By that age, I was into my third long-term job (> 5 years) and had had upwards of 16 short term ones - multiple part time ones at once, or some just for a few weeks or a couple of months here and there between the long-term ones etc.

48 doesn't seem that unlikely - nor even an indicator that they will not be staying put for any length of time unless your job is a shitty one with a high turnover anyway.

My main requirement is that it has to be available on my heavily locked down work phone and work laptop as well as my home ones. If it isnt in my face whenever I look at a screen, it isnt going to work. So it ends up being Google tasks.

I don't know whether it was you, but I have responded to this same question on Lemmy before.

Yes. We had a coal fire when I was growing up - in the 60s and 70s -, so it was an everyday thing during the winters.

In my case, I approached our usual plumbing contractor who have a couple of labs that they usually used. I now go directly to those labs.

That links to an earlier report that mentions the warning on the Icelandic Meteorological Office website - and it is there., so it looks like part of the job of meteorologist in Iceland is indeed to issue larva warning - and I notice that earthquakes feature on that page too.

You can't lose what you weren't following in the first place.

There are some pretty sharp divisions in Ireland it seems. Bonniconlon looks to be holding out as a 'gone' stronghold in the top corner of Mayo for example.

In addition to the reasons suggested in several of the comments here so far, the philosopher Giorgio Agamben is extremely critical of the concept of human rights since they are a legal and political construct, and the same legal and political systems are used to create 'exceptional' circumstances in which the rights are deemed not to apply to certain groups. Relying on these rights is flawed, in his view, since they will be suspended when most needed. The Philosopize This Podcast did an episode on this just recently.

I am not much of a fan of nuts in general: I don't really like the flavours.

Peanuts are not 'nuts' of course, and to me it is precisely because they DON'T taste like 'regular nuts' that I am more attracted to them - although they are still a long way from the top of my savoury snack list.

Yesterday my SO spend all day with a raging headache and throwing up every half-hour or so.

Today she is better, which we are both very pleased about. My day, consequently, has been largely focused around excursions to get 'recovery' foods, doing double duty on household chores, and generally looking after her.

Not what I had planned, but I am very happy that she is better, and I will be settling down with a pizza (she is having baked potato and not sure yet) and we'll be watching an undemanding film this evening.

I have slept on one for around a year in the past. It was relatively cheap, but with a frame.

It was generally fine. A lot firmer that the mattresses that I have slept on most of the time otherwise, and I think that I do prefer a softer option overall, but it was still perfectly comfortable. I did find that I needed to remake/rearrange the bedding much more often than on a bed: fitted sheets didn't work with the futon, which was the main cause.

I would sleep on one again for a limited period without issue, but wouldn't be happy if I had to have one permanently from now on - or, at least, I would want to put in a good deal of research on the range of types available.

Yup. As Sartre said: hell is other people.