I have a cheat code: I work for others. My work helps performances happen, which in turn do bring entertainment and/or depth to audiences. Also I love my office

VLC for local, Murglar for streaming because it allows me to save music locally.

Dad here. I’d fall flat on my ass if some boyfriend came to me asking permission - pretty sure it won’t happen given the way we rose our daughters.

Fun unrelated to marriage fact: I once had my SO check the front window of a jewelry shop to “pick her favourite” - the stated game was that if we both silently picked the same I’d buy it for her. Some 30+ years later she still wears it on her ring finger. No stone, a ladder of white gold encasing gold stars.

Many imaginative solutions around :)

Bah, I’m too old. Had a commodore 64 at home tho.

It’s straight out of Hexbear so indeed Hell Yeah

Ice hockey

Ping-pong

Yeah, let’s go classic : Casablanca, Singing in the rain, Vertigo

Igorrr - can’t understand no one around me have ever heard about them.

French fries (from Belgium with mayonnaise)

I follow Hashtags, first. Sometimes someone says something I find striking, I check their post history & follow if really interesting. But mostly, hashtags.

The #Iran tag on mastodon is pretty active right now.

Help others achieve theirs

Not my idea, my SO : we all shared what we’d like to do in the future, so that everybody is aware of it and may find opportunities to help or support.

Thinkpads. I’m not sure one can ever have enough of them tho.

Uh? What outage? When?

It’s the only way of having a truly “popular” army, one you can’t have to do your shortsighted near-term political objectives, but will only really stand to defend their own.

There are many pitfalls in such endeavours : the first not having an entire brainwashed target population for service (no, I’m not going to name names: there are just too many), the main second is having both alternatives possible for true pacifists & no easy way of avoiding it / having it too easy through class or education etc.

Belgium used to have a choice of 1 year military or …2 years civil service. I think it was fair, if you really can’t stand to bear arms, go lift gurneys and wash hospitals floors for 2 years.

In any case, it is always better than a “professional” army where (mostly) clueless kids exchange their literal lives for a salary, some form of job security and stuff.

Eating gummy bears.

My summer job gives us Mascot workwear. They’re so great I wear them all the time.

Battery life (>5000mAh) and price (<$200) comes first - long days of work, often outside, it’be nice but.