Most successful operative the Conservative Party has ever had.

I remember when standard advice was to use “said” rather than so-called “saidisms” (for which authors were often mocked). But that was long before audio books (except as a tiny niche for blind people).

In SF circles this is blamed on the Suck Fairy:
“I read that years ago; it was great!”
“I’m sorry to inform you it has been visited by the Suck Fairy.”

Ok. Seemed like a contradiction but secondary ed is such a maze that I’m not surprised there are examples.

What is a “selective comp”?

Thanks. That was my vague recollection, having read of a few such cases, but I didn’t know how exceptional or difficult it might have been (cf divorce, which AIUI used to require an act of parliament?)

Ah, “Normal For Essex” rules may apply.

The latter thing is extremely strange: (a) many women in the UK don’t take their husbands’ names; (b) this has been true since at least the 1980s; and (c) it hasn’t been a legal requirement for much longer than that, if ever. So I don’t know why you were told that.

Harrison Bergeron

This is like the opening scene in HHGTTG where Ford Prefect convinces the construction worker to lie in front of his bulldozer.

It’s a powerfully emotional moment because of the contrast with the style of government my American friends have experienced lately.

Superb triumph for engineering and science. Around the moon and back safely. This is what liberal ethical collective government can deliver.

Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848

My favorite Chumbawamba song.

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Meat and all animal products are over-rated. The only good food is plants.

This is not a bad take. You lose.

At these points I usually announce “I never wanted to do this job! I wanted to be a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!”

There’s an excellent and experienced writer out there who changed editorial team a few years ago, and most of their books since then have had significant holes like this. Each time I am filled with sympathy.

TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!”

IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?”

TRUMP: “Deal.”

FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”

… in a fun way, evidently :-)

… and not in a fun way.

(For wind)

Averaging 10 GWe generated, day and night, year round. Aiming for 3 times that by 2030.

I think “to eat the people they want to be eaten” not “… they believe must be eaten”. Many are in it for the cruelty and for punching down, not because they see it as regrettable necessity, but because they think it’s fun and entertaining.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

It’s annihilator language.

This part has presumably already been done, as part of the continual process of revising the “menu”.

World Cup’s going to go well.

Note that Hormuz is ordinarily about 20 million barrels per day, a little over a billion dollars of oil daily. Even if the price reaches $300/bbl, that’s $6bn/day, plus a little for the ships. Your extrapolation to hundreds of billions daily is a little off.
(Global consumption is ~100 mbpd).

I don’t do it to reduce my data volume. I do it to curate my photostream: boosting the quality high enough that each photo is a meaningful memory.