Depends on what you consider "lateral thinking".

My first recommendation would be cardgame roguelites (Slay the Spire, Balatro).

F-droid has some good logic puzzles (Soko++, Sudoku)

48 hrs a week contracted. That’s not counting the extra hours needed to keep on top of things. I try to limit myself to 1 hour overstaying at work …the amount of work piling up is getting uncontrollably out of hand since I started limiting myself to these hours. It used to be a routine of 2 hours of overstaying and 1 hour of logging in remotely before bed.

If you want the full answer to the question of "how fucked are you", then this work involves constant people "coming at me" (disgruntled and immature employees I'm managing and endless barrage of service user complaints) and needs to fit around 2 young children (1 has additional needs) and a wife who has a nightmare employer plus exams coming up; and a house that has an ever increasing list of maintenance tasks that have been pending. So overall, I think this describes my situation pretty accurately.

"Alfred, I've developed the hard-counter to Poison Ivy"

How much for a cis-plant?

"Hmmmm, it appears that the sun is secretly gay"

40 hr work week would be great to be honest.

Always C. The asker isn't really asking a question. Their whole sentence actually is equivalent to them saying "hi".

Star Trek is inside the can.

I'd gladly sit down with one of those books today if I came across one. Wikipedia never has that many pictures.

I've just started chatting with someone through DMs on the basis of a post about friends. A lot of users on Lemmy seem to be midlife men, so my cohort is definitely here.

Although I've been across posts 3 or 4 times where people ask about friendship, no one follows through. I make a room in any chat app they wasn't to chose and it never gets any joiners. One person asked to be added on Steam, but that's not really conducive to chatting, if just briefly see them o line sometime when they were in the middle of a game.

My favourite interactions..... I just really like that the communities are smaller (than reddit), so it feels like what I contribute counts more and doesnt just get buried. I comment and post a lot more than I used to on reddit.

This is a Kit Kit. They left out there Kat. Someone out there got a Kat Kat.

Anal-ogy ....... I see what you did there.

Worth watching?

I'm not in a position to deep-dive into whether this specific story is true or not, but here is some information that I think is important for readers to know:

If you're not from the UK then you might not know about Daily Mail news. This is a far right "news source" that has very poor journalistic integrity and often makes shit up. They have a very strong "anti-foreigner" agenda and heavily embellish or make up stuff to stoke up sentiment about "backward savages foreigners". They are not a reliable news source at all. Wikipedia does not accept Daily Mail as a source.

Personally: if I see a Daily Mail source, I wouldn't bother reading the story at all as the "news" will be of less value than used toilet paper. These turds thrive on writing rage-bait which then circulates on social media (this story currently has a higher upvote score than any BBC, Guardian, etc sourced news recently posted to this community).

Seriously interested in anyone up for friendship. This would be the 3rd or 4th time i come across this sort of thing on Lemmy, no one follows through. I make a chat app channel and no one joins. I'll DM you.

The dick sucking was all online speak, not interested in that at all. No one is going to be able to beat the skills and hotness of my wife....so I'm sorted there.

You have to train your ear slowly and build up speed gradually. My wife and brother both used to laugh at the x2 gibberish I listened to. They started building up slowly, and now they both also find it way too annoying and slow to hear x1 speed content (including YouTube and videos).

Listen however you find it most enjoyable.

To elaborate on this.... phone emulation isn't just for retro classics. Many phones will have enough power to emulate modern Switch games, and semi-modern games up to Wii/3DS or so. Many modern games are also portrd to phones (Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Wild Rift, Fortnite, etc).

Sorry to hear OP is having such a hard time, but SBC gaming is another option if there's enough of a budget for that. Retroid Pocket 4 Pro (£120 on eBay, upto Wii/3DS/manySwitch), or Retroid Pocket 5 (£190 on eBay, up to PS3 and all of Switch).

Answer: recumbent

I listen at x2 speed, so a 40 min podcast only takes 20min. Skipping ads, etc brings it down to 18 min or so.

I don't go looking through backlogs unless there's a particularly interesting and specific old episode.

I don't listen to all new episodes. If an episode is uninteresting then I skip it.

It is worth listening prospectively because most do episodes about topics that are relevant on current discourse and current events.

If I listen regularly then I can keep up just fine with new releases. 40 min to work and back, maybe another 40 min of listening in the gym. Then if I skip ads/titles/endings, and listen at x2 speed, then I effectively get through over 4 hours of content every day.