I’m really glad that he’s aware of the moral implications of what he did.

Doesn’t sound like you are though. I mean, you just admitted he committed fraud in order to appropriate money meant for people who actually needed it, and now:

• you want to justify it by saying “clearly the government wasn’t holding back assistance to anyone at the time” as though it being an honour system at the time made what he did okay;
• you’re pulling that after you first tried to paper over that they weren’t just any old loans he took out; in addition to which
• you want to try and paint me as the bad guy.

You serious, dude? You’re aware that I didn’t commit fraud during the pandemic, right? And it wasn’t hard either, I just didn’t apply for relief I wasn’t eligible for. You’re aware he wasn’t scamming a bank, he was scamming people in need?

It’s okay to make mistakes, but he is lucky he’s not in prison, and if he can own what he did like an adult then so can you.

Hope you’ve got some of that broken leg serum

Also half of the loans were government Covid aid that he applied for even though he wasn’t eligible

Ahh, so he did a bunch of fraud. The reason the government was writing blank cheques was because people were dying in the millions and businesses were failing left and right. He’s lucky he’s not in prison.

I’m glad he’s doing better now, but I can’t help but think of the people who needed that money and might not have gotten it in time (or maybe at all) because of what he did. Does he ever think about that, do you know?

Context is as important to language as syntax. If you see a box marked “inflammable” and the box is made of cardboard, you know it’s quite inflammable. If it’s made of metal, most people would think it’s inflammable, but if you’re in a lab you’ve probably got a few ways to prove them wrong.

I’m a minute in and I’m a fan, thanks for the link!

Well yes, but not because of this. The literal Ten Commandments in classrooms, or maybe “under god” on our money and in our official oaths, sure. This? The solution to this is easy: tax ministries that spout politics from the pulpit.

It won’t happen, but it’s an easy solution.

_(Edit) I guess it could be worse: https://assembliesforall.org.uk/about/law-on-assemblies/_

But it’s three syllables shorter! That’s like 75% of the syllables. Won’t you think of the savings?

Damn, I didn’t know that at all actually. I’ll have to read about it… if I remember 😶‍🌫️

Why focus on firepower? Locks you in to an arms race for density, basically - who can field more mass/energy (menergy? 🤔).

The Sword In The Stone taught me very young that if you’ve got to fight something big, you can go big, or you can go very very small. More likely we’d beat it with a biological or chemical weapon.

It’s been six months. How long did it take in Germany? We have at least until World War o’clock.

“Führer over the Epstein files” seems like a pretty good headline for the happenings, all by itself.

I am almost definitely going to buy this. Sounds awesome, enjoyed their Pathfinder games though they were a bit maths-heavy (which is the classic cRPG experience, don’t get me wrong!) for my taste.

And, if anyone is interested in this, I will once again take this opportunity to also recommend Starsector (https://fractalsoftworks.com/). It’s like a 2d top-down The Expanse: The RPG and it’s rad as hell. I’d be remiss to not mention it.

I hear you! Hardware fragmentation is a serious issue, very difficult to deal with as a small team, so I can’t hold it against them, but I really wish I had been able to put it on my old Note 9 instead of buying a Pixel 😑 (doesn’t have to be a Pixel, there are other supported devices, but it’s easiest and works best)

Have you tried CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)? Review from a year ago seems pretty good (fair warning: Reddit link). I’m keeping Calyx in my back pocket in case Graphene goes tits up.

Yes, I’ve used all my apps pretty seamlessly. I had to turn on “exploit protection compatibility mode” for some of them like banking, but they work fine. You can get Google Play, and it runs in a sandbox, but I use Obtainium and Aurora Store (Aurora in particular would be of interest to you, it’s just a frontend for the Google Play store which allows anonymous connections: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/). I moved to Aegis for my 2FA because I was looking for a way out of the Twilio/Authy ecosystem. I don’t play games on my phone, so I can’t report back on how those work.

Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it’s great; it’s the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I’ve ever used, and I’ve been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

I was skating at the local ice rink, and tripped. I think it was an Olympic-sized rink, but that might have been the pool… it was pretty big, anyway. I bounced my head off the ice so hard I saw blue and red fireworks (only time that’s ever happened to me), and slid half the length of the rink on my face wherein I crashed into the barrier. That shit hurt, I still remember it vividly 30 years later, but luckily nothing broken. My mum was simultaneously aghast, and relieved and amazed I wasn’t more injured. She was convinced I’d have fractured something in my face when she saw me fall.

Hey friend. You sound like a caring dude, full of love for your family. I’m sorry you’re going through this, a few months is very recent. Ten years is about how long my marriage went too, though she and I didn’t have kids (and I ended up moving back to the other side of the world) so it was a much cleaner break; and it still took me years to recover. I went through a series of bad relationships because I didn’t wait to work on myself first, and I got emotionally abused as a result. First silver lining: you still have the chance to avoid that mistake.

This feeling sucks, I know, but you know your boys love you so you’ve done a good job as a dad. My new wife and I both have bad relationships with our fathers (though not for lack of trying on our parts), so make no mistake: you could have done worse, and your boys are lucky to have you.

It sounds like you’ve forgotten how to live as you, without your family around to carry for. Is there anything social to do in your area, aligned with your interests, that could bring you some community? For example my (again, new) wife and I have each other, but we’re in a strange state with no family or friends within 1000 miles in any direction. We recently decided to find an improv class because we both want to work on the skills it teaches, but our main goal is to make some new friends.

I just thought, as well - at least one of your kids plays games a lot, which is a golden opportunity to spend time with him. Maybe you can get a game going? Some of my best memories with my dad are of playing games together when I was little. I still have a soft spot for Gauntlet Legends on the N64 from the hours we spent playing that. Loads of great games to play together, too, in 2025 - hit me up if you need suggestions (⁠☞ﾟ⁠ヮﾟ⁠)⁠☞

edit: clarity

Honestly, my only issue was the lateral force of a click jiggling the cursor, but that can be sort of compensated for using the thumb to brace the mouse. Actually moving it around was fine, it’s not too heavy, it positively glides across my mousepad. But check the sizing guide; they are indeed bulky compared to a normal mouse as you note. I don’t think the bulk affects the comfort at all though, for me anyway.

I do! I was developing pretty bad RSI from my traditional keyboard/mouse setup so I got:

• An Evoluent Vertical Mouse D: https://evoluent.com/products/vmdm/
• A Kinesis Advantage 2 (which I recall you and I have talked about a bit before): https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

For me, the keyboard was the fix for my wrists. The vertical mouse didn’t help at all and was much more frustrating to use than my Deathadder because clicking now jiggles the cursor a bit (because the force of the click is now sideways, rather than down into the desk). However, it did help a lot when I started getting elbow pain from the regular mouse. Of course, I later discovered that it was just transferring the strain from my elbow up to my shoulder, once that started to hurt…

Nowadays I’m just back on my exercise plan, and nothing hurts anymore 🙌 Obviously working out won’t fix wrists though. If I recall right you’re using Colemak on a regular board for your wrists? May be time to try the “full swoop” or whatever the style of the Kinesis is called. Or if I misremember and you’re already using an ergo board, I hope the vertical mouse helps!

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