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  • Yeah they do, and when it gets busy with folk razzing about between tables, the staff do the serving and the bots just take the dirty plates and empties back to the kitchen.

    The meal was... decent, not great, but certainly not poor - but I guess you went for the presentation, the bots, the cocktails presented in steaming bell jars, and kids meals presented on a shovel. It was comparatively inexpensive too which gives it a thumbs up.

    Good luck with the physio though. You'll be out banging miles back into the tarmac before you know it.

  • There's plenty of reasons. Great theme parks, an incredibly diverse landscape, head spinning monuments, and some proper decent folk.

    Unfortunately, I tend to agree that there's far more reasons not to go now. I'd rather not roll the dice at the border, I'd rather not have to rely on my insurance paying out for injuries or illness sustained on holiday, and I certainly don't want to put money into an economy run by that arse piece of a president.

    It's a shame because I think six months touring the US would show me a lot of the world and culture I'm missing, particularly away from tourist hotspots, and I think I could learn a lot about the world and myself by visiting - but I just can't be fucking arsed with the rising fascist tide.

  • I know this a gross oversimplification, but:

    "Remote working benefit those with a reason to stay home, but doesn't for those who don't have a reason to stay home" seems to be the general idea of the headline.

    edit: I think this is the study they're talking about, please double check the source before quoting: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36718392/

  • My other half's mam fuckin' loves Candy Crush, plays it most (if not every) night, maybe clears a level or two.

    What really makes me smile is that whenever she drops a bollock and effectively renders a grid unwinnable, she'll take the L and come back tomorrow. Fuck the MTX and fuck the extra time/re-rolls/level skips; she just goes back the following day and tries again.

    Mad respect, if nothing else than to be the marginal player base that fucks with the "line goes up" metric.

  • Yeah it's a shame that Musk is so inextricably linked with the brand. I'm quite sure SpaceX and Tesla are full of top tier talent and engineering wizards... but have a direct link to a toxic cockwomble that bankrolls them. Shame.

  • I haven't, no - and you're probably right, yes.

    I worry that if I start playing KSP then my other half and kids won't see me again for six months because it does sound fucking awesome and highly rewarding.

    Nope, I'm a simple man. I play through a couple of Doom WADs each summer in the academic off-season and that's my gaming appetite satiated.

  • Speaking as a layman, I just think it's fuckin' awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.

    Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin' land where they started seven or eight minutes later.

    Science is fuckin mint, man.

  • Excellent mate. I went out as well, there's a place in town that has those autonomous wheeled bot things that guide you to your table, and bring your food to you and stuff. My boy wanted to see them for ages so off we went.

    Only downer this week is my Pokémon Blue save died when it crashed while saving. Ten hours down the drain, that was my project for this summer.

    Did you get sorted for new running hooves after?

  • Not very well I should imagine, but it is a symbolic move and the rumblings of things to come from other organisations.

    I should imagine direct imports to Ireland from Israel will stop... but as soon as the goods enter the Schengen zone elsewhere, there'll be very little to stop them without controls at the zone entry point (unlikely) or inspections at the Irish border (unlikely again).

    Happy to be corrected though.

  • Yes. As always though, context is key.

    I tend to look at it as a see-saw. Run-of-the-mill kindness and general acts good nature sit near the fulcrum of one end of the seesaw. Similarly, a single or very few acts of genuine heroism and selflessness sit right at the far end of the "good" end of the seesaw, providing as much effort the lean towards the "good egg" character trait than the dozens of daily acts.

    On the other end of the see-saw, being a general cunt sits near the fulcrum of the "bad" end for me, genuine malicious acts of emotional daaaamage or shithousery sit in the middle, with outright rape; murder; Nickelback fan club membership; and noncery sit at the far end.

    So yes, on balance, if someone is habitually a good spud on the daily but happened to get a bit frisky with someone other than their monogamous partner once, I'd still say overall they were a good person but with shit judgement.

    Equally, someone like Jimmy Saville or raised millions of pounds for British charities with his fame and stardom appeared to be a stand up guy, but the covert fiddling offsets that almost instantly.

    A crude metaphor, but it works for me.