And an idea I could absolutely see Musk hoping to copy, turning Twitter into a US version of WeChat.

Completely agree. It’s really frustrating, not to mention pretty off-putting regarding Linux.

Because every conversation on here that involves Windows will ALWAYS end up with someone saying, “Use Linux”.

According to Google image search those are Molly White, and Garbage Day by Adam Bumas. Just in case anyone wonders :-)

True, although it’s more formally known as an Apple MAC Apple Computer, or Apple Mackintosh Apple Computer Apple Computer.

With Apple standing, of course, for Applied Possibility and Permutation Learning Environment.

Macintosh Apple Computer

Nice! Welcome to the world of Lynch! Hope you enjoy them. Have you seen Twin Peaks?

Not bad for a one season wonder… 😁

Oooooh, oobidoo!
I wanna be like you-oo-oo!
I wanna walk like you!
Talk like you!
Scoo-doo-bidoo!

Not sure, but I was once (un?)fortunate enough to witness what happens when a bear was faced with an orangutan.

Well, let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

Agree with this. It’s her decision alone, so the only question is how supportive to be (which shouldn’t really be a question tbh).

Hopefully OP’s son’s reaction will be better than expected and it all works out.

Good to you all OP 👍

I had this a year or so ago, when I had to have surgery on my eyes and have new artificial lenses put in. They only do it one eye at a time with a long gap in between, and after the first one there was a noticeable difference in colour tone between the two eyes.

Thankfully, once the second one was done, both were back to the same colour tone, but it was a very weird experience having never had it before.

I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t really talking about care homes, I was talking about treatment, operations, maternity care, etc.

All fair points - but the fundamental point about people getting access to free healthcare has remained so far.

Just on the free healthcare thing - in the UK, the NHS is hugely iconic national institution, and politically it’s almost a no-go area in terms of its founding principles.

Which is not to say that privatisation hasn’t been creeping into the NHS for some time - it has, starting in earnest with the Thatcher governments on the 80s.

However, no matter how right wing a party is, it would be almost political suicide to make an all out effort to remove the basic tenet of the NHS - universal care, free at the point of delivery.

Unfortunately, what’s tended to happen since the 80s is (IMO) a managed decline of the NHS, with layers of management brought in and services allowed to decline in quality and availability.

The result is that the public do start to question the model, see the NHS as second rate, and start to lose some of that loyalty towards it.

However, it will take some time to ever get to the point where a government or any stripe is safe to even talk openly about moving away from the NHS model.

And hopefully that point will never come, and instead the NHS will be given renewed commitment and support both from government and the wider public.

It really is one of the very best things about the UK, and were we ever to lose it, it would be a criminal dereliction of duty by those into whose care it has been passed.

That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped me.

Oh ok, I can see how that would work. Interesting, thanks 👍

So do you control left and right (A and S) with your pinkie and ring fingers, and forward and back (D and F) with middle and index?

As opposed to someone controlling A with ring finger, D with index and using middle finger for both W and S.

I can see how that makes sense if you’re used to using the pinkie a lot for typing.

Oh baby, do you know what’s that’s worth?