It's cold and there's wind and rain outside. It feels more like December than April, light levels notwithstanding.
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I still make and fix internet things. I continue to live on the internet, which makes for a short commute. Cat Ops. Exiled to Fife.
Having said all that, if the Jeep Gladiator (off roading pickup) was available in the UK I would have been seriously tempted. I know it’s stupid and unnecessary, but I just can’t get past the chunky ‘child’s drawing of a car’ looks and I want one. They sell them in right hand drive in Japan, but not here. Importing is possible, but puts it into nice new car price territory.
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The irony here is that people mostly buy pickups in the UK as a tax dodge. Modern pickups are as nice inside as normal cars and can carry as many people. So if you’re self employed you can get one and if it meets the requirements it counts as a commercial vehicle and you can pay less tax.
This is why you don’t see as many Ford Ranger Raptors (the high end ‘cool’ one) because the extra ‘Raptor’ bits mean it’s payload capacity is too low to count.
Close that loophole and they’d (mostly) vanish.
Tried to go to bed three times now, but every time this face does something adorable and I’m trapped here. Earlier he must have been cold because he tried to crawl under my blanket. Except I don’t have a blanket and he was trying to stick his face under my t-shirt. He doesn’t really understand ’clothes’.
C J SilverioArrive at an understanding.
Tax the billionaires.
Tax the billionaires.
Mx. RileyJust one study but we have seen clear decreases in human attention spans, esp since 2012...
"Watching fragmented short videos rather than a single continuous video leads to poorer memory recall and alters how the brain retrieves information. A recent experiment revealed that fast-paced episodic media formats disrupt the neural systems responsible for integrating details and maintaining cognitive control." via PsyPost
Brain scans shed light on how short videos impair memory and alter neural pathways
A recent brain imaging experiment reveals that watching fragmented short videos leads to measurably worse memory recall compared to viewing continuous content. The fast-paced format reduces brain activity in regions dedicated to focusing attention and processing deep meaning.
We’re well into April now. It’s fucking Easter. I’m considering breaking out the electric blanket again. What the actual fucking fuck?
(I played BG3 until my wife got home and now next time I play a pair of cats have tasked me with dealing with their rat problem and who am I to say no to a pair of cats?)
The working week is done and I've an empty tonight, so what should I do?
Go downstairs and watch YouTube on the sofa (aka the 'Pinky and the Brain' option, that is, 'the same thing we do every night')?
Play Baldur's Gate 3?
Keep fiddling with the Ruby port of a Rust TUI library that looks kinda cool?
Have a nap (aka, the option the cat would pick if she had a fediverse account)?
Robert KingettNew post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/