Eh, to each their own. I liked it. I also liked the different pacing than the movie. It made more sense.

I recommended The Painted Man, which I had just read and thought was pretty good. A friend of mine read it (and liked it) and, contrary to my fate, proceeded to continue the series. Next time I saw him he was fairly mad at me, stating the the series took a sharp downturn in quality after the first one. After this I haven’t been able to get him to read any other books, despite the one I actually recommended being fairly good. So in a way, this was me recommending a really bad book. Which just happened to be good.

Yeah, it’s not that easy with social media. If half the children in class use it, the pressure on the other half is immense. One more, one more. If no one uses it, it’s much easier to say no and not feel like a douchy parent.

I have personally experienced librarians and they have helped me when in need.

AFAIK it’s not covered either, but you can of course do it at your own expense.

In Denmark we don’t vaccinate for chicken pox for exactly the reasons given in the post.

Just a few old ones…

Art of Noise - The Best Of … but all are good

Yellow - Pocket Universe … but also The Essential

Moloko - ?

Kosheen - Kokopelli (I think)

Yeah, but there’s this one guy who keeps fixing everything.

Not smug, just tired.

See #2 … Oh, wait… https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gaslighting

But yes, I get it. That’s the reason why this is so frustrating. At this point gaslighting has become synonymous with deceiving. Because people who use the word don’t know the (original) meaning!

Sigh…

“Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality.”

• Wikipedia

Can we at least get the definition right when we outright define it?

It always surprises me what people think is the final straw. He’s making his own personal army, kidnapping people off the streets, he’s taxing everyone, he’s taking bribes like it’s hamberders, he’s lying about absolutely everything, he’s demolishing the American government, he’s raping people, always revolving around whether this involves children, which seems more and more likely… But him calling a reporter a bad name is surely what’s going to fell him.

I have that. I just got hue first, so all my lamps (or at least the old ones) are registered in hue. I haven’t taken the time to move all of it over, so now I have two competing networks.

Just got some power measuring plugs. Home Assistant and immich-running raspberry pi + NAS (dual 20TB in raid 1) + switch clock in at around 30W. Surround receiver playing music ups that by 90W. After a minor water leak I added 5 leak sensors to the system that will blink lights and send texts if they detect anything.

The biggest problem is that I’m still running lights through hue and some of them have an annoying tendency to drop off the network…

Should have kept a Sean bean in there unchanged.

If you’re a low end millionaire you can buy a nice house.

If you’re a low end billionaire you can buy an entire town of nice houses.

Not at all, barely an inconvenience. They’ll just do what they always do. Have a total disregard for the truth and say whatever they can think of that makes the democrats the villains.

This too is how I look, dress and behave on the weekends.

Who’d have thought politicians would play politics when doing politics?

Subtle. I loved The Grudge, which to be fair, isn’t incredibly subtle, but it has so many great ways to be creepy!