Gentlemen! I bring you …

I’ve never really interacted with them, but from what I’ve read, they have no regard for much of anything.

No, it’s worldwide. Further information: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations](insect apocalypse)

edit: my links never seem to work, but it might be my client. Sorry if so.

I vacillated all day on whether I actually wanted to answer this question(?) because if you’re not familiar with the situation, it might be a blissful oblivion. However, if it were me, I’d rather know.

Among the many other potentially apocalyptic situations going on, insects are dying out. If insects die en masse, especially pollinating ones, our entire ecosystem dies. Which means no food. Even if you exclusively eat meat, your meat eats plants, which require insects.

Therefore, I wouldn’t mind a few more bugs around so that I could feel confident of continuing to be able to find nutrients.

Expert ones, no less.

I get the complaint, but I could do with some more bugs these days.

Who cares?

Thank you for the information.

edit: I played this for my similarly aged wife and she said “is that from an ad?” but couldn’t identify which one.

I was born on the eighties and remember the nineties. The music sounds vaguely familiar but, even after the one minute mark, I have no association for it.

I sleep better with lights, noise and distractions than without; without gives my brain time to think about things like elections, exactly how much time I have left to sleep before I have to get up for work, what troubles I’ll face at work the next day, etc. I slept so much better during the days than I do during night.

edit: For some reason my client decided to post this as I was in the middle of typing a sentence. Edited to actually finish the post.

My favorite moment was in the first episode when Cyclops made a " … Not!" joke.

The rest of the series was also awesome, but that was the peak for me.

Memes get old. Often pretty quickly.

Subversions are wonderful.

That probably depends on a lot of things, including age, general health, and relationship status.

Works well for cans, though, in my experience.

For a while I had a fiber SFP that was amazing at opening cans, too.

I used to have a Linux laptop at work. I was even allowed to install my chosen distro. Then the IT department said “we don’t really know Puppet or how to manage Linux, but we know JAMF, so you’re all getting Macs now.”

My job satisfaction has gone down since then. However, in more positive news, they did end up giving away the old Linux laptops to the employees when they moved office.

I don’t think so, but I’m not sure what else it might mean.

I always wanted to play that and even used to have the perfect setup for it (projector, big room, extensive seating) but never had the friends for it. I’m envious of your good fortune!

Huh, never knew. My sole exposure to this was one quite classic car. Thanks for the information!

Disregarding the safety comments (which should not be disregarded) purely for the purposes of this conversation, in older cars the vacuum tubes that operated the lights would frequently fail, meaning that the lights wouldn’t deploy even when desired.

How did it generate that sound without batteries? Was it literally the audio from the clicking of the buttons? Genuine questions.

edit: Thanks for the several answers. They all seem prone to interference, but it is nice that they worked without power.