Notices by zip (zip@wandering.shop), page 3

@goatsarah what am I gonna do with a £2000 ultralight that doesn't have handles

turns out when you stick a lifelong cyclist in a wheelchair she's gonna go hard on maintaining that sucker and also mastering wheelies as fast as humanly possible and knowing what all the makes and models are and wanting a new lighter one even if it's not really appropriate for her needs

it's fascinating hanging out in tech support spaces and watching people complaining that they bought gigabit internet and only get 100mbps, or bought 5 gigabit internet and only get 1 gigabit. people don't have hardware that can keep up with their internet connection and I bet most of them don't even notice

Being a trad wife must be exhausting. I mean having to set up all those shots, lights and everything, then clean your kitchen counter, then move everything for the next shot and so on. And then the editing.

for a country that is nominally not engaged in any wars I wonder how many people the US military kills every week

@marlies @goatsarah to a world of sufficient cynicism

@neil meanwhile teens will be sharing underground photorealistic face models and tutorials about how to load em up into vtubing software as a virtual webcam

I love living in the UK where I regularly find myself saying, without enthusiasm, “yay, the House of Lords has prevented the latest piece of unbridled fascism”

The HoL is the most structurally small-c-conservative part of the political process, filled with the grandees of previous administrations (plus Boris’s hairdresser), which already gives it a solidly Tory tilt before you consider the age and establishment careers of its membership.

And it keeps outflanking the government to the left.

It’s basically custom-built to prevent any Labour government from doing anything too socialist or that is detrimental to the interests of landlords but apparently there’s such tremendous inertia to being an old conservative fuck from the 1990s that they apparently play the role of telling the present lot that they are, even by Tory standards, being cunts.

this came from a conversation about why you'd vousvoyer someone in "voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir" and apparently you'd do that if it was 1974 and you're being very formal.

Apparently you wouldn't do this to proposition a group of people, though, even if it gramatically sounds like you might

my girlfriend informs me that while "ménage à trois" means "threesome" in english, it has something of a domestic undertone in french. The french for threesome is "un threesome"

we're told that the best focal length for portraits is 80mm or whatever, but also, perspective is based purely on where you're standing. so would it not make more sense to say "the best distance from a subject is..." instead?

gp: please collect your fit note from reception
me: i can't
gp: send a friend
me: I want a Reasonable Accommodation
gp: suddenly this is e-mailable
fit note: zoe can't work this week
me: i can't work until mid-march at best, i can't even walk over to my home office consistently yet
gp: please collect your fit note from reception
me: I CAN'T

half of what's fucking infuriating is they have literally just written down on a piece of paper that I am too ill to even walk and then they're like "well you'll just have to pop down to fetch it, come on, it's only 5 minutes away!"

quite aside from the horror of sticking asylum seekers on a fucking barge away from town and giving them £5 a day to live on, I'm just floored that they don't even give these poor people their own fucking rooms

i get it taking hours to build the linux kernel on a pentium in 2002 but why is building boost something a modern PC still can't do without taking an era? it's genuinely weird. surely building packages from scratch should be comically fast nowadays

the year is 2024. A bunch of music has fallen out of copyright, but you can’t actually use it because none of the automated enforcement systems know that

A small delight of the modern era is that the full might of the massive commercial surveillence and marketing infrastructure has put some of their average $600-or-so-per-car spend towards trying to entice me because I spend time on urbanist channels and subreddits, which counts as an interest in cars.

Seriously they think I'm gonna buy myself a high-end Mercedes any day now

@tommorris I imagine plenty can't touch type and hunting and pecking with autocomplete is probably actually faster for them