Wow. Did I ever offer you the Commodore 1084S monitor my parents desperately want to get out of their garage? (Only hitch is it’s in Newcastle.)

The Korg Volca Drum looks perfect except for it being just a tiny bit too pricey: https://www.thomann.de/de/korg_volca_drum.htm

It’s pretty much dark and it’s not even 4pm yet. I demand to see the manager!

This is the eternal conundrum: I have been to the USA many times. There are many Americans I quite like! Why, when you get ~350 million of them together, do they behave like such an arsehole?

Sorry to break it to you but I don’t actually look like this in person.

Absolutely not, that would do… _something_ to havoc. But I’m not sure what.

That was too easy.

Ditto. She puts it on the wrong way around and I fix it, but she doesn’t change it after that. We have never spoken of this.

Dare I ask what a “Christmas bar” is? Do they at least serve glühwein?

It would be in Europe's interest to establish full sovereignity wrt to these key technologies. We used to have EU-local companies that coule provide both the hard- and software.

Sadly, those are basically gone, while the EU is busy saving combustion engines and introducing mass surveillance.

(Hell, I’d take “Glaswegian who’s just about to punch you” over that Valley Girl shit.)

2) Christ it’s obsequious. Argue with me, you bastard! Try and convince me of something!

Conclusion: the future isn’t here yet, but it’s probably coming.