I’ll say it again, because I think the idea is a practical solution to the issue: electricity and water usage should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive it becomes.

This would actually incentivise companies to reduce their usage, to question if they actually need that new AI data centre that will eat up all the gains in renewable electricity production and require fossil fuel plants to continue running, it’ll reduce the crypto miners as well, and encourage everyone to try to reduce their usage.

The knock on effect of this is that electricity actually becomes cheaper for everyone.

Such a great series, Toby Jones is so wonderful in this.

Twice. Once at the end of Final Fantasy IX, realising who was monologuing the ending at what that meant.

Second one was at the end of What Remains of Edith Finch, pretty much for exactly the same reasons.

I’ve used “I know something you don’t know” far too many times, along with “I don’t think that means what you think it means.” They’re far too useful in conversation.

I just made two Italians cry by showing them this.

2005 was a bad year for cancelled sci-fi series that were good, actually. Surface, Threshold and Invasion, all excellent, all cancelled after one season. I’m still upset.

I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It’ll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it’s what we should do.

We also use “I’m trying for a baby” as a euphemism for sex. In fact, my favorite euphemism is “just dropping the kids off at the pool”

I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

For Brits of a certain age: 0(1)81 811 8181

I think it’s middle, bottom, then top.

Why

WHY NOT? Why not just waste a week of your life creating a react project just to coverup your insecurities of how incompetent you are. Just Why not!

At least they’re self aware.

Yeah, it should be “fig 1”, “also fig 1, but the other half”.

When most western governments are still highly influenced by the Catholic church, even atheists need to pay attention to who the pope is.

All of the Ubi-art games were great, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all fantastic games. And then Ubisoft said they would only make open world games. Idiots.

Thanks very much for your advice. I’ve reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I’ve been using, hopefully that gets me further.

I’m also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.

It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.

Thanks again.

Deleted my Plex account as soon as I got this email, using the account link in said email, so hopefully they see the connection.

The Evil Dead trilogy.

A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I’d not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.

Pooh Bear energy.

Nah, he’ll be put in charge of women’s health and reproductive rights.