Rear ports? Why bother?

Simply pop it on their desk and let them plug it in themselves when they’re bored/curious.

Pop it on a usb stick and leave it on their desk. You could google how to make it autorun, but you likely won’t have to bother.

Ubisoft is in serious trouble.

TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if they started including a bitcoin miner in their games and filming customers 24/7 so they can sell the footage.

Run it on a rival colleague’s PC.

Stupid question, but why can’t your friend not just run it in sandboxie with internet locked down?

No noticeable performance drain, can’t cause too much damage.

Or isn’t this enough?

While complaining that the reason no one’s helping is because we’re all to busy helping the <insert marginalised group epithet>

It should also be noted that choosing not to choose, is also a choice, and not necessarily the lesser evil.

In other words, just because you didn’t choose for one of two poor options, doesn’t mean you didn’t make a choice for a third option you believe to be a lesser evil.

If the democrats were a genuinely left-wing party that took working class concerns seriously, whether that’s migration keeping wages artificially low, industrial decline, jobs moving abroad, stagnating wages, increasing inequality, or the disproportionate influence of the 1% and wallstreet on politics, they wouldn’t have lost as many voters to Trump or actually convinced them to turn up and vote.

A drowning man will grab on to a straw. Without a true left-wing party, plenty of working class voters took a gamble on the snake oil salesman, fell victim to the propaganda, or decided they wouldn’t vote against him. Union members voted for Trump in droves. That’s a damning indictment of the democratic party.

If the democratic party had been genuinely left-wing, those voters would have had less reason to take that gamble. Instead they have steadily moved further and further to the right on many issues, labouring under the false assumption that their base had no alternative but to vote for them, even if those voters were drowning.

To be clear, I think everyone can and should vote against fascism. But the democratic party failing to deliver for working class voters, while the rich got richer, made a populist demagogue an inevitability.

Learn the lessons of the Weimar Republic and how it fell.

Ending FPTP probably won’t necessarily solve the problem, as the German example shows.

The problem with the lesser evil argument is that voting for the lesser evil cycle after cycle ultimately resulted in Trump and possibly the end of American democracy.

I owned a Citroen with a 1.0TSI engine that was supposedly more efficient than the 1.4TSI in my VW. In reality the VW was and still is far more fuel efficient, even though it’s a significantly more powerful engine. Could be that the Citroen was shaped like a brick though. LOL.

I get why manufacturers did it.Wet belt perishes outside warranty or after the lease contract ends. Customer ends up footing the bill and increased cost over a dry belt. Lower emission under test conditions for regulatory compliance.

This being said, I just replaced the belt on my vw at less than 150k km/ 93k miles and coming up on 10 years. VW recommends it. Some markets they recommend replacing it much sooner. That’s arguably a shorter interval than some wet belts. But it is much cheaper to replace than a wet belt, much much cheaper than a new engine, so a no brainer. (400E/$)

I’ll be glad to move to an electric car. Hopefully be able to avoid some of that nonsense.

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

IME you should add “and laziness.” to that sentence.

It’s quite useful for getting what you want really. Make not doing what you want more effort. Most people are too lazy or tired to not give in for unimportant stuff.

Eg. when being stopped by the police, take your time finding your driving license. Chances are they’ll get bored and let you go on your way before you’ve found it.

Wet belt?

Skin irritation, rash, potentially for toxins to be absorbed through the skin, but especially dangerous if you have a small cut or abrasion you may not have noticed. Touching your eyes or nose after handling is also problematic and an easy mistake to make if you’ve been around plants that easily cause irritation.

All the advice I’ve ever read says don’t touch. Don’t know of a grown adult who’s ever died doing so, but it’s nasty stuff. I googled (duckduckgod?). Eating 6 leaves is enough to kill you, seeds and roots even less.

Here’s a bbc countryfile article. The problem with some of these poisons is that it takes a while before you know you’ve been poisoned and even longer for you to die an unpleasant death.

Luckily it’s not as bad as the organometalics. Don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Karen Wetterhan. Chemistry professor who dropped one or two drops of dimethylmercury on her protective gloves. Thought nothing of it. Went through her latex glove, absorbed through her skin within 15 seconds, she didn’t notice it happening. Took her 10 months to die of mercury poisoning.

Shit’s no joke. I have two relatives who worked in the chemical industry. One has chronic leukemia. The other has Parkinson’s. Environmental exposure is likely to be a factor or have exacerbated things for both of them.

TLDR: wear gloves and protective gear when necessary.

As far as toxic to touch I don’t think I am aware of anything in the UK you are realistically going to come into contact with.

Giant hogweed (related to hemlock, looks a bit like parsley). Looks like normal hogweed, but far more toxic. Won’t kill you from touch alone, but not a great idea to handle it without gloves. Found all over the UK.

Variants of hemlock are also abundant in parts of the UK. Quick google turned up a story about it growing near a school. Obviously parents panicked, which is silly because it grows all over the place. Hemlock water dropwort is the super poisonous one, found all over the place but I doubt most people’d realise. Left is hemlock and right is cow parsley:

Obviously the person holding them is touching the hemlock with bare hands, which is a bad idea.

Most people think they might get a bit ill or have a bit of stomach issues. Perhaps they know to avoid oleander or foxglove. Most don’t realise they’d die a painful and entirely unpreventable death after eating a relatively small amount of leaves or seeds of other common garden plants.

Hell, I was trimming my yew (taxus baccata) a few years ago and even the small amount of needles I accidentally got in my mouth made me quite ill. No antidote, so you’ll die a painful and prolonged death.

Then there’s the whole hemlock thing, where people confuse it with carrots or parsley. Also no antidote, just a long and painful death.

All too often, you’ll see people trimming or burning highly toxic plants or not wearing gloves while dealing with plants which contain toxins which can be absorbed through the skin.

And then there’s the people who think wood is wood, and toss whatever on the fire.

To be fair the driver was either black-out drunk or on their phone, so it’s fair to say they weren’t really driving at the time.

In many parts of the world it’s legal for farmers to kill a dog that’s worrying(chasing) or attacking cattle because the owner isn’t in control of them.

By that logic, it should be legal to shoot out the tyres or otherwise put out of service a car the owner has lost control of.

I remember a world where this man was rarely on television and any mention of him was easily avoidable.

I will never live to see that world that world again.

Unsurprising. A lot of ‘natural’ additives are actually worse for you than the synthetic alternative.

The most obvious example I can think of is almond flavouring. The natural variant often contains traces of cyanide, which is not great even in small quantities.

Bit of a tangent, but I think most people would be surprised how many of the plants in their garden are deadly. And because I don’t want to give anyone any ideas, usually that death is slow, incredibly painful, and involve you shitting yourself endlessly. Wear gloves and don’t burn stuff you don’t recognise.