The worst thing to do would be an inorganic botch job on here to fill a gap when there’s no need, you can read that content elsewhere.
Anyway, it’s not an automatic guarantee of engagement or interaction. It’s purely a hack move.
I’m happy to use Reddit if I feel I can’t find anything to read on Kbin. You are allowed to use both you know?
I mean yeah I vape, that makes sense because it wasn’t the nicotine itself which was killing my lungs.
Apparently nicotine itself is as bad for you as caffeine, the worst thing about it is it’s insanely addictive without giving much of a high or anything in return…
That’s a very black and white way of putting it. As long as you’re an adult who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and you’re not spending hours obsessed with it I don’t think it’s unhealthy. The way you phrase ‘avoid it completely’ makes it sound like you’re going out of your way to avoid it already.
(I think the problems are coming through with the generation being ‘brought up on porn’, and thinking real sex is like it is in the videos online but that’s a different story really.)
Can cigarettes be used in a healthy way? Eh, only in very specific scenarios
Gonna have to bite and ask what very specific scenarios smoking could be healthy?
I mean that shows the self-awareness that he knew that that was part of the humour really!
Summer Lightning was one of my favourites. You can’t go wrong with that one.
I do quite enjoy Wodehouse for Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings although one unemployed summer spent a lot of time binge reading them and they become quite repetitive!
8/20 here. Proud of getting some right. Really shocked about the answers to some!
A tricky test indeed
Have updated comment above 🙂
If anyone wants the Radio Plays I can share a Google drive link
EDIT Here you go
Includes original radio series and the noughties radio series (adaptations of books - not as good but has the original cast and is entertaining)
The 70s records - essentially the commercial version of the first radio series - has the Disaster Area sequence in the for ‘Black Ship’ instead of the shapehifting aliens.
The Dirk Gently radio series with Harry Enfield. Inferior to the books but the most faithful adaptation.
I mean I do think that whatever encourages people to read is great, but I know I’m getting old when I read in the article like this:
Filming themselves finishing a book in a single day against a backdrop of hundreds of them on shelves is all part of the performance, and viewers will be extra impressed if the book looks thick.
And just think “wtf?”
Tbh, I think the first two books are the best and it finishes perfectly for me there. It feels like that’s where he was on a roll creatively and his heart was really still into it. That might not actually be true, but that’s how it feels.
Douglas Adams himself didn’t like the third book although I still like bits of it. The fourth and fifth I don’t enjoy much - they’re not bad books, just not very funny.
No, I just think he’s very bad at reining in an extremely impulsive and volatile personality which leads to him making rash decisions. Also he is always wanting to make sweeping changes rather than gradual ones which may have worked with Tesla and Space but doesn’t suit Twitter.
And lastly, I don’t think he really cares that much either way - as others have said, he had to be forced to buy Twitter remember. He’s got this albatross around his neck which is losing him money every day. He probably resents it a bit, has probably nearly hit the truth that the only way you could make a social media company profitable is to make everyone pay - except for the fact that almost everyone then leaves.
I think he’s too much of a wild card for anyone to involve in their cunning plan. I mean regardless of politics would you recruit him for your masterplan?
I just started using it for Android the last month or so when Chrome dropped the flag feature that let you toggle dark mode for websites with system dark mode.
I have a VPN with an adblocker so that aspect of Chrome never bothered me so much. Chrome felt like it worked slightly smoother but at the end of the day a browser is a browser and Firefox does the job. (Samsung’s browser is actually surpringly good for those with a Samsung device looking for a Chrome alternative)
Firefox does seem more trustworthy overall, although I’ve learned by now that trusting tech companies is not a sensible thing to do.
I’ve been using a VPN, blockers, all sorts in the UK to disguise some of my online activity from Google and other companies so if I’m just doing the same thing to avoid the government there’s not much difference.
The fact that I still use Google products is a lapse and due to laziness on my part…
Of course it could be a vote winner for Starmer at the next election to say he’ll repeal it on free speech grounds of he played it right. But then the opposition could spin it as him not wanting to protect children online so he probably won’t have the guts to risk it.
WhatsApp certainly won’t, they own the UK chat app market and it’s not like they genuinely give a shit about privacy.
The others - remains to be seen.
VPN subscriptions in the UK will be a lucrative market then for people wanting access to, let’s see, Wikipedia…
I’m interested to know what the Signal President meant when she said she’s much more optimistic about working with the government than she originally was.
The thing is it obviously does come from good intentions, and it’s very rare you’ll find me saying that about something to do with the Tories. But it’s so obviously the wrong approach and yet here we are. Thanks for nothing. Yet again.
I’ll join you there - I loved Pratchett’s writing already from his Johnny series I read at school and read those first two all in one go during a summer holiday in my early teens. Great fantasy comedies.
But - I can see the argument that they’re not representative of the series as a whole as it developed… not that I think Terry was probably setting out to write a massive series at the time he was writing those books. Anyway they’ll always have a place in my heart.
However, it’s a series that ran for decades ago I compare it to something like Doctor Who on TV where people have favourite eras or favourite stories from different era’s, and those books are like the first few William Hartnell stories which are great but still have some moments that jar with what came later…
The only thing I go on Reddit for now at the moment is to browse their comic sub once every now and then.
But that’s not completely dropping Reddit. Because Lemmy/Kbin is still in its early stages there’ll be a lot of people who spend most of their time here but occasionally go to Reddit for that one sub or for some particular thing that’s not quite made it here yet.
The Precession To Calvery was hilarious from beginning to end.
You beat me to it because this game is genius!
It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?
I play all sorts of different games though, some where you’re not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal