Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

remember when you had to have separate crossover cables for stuff?

that bloody sucked

@maple but yes, multiplayer game with coding would be awesome

@maple I think that might be github

@maple @LaserScheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Jonathan Swift wrote it as satire of the general disdain towards the poor and the irish at the time

@LaserScheme @maple obviously thought up by a certain Mr. Swift

the label for Peat Monster whisky is fantastic

@maple attempt succeeded!

@KekunPlazas better would be to use $EDITOR so it goes into whatever the preferred editor is

occasional reminder to always wear your PPE when you're doing anything where it's advised

Loud noises? Earplugs
Stuff flying around? Goggles
Dust and aerosolised stuff? Mask

@maple oh ah, yeah!

jaws has got smell covered then, they've only got touch left

Bird box: don't let them be seen by you
A quiet place: don't let them hear you
every zombie film: don't let them taste you

Right, got 2 of the 5 classical senses left, touch and smell, get on it hollywood

@Jo if it was we could save so much money on guns and tanks and things!

keep the aircraft carriers though, turn 'em into big floating hospitals

@kev@fosstodon.org @sydneyfalk the humanitarian things are mostly "eh, we've got people about, might as well do something useful with them" and the protecting people and peacekeeping missions tend to still involve guns and bombs and stuff

@kev@fosstodon.org @sydneyfalk while the expression "kill them with kindness" might hold some water it's not really sound military strategy

@kev@fosstodon.org @sydneyfalk apart from the bits that involve killing people that is

which is kinda the army's job

might even be perfectly justified killing people, but compassion doesn't really help with that either

@kev@fosstodon.org I just see the adverts as "Oi you fucking waster, join the army", which I don't see working that well

@kev@fosstodon.org here's the BBC article about it https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46747862

the british army is currently doing a recruitment campaign where, to get more young people to sign up to be shot at, they're calling them "snowflakes", "selfie addicts", and "phone zombies"

certainly an interesting advertising decision, let's see how well that works out for them

I forsee "badly"

yeah, looking up food recipes on the internet might be annoying to USAians but over here, in addition to scrolling through someone's entire life story to get to the recipe, I have to:

- convert all the measurements from US imperial to UK imperial so my mum can understand it because she's usually the one who wants the recipe
- convert all measurements to metric so I can understand it
- translate the USAian to English