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clay_pidgin ,

That’s extremely interesting, thank you for sharing it!

clay_pidgin ,

They seemed like good quality and great designs, but I could never swing $30-50 for a glorified Micromachine to put on my shelf. I’m jelly of people who have them, though!

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clay_pidgin ,

It sounds like you want a blog that lets you categorize or tag your entries to keep them together.

clay_pidgin ,

You do! Duncan Lawrence (Netherlands - Arcade) Rosa Lynn (Ireland - Snap) and Måneskin (Italy - cover of Beggin’) are in regular play in the US.

Those are from the last two or three years. Remember that many songs are in their native language, so they’re not likely to hit over in the Anglophone world.

Historically you can’t ignore Celine Dion and Abba.

clay_pidgin ,

It’s got Kärjää energy and I love it.

clay_pidgin ,

Windows95Man is Finland. Netherlands sent Joost Klein - Europapa.

It seems the Målmo police are involved, rumors of an incident between Klein and the production staff?

clay_pidgin ,

Israel’s contestant was asked a hard question and she was told she didn’t have to answer it. I read that someone from the Dutch team shouted “why not?” But I’m not clear if that was Klein or someone else. If that what you’re referring to? The reporting has been all over the place.

clay_pidgin ,

I have seen this too, but there’s not much detail. (I’m not saying he didn’t do it, I’m saying I don’t know what he is accused of having done!)

clay_pidgin ,

“serendipitously” my ass, the contest was rigged. Loreen was a previous winner, got extra setup time and props, and the jury voting was extremely skewed. EBU wanted to take advantage of the 50th anniversary of ABBA. Finland was robbed - the crowd favorite by far!

clay_pidgin ,

There have been lots of cheating scandals, but usually it’s broadcasters collaborating on a voting scheme or contestants using the pre-recorded backup vocals to cover their poor live performances.

clay_pidgin ,

I think it counts as a notification. Under settings, notifications, whatever app you’re listening to, see if youcan turn them back on.

clay_pidgin ,

Is this just a joke?

clay_pidgin ,

This is the last flight of an Atlas V, too. Kind of odd to launch Starliner on this when they’re going to need to start testing over for the replacement rocket - Vulcan Centaur.

clay_pidgin ,

Ah. Well they were designed by Lockmart and have had only one major failure AFAIK, so the rocket party is probably fine. Ought to check the door seals on the capsule, though.

clay_pidgin ,

That’s a good point.

clay_pidgin ,

I get Consumer Reports free through my library. You may too!

clay_pidgin , (edited )

It’s a platform for playing and creating video games. The stated intent was for kids to make games for kids, but as soon as game creators could make real money from it, professional devs took over. The in game currency is called robux, and it seems like every game is littered with buttons to get a higher jump or faster car or whatever for a few dollars’ worth.

Because young kids are not savvy consumers, the platform is chock full of identical games with the same name and logo hoping to steal players stay from whichever game is on trend at the moment.

There are certainly some games in there worth playing, but it’s a very small minority.

clay_pidgin ,

I love you, dude.

clay_pidgin ,

Ohh, I see now how it could have been misread. Good eye, friend. I thought desmostenes was just a butt weasel.

clay_pidgin ,

I followed the devs to Vivaldi and I’ve been very happy.

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

My parents raised me to always say “yes sir” and “no ma’am”, and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I’m not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like “no thank you, ma’am” based on their appearing AFAB, but...

clay_pidgin OP ,

I could do that!

clay_pidgin OP ,

It does, thanks Bud!

clay_pidgin OP ,

That’s fun. Do you do the accent? Or are you actually from down under?

clay_pidgin OP ,

I could do “boss”. Thanks for the reply.

clay_pidgin OP ,

That’s probably fair.

clay_pidgin OP , (edited )

Friend is good, but I’d feel a bit like I was in a cult, I think.

“Thanks, friend. By the way, you know who else is your friend? The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Let me tell you all about it.”

clay_pidgin OP ,

I do that too, of course, but “sir” and “ma’am” are a bit more formally polite by showing deference.

clay_pidgin OP ,

That’s great. I recognize that folks with whom I interact at their work are often treated indifferently at best, and I like to make their day a little better if I can.

clay_pidgin OP ,

That’s exactly how I’m thinking, thank you. I used service workers as an example, but it’s much wider then that. Strangers of any kind, especially people with whom I may want to be a little deferential. Older folks, people doing me a service, someone with authority like a teacher at my kids school.

Sir and ma’am are in addition to the please and thank you, which are the minimum.

clay_pidgin OP ,

This is a helpful reply; thank you.

clay_pidgin OP ,

Thank you for the reply.

clay_pidgin OP ,

I am, yes. It’s not uncommon in the South, and among military/former/family of.

clay_pidgin OP ,

That would be my ideal outcome. I haven’t seen a neo-pronoun type of thing for this situation, sadly. It’s tough to impose new rules on a language via fiat anyway, so it probably wouldn’t catch on.

clay_pidgin OP ,

These are amazing. I’ve only heard a few of them before!

clay_pidgin OP ,

Awesome.

clay_pidgin OP ,

I speak some German and Spanish with the formal You (Sie and Usted) and it’s handy but adds complication as a learner.

clay_pidgin OP ,

That IS pretty good…

clay_pidgin OP ,

Believe it, sister!

clay_pidgin ,

That’s not been my experience with Debian as my daily driver for the last few months. I’m in the console, sorry “Konsole” every few days having to adjust something or install a program that isn’t in the store or available as an app image. It’s working, but I get KDE crashes once or twice a week and the microphone just doesn’t work sometimes.

It’s still much faster than my win10, though.

clay_pidgin ,

Lithuania has The ROOP, I won’t hear any slander against y’all!

clay_pidgin ,

That’s how I thought of it too. I really liked calculus; being able to measure another part of the graph was interesting to me.

clay_pidgin ,

Ricardo, is that you?

clay_pidgin ,

That’s all vanilla game, baby!

clay_pidgin , (edited )

I guess sending something BACK, so I hit the “your story” button. Don’t even know which app that was supposed to be.

clay_pidgin ,

I love it. They said they weren’t the corporation BOB, they were the natural human man called Bob, and the judge said “fine if Bob isn’t here I’m issuing a bench warrant for his dumb ass.”.

clay_pidgin ,

My favorite Shantyman has a song about her! Tom Lewis - H.M.C.S. Sackville

clay_pidgin ,

www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/economy/…/index.html

Looks like “soon”.

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