but just had robust discussions and moved on. This was a step too far for me.

Thanks! Interesting read.

I have it on buttered toast, delicious. I'm trying the pasta thing tomorrow - I usually use pecarino for carbonara.

Thank you!! I'd never thought of using nutritional yeast with pasta. Yum.

I'm at the stage of trying to get rid of things. A friend broke her teapot recently, and I was able to gift her a favourite one of mine - no regrets! I still get to drink tea from it when I visit. The hardest thing to part with (and stop buying) is books.

In one friend's case it was half a rat. In her shoe, so she couldn't miss it in the morning.

Great, now I want a Bluey bento box.

A human at my bank told me the best way to deal with their chatbot is to not say anything at all. Not even "I want a human". Maintain silence and it will eventually put you through to a human.

Oh he would hunt! He was a rescue greyhound, chasing rabbits was his thing. Sticks? No thank you. "Get it yourself, you threw it!"

I tried a Kong toy with my dog & he was not impressed. "WTF is this nonsense? Just give me the treats!" To be fair, he wasn't into sticks either.

Ken Cheng is a British comedian. He likes to take the piss out of business people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng

Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.

And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.

Amazon gets these dumb answers because it emails buyers with the questions. So Joe Blow gets an email saying, "will this fit my XYZ?" and he answers, "I don't know, but it works ok on my ABC". It makes the Q&A section mostly useless.

My personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.

That's a swarm - get in touch with your local beekeepers group/organisation and someone will probably come and collect it.

Otherwise don't fret, the bees will do their thing. Scout bees will leave the swarm and look for a new home for the colony (the queen plus a third to a half of the original hive). They report back with details, and a collective decision is made on the best choice. The swarm will then leave. (Honeybee Democracy https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147215/honeybee-democracy is a good read on this.)

Back home the rest of the colony have a new queen pupating. She'll eventually hatch out, go on a mating flight, and come back to start laying eggs.

My father, a union organiser: "You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back."

Stood me in good stead down the years.

"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."

The Russian government cracks down really hard on anyone daring to protest against the war. You can be jailed for even calling it a war - it's a "special military operation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war_protests_in_Russia_(2022%E2%80%93present)

My first adventure in Linux back in 2003. No idea how I achieved this, but from memory I just reinstalled and all was well.