JackFrostNCola

Just to correct, the pagers were made by a taiwanese company, not chinese.

Are you also me?

This reminds me of my wife and I arguing over whether my shorts were grey or brown, she asks her friends and she just says “oh those, they are taupe”. Which essentially means my wife won that argument.

We have neighbours a couple houses down that occasionally like to have people over in their loud echo-ey metal fence+patio back yard and chop their firepit wood every hour or so when they run out, sometimes well after midnight. I do not think they realise how far that sound carries through the night and dont have the foresight to chop during the afternoon beforehand.

Oh my.
A chamois is going to give a MUCH better finish, is silent and costs pocket change.

Thank you, this will save my monday morning restart after a weekend of off ‘hibernation’

Agreed.
Also active/passive gets confusing crossing over into electronics where they already mean something.

How do you like my face to your foot style? ^Squeak ^^Squeak ^^^Squeak

Tank wars - MS DOS
Probably closely followed by Lemmings, Commander Keen & Duke Nukem.

Based, no cap.

For sure: fuck them, but this sounds more like a government corruption issue, laws should be in place to prevent businesses doing scummy monopolistic shit like this.

I assume you mean the fused plugs thing?
In Aus we dont have those but we do have mandated all lighting & GPO circuits to be on RCD/RCBOs so thats reassuring. (Unless you have an old house that is grandfathered in and no works have been done requiring the replacement or upgrade of your switchboard since the laws came in)

I saw some footage from footage from their recent shows and they look like they put on a fun show, and the years haven’t slowed them down

ABSOLUTELYCRANKINMYMF’INHOG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXtn0as91SM

All i can think is ‘imagine if Bernie was 10yrs younger…’

Ironically in this case doing the job properly reduces costs significantly.
Everything in the chain from the outlets, ductwork, damper, valves, condensers, pipes, tray, fans, component ratings & switchboards can be reduced to a reasonable size.
Which then has peripheral benefits like reduced transport costs, crane lifts, space in service zones between floors/risers, materials & running costs of the completed building

For me its the Borderlands series & portal 2.

Well TIL, thanks. I always associated it with the kids who would listen to like deftones and dance like that

18°C, drizzle & thunderstorms.
But live in a city in Australia that has clear skies 70% of the year, and an average of about 24 annual days of rain.

Pretty much what it sounds like, where people who listen to a certain type/sound of music tend to enjoy it at live events by just low key looking down and slowly shuffling or bobbing their head to show their appreciation (rather than headbanging, moshing, etc.) there is a genre called ‘shoegaze’ which pretty much encompasses this kinda scene.