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Put this on your desk with a spigot on the side, and the humidifier on the other side of the room. Congratulations: pipeless pipe.

There's not many objects that you use with the same regularity and intimacy as a mouse other than footwear and furniture. If they're a bit off you get used to them to the point their flaws become part of their charm. I got my Microsoft Sculpt Mouse when they were brand new. It's still going strong and I'll be heartbroken when it eventually dies but, at the risk of jinxing it, it's showing no signs.

Weirdly, one show that didn't make fun of the trans person in that one episode was The IT Crowd, even through the creator is a bigoted fucktard in real life.

Or across an 8" ocean.

ce n'est pas un grille-pain.

UK here. English, obviously. That's it. Modern languages - either French or Spanish - were optional. It's honestly embarrassing.

Sounds like something you should see your doctor about. Ask your doctor is Placebo™ is right for you.

I have a friend called Martin in Uppsala. They could learn his hot sauce recipe. It's really good.

And the software issue angle is valid, unfortunately. After my Fairphone 5 was permanently bricked by a firmware update I'll be holding off on Fairphone for a good while. Apparently the issue I had was common (lots of people talking about it in the forums) but Fairphone support took six weeks to even acknowledge my issue and never actually sorted it. Dead at 18 months. I ended up claiming on my insurance and buying a Pixel.

In a lot of cases in the US the lines themselves are privately owned so the owners will prioritise the most profitable services. The punishment for delaying a passenger service is a fixed fine with no further implications, so that fine is just a business expense.

Also they publish utterly generic AI slop articles with lazy localisation applied (e.g. A Mother from {town} Couldn't Believe The Item She Already Owns Count Do This!).

I think London is pretty good in that regard. The easiest way to travel is to use a contactless debit card (or phone, watch, credit card, etc). Just tap when prompted. Easy. I wish more cities did that, including the ones without entry barriers.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

But, yeah, seems like such an obviously good idea and it works so well. Why can't we do that?

When I was a kid we hosted two Trinidadians as part of an exchange in the Autumn and they'd never seen the leaves falling - they were worried that all the trees were dying off. This isn't a "stupid foreigner" gag, it was probably just the thing that shocked them the most. They loved the trains and the narrowboats.

UK here. Various right-wing governments have discouraged and torn out almost all the public drinking fountains on the basis they were being used by the homeless (they were also being used by everyone else, but ignore that bit). I've not seen much of Italy outside Rome but the water fountains there are amazing; just a simple gesture of mutual respect between humans.

And it's another example of "if you don't want me to do it, don't make it look so fun".

Not OP, but can confirm we have hedgehogs and they are adorable.

Only some metro systems, like the tube, have third rail - standard railways have overhead power. But since a lot of metro trains run outside tunnels as well it's not always obvious which rails are and aren't electrified.

The whole thing with gates is because the UK train system is privately run for profit and so respecting human dignity is less important than making sure every individual adequately prostates themselves before the company decides to provide service. Even TfL, the council-owned operator of the tube, is forbidden by law from receiving any taxpayer subsidy so must run at a profit.

Toki Wartooth, not a bumblebee.

There's a cat near me that does exactly this. Big orange and white thing. Her name is Shitbastard and she's super sweet until you touch The Forbidden Zone which, in her case, is her hips. Scritch her head, neck and back, though, and she purrs like a fucked diesel engine.