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I’m from the EU, but I love making shepherd’s pie. It’s pretty easy and when done correctly, it is an absolutely fantastic dish.

I am almost 50, so not quite retired yet. I like slow casual games. Puzzle games, survival games and CRPGs scratch my gaming itch.

A left the family home at 18 and it felt like the start of a new life. I grew up in a warm nest, but I have never regretted leaving my parents’ home.

Massive Attack have their hearts in the right place. Their recent collaboration with Tom Waits is excellent.

I am not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, but I admire him being the voice of the blue collar worker. I also loved Streets of Minneapolis (however sad the reason)

Hangyouth is one of the more politically laden bands in our country. One of their biggest hits is ‘You do not hate mondays, you hate capitalism’.

PS: I love this thread.

Repairability has been mentioned already, but how about being free from having billionaires decide for you what you can and cannot install on your laptop?

Yes, but sadly, the time that they actually made solid stuff is many decades ago. Also, as far as they still ‘exist’, their products are NOT made in the Netherlands anymore.

I’m with OP.

When me and my wife got married, we invited 20-ish people. Small service, lunch for everyone, and every guest looked happy. It was a good day and looking back, I would not have done it differently.

One year earlier, we went to a wedding of a friend with ~200 people. Nice woman, but a total show-off. The wedding reception was horrible. They had a dress code, the service was spread among three locations, there were apparently massive costs, and many awkward, unhappy looking people. That marriage apparently did not last either.

Software developer. I love creating stuff and solving puzzles. I hate having to deal with customers and their sometimes schizophrenic specifications (by lack of a better term). I built software that made me feel about as useless as the poor sap who does the quality check on the blinkers in the Audi factory.

I am getting too old for this shit.

JMS (or his casting director) really did make some excellent casting choices, didn’t he?

Joe Morden in Babylon 5. I do not know much about the actor, but he was cast perfectly.

Babylon 5, with Firefly as a close second.

Did they not switch recently to Cosmic DE? Maybe people do not like that?

I tried PopOS a few years ago. I did not particularly care for their Gnome implementation, but other than that, it was quite decent.

In the early 90s, Adamski made a cover of the Doors’ Soul Kitchen that’s an absolute banger.

The Coil version is cool (coil?) as well.

• sports

Partly agreed. I find competitive sports and its fanbase very strange. However, doing sports for the sake of doing sports or for the sake of keeping some physical or mental health feels more natural to me.

• “Which Epstein files?”

I know 30-somethings that live with their parents because they cannot afford their own house and there are no decent rental houses available either.

Beer brewing. I simply do not have the time. Or energy.

don’t worry…

I know you’re being sarcastic, but still. With the likes of him and Hegseth in change, I am constantly worried. Even if I do live in a country that is not currently being threatened directly by them.

In other news: the US is runnig out of ammo. Yeah sure, let’s open up a new front.

Dementeid old fool.