LucyLastic @ LucyLastic @beehaw.org

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In The Guardian long reads there's an excerpt from the book which is very moving

Some intimate time with a consenting partner of your preferred gender, or cheesecake.

Also, in DS9, he asked (kinda) Klingons to join him in battle. They got there in time to help the harvest, and when challenged he said that time was their enemy.

That's a shame, though being in the EU I wonder how much they're legally allowed to keep.

I guess I should make better use of my Proton mail account

This sounds like great news, if only to avoid the effect of being mixed in with ancient aliens bs etc.

Headset, as in headphones with a microphone. I use it for MS Teams meetings and a bit of music and it works fine.

The point OP was trying to make is that you can use USB-c for other things besides listening to music.

Since you seem to be an audiophile with a list of fancy headphones (don't ask me, my Cardo combined with earplugs is fine for the level of listening I want to do) then wouldn't an offboard DAC / amp that you could keep far longer than a phone, and isn't restricted by size constraints going to be better than a built-in version?

Also, if you're worried about e-waste maybe you shouldn't buy so many headphones. My partner's Sennheisers have lasted 20 years so far.

Gotta take the cover off to prod at the bits underneath sometimes

I very much like this idea, would be nice to be able to use a phone in more of a mini-computer manner, whereas at the moment they're somewhat hamstrung.

I'm always surprised phone docks aren't a thing, my work laptop has a USB-c dock that is bristling with ports that are useful.

a) I have a USB-c headset at work

b) the 3.5mm headphone jack can't be used to transfer data (at a good rate)

Laugh all you like, I've had the same AOL email address since 1997 and haven't had problems with leaked information or spam. It doesn't cost me anything, so I'm just going to carry on using it.

Thus we can witness the sound of a million Scottish fingers tapping numbers into phones at the same time

In Spain it's a way of life. If I'm 10 minutes late for something I just call it Spanish On Time.

I'm gonna be straight with you, apart from the music the Rocky films were not the peak of cinema. I'm sorry, but it had to be said.

I'm not a bigot, but in my opinion the sliding scale between jam and marmalade is so fine that it's not worth distinguishing between them, it should be a spectrum of preserves.

Not quite as fun as that, more like put up a new design of lamp post and then throw a car at it to see if anything dangerous happens. Same thing is done with road barriers, which is fun sometimes when the design isn't quite right and it serves as more of a ramp than a barrier

If by the land of bikes you mean Netherlands, then you've got TASS! They sometimes get to crash test odd things there like railway carriages, lamp posts, and they once accidentally fired a car into a tree. I've done a bit of work there in the past :-)

Anyway, the development of crash test dummies way back in the past used to be pretty random. There were wooden ones, some testing used wax dummies dropped from above with a pendulum, some low-speed testing had volunteers (there's a video on youtube somewhere of one of them being handed a cigarette after the crash as the first order of business). When things started to get serious a lot of research was taken from military and aviation testing, but to bring things up to date the Thor dummy was built from the ground-up to be for car testing ... with that they looked at injury statistics and decided what sensors to put in. It was made with analog instrumentation (with hundreds of cables coming out, looking vaguely like something from a cyberpunk anime) with the intention to fit onboard computers to it when technology was sufficiently advanced. Now all the data recording is handled in-dummy with it's own battery so if a cable gets cut the data isn't lost.

The new female Thor has a much better spine / abdomen, with gel-filled pressure sensors which were originally developed by the French government to go in child dummies. Compared to the male version it'll give much more meaningful information about abdominal injuries, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one!

It would be tricky to think up a more threatening name for a financial service, but I guess it's on point for people wanting to exploit pyramid schemes

I'd like an anti-car car community, so I can chat to people about classic cars but agree that they should be in museums because oh my dog the world is on fire.

Thank you!

This is probably a project for the winter when I'm literally snowed under instead of figuratively, plus I'm going on a little motorbike adventure in September so it would be nice to get a bit of useable video then to try it with too (using my old GoPro 1 clone)

Dirtbike handlebars, I don't want my usual phone in a risky position. It runs off a USB socket from the bike's electrics and I hotspot data from my regular phone.

I also have a Garmin Montana, but that's quite big and bulky and overkill just to see where I am when I get lost.