A king won’t though. That’s why they’re gone. Another dodge.

If a child gives you anything, anything at all, blade of grass, shell at the seaside, whatever - take it with real, heartfelt thanks. It is all they have to give.

Hope it went well!

You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:

• Resize it to a lower resolution (1280 x whatever looks just fine on a screen)
• Reduce the quality
• Change to lossy (JPG) from non-lossy (PNG)

The resizing is usually enough.

The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.

If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:

convert inputfile.jpg -filter Lanczos -resize 1280x1280 -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 outputfile.jpg

I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.

If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.

Excoriate was a new one for me so for anyone else: In this context if means to censure scathingly.

No mention of it on that page and they’re not restricted to the area specified so I don’t believe so.

Yeah it’s definitely a really good one. Not sure how much it’ll hold up to a rewatch though.

As long as they’re not squashed!

The problem is the previous alternative was popping them in the green bin which our household was already doing. We are doing no more recycling but it’s now a lot of space consumption (squashed bottles or cans are rejected) and more hassle.

No we recycled them and recycle rates were really high. They just went in the green wheelie bin and were picked up every week or two.

I would be fine with the deposit scheme but the plastic bottles and aluminium cans all need to be in perfect condition / no squashing them down so they quickly start taking up a lot of space in our (busy) house then need a trip to the store followed by putting them in a scanning machine one by one where before we could just squish them and pop them in the green bin.

I’m not doing any more recycling but now I have a lot more effort unfortunately.

Also no glass in the scheme.

I’m honestly not a fan as someone who was recycling everything already.

I watched it last night. A hell of a ride! Thanks again.

Targeting strategic wartime assets.

Sold! Thanks for the recommendation.

Thanks for the clarification.

That’s for the presidential election. The constitutional changes vote is secure.

It was a referendum to make constitutional changes that would allow EU accession.

Yeah, given what polls were saying this is shockingly close (65% yes iirc). Russian money down the toilet though so that’s something.

BBC saying it’ll swing further “yes” from votes yet to be counted thankfully:

Moldovan media said many of the votes yet to be counted had been cast abroad and would likely lean towards Yes, as the Moldovan diaspora is broadly in favour of closer ties with the EU.

There are about two people on here who wouldn’t say “fuck Henry Kissinger”.

What a massive load of shite. The fucking smell of boot polish off your breath is disgusting.

Jog on.

Lol. It is, in fact, the bootstraps. You were right all along.

Edit: I know we’re having a laugh here but that whole bootstraps thing does seem very harsh from the outside. Like I’ve spent a lot of time in the US (more than 6 months over the course of my life over various trips) and I’m genuinely very fond of the place, but the whole lack of social support structure does seem kinda ruthless from the outside looking in.

You jest, but the average Irish junkie just isn’t as enterprising as the average American one. :D