I work for government, in a software development area, and I had to be at work during COVID.

At first in person, with free parking which was nice, but no coffee shops. Then we got the 200 remote work licences that were originally for field workers and worked on VMs, then the organisation got a remote work system for the whole workforce and could work on our own work desktops from home and everyone was virtually back

We worked so hard during that first year (2020 good riddance) and delivered so much emergency support software so quickly

Then things get back to normal and are told that we can’t deliver while working from home so have to be in the office 3/5ths of the time

I hope he is acquitted even if he is the guy behind the gun

Though the simple act of planting evidence on the suspect. No alibi beats a confession note and an untraceable gun

I’m not going to try that, since that woman was arrested for talking to a health fund employee in a way that reminded them of the shooting

I drank a lot over the course of last year to this year, so five times for me. Normally it’s like twice a week

It’s a parody conspiracy theory, in the same way as the flying spaghetti monster was a parody religion. People participated “eyes open” (aware it was parody, doing it as a joke) others adopted it “eyes closed” (believing it)

They go bad sitting out, losing volatiles and absorbing oxygen. Microwaving bad, old coffee gives you bad warm coffee

OTOH microwaving well stored coffee or some that has only just gone cold is the last damaging way of warming it

People equipped with a penis standing to pee should really have the toilet seat raised out of the way

You don’t clean plastic lens spectacles with paper as paper will scratch the lenses, though glass lenses can be wiped with paper. Wood is harder than plastic.

While my government threw money at coal generators and lied about wind and solar, wind and solar adoption skyrocketed and coal plants became bad investments. Even when governments don’t help, even when government is opposed people take action. And governments will change, especially with the effects of more energy driving bigger weather

No one has deployed an effective green house gas (GHG) direct air capture system yet, but there are plans that are likely to work and we will beat GHG by the end of this century for sure - there are so many people dedicated to making sure that happens and only a handful of enormous companies opposing, and even they are diversifying their holdings away from fossil fuels

Emus believe they own the country now.

The last human in the house may have nearly finished the juice on their last day in the house. Or the water evaporated away leaving dried out pulp or powder

We have left a lot of the metal we have mined easily accessible

Following intelligences would probably have trouble with energy. Our infrastructure will have failed, and we have used all the easy to get coal and oil

There may be enough left to teach them how to make a spinning generator and synchronous motor. I wonder how long the magnets will stay magnetic in permanent magnet motors

When you imagine you’re fucking the next Che Guevara but it’s really a cop. That’s got to suck.

You don’t need an excuse. If you’re at a party and no longer want to be there, say “I have to go now, thanks for the great party” to the host and leave

No one cares why you’re leaving. I’m probably well on the neurotypical end of the spectrum and I’m usually there first in my friend group to leave a party just because parties are late and I wake early. No one complains unless I’m their lift home and they don’t want to leave yet