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#3302671 29-Oct-2024 12:32

geoffwnz:
Individually, they are often generally nice human beings. The pack mentality when they get together on the other hand isn't great.

A bit like people from the US then.

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#3302694 29-Oct-2024 12:53

neb:

A bit like people from the US then.

Yikes! That feels a bit uncalled for.

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#3302695 29-Oct-2024 12:55

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neb:

A bit like people from the US then.

Yikes! That feels a bit uncalled for.

Not really. Most individuals in the US are friendly and helpful, it's just when you get them together into movements or (shudder) a government that it turns to cr*p.

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#3302724 29-Oct-2024 14:15

I have discovered that my cats really like me. I tend to move from room to room a lot, and over time I began to notice that the cats always appear in the room I am in after 10 or so minutes. They don't announce themselves and I don't usually see them come in, but after a time they are just there, happily curled up and sleeping in a favourite place. If I move they do too and I notice again that they are wherever I am. They don't immediately follow me, they just quietly appear after a short time. They must really enjoy my company and that makes me smile.

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#3302736 29-Oct-2024 14:43

Rikkitic:

I have discovered that my cats really like me. I tend to move from room to room a lot, and over time I began to notice that the cats always appear in the room I am in after 10 or so minutes. They don't announce themselves and I don't usually see them come in, but after a time they are just there, happily curled up and sleeping in a favourite place. If I move they do too and I notice again that they are wherever I am. They don't immediately follow me, they just quietly appear after a short time. They must really enjoy my company and that makes me smile.

They're waiting for you to quietly slip away, so they can eat you.

Edit to add: When we had a cat, I genuinely believe he was an affectionate little ball of fur.
He would also appear in rooms that we occupied, without so much as a meow. Just happy to be there in the same room.

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#3302771 29-Oct-2024 15:55

Handsomedan:

Rikkitic:

I have discovered that my cats really like me. I tend to move from room to room a lot, and over time I began to notice that the cats always appear in the room I am in after 10 or so minutes. They don't announce themselves and I don't usually see them come in, but after a time they are just there, happily curled up and sleeping in a favourite place. If I move they do too and I notice again that they are wherever I am. They don't immediately follow me, they just quietly appear after a short time. They must really enjoy my company and that makes me smile.

They're waiting for you to quietly slip away, so they can eat you.

Edit to add: When we had a cat, I genuinely believe he was an affectionate little ball of fur.
He would also appear in rooms that we occupied, without so much as a meow. Just happy to be there in the same room.

Our rescue dog takes this to somewhat absurd levels. If she were a person she'd be arrested for stalking.

What makes me smile is I am the one afforded most favored nation status, which annoys my kids. I definitely don't take the opportunity to tell them if they spent more time walking her they too could have a personal shadow.

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#3302779 29-Oct-2024 16:23

When summer ends here in the UAE there is a day where temperatures drop by 2-3 degrees and winter starts. That was yesterday. It’s soooo nice this morning and will be until April. Happy days.

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#3303165 30-Oct-2024 13:14

Ran and exported a report that gave me what I wanted in Excel which had some flaws that needed correcting and used a pivot table to flatten it to make the data usable. This all took multiple steps, bunch of work.

Got ChatGPT to provide the same as a script and instantly had the data I needed in the exact format required.

Seeing something run so simply and cleanly definitely brought a smile.

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#3303195 30-Oct-2024 14:27

Gosh, it's almost like there's a firewall or something blocking all the spam-you-with-ads sites.

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#3303255 30-Oct-2024 15:23

Google need to do something about that - surely they can review websites that are hosting their adverts and go actually this site is polluted with advertising, lets disable some until resolved so as to save viewer pushback.

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#3303262 30-Oct-2024 15:40

MadEngineer: Google need to do something about that - surely they can review websites that are hosting their adverts and go actually this site is polluted with advertising, lets disable some until resolved so as to save viewer pushback.

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#3303290 30-Oct-2024 16:24

MadEngineer: Google need to do something about that - surely they can review websites that are hosting their adverts and go actually this site is polluted with advertising, lets disable some until resolved so as to save viewer pushback.

Google are the ones paying the site to put the ad's there and charge an advertiser for it. It is in Googles interest to only link to sites with lots of ad's that they provide. Something about this has made people in Europe a little upset at Google and something something monopoly something break up.

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#3303297 30-Oct-2024 16:42

My youngest son, one day after he turned 18, went out to the supermarket and returned with one can of beer.

He said he was "exercising my legal right to buy alcohol".

I don't think he has any intention of drinking it...

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#3303372 30-Oct-2024 18:16

Handsomedan:

My youngest son, one day after he turned 18, went out to the supermarket and returned with one can of beer.

He said he was "exercising my legal right to buy alcohol".

I don't think he has any intention of drinking it...

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#3303376 30-Oct-2024 18:31

Handsomedan:

My youngest son, one day after he turned 18, went out to the supermarket and returned with one can of beer.

He said he was "exercising my legal right to buy alcohol".

I don't think he has any intention of drinking it...

My brother, the day he turned 18, was down to the bottle shop. "Ooh, that looks good, ooh, this looks good too, ooh..."

One hangover later, he's never drunk since!

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