It’s required by law in Ireland that you wake up every 30minutes to pray and curse England. You might as well check your emails since you’re awake anyway

Literally as soon as I was finished with my tantrum, I started thinking of ways to fix it.

I think it’s a really good example of a principal that a lot of us can struggle with - sometimes you just have to feel your emotions and let them rule you for a minute in order to deal with them. (although I wouldn’t usually recommend this for anger of course.) But we often try to bottle up our sadness or frustration or even our joy, instead of feeling them and letting them pass by us. It’s much quicker and easier to process some emotions by letting them happen.

In this specific situation, I should have a) stopped sooner; or b) found something to destroy that didn’t matter. But, I still did feel a lot better for having it out of my system even if it was silly to damage my work

Thanks for the solidarity, I will do my best

Yep, that would be nice

I’m in a similar situation - I badly hurt my best friend from school and we stopped talking. This was over a decade ago. I know from mutual friends that she’s moved away, she’s happy and has children now. Although I really regret how I acted, I think it’s best to just leave it in the past. No need to dredge up old pain for her just so I can feel better for apologising.

Idk if that’s the right answer, but it’s what I’ve chosen.

Excellent! Glad to see them go.

For the wording of the new ban – you are not banning politics, you are banning party politics. For example, stories about better distribution of food is political but acceptable. Stories about Labour winning an election is party politics and unacceptable (even though the assumed readers of Lemmy would find it to be positive).

I think I’ve understood correctly and I hope that helps. That’s the wording we use where I volunteer and it works well for us.

Very detailed, and that explains a lot, thank you.

It’s ok, we have hamlets here too. I live in one!

That’s different from anything I’ve seen in the UK. Every house seems to be surrounded with lawns and so spread out, and yet you still need whatever that giant building with the green roof and car park is. Presumably a shop? Why’d you need such a big building for so few people? And why are all the houses detached with no terraces? Very strange…

(All of that was rhetorical, I’m sure it makes sense if that’s what you’re used to. And having more room to spread out and less history to deal with)

Cool, thank you

This is why I was confused. There’s no way that’s a town with so few people (from a UK perspective)

Very detailed, thanks :)

No thanks, America is already confusing enough 👍

Maybe they’re not even paid, they enjoy standing in your way so much they come back and do it for free 😱

It’s always best to be polite. I like to thank automatic doors for opening for me

That’s not what I said - I said don’t escalate. The problem has already been dealt with by fixing the bug. There’s a chance that’s the mystery dickhead will never be seen again if you make it a non-event. If you reach out and taunt them, you’re just asking for more trouble

Don’t escalate unless you want to deal with more of this

extremely activist about hating modern Windows and extremely reluctant to use anything else.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. I have Linux on my laptop but I cba dealing with bootloaders on my desktop and can’t lose Windows altogether.

(Last time I tried dualbooting was with XP I think, so probably it’s a lot easier now than it used to be but still…)

I only “upgraded” to Windows 10 (from 7) last year due to software I needed for work. Windows 10 is bad enough, I’m definitely not “upgrading” to 11 until I have to.

In my experience, 10 runs much slower than 7 with so many updates that just kill performance as they’re running. And I’ve had pop-up adverts recently and programs that open on startup despite being disabled

Even if you just chuck them all in the bin for landfill, if it gets your space clean and gets you in a better mood, it’s worth it. Recycle when you can but don’t let your space become a mess just for the sake of recycling a few cans.