[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

It's also why I no longer buy it. It's a PITA to eat.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

I still only buy phones with a 3.5mm socket.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

She didn't "pledge" to, but she didn't seem adverse to the idea if it was the right person.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Not so effective against the likes of YouTube allegedly.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

IME "path repairs" too often means making steps which are more difficult to descend than the path that was there before unless you have exactly the same agility as the (generally young and fit) path builders.

Depressing how often this happens. The path down off Cairngorm towards the cafe is a prime example.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

Scotland: we have such a massive hangover on New Year's Day that we need the day after off too.

Rest of the UK: heh, OK, so you can work on Easter Monday instead

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

They offered it to me. I've not been on reddit since the API issue kicked off.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

And not a word on the dualling of the A96 from Inverness to Nairn. Sigh.

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[I think I saw this posted earlier but it seems to have disappeared.]

I have to say my view, speaking as a councillor on Highland Council, is that the more I think about this it's gesture politics as the council presumably own most of these facilities so closing them still leaves them with significant revenue budget costs.

Plus "No dates have been given for the closures and affected staff are likely to be offered redeployment" which smells of something not well thought out - a big chunk of the cost of these premises is payroll so redeploying doesn't save money ... and then making people redundant is expensive too, as HC learned to its cost the last time it was "saving" money.

So I think this is a Labour led council just trying to embarrass the SNP/Green government into coughing up some more money.

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[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Largely new friends. Interestingly those who had children later seemed to cope better with the balancing act between parenthood and socialising.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

But life was good, on the whole.

And still is.

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

BTW there's now an OSM community !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

[-] tallpaul@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Failure to understand the paradigm error at line 1.

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