“Append…before”, AKA “prepend”!

What’s sobe?

I’m amazed he has lasted this long, is he at least storing things in a larder / cool room?

You might not know this person for very long

Yep, we have the same system in the UK. In fact, the envelope looks almost exactly the same so they might even be printed by the same company.

You get two envelopes (one big, one small), a postal voting statement, and a ballot paper.

The actual ballot paper just has a list of options for you to put your X against; there’s no personally identifiable information on it. Once you’ve filled it out you seal it in the small envelope.

You then fill in the voting statement (it has your name and address on it so they can cross your name off as voted, and you sign it so they can check your signature matches the one on file) and both that and the sealed ballot go in the big envelope. That way your vote is still private because they check the vote is valid in one step and then add your ballot to a pile to be counted with the others in a second step, at which point it’s anonymous.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/ways-vote/how-vote-post

A… slab? Of wine?

Is that a whole pallet or something?

It could go that way, but on the other hand they could be more like MorningLightMountain in Peter Hamilton’s Pandora’s Star, i.e. fascists who exterminate every other organism that competes with them for resources.

Great book if you haven’t read it!

I like it like this, looks very cosy!

Agree to some extent, but the meaning would only become clear if they continue to listen instead of assuming they know what you’re about to say and zoning out.

I have some of both with my SO and I’m not sure what’s more annoying, being interrupted or explaining exactly what you mean and having none of it be absorbed.

The irony of the autistic person using a metaphor, and someone else taking it too literally. You have to laugh!

Yeah we have that meaning too :D

Makes a great lightweight dutch oven as well (especially when hard anodised). Non stick, doesn’t rust, still distributes and holds heat really well, and about 1/3 of the weight.

Those hands! Haha

More similar to Sunak calling the current General Election. It’s very unlikely they will win but they have to do something rather than let it get even worse!

Even if you do stick your fingers in the outlets, it’s not a problem if you use a good socket

Your phone queries your home instance, your instance fetches comments from the other servers.

Have you turned off Firefox’s built-in enhanced tracking protection? If not, turn it off but leave uBlock Origin on and see if that solves your issue.

Pretty sure it was like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lwJOxN_gXc

I looked into these before and believe the inverters shut off if the mains shuts off. The DC side of the circuit would still be potentially dangerous though.

The inverters need there to be power in the mains circuit because they convert DC to AC and match the phase of the AC power they are generating to the mains supply.