America also has sales tax

American cities must be terribly poor to need to tax houses

Someone tries too many times to unlock it with the wrong pin or pattern; someone tries to factory reset it with the wrong pin or pattern

You can enter your screen lock to unlock it. Should you want to factory reset it you would need to enter your screen lock

It’s good for the common user who’s happy to use all Google services and can remember (or has written down) their credentials.

It’s absolutely useless for those out of the Google ecosystem

It’s annoying through to disastrous for people supporting other peoples’ phones

GmailFS was a thing

Browse your own machine as if it’s under alt.film.binaries but more so

That’s a story from thousands of years ago. I don’t think their standards for 1. Death; or 2. Veracity in stories were up to the standards we would like were it non fiction

Grave in this context just means deep. That’s one of the meanings of grave

Brains fail catastrophically and unrecoverably pretty quickly after being starved of oxygen. I don’t like the chances of the frozen people who hope to be reanimated in the future

Better now, maybe. The people in palliative care are drugged heavily if their condition is painful. I suppose it’s different in different places.

The best selfish reason to be good to your children is that they might put you in care. It’s better if you can age and die at home unless you have a really nasty death.

Sure, no guarantees. I have a great grandfather who died in his 30s from an infection from a shaving cut.

The ancient Greeks a couple of generations after agriculture arrived called the tribal past the golden age when gods walked among men. Early English explorers in America called the natives more splendid than an English gentleman in all his finery.

There’s only a small set of spreadsheets in my work life that need multiuser access, most of those are admin shit.

There are more in my home life, planning holidays, household tracking.

Buy most things at home and work have no need to be shared during update

He’ll be 90. That’s not all that unlikely

Great tax avoidance. Pay 100% of that money to some charity to avoid paying 20% to government

If you made it to five you’d be fine

I felt I needed more than 1L of DHMO after breakfast, I have been a habitual user for pretty much my whole life

It’s there hope for me‽

Australian magpies have a much nicer song than any corvid

My Australian town is almost as bad as American ones because it was built after cars became necessary

It has decent bike paths and painted bike lanes on many roads. Riding to local centres is easy, or to any of the five or so nearby schools (which gets a lot of kids onto bikes), but if you work a desk job it is probably in one of the three big centres and you’re likely to live up to an hour by bike away. So few adults get around by bike

That’s only because America makes terrible public transit