That’s why you have that in a different wallet elsewhere on your person.

In my case, the card wallet goes inside my jacket, and the cash wallet goes in my back trouser pocket. And in the front pocket if I think pickpockets are likely.

They were on Godpigeon business. Or helping out a dog. One of the two.

mineral oil […] innocuous

From an electrical standpoint, sure.

From the standpoint of making an enormous mess if it escapes, it’s very much not.

Don’t put an official government ID in there. A separate card wallet is always a good plan. Put any card IDs in there instead.

Do put a card in there with your name and contact details along with name and contact details of next of kin. If your wallet didn’t come with such a card, any old bit of cardboard or folded paper will do, so long as it doesn’t look like a joke.

Doing that saved my bacon once or twice, or at least I assume that’s how the people who found me knew who to contact.

As for what money to put in there, amounts and so on, it’s going to depend on how often you pay cash, how much you pay when you do, and how much you’d be OK with losing if you lost your wallet (or worse).

Ah. Graphic novel. Close enough, I suppose. Carry on.

(Take this as you please. I’m no moderator.)

Nice art, but I’m not sure it’s a comic strip.

This sounds like my experience before I burned out. And while I was in the process of burning out, I still would have preferred to work from the office because home was, and is, my safe space. I don’t want work intruding there.

This does not mean that I haven’t worked from home - I was the on-call tech more than once, nor does it mean that I think WFH is a bad idea. In fact I’m all for it for those who can handle it.

I like the idea of unnecessary layers of manglement sweating because they can’t justify their existence through pointless micromanagement.

Sounds like Google doesn’t create per-account cookies and uses one cookie set per browser instance, so you’re either logged in or you’re logged out, one account at a time.

Browser containers or profiles might be the answer to what you need.

I’ve been using different Firefox profiles to run accounts in parallel for well over a decade at this point. Containers might be able to do the same thing, but on account of the aforementioned, I’ve stuck with the old way of doing things.

*wither

“whither” is also a word but it’s an old, mostly dead, one that means “to what place”

Also not what you’re looking for, but it may scratch some of the itch: déjà vu

That is, (you think) you’re inducing a sense of déjà vu and disgust within Sebastian.

Common misquote. The original is closer to “What is the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything?”

That italic bit is a very important plot point.

Additional to other answers, back in the early days of alphabetic writing, some writings alternated left to right then back again right to left on alternating lines. This is called “boustrophedon”, literally “(as the) ox walk(s)” because it’s the same way oxen are used to plough fields.

There’s documented evidence of both early Latin and Greek being written this way. What’s less clear is which direction they chose to start those writings.

The problem with that is that you have to learn to read both directions. They often wrote the letters backwards when text went the other way, which came with its own set of problems. You probably don’t have a mirror. You basically have to learn to write almost twice as many symbols. Some letters are their own reflection and you can’t always tell which way something was written. etc. etc.

Eventually someone influential will have chosen the direction for presumably a good reason (to them) and everyone else eventually followed suit.

This will be uplifting when and only when she succeeds. Until then it’s merely hopeful.

I don’t say this to minimise what she’s trying to do. I hope she succeeds. But she has a hell of a mountain to climb. It’s not that long since VAT* was eradicated on those products here in the UK, supposedly a modern, forward-thinking nation.

She’s in Pakistan. There’s a lot more religious and cultural misogyny to fight there.

* Value Added Tax. Roughly equivalent to both “sales tax” and “luxury tax” elsewhere.

Argh. That doesn’t work. The “were-” in “werewolf” means “man” and there are no humans in that comic.

Unfortunately there don’t seem to be many ancient synonyms for “house” like there are for “human”, so it’s not really possible to obfuscate the meaning in the way that “were-” does.

house-warehouse doesn’t really roll off the tongue well, and it’s open to the misinterpretation of “houseware-house”, which is something else entirely.

Badly translating back into Old English gives hūswāruhūs, which, if you corrupt vowels to “huswarahus”, does kind of sound like a cryptid.

Some people genuinely do not understand the concept of GUI windows and how they work. They do not generate a full mental model of the desktop and the windows on it and only see the whole screen as one bewildering interface. They focus on what they do know in order to get by.

This may be especially true of people who learned their IT with small screens or low resolutions where running an application full screen (or as the only active application!) is required to get anything done.

Your colleague saw you click on part of the interface they were ignoring because they didn’t understand it and magic happened.

Newton himself might disagree, given that he said that he was only able to produce his work because he was “[stood] on the shoulders of giants”.

That could put Euclid’s Elements above Pricipia Mathematica.

While unlikely to be #1, I bet there’s at least one computer programming book in the top 100.

Do you consider yourself a virus?

Well, certain people do consider me to have some undesirable traits like ideas about getting our species off the planet, and if I didn’t exist, I’d generate considerably less CO₂.

Uncomfortable though it may be, the latter applies to everyone I’ve ever known, cared about or who has cared about me.

And it is inherent. The singular purpose of certain genes is to make more of the same gene, and they’ve gotten very good at it. Humans and viruses are both emergent phenomena.

But then, I suppose if we don’t leave, we don’t spread the disease elsewhere… so OK. You’re right. We should never ever leave…

And the only way to save the biosphere is to do something we’re completely incapable of. We’re screwed. Neat!

I don’t think that because the rich b-stards think that. I think that because I believe our species - regardless of race - has outgrown its environment. If I got this idea from somewhere else, it wasn’t from Musk or Bezos or others like them. It might even have come from watching Star Trek or reading sci-fi.

We’re like a virus or a cancer that will ultimately end up killing the host. Earth’s biosphere in this instance.

The correct course of action is to destroy the infection or cut it out.

And if you want what’s being cut out to survive afterwards, yes, you have a lot of work ahead of you before you do so to ensure its continued existence once it’s somewhere else.

We need to consider what it would take to get every single one of us off this planet and living somewhere else.

Good quality teas don’t need sugar.

People are going to add condiments regardless of what purists think. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯