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.

While mint is neat, Ubuntu or any distro with gnome would work in the “very graphical, large icons” sense.

I dont know about mint, but debian does security updates automatically and just politely asks for a reboot now and then, perfect for an “unattended” device.

Yum Yum or Mama

Back when Vivaldi was a young punk, starved and with way too much funky ideas in his head, the only job he could find was as a teacher for girls in a convent.

Unleashing of the craziness ensued: with 60 pupils at hand, he started chain-writing pieces for string quatuors and quintets.

It’s called “Estro Armonico” and nr 8 on the Café Zimmerman’ recording is my ringtone. I always pause a bit before picking up a call.

Singing in The rain

Casabianca

Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.

I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it’s just a way of expressing that very soon we’re gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we’re in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.

In a way I did: shotgun marriage, she was 4 months already

I paid for mine on r/hungryartists - I think it’s a cool drawing & I am happy with it.

That was a very, very long time ago of course.

There’s a French speaking /r/ over there that bans an @jlai.lu user and remove their post when they link to Lemmy.

I am a sucker for indirect, coloured washes aiming at the ceiling

You didn’t specify a context, did you?

I mean, this is “ambient lighting” amrite?

As available in France, tho only for €60 less.
And you pay €30 for fedora (?)

Indeed but it’s rarely available to the general public. They don’t mind selling 2000 units to a business with dedicated IT support. They (used to) totally draw the line at providing individual support to individual customers.

In my experience (France), buy it while you can because it pops from time to time & disappears without warning.

Woah! Never seen this in France, ever. You can even get it os-free!

The difference in pricing is concerning tho.

Where?

Went to wake up my daughter like every morning, bed is empty, covers thrown to the side. Check around the house, nothing.

Everybody else is asleep, house is silent. Check the back, the swings, the rear deck, nothing.

Check bedroom again.

She was rolled up tight in her blanket, against the wall, from head to toe, making it look like the bed was empty.

Weak Knees Moment

Well, when you aren’t shackled to your new keyboard, be sure to enjoy our beers, french fries and chocolates, they are truly unmatched anywhere!