I’m guessing a fairly stereotypical cute gamer girl/nerd wet dream. The kind that gets a certain type of man autistically erect. Source: my colleagues in IT

Certainly less aggressive admins and auto mods.

Love techmoan. Guy’s an unsung national treasure.

Utterly hellish. In the UK, which is very far from being a Utopia, this would be almost unthinkable. Real Black Mirror stuff. Sure, the companies may not want you to join the union, but to actively advertise against it is breathtakingly shitty.

Have you tried… watching sports? I’m kidding. However, with something like the World Cup coming up it’s pretty easy to feign a passing interest. Even my mother seems in to it, and she usually couldn’t tell a football from a pinecone.

Talk to people?! That’s insane. Far better to deep dive into arcane coding disciplines and submerge oneself in niche strategy/fantasy roleplay. Fucking norm.

Absolutely. My kids are 11 and 9 and some of their friends have phones. I might provide a dumb phone when they’re a bit older, but if they want a smartphone they’ll.have to wait until they get a job and buy one.

Lol - looks like my old man is never getting to the US. He posts at least 1 meme a day on Facebook that comedically shits on Trump. It’s become something of an obsession.

Meanwhile, my brother-in-law is hoping to get to Boston with my nephew to watch Scotland play at the world cup. He’s been frantically un-liking dad’s posts and deleting his own for days.

Out of curiosity, if we’re to dismiss the caricature you think might be at play here, what does define witchcraft? If it’s just a set of mental disciplines that help someone navigate life then the term witchcraft itself seems to be somewhat grandiose.

Shame that people feel they can’t critique something they find silly for fear of sounding misogynistic. I don’t think that’s the kind of equality anyone should want.

If your definition of a perfect life is playing multiple video games and watching loads of movies then I’ve good news - you’re on the right timeline.

I was a doorman at a nightclub in the UK in the 90s. Believe me, there are young teens that can totally pass for adults. You’d be blind to think otherwise. We had to ID almost everyone. Conversely there were many 18 year olds that looked like literal children.

It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.

As someone who lives in rural Scotland and is old enough to have got married before the prevalence of these apps, I genuinely never expected to find the way most people hook up these days to be so utterly alien to my own lived experience.

I honestly don’t know how I’d cope with having to curate myself for some dystopian line-up so that, if I’m lucky, I can end up on these depressingly transactional dates, only to get these polite but impersonal rebuffs.

In my day people just got drunk enough to speak to the opposite sex, and if you clicked and miraculously still liked each other the next day then you’d start ‘going out’ with each other.

I can see how that might sound awful to many of this generation, but it was pretty much normal for us. And as a pretty plain guy with a reasonable sense of humour it worked out pretty well for me.

My Scottish dad was keen to watch the draw. He’s a socialist, a trade union man and his Facebook posts are either reruns of the qualifying goals or jokes shitting on Trump. His intense dislike of that man has become a borderline obsession.

Needless to say, he did not enjoy the show, least of all because Scotland drew against Brazil.

I had kids a bit older, so I guess some of my parenting is old school. I like to think I’m more open with feelings than my dad, and my children mean everything to me. However, I cannot abide other parents who let their kids dominate and interrupt adult conversations. Sometimes it’s necessary, like if an infant has hurt themselves or some thing, but otherwise a child should not interrupt an adult who’s talking and, if they do, the parent should tell them to hold on a minute while the adults talk.

I was on Reddit for years. Had multiple throwaway accounts (which was the norm) and about half a mil karma on my main one. It meant nothing, I just sort of accumulated it over 10 years. Then I got banned from a sub, got a site wide ban after using my throwaways (ban evasion) and that was it. I tried to get back in using a VPN and Brave, which worked for a bit, but with zero karma I couldn’t even post in the subs I once liked. Pretty soon my account was banned for the same reason. I was a bit pissed at the time, but honestly the mods were so awful that I think it was for the best - and Limmy just feels nicer.

That we should renationalise all public services here in the UK. I genuinely believe that. I’m essentially a left of centre capitalist, but I believe private companies using shared national infrastructure for shareholder profit under the lie of ‘competition’ is bullshit.

I like the idea that we’re interconnected ‘nodes’ collectively experiencing life from our own viewpoint, but part of a larger consciousness. But fucks knows.

Would the curvature not get in the way at a certain distance?

EDIT

I was thinking if the moon was somehow ‘resting’ on the earth’s surface. If you head West, to around the Boston area, it would be eventually be obscured by the curvature of the earth.