LumpyPancakes

Well that looks quite useful! Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll probably still need to jackhammer away some concrete to fit it, but that’s easier than digging down as far as the P trap (assuming there is one, hard to know with this old place) and risk hitting the dunny pipe as well.

I accidentally did it yesterday. Took the dog for a walk, passed a woman sitting at the park bench near the park eating lunch. She was the instigator though I think, asked if I was local and what was the best thing about living here.

Having a smallish cute dog might be the key, but in this era of everyone staring at their phone it’s harder than usual.

Turned out she was waiting for her kids friends to arrive, and they were out harvesting fruit from god knows where.

Just being outside is probably a good enough start. A pet is a handy excuse with added virtue signalling I guess.

Yes. Boats don’t really have brakes. Just an anchor.

Replacing a bath with a shower on concrete slab. That drain is four inches away from where I want it.

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I have a vague memory that Bitcoin used to be instant in the first versions - or at least with near certainty that the advertised transaction was real, but that the protocol was later modified in such a way that this mechanism was no longer reliable. It might have been enshittified.

AI is still largely affected by garbage in garbage out.

Sounds like you could release your own public list, a bit like how ublock etc work.

Piefed fixes this by combining them into one post.

A shame that it seems apps are slow to integrate that combining feature though.

I think it only affects 20% of supply globally, so why can’t we adapt?

They made good dishwashers back in the day though.

Yes. It’s wall mounted. But I haven’t bothered plugging it in and I’m not sure where the remote has gone.

A bomb’s gone off in Battersea.

(Stolen from mock the week.)

A pair of foam earplugs. I sometimes encounter annoyingly loud air curtains where I work.

Also handy for bathrooms with those deafening Dyson hand botherers.

Yes.

She’s a king Charlie spaniel, so I have to share the bed with her and a pair of Sennheiser hd4.50s paired to an iPhone that plays brown noise and an Android that does YouTube. (Can’t trust an Android to play 24/7 without a stutter at least once a week, but the iPhone which is otherwise dumb as a box of rocks never fails - the headphones switch devices when one stops playing.)

She has a small fan running at the foot of the bed and most nights will rest her head on the end of the bed metal rails for a nice cool breeze and potentially a redneck CPAP. If she gets cold she’ll come to the pillow end, head first under the blanket to pinch my warmth for a short time and then stretch out along the gap between the passenger side pillow and the blankets. I may get kicked in the back now and then.

Perhaps the strangest thing though is she’ll happily be in bed for 12 hours or more and not need to want to empty her bladder.

Yes, she is a spoiled Velcro dog and rules our world. The car even has an evaporative cooler, a lithium battery bank and a backup AGM battery in the back seats so she can be with me while I work even on hot days.

The cavalier breed tends to bond so tightly to their owner that they get very stressed after a few hours alone.

The ttl expired in transit to Australia.

Would be nice if they built them in cold climates and piped the heat to houses and buildings like the steam era of old.

They take a hefty commission.

It was a useful alternative to Western Union and other international currency transfer services many years ago, but I don’t have a current use case other than as part of a diversified asset portfolio. Relative to metals it’s easier to buy and sell if needed, and you still have custody of the goods.

One Bitcoin is still worth one Bitcoin, it’s the value relative to other currencies that is highly volatile.

It can be used for payments as others have stated, but can be a hassle since, in Australia at least, you have to declare all of it and pay capital gains taxes, generally requiring use of a third pay like Koinly to manage it.

I had a jump pack in my car when a friend’s battery suddenly died without warning.

Summit is dead for several hours now too, at least for me. Have fallen back to the piefed PWA.