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I haven’t heard anything from this guy in years and then yesterday I see he gave a speech about that bloke that got shot in America, and now this post too suggesting he’s Santa.

Is he making a bit of a comeback? Or just a random coincidence!

Ah Fitz, you’re the best of us.

You’ve got a fantastic journey ahead of you by the way, there’s like 3 more trilogies directly following on from that one, and together they make up my favourite books of all time <3

their leader was revealed to be a bender

Now there’s a gay slur I’ve not heard in a while!

Still, that tracks, plenty of good ideas or movements through our history have died because people found out the guy leading them was gay.

The above chap hit the nail on the head in terms of the UK.

Sure, hardcore criminals can get their hands on a gun, but the sort of people who want to cause trouble at a school certainly don’t.

I went to one of the worst schools in the country and while some of our students did occasionally murder people out in their private lives (I lived in the biggest shit hole in the country - the government even said so), in the school itself the worst thing I ever saw was a pupil throwing a chair at a teacher. And that was incredibly rare and shocking.

A student did arson one of the maths rooms too but that was over the weekend when nobody was there. They really hated that teacher haha. We had to do the rest of the year’s maths lessons in the Hall. So weird.

But ya, that’s all the extreme cases, and they’re nowhere remotely near “gun” territory. That’s just insanity. I never felt unsafe in a school.

Oooh, that’s concerning, that’s what I use. I don’t find Android particularly useable without it, the vanilla experience is pretty awful.

I do hope it’s not going away!

That’s a term? What’s it mean, besides identifying someone as black and Irish? O.o

American boomers*

Let’s say this huge breach of security and privacy is okay.

How are Microsoft ensuring these sensitive documents are not being transferred via or stored on servers located in hostile countries with lax data laws (such as foreign nations like the USA?).

They were allowing kids to use phones in classrooms up to that point…?

When I went to school, if you were seen with your phone out during class it was confiscated until the end of the day. And back then all you could use them for was texting anyway haha.

Anything that might distract from the lesson would be treated the same way, that’s just basic sense for any teacher.

Why would teachers stop caring about phones in classrooms, especially given how famously addictive and problematic to attention etc we now know them to be?

Are these not still in use?

I’ve not built a tower in a few years granted, but the last one I built had PS2 ports. Heck it even had VGA for the onboard graphics.

You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.

A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.

Aaahhhh go on

Why am I not seeing a picture? On my end this is just a text post where a guy said oooh yeah and nothing else 😅

Interesting, I’d never trust any USB cable to push anywhere near 100 watts anyway haha good god, the most I ever do is maybe 20w at 5v.

I’ll keep that in mind when buying cables in the future though this is very useful info!

I’ve not heard anyone take umbridge with calling Russians “orcs” or “ruskies” yet, to be fair, not with calling our German and Japanese enemies during WWII Jerry or Japs respectively. Jap is just a handy shortened single syllable way of saying Japanese. For another example of this in peace time, people from Great Britain get called Brits. It’s not a race thing, just a slang thing.

The war slangs aren’t terms we’d use today of course, as they’re no longer our enemies and such slang carries the unspoken “We call them this because they’re our enemy and they don’t get to decide what we call them” connotation, but for the moment in 2024, Russia and North Korea are the enemy of Ukraine, so they’re fair game.

I see your point though, but I don’t believe this is a race thing at all, not in my eyes anyway, I think it’s just a “They’re the enemy and we need a simple, easy and quick to pronounce slang nickname for them that is functionality useful, watch also sometimes shows our current hatred of them as our mortal enemy and as a way to help unite us against a foe, in the case of ‘orcs’ for example”.

But yeah, if people are using these terms to be racist or whatever, screw those guys, they suck.

I don’t feel comfortable sharing any personal opinions at work. The workplace is somewhere one should arrive, work, go home, not somewhere to share opinions and in doing so make potential enemies or risk your position.

Why do I care if my colleagues know my opinion on X or Y? It changes nothing about my life or theirs, we’re not even friends, just colleagues, or work friends at best.

Anyway yeah, that’s just my thoughts :-)

He’s a modern day Nazi leader, what do you expect him to say?

I know I’m an awful pedant who doesn’t wurd gud either half the time, but you meant to say populace not populous in the title. Hope you don’t mind me pointing it out :-)

Yes mate! I checked mate, you’re right mate!

Yaaaayyyy capitalism!