There are times I’m glad to come from a small family, the drama is similar but there’s just less of it.

And yeah, people do come around. I didn’t talk to my mum at all for 12 years, and it was a very slow restart, whereas now she refers to my enby partner as an essential part of the family, and loves when we come to visit.

There’s other relatives I cut out and don’t intend on reconnecting with, but at least it wasn’t all of them.

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Managed to be funny and heartfelt all the way through, with a well written conclusion. Anything that doesn’t wrap up properly just sinks any enjoyment for me, but this show left me feeling satisfied.

Well, that’s a … win?

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that they invite you because they think they can “straighten you out”, the garbage they believe is that all kids are straight and cis and it’s down to brainwashing by the deep state Jewish space lasers that anyone would think otherwise.

For your own sake, best to stay away.

Yup, especially as a gay, sex scenes in movies have always been “I’m fine with straight people existing, but I don’t want them rubbing my face in it” at best … and it’s rarely at best, with all the chemistry of a jar of nitrogen.

It was for government owned computers, they didn’t want any pirated or virus-infected stuff, and at that point there was no way to lock down such a mish-mash of systems.

The software company (who also do things like run prisons these days) had given permission for us to run the software and given a set of fake data so we could go through the motions when talking people through things, but apparently that wasn’t enough to get it on the list.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away (before the internet was a normal thing to have) I provided over-the-phone support for a large and complex piece of software.

So, people would call up and you had to describe how they could do the thing they needed to do, and if that failed they would have to wait a few days until you went to the site to sort it in person.

The software we supported was not on the approved list for the company I worked for, so you couldn’t use it within the building where the phones were being answered.

If I had to call you something, it would be “embarrassingly thoughtless to others”.

Oh I agree with that completely, only babies wet their knickers at the first sign of properly gendering others.

The poster above me here is absolutely right, she shouldn’t be forced to use the wrong pronouns. It might make her uncomfortable.

Makes sense, European crash testing looks for different things and the e-NV200 was only ever passed as a commercial vehicle here so you couldn’t use one as a taxi.

They are well handy, it’s a shame.

A Nissan e-NV200 is what you want … I’m in Spain, there’s a few about. They’re basic work vans, good amount of space in them, easily fixable, etc.

Yeah, I got a basic reader about 10 years ago, for what would be €20 in today’s money. It’s saved me hundreds.

Only problem is motorbikes don’t have standard ODB2 ports so I have no idea why the light is on on my little 125 :-/

This seems like a great way to break out of one’s bubble and connect with people and the outdoors :-)

Protip: Live in Europe and you don’t even need to go anywhere :-)

I’m 46, the parts of my life where I haven’t needed to use a car every day have been great for my physical and mental health … now I live too far from work I use a little 125 motorbike to commute, and it’s still much nicer than having to take a car. When I am forced to take a car, the one I have is small and economical.

I didn’t start figuring this out until I was 30, maybe you need a few more years to mature enough to throw off the consumerist mindset?

Just walk in to the local shop on your way to/from wherever else you’re going (or just to get out of the house for two minutes if you’ve been working from home) … that way you can have fresh ingredients every day, and you’re walking a bit regularly so you don’t get overweight easily

I have this sort of thing all the time here in Spain, though with shit/sheet.

There’s plenty going the other way too, of course. At least I don’t mistake miedo and mierda these days …

Wow, and I thought my car insurance of €170 was expensive this year!

They assume all windows users only have one hand free at all times