Continuation of pattern seen in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

If Windows needed: if computer has Intel Core 8th Gen processor or newer like that it can run Win 11 (if it came with Windows originally). You need 8GB or larger USB stick or burnable DVD and can download the ISO free from Microsoft on a PC already with Windows 11 www.microsoft.com/en-us/softwa...

Realised this year that Harrison Ford in 1995 version of Sabrina is nearly the same age as Humphrey Bogart was in 1954 version - but Ford passed for mid 40s - while Bogie didn't - which combined with Julia Ormond playing Sabrina when 5yrs older than Hepburn in the role makes age difference better!

I think a part of the necessary messaging is "files & poly sleeves for discs & paper inserts mean about 20 DVDs per inch of self space so your fave 100 is ~5 inches on shelf". Given Anglo-sphere housing crisis the Hot Fuzz style wall of DVDs is really "they're rich or got job & house before 2008".

This is a 5th Oct 2024 headline www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... (I believe) so would encourage folks to go read current bill - while obviously being against that kind of call in context.

The paper that came out of that I believe elifesciences.org/articles/71131

My commiserations (👍 for avoiding it to this year). Hope you can get a month of rest (at least month of: put off all you can) + note if "overdoing it" is followed by worse symptoms (sign for more rest & not to trust "feeling fine" as sign to act normal as may signal post exertional malaise pattern).

A favourite in genre - seen on site reputed blocked by Great Firewall of China - was "Homosexuals using science to debunk the big lie". I was like: "So: they're gay, they've got science, and they're using it against liars - sounds cool to me" (letdown: really MAGA aligned types with poor grammar).

In case chat notification I see is someone trying to offer a workaround: not verifying on here yet but would using the contact form on the website establish contact?

Form says: no longer accepting responses?

I think one of my positions is that if you want to have a meaningful conversation about Zionism or pornography you need to have participants define what is meant by those terms. As pro- or anti-(porn/Zionist) could mean some very different things depending on what's meant by pornography or Zionism.

"Yes, a suspicion of states with power exercising that power to oppress those weaker is a good lesson to take away & a reason for things like the European Convention on Human Rights, and Holocaust education & media literacy education maybe was not up to task of the social media age - seen in Trump".

Thanks to a copy of www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the... to hand it was easy to check that it was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand... that was landmark Title IX case that made this point about the broader impact. In that case it did not matter if not all faculty were involved - all women were affected.

Memorable client-side view in David Olusoga's McTaggart Lecture:
"Don’t know stuff, don’t have opinions that clash with mine, don’t challenge me or my presumptions. Be the sort of black person I’m comfortable with. Be more like my drug dealer. That is what I was told by a colleague in our industry."

Low heat induction in model I have does seem to work by turning on/off/on/off etc - so can understand wanting low & constant heat (plus one may have to replace some non-magnetic cookware). No huge advance if you've electric hobs with timer but if on gas: a portable single induction hob allows trial.

One way of knowing one is "too online" is the cooking burning! More seriously: simple stuff in predictable quantities (e.g. rice, pasta, potatoes or a 1 pot recipe) can become set & forget - one can take a call or similar and worst that happens is pasta is left to stand too long.

Induction hob with timer probably highest impact but rubber/silicone rather than bristle toilet brush is perhaps most unexpected. Stainless steel sink is appropriately boring but if one wants easy cleaning (as long as one keeps tin cans off it) stainless beats alternatives.

(A Landmark take on conversations can be seen sensibly by folks as "Don't turn conversations into high school debate club - focused on showing the other is wrong" - or instead as "The most important thing in a conversation is how you manage my feelings (not your actions)" - giving rise to above).