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It’s maybe more train adjacent, but Roger Miller - King of the Road.

“Third boxcar midnight train, destination Bangor Maine.” “I know every engineer on every train, all of their children and all of their names.”

In Australia the government just applies a very hefty tax to tobacco products, they banned vapes, you need a doctors prescription to buy them. But all these measures have done is create a huge black market for both, it’s really easy to buy cheap smokes or vapes. But we also now get all the lovely things that come along with that much criminal activity like innocent people being killed in turf wars.

The government legislation is still way behind so while in theory there are penalties for selling illegal tobacco it’s more of a slap on the wrist and it’s only the end sellers getting in trouble, the heads of the networks are shielded and raking in the money.

It used to be fairly trivial to be excommunicated but so many people were doing it that they tightened the rules because it looked so bad for them.

I would very much like the Catholic church to say I am not Catholic, but despite vocally hating such an evil organisation that I do not believe a shred of, they still choose to count me as one of them.

This time in 2016 my girlfriend and I had just finished University and just started working our first in-industry jobs. I had started working for a small local software job learning from a fantastic pair of developers. Later that year we would make one of the best decisions we ever made and bought our first house (it took all our savings and we had to borrow money off family and it made us quite poor for a few years).

2026 my now wife and I are still working in industry just different jobs both making significantly more money than in 2016. We sold the house we bought in 2016 for more than double what we paid due to the housing crisis pushing up house prices drastically in our area, we then built a house two years ago. Right now I’m sitting playing with our 8-month old daughter while my wife gets some extra sleep.

Probably one of the more boring replies, but I’m glad it is.

I asked my locally hosted Qwen3 14B, it thought for 5 minutes and then gave the correct answer for the correct reason (it did also mention efficiency).

Hilariously one of the suggested follow ups in Open Web UI was “What if I don’t have a car - can I still wash it?”

Does Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano count? It’s sung in Gibberish that was meant to sound like an American singing in english to non english speakers.

I’ve never really been into pop music but Gangnam Style was just so much fun and musically interesting.

This is going to make life hard for hobbyists not criminals.

Is that mechano in your test setup? I love it

I want to be cremated, I don’t care what happens after that. I tell my wife to just put me in the bin.

Especially after a golden pash.