I found succession easier to watch from the second season onwards. Something about season 1 made me very uncomfortable, I’m not sure if it’s the program that changed after that, or maybe I got used to the style of it.

Bilbo bagins. That video is like a fever dream.

Why is this a jpg?

Fun photoshoot day there

In the UK I’ve previously heard it called a CRB check, but seems it’s been updated to DBS now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_and_Barring_Service

Look up ant cordyceps, learn how some fungus can move around, and then have trouble sleeping for a few days.

I’m enjoying Connect

Milkdrop in winamp works fine. I’ve wired up Spotify to line in before to make winamp create a visualisation from it.

It does feel like all that wasted effort would be good to use for something productive. The energy used probably wouldn’t even heat the water for the showers though.

Maybe just charge people’s phones while the work out is better than nothing though.

Citation needed?

Is this a Stargate reference?

It is. Taking from a service without paying for it, and actively avoiding the service making money via advertising is basically the same as watching a film without paying for it.

Both ways, you consumed a service and the people providing it got nothing, but it cost them something to create and provide it.

I heard a new one this year (or new to me anyway) which basically has the word “joy” over and over. Googling is failing me, as the word joy is used for pretty much anything Xmas related.

Anyway, as it was new, I don’t hate it yet.

It’s odd that people are against monopolies, generally speaking, but for streaming services we would prefer if there were a few giant companies which owned it all.

I’m not disagreeing with the above, just thought it was curious.