I think the fact you felt the need to issue a correction, rather that rely on the audience to take it on good faith that you do in fact know how to use apostrophes, certainly underlines your point about the corrosiveness of these platforms.
Press cutting Lancashire Telegraph, 20 April 2008: Shepherd's pie recipe rumpus. Subhead: Petrol bomb threat in tomato topping row. By ANDREW BELLARD A dispute over the contents of a shepherd's pie proved to be a recipe for brotherly disharmony. Blackburn magistrates heard that John Garvin thought that the pie his brother Michael made should have been topped with tomatoes but Michael disagreed. The upshot was that John, who was hit over the head with a shovel, reacted by threatening to petrol bomb his brother's flat. And he ended up spending a night in custody to allow tempers to cool. John Garvin, 47, of Montague Street, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for 12 months. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the brothers lived in separate flats next to each other. On the day of the culinary dispute they had been drinking together since 7am. "The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said Miss Allan. John called his brother an offensive name and then said he was going to petrol bomb his flat. "Michael was concerned by this threat because on a previous occasion John had started a fire in his own flat," said Miss Allan. Liz Parker, defending, said her client did not accept making a remark about petrol bombing his brother's flat. "He does say that his brother hit him over the head with a shovel and it is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing," she added. (The article has a pullout quote which says “It is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing” - LIZ PARKER in large letters) District Judge Peter Ward, who imposed the bind over, asked in court: "You can make shepherd's pie without tomatoes can't you?" But 'legal' opinion at Blackburn magistrates, where the issue became quite a talking point, was divided. A female defence solicitor said it should be made with lamb and topped with sliced tomatoes and that a pie made with b…
And lo, it came to pass that the 18th anniversary of the greatest local news story ever told came upon us, and we were sore amazed
"Ah, there's a $1000 'leaving town' tax."
Thanks. I've settled on Current for now. I really enjoy the approach of letting things go if you don't get round to them.
www.currentreader.app
Sounds about right. I can see the advantage of inbound callers getting AI directions, instead of having an endless menu of numbers to press to get to the right person in a business...but outbound? I'm not sure this is the way.
I suppose you could say only one person's time was wasted, so that's a 50% reduction. The only problem is the person whose time was wasted was mine. I'm not sure this is the future…
But I can tell you as someone who, sadly, used to work in this industry, it's not going to get very far. It didn't do anything known as “objection handling”, which is the only way you make progress in these types of cold calls.
In fairness as soon as I asked, it did confirm it was artificial intelligence. It didn't lie to me, and it also agreed to delete my information. Then it promptly hung up.
So a first for me today: I got a call from an AI. It was trying to get me to claim for mis-selling of car finance. It wasn't very good.
A Wikipedia rabbit hole has led to another example of old football being completely nuts.
A playoff final over two legs couldn't split Bristol City and Walsall. So, there was a penalty shootout to decide WHO WOULD HOST A REPLAY. That would kick off less than 48 hours after the 2nd leg had finished.
Apologies, afraid I don’t know.
Hi. It was Gabriella Jukes.
Right, there were only so many 1am DMs asking for a Level 5 I could take, so... we're very excited to launch the 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒 daily game...
Guess the Premier League scorer at a Premier League away ground and see how far you get!
Play it here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
games.footballcliches.com
Hi. It’s Millie Payne. 👍
No recommendation, but thank you for pointing out Current. Such a great concept, and something that may well cure my own phantom obligations.
And a big thumbs up for full RSS feeds from the Verge too!
Regression is the monster who can’t be bought off
The more red lines are allowed to wither, the more difficult it’ll be to keep to what remains.
Given Grok’s recent activities it seems increasingly difficult to see how any public organisation can square a presence on X with its own safeguarding responsibilities, let alone anything else.
Hello Internet. I read a lot of email newsletters. Perhaps more accurately, I am subscribed to a lot of email newsletters and would like to read more of them.
I would like an e-reader to do this. I would like to automate the process of the newsletters appearing on the e-reader.
In this possible?
Hi. It’s Kim Boak. 👍
"I had forgotten that there could ever be domestic conflicts where law enforcement were not themselves belligerents."
Crikey. That stopped me in my tracks.
recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.
Obviously I could have stopped at any number of charging points along the way between Salford & Sheffied. But, with a breezy and misplaced confidence, I was comfortable of getting up and over Snake Pass with what I had. It was more of an arse-clenching experience than I’d anticipated...
So I’m genuinely quite relaxed about getting home when the EV battery is running low, but even I admit to cutting this a little fine.
Throughout their win vs Botswana at AFCON, a DR Congo supporter replicated the stance of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in African and Congolese independence who was assassinated in 1961 following a joint plot between political opponents, Belgium, the US, and UK 🇨🇩
Picture of a packed of ‘Pigs in Blankets’ flavour coated peanuts.
In the race against time to eat all the Christmas food before New Year. These bad boys are sensational.
As your Prime Minister, schools will be required to put all correspondence to parents in the body of the email, and not attached via a PDF, Word document or (*checks notes*) Microsoft Sway.
Watched Sheffield Wednesday-Derby tonight and just flicked over to see the Manchester United-Bournemouth score. 🫠
Two of Leicester’s three goals against Ipswich today came from an xG of 0.09.
