This is the best answer.

It stops you feeling awkward. It’s gets a chuckle from everyone involved, and it makes you feel a lot more confident (fake it till you make it type effect).

Extra qudos if you finish by pointing your mock baton at the friend you know is going to go “hip hip”.

It was double pronged, I think. Carrots are quick and easy to grow in an allotment. Telling British kids that the fighter pilots they saw overhead were eating lots of carrots helped a lot. If only for the morale of people.

Getting kids to eat their veg without complaining isn’t a new problem.

It’s on steam. The challenge levels are great for learning about weird moves and tactics.

Bishops are terrifying in that game. I’ve lost more than a few to a retrograde checkmate.

For those confused, bishops step through 2 dimensions at a time. In a normal chess game, that is X&Y, making them move diagonally. In 5D chess it can be X &T, letting it check a king in the past. Since a king in the past can’t move, it’s a checkmate.

A lot of vehicles have a beam dip adjuster in the cab. Mine pops out when I press the center of the light control selector.

Officially, they are to correct for a heavy load in the back. Unofficially, if you tweak them, you can flip between longer range, and polite as required.

If you watch your lights, there should be a fairly sharp cut-off at the top of their coverage. If that line ever hits a window or mirror, it will look like you are flashing them. If it’s too high, either fix it yourself (generally quite easy) or get it fixed.

I’ll just be happy when we phase out imperial and other weird thread types. Metric standardisation is a godsend over what came before.

The heads are a lost cause. They serve too many different purposes, with differing, competing, requirements.

It might be worth looking around. At least over here, independent/small chain cinemas are making a bit of a comeback.

I’m a lot happier to pay £10 for a big, comfortable, motorised recliner. It’s a lot better than the tiny hard seats in the big chains.

Ironically the opposite is more likely.

I have ADHD and am (now) medicated for it. Interestingly, I’ve noticed it’s become less effective. Not because my meds work worse, but that my brain works better. It now knows what a focused flow state feels like. It’s become easier to recreate it, even without the support of medication.

I suspect depression meds would do the same. The medication supports you in a better mental state. Your own brain learns that state and that it feels better. Eventually, you might not need the meds to hold that state. If you do, however, that’s also fine. The goal is to be the best version of you.

The french we can handle. The Danes… they fall in the same category as the Canadians, or the Scots. You don’t pick a fight with them. If you must fight them, you run away throwing gold at them.

Mice used to have a mechanical ball in the bottom. You needed to remove it periodically to clean out the gunk that formed on the rollers. When optical mice appeared, they steadily replaced the old style. It became an IT joke. Mice with balls were male. Optical mice were female.

I would call that a feature! It means we can use them as caltrops if the French ever invade!

/s

The UK plug is one of the best around. It’s only downside is that it’s chunky. By putting the fuse in the plug, the protection can be customised to what is attached.

It also is designed to be almost impossible to fall out of a wall socket. As well as mandating the pin connection order and safety shielding. The sockets are also gated, stopping children sticking stuff into them.

Even internally they are well designed. The live wire is the weakest link. If pulled, that will tend to fail first. It will, however be held internally by the neutral and earth wires. The earth will be the last to fail.

The side entry also means that the plug locks into place when the cable is pulled. If the plug or socket fails catastrophically, the earth pin will be the last to pull loose.

It was a mountain out of a molehill situation. Basically, brother toner cartridges can do an internal calibration to fix minor alignment issues. For off brand toner, it needs to be done manually. It had been that way for a while. The original author just got some particularly misaligned cartridges and “discovered” this.

Other than that, I’ve seen no signs of enshitifcation from Brother. I ended up buying a brother colour laser not long afterwards, and have been quite happy so far.

Old stock, or is someone still making them?

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy had it right. The Galactic President did all the PR events, but had no actual powers. The real decisions were made by a guy, living in a shed, who didn’t believe the rest of the universe existed, when he couldn’t see it.

Computer mice is an area where females have completely displaced males.

I’ve not seen a male mouse at work in a long time.

I’m fine with 2D walking and jumping. It’s the 3rd dimension movement that messes me up.

Try it though. It’s awesome, in either normal or VR.

Only play it in VR if you have a very steady stomach! It looks absolutely incredible in VR, but the movement is motion sickness inducing to say the least.

There’s some evidence that mammals never lost the ability. Unfortunately, our scarring response is massively faster and locks wounds down.

A few years back, they engineered mice to lack a gene, to find out what it did. Initially, someone got in trouble for not properly marking the modified mice (via holes in their ears). They later discovered the holes healed completely, including regenerating fur etc.

Unfortunately, it also makes recovery from larger wounds difficult, since without a scarring response they don’t close quickly.

I find it a lot more palatable if you assume it’s viewed from penny, as an unreliable narrator. There’s actually a lot more geeky stuff going on under the obvious, but she doesn’t notice it.