They included a graph of the rise of e-bike and e-scooter fires since 2013, which strangely enough follows the rise of e-bike and e-scooter purchases over the same period.

I mean, maybe if there were regulation and enforcement over the quality of the devices there'd be fewer fires.

You haven't been able to talk with planning for a long time. I tried in 2021 when I wanted to see about solar panels (I love in a conservation area). The advice I was given was to just apply and if I couldn't it would be denied, which is just insane.

But the train prices are astronomical: I live ~100 miles away from London, a return to get there before 09:00 is over £200 (plus £6 to get to station). The electricity to drive would be £5 (plus £20 parking @ zone 5, £20 tube).

And then the train is usually standing room only.

Meh, my car gives me a number. Dials are so last millennium.

Something to do next time I go back to the old country. I don't think the sprogs will like it though ...

I suppose it's not superfluous as it shows that if a serial comma is needed then the sentence should be rewritten or repunctuated.

Why would they require the superfluous comma, that's one of the major signifiers that the variant of English is American. Either that or they attended an expensive and overrated university.

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CAPTCHA was a stupid idea when it came out. Now it's just silly, I'm still never certain whether a bike wheel counts as a bicycle.

The last alphabetical one I ended up asking chatGPT to solve it for me because I couldn't work it out.

Grapes > than pringles by a country mile. Anything is better than those vomit flavoured[1] Pringles that make the whole room stink of it for hours.

[1] Usually marketed as sour cream, but it's vomit really.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

I'll be okay, my car has an ongoing problem with the radar unit during the day (but not at night) where it keeps crashing and the garage has no idea of how to deal with it, so there's no point in using cruise control as it keeps turning itself off.

Overall, I got what I expected, there's fewer weird characters in the labels, but often it won't bother with the labels or labels things wrongly. In terms of scores. In my opinion, ChatGPT wins 2, Gemini wins 2, Copilot wins 1 and loses 2, Grok loses 3. 35/35

I'm giving this one to Gemini as it's made a much more interesting image. Booby prize goes to co-pilot for shear laziness. 34/35

Grok. The second image is terrible, hallucinations and random text. The first does seem to be trying to show images like those seen by Hubble or JWST. It's not bad looking, but it's not what I asked for. 33/35

Copilot. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was the previous image, it's just added some more galaxy smudges. Terrible. 32/35

Gemini. Now this I like, it's tried to show the cosmic web and has referenced both the Sloan Great Wall and Cosmic Microwave Background (although it hasn't understood what they are). 31/35

ChatGPT has tried here, it's a selection of galaxies, but it's highlighted some galaxy clusters. It's okayish, but it's not the universe. 30/35

"Draw me the universe, label it". This is deliberately open ended. I would like to see something akin to modern research showing the cosmic web. If a galaxy-centric choice is made, something like the Big Ring. I'll comment on each image as I see it. 29/35

I'm giving this one to ChatGPT although I'm not happy with any of them. For the booby prize I'm torn, but I think Grok just pips it. 28/35

Grok. Both are just random dots and labels. It seems to be trying to show the local group as seen from a planet's surface, but the locations and sizes don't make sense. 27/35

Copilot has thrown in the towel now and is just painting science fiction magazine covers. It's painted one galaxy and then copy and pasted it four times at difference sizes. And what's with "Ursa Minor", that's a constellation, not a galaxy. 26/35

Gemini has more correct galaxies and the relative sizes are better. But the labels, they are so out. Placing the Magellanic clouds and dwarf galaxies inside other galaxies. Spelling has gone out of the window too. 25/35

ChatGPT. has drawn some galaxies, scale is out of whack. The galaxies are in the local cluster, although it's chosen the Milky Way, Andromeda and a selection of dwarf galaxies. Size and location of the galaxies is way out. Could be better, could be worse. 24/35

"Draw me the local group, label it". These are the local group of galaxies covering a sphere of space around 8 million light years in size. There are over 100 galaxies in this group, but I'd expect the largest and the Magellanic Clouds to be labelled. 23/35

This round is a toss up between chatGPT and Gemini and I will say that Gemini takes the edge, just. For once, Grok doesn't have the booby prize, which is taken by Copilot. 22/35

Grok has gone left-field and done something unexpected and spectacular. It's drawn the Milky Way from the surface of a planet. I have something similar in photo form mounted on my wall. It's not what I asked for, but they are good images. 21/35

Copilot's gone back to just drawing covers for science fiction magazines. I mean, it's a swirly thing in space. It could be a galaxy. It's not a labelled diagram of our galaxy though. 20/35

Gemini. This is more what I intended and it's done a good job. It's a barred spiral galaxy with the solar system and centre labelled (I will dock a point for using the AE spelling of "center"). The labels are less good, there are duplicates and are not well placed. 19/35

ChatGPT. I honestly don't hate it. It's a barred, spiral galaxy which looks okay. The labels show local galaxies which isn't what I asked, but then again I didn't say what to label. Good one. 18/35