All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.

I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.

I don’t think it’s just Gen-Z.

Here’s former Manchester United and England footballer Gary Neville, telling us about his “mini-retirements”

Gary Neville - Mini-Retirements (youtube link)

Gary is 50 years old.

Not personally, no - but the police would only need to catch a handful each day to get things moving a little more safely in the area.

Why don’t they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?

Having read that, yes :)

Hahaha.

I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.

For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read “1) Buy a whiteboard pen”.

I eventually solved it by moving house.

I think it only works if your brain is wired in a particular way.

Tons of open browser tabs? Long, impossible-to-complete to-do list? Unread emails? Unplayed Steam Games?

Good chance of it working :)

When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.

The solution was I put “have a cigarette” on my to-do list, at the bottom.

So I never quit smoking, I’m definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I’ve re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc…

… so it’s over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there’s only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.

I didn’t know they’d made an American remake of it. Worth watching?

Ah, looks like the old “eat yourself entirely, so you are invisible, then when the plane is on the return flight, you poo yourself back out again” trick.

If it helps even one person, it’s worth it.

A tiny word in the right place could absolutely make the difference on that day - you’re likely working with people who have a constant negative internal voice, and possibly all other sources of positivity and support in their lives have gone - who have thought or heard nothing positive for hours or days. Perhaps it’s not a lot, but sometimes a tiny shred of positivity, kindness or beauty can make enough of a change for today.

I think it’s a great project you’re doing.

Yeah, that nacelle placement and orientation is so laughably off, it must be deliberate.

I guess it’s relative. There’s always room to become more isolated and more weird :)

I must admit I’m not familiar with “Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock Girl-With-Giant-Wrists-and-Ankles High School”.

A small amount of time off, on my own, where nobody interacts with me. Not too much time off though, else you risk becoming isolated and weird.

They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.

*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*

I’m severely impressed with what you’ve done here, both artistically and poetically. What an epic project!

Did you invent the alien script as well? It appears to be a letter-by-letter substitution of the English text, so technically quite learnable :)

I’ve only read a few sections into it, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen, so I’m going to come back and give it a little time when I have some. I’d love a pdf/epub etc for an e-reader (or a paper copy!), though it might be hard to get the image/text flow right - and I imagine quite some effort to rearrange the html document into a page-turning format.

This is a really cool collection. Are they all part of the same “sci-fi universe”, or even part of a larger graphic novel or comic?

Bonus “cool points” for having a cross section of a building with lots of tiny people attacking each other in gory ways :)

“I’m so furious with their absolute incompetence, I’m going to cross out ‘best wishes’ and simply write ‘regards’ at the end of this email”

*20 minutes later*

“WHAT HAVE I DONE! I AM A MONSTER!”

I think everyone’s got the CAD/3D programs covered, so a slightly “out there” answer:

If you’re just doing 2D blueprints for yourself, do you actually just need a 2D vector program for doing a scale drawing with measurements?

I’ve done a lot of floorplans / layouts/ site maps etc using Inkscape, for instance.

It depends on exactly what you’re wanting out the other end - so you may be lacking a lot of the features in a full CAD program, but the learning curve is comparatively so shallow that you might have a working plan by the end of the day, rather than the end of the month.