There are times I’m glad to come from a small family, the drama is similar but there’s just less of it.

And yeah, people do come around. I didn’t talk to my mum at all for 12 years, and it was a very slow restart, whereas now she refers to my enby partner as an essential part of the family, and loves when we come to visit.

There’s other relatives I cut out and don’t intend on reconnecting with, but at least it wasn’t all of them.

Like day 2 roadkill in the summer, right?

Well, that’s a … win?

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that they invite you because they think they can “straighten you out”, the garbage they believe is that all kids are straight and cis and it’s down to brainwashing by the deep state Jewish space lasers that anyone would think otherwise.

For your own sake, best to stay away.

Mike Row Soft, fast and funny!

Yup, especially as a gay, sex scenes in movies have always been “I’m fine with straight people existing, but I don’t want them rubbing my face in it” at best … and it’s rarely at best, with all the chemistry of a jar of nitrogen.

Then he gets into his Audi (everyone else is driving Audis too), and then out of his Audi, then back in his Audi, and so on. Audi.

Pfft, no!

OS/2 Warp

Detroit: Become Human.

The demo gives you one level, playing as an android helper to the police, helping to solve a murder.

The full game really took me through the looking glass in terms of empathy. Can’t really say more without significant spoilers.

They assume all windows users only have one hand free at all times

Ok then, you don’t think wanking someone off in from of kids isn’t a bit more than “icky”?

You don’t thing wanking people off in front of kids is a wee bit more than “problematic”?

Is he objecting or backing up?

I guess growing up in a rural area has given me a different perspective, ever since I was 11 I’ve had some sort of motorised transport and where I currently live has no public transport, so to me not having even a bicycle would feel like I was missing a limb

As someone who has been there before, time to get that CV up to date, get any linkedin stuff sorted, and use that free time to start browsing the jobs market so that you’re ready.

I once didn’t take that advice and promptly got dumped on my backside without the last month’s pay because the whole thing had folded (I got paid a few months later through the liquidators, but that didn’t help get my rent paid when I needed it!)

What happens when you want to go to a place that’s outside of the immediate area you live in?

I can understand not owning a car (I wouldn’t if I could get away with it), but then having no option for personal transportation, even rented, outside of cities would feel very claustrophobic to me

Didn’t know about Soulseek, thanks :-)

What are you finding works well for that?

I download quite a bit from YouTube, but sometimes the quality is variable

In winter I light the fire, in summer I open the windows, the temperature range goes from chilly to toasty. I don’t have exact numbers on that.

In the UK buses and taxis increasingly take cards, and are phasing out cash. Same goes for shops. Having a card becomes the norm because it’s less fiddly and more convenient - great!

To open a bank account you need a fixed address and proof of ID in the form of a passport or driving license.

In the last year several thousand people have had bank accounts closed under the presumption of being a “politically vulnerable person”, one example was a teacher who went to volunteer in Ukraine for while.

If your bank account is overdrawn you get fees and are unable to use your card.

My mother is 85 and doesn’t understand ATMs, never mind online banking. The decreased access to cash has left her confused, and when stressed she can’t remember her pin number.

So, the most vulnerable in society are gradually being squeezed out of the ability to live day-to-day thanks to cash being phased out … the same is a desirable end-point for many capitalists elsewhere in the first world because they don’t see the value of people on the bottom rung.