Yeah, but at least the gradual 'you don't want the pharmacy near your hotel. You want the one a mile away that has paid for adverts' was not I think actively destructive of their brand in the way 'would you like a really bad AI summary?' was.
Unless @anothergreen.bsky.social wants them (first dibs from the above ) then yes please
I think @hern.bsky.social was exactly right that it has been a truly astonishing bit of brand destruction by Google to bundle a free, bad version of their AI into their once incredibly useful search engine. It makes people think Google's AI is much worse than it actually is per its peers!
I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic
The library rules for a withdrawn book, including stuff about infectious diseases
Under no circumstances are books to be returned to the Library from a house wherein infectious disease exists, but are to be given up to the Sanitary Inspector for Disinfection
The reverse Ralph Wiggum.
Think we can safely say that the assumption they could blame Olly Robbins because he had no compromising info on anyone was not correct
Found this again!
It's certainly a bold approach to take to one of your party's core voting groups two weeks before elections.
Yes GCN did a thing about a delivery trike where the pedals didn't really do anything, lots of the comments said "this is a loophole that obviously needs plugging" , I was vaguely expecting a follow up
I don't think it's that peculiar. There's a difference between seeing unpopularity in polls (which could yet change) and seeing friends/colleagues crying on national television because they've lost their jobs
I agree - it is a peculiar but undeniable fact that even when the polls make it obvious from space that a party will do terribly in local or devolved elections, the losses actually arriving still have an impact.
thank goodness there's no black market in cigarettes, otherwise this would achieve literally nothing other than enriching criminals.
Right, surely a "stone age" ticketing system would be being able to rock up to London Victoria and buy a ticket to Istanbul that includes a ferry from Dover like in the last century. What we have now a "21st century late capitalist age" ticketing system and that's the problem
First the framing. "Stone age" implies this is just old fashioned. It is not that, or not only. Most of these problems have not been solved because railways do not WANT to fix them, preferring to protect national monopolies rather than expand rail as a whole
There is *malevolence* here too
(2/11)
Not to defend Anas Sarwar (because I dislike him very very strongly), but shouldn't Labour people be looking at themselves now and thinking "huh maybe we should have done the coup when he stuck his neck out"
I'm old enough to remember when voting for a political party meant you *didn't* get the other party's stupid ideas.
Again, I'm not commenting on the scandal itself, because we're in a Pre-Election Period and I like my job, but I do note that the interviewer is sat next to the husband of the Foreign Secretary.
It seems very odd that everyone continues to pretend Ed Balls is just another interviewer/presenter.
You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.
60-year-olds around a 61-year-old going into the newsagent in 2069, "Go on mate, get us a few packs."
Wasn't Daily Info handsome?
Some old JCR and OUSU stuff and some other societies (and the Union which I joined though didn't really get much use out of like many people I suppose).
And lots of cinema programmes.
Am going through old files (mainly to reclaim bookshelf space as some bookshelves went in the conversion of a spare room to a laundry room - books currently in boxes in the spare room and we have a visitor).
I have no idea why I had that particular Daily Info - there is an OUSFG meeting I suppose
Daily Info - 26th May 1983
Anyone want a folder of 1985 Ecology Party (now Green Party ) ephemera? Includes stuff about the 1985 Southport Conference
In the interests of fairness, I should say that it seems the scrupulous adherence to process, confidentiality etc does not seem to apply to the same extent when discussing Mr Doyle.
A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag
This is why whale punk had to happen
The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
Britain’s trust crisis began with ITV Play and the Blue Peter cat naming debacle. In this essay I will…
