Ha, I only knew the whispered line, never saw the conplete sketch. Brilliant.

Oh man, this perfectly sums it up.

I should watch IT Crowd again.

To be fair, I’m the opposite of efficient with my tab usage. I close tabs often as soon as I switch to a different task, only to find out I still needed that tab.

I only just weeks ago discovered that tabs are kept open after rebooting (I had to turn power off during a session). That is how automatically I close tabs normally. A blessing and a curse.

Shivers

Nightmare fuel I tell you. NIGHTMARE FUEL!

A hint of disgust with a trace of pity.

The feeling I have about people that have more than 8 tabs open is the same feeling I have for people that have their desktop full of random shit.

Training?

“Here’s everything you need to deliver. Questions? Good luck!”

Source: delivered mail for a few years.

Thanks!

Yeah totally!

frantically searches for the meaning of all those abbreviations

Ah, I thought because of the very dense few characters it might be Chinese. Thanks, will update post.

Huh, never noticed that. Probably always thought that was just part of the program/files needed.

Thanks! Hmm, never thought of looking at 7zip’s settings to see if it can autodelete/not unpack that stuff. I’ll see if I can find such a setting!

Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?

I think this is where my disconnect and perhaps even some unintentional disbelieve in these types of conversations comes from. The political landscape feels like a completely different world to me. It is easier for me to study, say, the political landscape of China or India because the culture is so vastly different from ours. USA always feels close in values and everyday culture to Europe, yet so completely different too.

Although I’m not a conservative myself, I still see a case to be made for a government that is “conservative”. I.e. a government that doesn’t respond with a law for every single small thing. There is a danger to turn a country into a bureaucratic nightmare. Where people will find loopholes in laws, and a government responds by patching that loophole up with another law or clause. A labyrinth of laws can and will cause suffering for people that are edge cases.

Or do I read the term “government conservatism” wrong here?

For me, a two party system seems really odd too. The flipside though, is having like 18 parties that all represent something, which takes way more cooperation and finding middle ground. This might seem good on paper, but can sometimes lead to indecisiveness or an unwillingness to take unpopular decisions. In the long run, that might cause a country to slowly fall behind on various topics due to a lack of vision.

Source: I’m a Dutch guy who has seen this happen in it’s own country.

The Netherlands :)

So, I live in a European country where our right-wing politics would probably be considered “left” by Republican Americans.

I vote sort of central. Not too left, not too right. Even though I disagree with many things that our rightwinged politicians stand for, I can see some merit in them at times. The same with our left-leaning politicians.

When I see discussions among Americans, it seems to me either party just hates the other party, automatically calling them bigoted. And it comes across as a heavily divided country without any hope for reconciliation.

So 2 questions: Republicans: is there any democratic strength you wish your party would implement?

And democrats: is there any republican strength that you wish your party would implement?

And what about the rights of the muggles that do streetmagic, illusionists, magicians and slight-of-hand masters? They can sort of bring some magic to the table.

If you enjoy whacky streetview stuff, you might like this site