they have played us for absolute fools

A vocalisation of the Family Fortunes incorrect answer noise is my reply of choice.

Probably for the same reason that Kiribati has them.

GPS spoofers, and fake nominations.

TrainerTips did a great video on the island and a good waste of fifty minutes of your time. It’s worth noting that Kiribati has the advantage of proximity to the international date line, where Epstein Island doesn’t.

Quality language, da iawn.

I take my eldest son out running with me. He plays sport at a national level (not yet near the international stage) so it’s nice to go out to bang in five kilometres every now and then - it’s a great bit of cardio for him, and it drags me out to keep me healthy.

Honestly, 25 of those minutes are robloxrobloxrobloxrobloxrobloxfortniterobloxrobloxroblox and it can get draining… but it’s important to him so it’s important to me.

Honestly, it’s just time spent alone with him that makes the difference for me. He’s got some big changes coming up in life and I want to be there for him, so if he ever drops that little breadcrumb into conversation that he’s got problems with his boyfriend or girlfriend, or if he’s getting a hard time off someone, or if the studying and sport is getting him down - then I’ll have hopefully made a space safe enough to chat freely and openly, and his mental health doesn’t take a battering before it’s too late.

One can dream.

I’m not it’s biggest fan either, but both terms are commonly used in the United Kingdom, and without inherent malice for the most part.

I agree that we should be trending towards “the unhoused” or other more dignified terms, whereas counterintuitively “the homeless” is a perfectly acceptable term elsewhere in the world but stigmatised in the UK.

In short: 🤷‍♂️

I was lucky enough to grow up on this system and there are some absolute bangers out there:

Mission: Shark (or Misja on the European continent): arguably one of the best games on the systems. Silky smooth animation, great gameplay loop, fantastic music. Janusz Pelc at his best.

Rescue on Fractalus: fantastic foray into faux-3D. You’ll never forget the first time you picked up your first “pilot”…

H.E.R.O: finely balanced, a great time killer.

Encounter: far beyond it’s years, the precursor to open world games

Fred: another J Pelc masterpiece. Great platformer.

Star Raiders II: beautiful shooter. The space shoot em’ ups of today can trace their combat gameplay directly back here.

Lode Runner: one of the best and smoothest implementations of this game, along with…

Chuckie Egg: the original and best.

Zybex: a competent shooter with some of the best chiptunes you’ll ever hear.

Blinky’s Scary School: bastard hard, but full of British humour.

Fort Apocalypse: fantastic shooter, with stunning graphics and a blue doppelganger helicopter that will give you nightmares.

Rally Speedway: takes the top down racer formula, tightens the controls, makes it prettier, and gives you a level editor too. Brilliant.

River Rescue: River Raid but better, and if you disagree then you’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

Have fun!

You’ve hit the nail on the head there.

I had a Flip3 as a way of trying to kick my QWERTY habit, and it was cool as fuck. It’s a great conversation starter (if you like starting conversations!), it’s a lovely form factor to carry in it’s folded state, and no matter what anyone says, it’s satisfying as fuck to end a particularly heated call by slamming the phone shut.

Other than that though… it’s just a decent phone. No better or worse than anything else aside from the irritating bloatware.

The hinge was weak as fuck and two of my devices suffered screen bleed from the hinge, but then that was nearly five generations of Flip ago.

“great start, now go for the lead!” 🏁

I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.

One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.

It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.

Nah.

It was probably unenforceable, and just a scare tactic.

Still absolute mince though.

pure dead mental down the Quay, so it is but

My dentist has had the nerve to add a “lateness will be charged at £1 per minute late” to the end of the reminder SMS messages… which I can understand to a certain degree, but the dentist didn’t really like it when I suggested I get a discount of £1 per minute after the appointment time that the dentist called me through.

I know it’s all bullshit but the double standard baffles me.

That second line sounds like a comedic Bond villain line.

And it’s awesome.

“knock knock”

“Who’s there”

“The interrupting cow”

“The interrupting cow wh…” “MOOOOOOO”

I think that’s a very uncharitable take on the post.

Whereas that lexical interpretation exists, I think OP’s point is “why would anyone work for MrBeast” as opposed to “why did this particular person work for him”.

A dude I used to work with left his wife to deal with the newborn.

It was so bad between dayshifts that he used to leave the house at 2am and just sit in a motorway service station with a coffee for a few hours just to get some peace before coming to work.

If I tried that, my other half would stab me in the face.

Sounds fuckin’ mint to be fair.

Get me some tourism and carbs.

Fancy new Wet Ass Filter