Google Photos too, apparently, if for some reason you’re willing to give up your personal information to them.

Yeah, Apple does too. Used it to exclude my ex-wife when I met my new wife :)

It’s an Apple Photos feature. It can be enabled or disabled in Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Featured Content.

It will pull together photos of a person or animal over a period of time, a set of photos from a particular date, a group from a place, or similar and make them into a slideshow.

Sometimes it comes up with good ones (I get quite a few of my daughter and my dogs) and sometimes they’re hilariously bad or random/contrived.

Can’t say they’ve ever really made me sad, but I may not be in the same stage of life as the OOP / not looking for internet joke points.

This is the first I’ve heard of Branston beans, but now I’m excited to try them when I’m back in England in a couple of weeks.

I was there for Christmas and bought a relatively huge jar of pickle before I remembered I wasn’t going to be able to fly with it. A lot of pork pie was eaten that day.

This comment really confused me after reading 6 about bum-washing.

Interesting. Everywhere I’ve lived for the last 10+ years (3 cities and a rural acreage in Canada, village in Austria and visiting relatives in various towns in the UK) has had a municipal composting programme. I just assumed it was the norm now.

Hopefully you get one where you are soon!

I might be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but don’t we already do this?

Works for a small company. If everyone in a large company is allowed the same leeway nothing could ever ship

Oh for sure. I’ve been lucky enough that I’ve only ever worked for places with at most a few hundred employees, so my experiences of larger companies have been at best second-hand — but it was enough to know that I’d never want to work somewhere like that.

So, 1/3 the production rate per tire compared to a car over 100km. Not to mention half the number of tires. I wonder how much of that is due to the weight difference alone.

It actually appears to be per bike per 100km. I find that quite surprising given it’s half the number of tyres, there’s substantially less initial volume per tyre than a car’s and, as you say, there’s a lot less weight on them.

Given their focus on MTBs, I wonder if it’s related to the type of terrain being ridden (higher incidence of gravel/sharp rocks than your average road) or different tyre compounds between the two vehicle types.

This is something I really love about my job. It’s a small company, and we don’t have any of these kinds of process overheads.

It’s accepted that people fuck up (and in most cases that’re relevant to me, I’m the people in question) but if I can reproduce the problem, I can often get the fix in the users’ hands the next day. Generally the positive effects of a quick turnaround and feeling like they matter outweigh the negatives of the problem being there in the first place.

Not to say I don’t have stuff in the “tech debt” bucket, but having the autonomy to just fix the low-hanging fruit makes for a satisfying work environment.

I watched Watchmen (2009) last night, thereby answering the question and the meta-question.

It’s almost like the entire thing is performative bullshit

Is there a “go woke, go broke” but for nazis?

Same thing with tinnitus … your brain just filters it out

Can’t relate.

too real

First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out “American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!”.

I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I’ll never set foot in the US again.

I dread to think how much energy and effort is wasted shipping these items back and forth when someone buys something online and then returns it.

It’s worse than that — a lot of returned stuff ends up in landfill because it’s not worth the cost of re-stocking it.

Canadians are buying fewer products made in the U.S. in an effort to brace for the impact of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which are set to cause prices to skyrocket across a range of products.

It has nothing to do with bracing for the tariffs. It’s because Fuck The USA.