Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Wanting to live long enough to see the obituaries of those who are making the world a terrible place. (NB: Not specifically wishing anyone dead, only pointing out that time catches up with everyone, and many of the people I’m referring to are quite old.)
I had other points but they’re reasons not to stop living as opposed to being reasons to live. One of those being morbid curiosity. And let’s face it, the one I started out with is pretty borderline.
I look to get my bearings before I start but then most of the time I’m looking at what I’m typing on the screen rather than down at my hands.
Only when I keep hitting the same wrong key(s) over and over between hits of backspace, do I then, with intense frustration, look back at the keys. I think I might be expecting the key I’m trying to hit to have run off to some other part of the keyboard.
A lot of what I type is wrongly autocompleted by muscle memory (“why” for “what” in this sentence for example, and “we-” before correcting to “wr-” for wrong, both there and here), so I’d be utterly lost without backspace.
My action is very much not correct touch-typing (for example, the first letter of this sentence was typed with left hand on M and right hand on right Shift), but it works for me. ISO layout’s tiny left shift key probably has quite a lot to do with that.
As for that, I still prefer ISO (UK QWERTY) as they’re far more common here. I have used ANSI (US QWERTY) in the past, which means I occasionally reach for double quote and @ in the wrong places, but that’s increasingly rare these days. (Even more rarely I’ll reach for where characters were on the Commodore 64. That usually affects parentheses more than anything, but I do so many parentheticals in online comments that I’ve all but broken that habit!).
Groucho Marx died the same month as Elvis Presley.
By some reckonings the American Wild West era ended after World War I did. Either way, that era basically coincided with the rule of Queen Victoria.
Secondary shock from this: Popeye was a redhead?! How have I gone this long without knowing that?
Sure, later media has him keep his hat on or else he has only a few wispy hairs if any at all, but I feel like I should have seen this at some point in the past few decades.
Which ventriloquist did this nightmare escape from?
Next of kin don’t take up debts unless they’re co-signatories. The assets of the deceased generally go to the creditors first, yes, nullifying any inheritance the next of kin may have been in line for, but the inheritance doesn’t then run in reverse if those assets aren’t enough to cover the debt.
That won’t stop the creditor from trying any trick in the book to get the next of kin to pay, including lying about it, but I’d like to hear of a jurisdiction where the next of kin are legally liable.