Is your local water company irresponsibly releasing sewage into your rivers?
Are you struggling to find an environmentally sound liquid to throw over Nigel Farridge?
I wonder if there's some sort of solution to both these problems? Perhaps there is a way to both help remove a small amount of sewage from the river and also find something to throw at Nigel?
To a degree, yes, but don't expect magic. Some laptops have a waterproof membrane under the keyboard, so if you're lucky, and it does, you may be able to just pop the keys off and dry the membrane out, and make sure no liquid creeps round the side into the electronics.
Otherwise you may have better odds if you open up the case and mop up any/all loose liquid you can get to with a microfibre cloth, as soon as possible, then try and let it air dry for a while.
A sealed bag with dried rice and your electronic object may absorb a bit of leftover moisture, but only to the extent that it will equal the moisture level in the sealed bag - the dried rice will gain a little extra moisture, the object will lose that bit of extra moisture.
Try to resist the urge to turn it on to check if it's working until you've got all the moisture out.
I just worry how 17% of people would think the Tories would support the NHS... almost 1 in 5 people thinking "yeah, they're doing a great job" in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
This won't apply to everywhere, but near me (in the UK), the council removed some of our bus lanes and cycle lanes last year, to appease some angry car babies, and possibly Rishi "We're a nation of car drivers" Sunak.
It's now difficult to safely cycle to the city centre.
At commuter times, the bus can now take 45 minutes for a 40 minute on-foot journey. Used to be 10 - 15.
The buses also get stuck in traffic at various earlier points in their route, so may be 10 - 30 minutes late or cancelled. This was already a problem, because the bus company is appalling, but it's got worse since some of the bus lanes are gone. Very little chance of using this to get to work on time, or to get to the train station if you're working out of town.
I'm not surprised bus and cycle usage is down. I walk instead, but I imagine many others can't afford the extra hour of travel time every day and are now driving again.
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I'm... actually quite impressed. What's the catch, Tories?
There's normally a bit where you say things like "The paths outside the shops will be re-paved with the ground up bones of the unemployed, disabled, homeless, transgendered and asylum seekers, created by our new £10 billion hunting programme".
To me, this looks more like a list of "At an event with catering, after everyone's eaten all the cheese sandwiches and ham sandwiches, what's left on the table, completely untouched because it's vile?"
I know it's a stupid, petty thing to get hung up on, but I'm weirdly offended by the word "Center" being used instead of "Centre", in a British article/newspaper for a British Institute at a British University.
These petitions run for 6 months, so there's a chance this one will be seen by the next government - which is good, because the current lot tended to simply write "no, won't" on all the petitions they didn't care about personally.
I had a small toy dinosaur, which was god. I don't think the toy itself was god, but more likely it was a model/toy of god, who was a full-sized dinosaur.
Retrospectively, my best guess on the reasoning for this thought process was that one adult had told us that dinosaurs were really, really old, before there were any people, then a different adult had told us that god was really old and he created the people - and therefore I came to the conclusion that if god was really old and created people, he must have been there before people, and if everything before people was dinosaurs, god must be a dinosaur.
I picked my most "noble looking" dinosaur and decided "this one is god".
Looking at some of these... I'd never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine's mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where's it already installed?
So there's :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)
Then like most people, I've got a "Complete" and a "Maybe [person's name]" for ones the missus might enjoy.
The only sort of grouping is "Wheel Games", which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren't set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.
Hitman series as an X-Com or Jagged Alliance style turn based strategy. I think that's pretty easy to imagine and self explanatory.
FIFA or Pro Evo as an ascii turn based tactical roguelike. I don't mean running through dungeons etc, I mean still playing football, just that it's controlled on a grid, with you controlling a single @, and the other players moving when you move a tile etc, keyboard shortcuts for pass/lob/shoot/skill manoeuvres etc.
Rugby League Live series in the style of Sensible World of Soccer. Pretty self explanatory. Rugby pretty much missed the "fast paced arcade action, 3 minute match" era of computer games, and they just churn out these slow, buggy Fifa-likes each year.
The closest I'm aware of currently are "Phantom Doctrine" (as a spy Xcom) and "Football Tactics & Glory" (as a turn based football game).
The Chicken Song by Spitting Image, about 1986 I think. I expect the finer points of the parody were likely lost on me, but I guess I enjoyed the silly words and puppets.
"UK government seeks to endanger the lives of children, cyclists and pedestrians, encourage the destruction of the planet and ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands of bus commuters, and damage thousands of businesses which rely on public transport for staff, to appease handful of loud angry little pink-faced men in giant fat cars"
I don't think we're at the stage to be handing out numbers here, but I think you could improve your score with the following:
You're using two colours of cheese - this is great - but why no picture or pattern? A simple quartering of yellow and orange squares would help - or if you're feeling adventurous, a little house, heart, pacman, face of Christ etc.
The cheese is only partially melted. If you have access to a grill, you might want to leave it under a bit, until it begins to bubble.
There's not enough of it. You know why toasters have two slots in them? You should always eat toast in sets of two.
This may be controversial, depending on where you live, but to my mind the brown lumpy stuff ruins the purity of the cheese on toast. With the exception of butter, which is a structural glue, and can be considered part of the toast, "cheese on toast" should be both the title of the meal, and the list of ingredients.
Thank you to everyone who keeps the thing running, both in terms of technically running the instance, and those who find or create content to post :)
... and happy birthday!