Vampire was an instant earworm for me when it came out, because I'm a sucker for the Creep chord progression. That, and her energy in the song.

So it makes the occasional appearance in my otherwise mostly metal-dominated song rotation.

Ironically(?) her cover of Creep a while ago was the first time I heard her voice. It did make me go, "Huh. Not bad at all."

Tim probably asked an LLM for a clever insult and it spat out a Pat quote.

Another one liner that still stuck with me was, "why spend billions on foreign military dictatorships, when we can use the money to better take care of the one we have at home?" Some things never change.

It's a brand now. But the name predates duct tape by 50-odd years. It came from the "cotton duck cloth" used in the design.

"What do you use for your creative design stuff?"

"Canva"

My guess? Data stolen by DOGE 🤷‍♂️

It is one of the ugliest, most complex to configure, pieces of software I've ever used. It's also the best ebook management tool out there. I love Calibre.

100 years ago my grandmother ran a whole train station as 'secretary', while the 'station master' came, smoked, read papers, and pretty much just chilled all day - and getting paid many times her salary.

When they said, "women fought to get paid", they meant, "getting paid commensurate to their work". And in many ways, they are still fighting for it.

I don't see any future for seatbelts, and forcing such an ugly implement in cars might lead to problems.

Seatbelts will kill cars if it persists there long enough.

Ah, you mean the sanctity being championed by their three-times-married dear leader?

Many comic artists have side gigs to actually make a living. I could guess what this person does for their day job.

Also, guess which middle eastern country regularly sends their officers to train the Singaporean military? Hint: it's not Palestine

Huh interesting. We had a chat with our midwife and she offhandedly said it would be easier on parents to skip the baby talk/voice, and just speak in your normal calm voice so the baby gets used to the "real" you.

I guess your story perfectly illustrates her point.

Gemini is complete garbage in Android Auto

It also can't read labels on gmaps. Can't read people's "nickname" field in contacts (there are so many Roberts). And can't access or write notes without also requiring access to my emails (hell no).

Those are the three things I use AA for, and it's objectively worse at every single one of them.

As a parent, I reckon a voluntary system like this (if I understand correctly) could be very handy. I could create a child account and automatically get age gated content for it.

And when said child is smart enough to circumvent the system, then they deserve whatever content they manage to get their hands on. I'd be so proud.

But I'm sure capitalism would find a way to abuse and misuse the system for gains.

I had to double back to this comic, because I only got the pun two minutes after I scrolled past it...

bastion

Unironically a great indie game

We had some Hitachi trains here in Australia. "Riding a Hitachi with my friends," was a common weekend activity for me.

Oh and we sometimes catch the train too.