@Timo_Micro @quixoticgeek The seating in London started disappearing, or becoming increasingly uncomfortable in part to prevent loitering and also to make sure that homeless people didn’t have anywhere to rest and therefore had to be invisible so those in power don’t need to be faced with the problem .

I believe this is a strategy called hostile architecture, and may well be part of the bus stop design from a capitalist perspective.

@lauren

I agree. The only reasonable alternative for coffee in the morning is proper tea (in the British style). Strong, with milk (without milk, the tannins are deeply unpleasant). Preferably made with a decent brand. Anything else people call tea (earl grey, herbal etc) is delightful but not for before noon.

Context- British tea drinker with a moderate obsession for properly made coffee. We travel with our own teabags.

@neil Provided you can cope with the “tacticool” dudes who can sometimes frequent the forums. There’s a reason it’s used as a pejorative in the military.

Can be fun and marginally less painful than paintball.

@Niall

Given the availability of drones for aerial measurement work, I agree. That and access to otherwise inaccessible zones for work purposes. Definitely not for some posh / rich t**t to pay thousands for the corporate entertainment.

@derthomas

Or, in the uk at the moment, the number of private helicopters currently flying around a supposedly “green and eco friendly” festival at Glastonbury. All weekend, wasting co2 because they want to be part of the culture for a few moments. Awful. And noise polluting for everyone under the flight paths.

@neil Therapy, for me, played 2 roles.

First, it gave me space and taught me tools to unpack and deal with certain issues, and to help manage them when my brain does the 2am scream.

Then, it offered me the feeling that, for a period of time, someone actually cared about me.

I don’t do it at the moment but I still have the mental tools.

There is, as always, a variation in quality and one or two charlatans but when you find the one you need, it helps.