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Excuse me but that isn't an official, original "Colin the Caterpillar" cake from Marks & Spencer, but an inferior and entirely unauthorised " Curly the Caterpillar" clone from Tesco.

As a proponent of fine British cuisine I take offence to this dire misrepresentation.

As the video suggests, it's an impending problem in many places in the world, US and UK included.

And the bitter truth is that all of us could have avoided this, if not for the insatiable greed of the 1%

If the wealth earned from economic growth was spread fairly, we could all be working half the hours we do now, with all the time for socialising and family we could want.

And the real irony is that when people have more free time, they will spend their time and money on the culturally enriching things that the government is otherwise being forced to try and subsidise and give grants to keep afloat. Visit historical sites. See a play, pick up a creative hobby, eat out at independent small restaurants.

But instead we are working longer and longer hours for less, leaving us with no time for anything, and that sends all our surplus money into the exact industries that are exploiting us. 11PM depression impulse buys from online megacorps, and food delivery through gig economy apps where the delivery person gets next to nothing and the app reaps the rewards.

People are stretched to breaking point. It's inevitable that at some point, this is all going to collapse.

They can hardly avoid screwing up, really.

The whole draw of Steam Deck is that it's a carefully curated experience where everything from the OS upwards is crafted to play nicely together and "Just Work" to bring that console-like experience to PC gaming.

Whatever Microsoft are putting together isn't going to have that end-to-end consideration. It will be nothing more than a skinned launcher on top of Windows 11, and no matter how shiny that launcher looks you won't be able to hide from Windows for long. All the normal Windows bloat will be there, and I wouldn't be surprised if you spend as much time messing around in actual Windows as you do playing games.

Spring: flies across the room never to be found again

In a thrift store??? How could someone give away such a magnificent candle

No.

Yep, that's specifically the meaning :)

Golden = Made of gold

Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold

The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.

If they changed this in the way you describe, I wouldn't even personally consider it retcon.

To me, "retconning" is changing some point which is kinda substantiative so that it disagrees with what was presented before. "This thing we said happened? Well it didn't."

If, as you suggest, they kept the idea of making the Mojave hospitable and pleasant but changed this so it's more respectful of the existing ecosystem, then to me that's not a retcon, it's more like updating the existing concept to be better in line with the ideals of a contemporary audience. A refresh, if you will.

It would be very much in line with what the original was trying to say and mean; that humans have this power to change the environment for the better and we are using it for the good of society, it's simply that our understanding has changed in the last several decades in a way which means the visual presentation of that concept on screen needs to change.

So I'd be totally fine with that :)

Well in this case I meant closer to a hub, but something that converts the USB-C ports on the mac to other ports, including USB-A for the flash drive.

I left that at home, so I was unable to plug the flash drive in.

Dongle itself is a kinda broad catch-all term https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle

Yes, which is a big part of why, despite allowing transfers, it still sucks.

I took my macbook on holiday along with a bunch of movies to watch on USB stick.

Didn't take my dongle. Couldn't watch any movies.

Me neither. It's basically a download game but with physical DRM in the form of a cartridge. The age of genuine physical game ownership is toast.