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You seem more uptight about it than I am. I didn't see it as anything so formal as "plagiarism", I just thought it was rude and ungrateful. If digging up work from 2014 is easy, you must be more organised than I am.

Downvoting the way I prioritise my time? Good lord.

Archaeology. (~2014, couldn't be bothered.)

I've not had a good experience with them either. I was contributed a bug fix to the std lib which would've been a decent feather in my cap. Not even a thanks; some maintainer copied, pasted, made a few changes, merged "his" fix. 2014 iirc; extinguished my interest.

Where I shop we have self-checkout. I haven't had a face to face conversation since the first London lockdown started, mid-March. I remain unconvinced that covid warrants such a gargantuan response, based on countless factors eg Sweden, Sage/Fergusson modelling blunders, UK stats authority highlighting governments incorrect data on eve of lockdown, etc, etc, it just goes on, but have very much enjoyed not having to commute to the office. Social life however couldn't be more dead.

They didn't perform flu tests on all "covid" deaths.

I just refuse to listen to a three hour podcast. I have a one hour limit, and even then I have my finger on the skip button. I also usually listen at between 1.5x and 2x, never slower than 1.2x because they sound stoned at 1x. I've wondered if they deliberately slow them down a bit. Life is short, and there are many podcasts.

I think twitter is dismantling itself. A couple of months ago they were auto-suspending new accounts - create account, spend ~20 mins following people and looking around, then "are you a robot", then a few minutes later "give us your phone number" else suspended. They seem to think new users are going to get so hooked in 20 mins they'll give up their phone number. I returned to an auto-suspended account a couple of weeks ago and found that "suspended" had changed to mean read-only. Bye-bye twitter.

You're news-flashing me? I know what east and west are, hence the explanation for a name that currently makes no sense.