I’m guessing you mean the 20th century in general rather than 1900-1910? Because not many of us are going to be that old.

It was… wonderful and fucking awful in equal amounts. The details have changed between then and now, but the ratio is probably about the same.

Working from home and everyone being understanding about work-life balance, mental health etc., without it being a big deal. No pressure (at least not like I used to get when I was younger!)

This is my comment to you.

But then why pick 23, a number with two significant digits, to indicate scale? By this logic, 10 would be as effective at communication.

An “atom bomb” is not a standard unit of measurement. It’s less than helpful.

I assume this is something in the news, but I don’t even know what the met gala is.

Some elevators have doors on opposite sides (e.g. this is common in places with a car park entrance)

I listened to one song and thought it was quite fun. Then I listened to another couple and discovered they were the same song in a different box.

They did a few songs that have a catchy repetitive chorus to be fair. Mouthful of Shit for example. Just not quite to the extent of Tubthumping.

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I don’t know what it is you’re trying to show. Is it that this drink is 500ml while all the others are 20 in whatever medieval unit is in use? I’m confused because the bepis says it’s 16.9 floz, but if I type that into a converter it’s not 500ml, and the other drinks are in oz, not in floz. I don’t know if they’re different. Is that the problem? One’s by weight and one by volume? 500ml is standard for a large can in 90% of the world, fwiw.

I still don’t really get it. I don’t have a TV at all, so it doesn’t matter how many other rooms I have.

No, I don’t have a TV in my bedroom.

Why does me having a living room have any bearing on that?

If you’re stuck on Windows for work or whatever, you probably don’t have rights to do that.

Running windows in a VM is still… running Windows. It’s not idealistically different to having a dedicated Windows computer. There’s nothing magical about running Linux as a host that makes Windows less evil.

God I hate that the younger generations use the word “drop” to mean both “cancel” and “release”.

I’m going to add a little context for completeness.

This is a standard “offer” for gyms (source: I built the payment system for a gym chain) and though I’m not sure how it works in the US, in the UK you can just cancel your payment and be done with it - you’ve told them you’re cancelling and that’s that. They expect this and won’t even be annoyed.

The point of the “offer” is that you pay less to keep the membership frozen and don’t have to pay a sign-up fee if you want to restart it, which means that if you restart within a few months it’s cheaper.

It’s a trick, of course. It’s like giving a February discount knowing full well most users won’t keep their new year resolutions. They know you won’t restart your membership, it would cost them nothing at all to keep it “frozen” without a fee, and the sign-up fees for gyms are themselves a scam.

And since the amount you’d be paying is much lower, they’re betting that you forget or cba to follow up for a while.

Fuck 'em. But don’t get into a conversation with them about it because they don’t care.

Windows < 11 is legacy software and Windows > 10 is slop. Nobody should care about either.

Well I’m sure we’ve all heard stories about it happening, and my FIL had someone walking him through a “Microsoft has detected a virus on your PC” scenario one time until he fucked up and lost the connection (fortunately)

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