Sam

Welcome, alwasys happy to have more technologists here!

Always use the secure message/contact in the banking app after logging in correctly, or find the banks number yourself and call them to confirm. If in doubt, confirm - always!

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Welcome, and thanks for sharing. I know others will have better advice but as someone reasonably familiar I'd be very wary of forex trading. It's my understanding that it's the exception, not the rule that individuals can just pick this up and be successful. Even with decades of experience it's not a get rich quick scheme for those who actually do it day in, day out.

Little baskets and storage bits are the best just for organisation or what would otherwise look very cluttered!

100% I feel comfort comes from those little touches :)

Sugar and popcorn isn't the craziest combo I've heard of but yet. Marmite and cheese is the thing that springs to mind for me!

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I remember those @rainn !!

For sure, affordability of clothes plus online retail makes cost of entry to experimentation a lot easier as well.

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Sometimes my cats have gone off food for no reason for several weeks. One thing I learnt early on was that they don't like too much change so you need to persist with a brand/type for a while before trying to switch. Some cats are fine of course so it's just experiment and see. Also remember that, especially when they're young biscuits and teething etc can cause pain that they won't show but will find it difficult to eat biscuits because they have sore teeth and gums.

Largely agree with this. Of course an obvious one is to shop at cheaper stores as well where base/common ingredients can be significantly cheaper. Own brands are often similar if not the same than name brands Plan your meals, whole ingredients and include cheaper alternatives to protein such as lentils and beans etc

As someone who's seen first hand how this transfers in to adulthood, it's certainly very restrictive and difficult, especially for example in relationships. I guess my point is although it may be difficult, I would always advocate for sticking with forcing young ones to experience and try new things. Likewise, if you're a fussy adult - don't act that way in front of your children!

Family dynamic is everything with this and I feel for those who don't have a supportive and open family around them. It's not always possible of course and equally you don't have to surround yourself with people who don't support you, even if they're your family. That can be difficult but considering we have one chance at life I think it's important to remember that.

Classics will always be classics :)

It's all much of a muchness for the past few years when it comes to phones. iPhone Siri/AI is also a joke, so don't be sold on "apple intelligence" enabled phones.

For my cats their spots rotate. Opening drawers, behind curtains or in their beds. For weeks they'll love somewhere and then not touch it for 6 months ;)

Augmentation for the most part, but yes a lot of process automation will naturally replace some obvious jobs that a computer can and always will do better and faster than a human.

I'm creative industry adjacent but from my perspective I've seen AI more as a tool for augmentation rather than a wholescale replacement and I don't think for the large part we'll ever get there.

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For my cats, it's just about ensuring their safe spaces are available and checking on them throughout the night.

For sure, 90s music plus whatever my parents were playing that was older 70s-80s in the car when I was younger :)

Cat toys, enrichment activities and allowing them guarded outside time is what we do.