I imagine that if this and other headlines were more like “Local council leader’s solar farm challenged by Thames water investor” because the council were trying to do a solar farm there too - or even writing a business plan - it’d help tip the scales.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I believe the traditional method involves oak barrels, though nowadays the fashion is for imported barrels previously used for bourbon.
Love to know what the Lizardman’s constant is for maps like these.
What in the ever loving Christ are they planning on doing with the west coast of Scotland???
Can't even set up a court in exile and plot to seize the throne anymore, because of woke
Give us a day off like when the arseholes get married.
I still don’t really get how they reconcile Christianity with, like, where the big guy himself was from.
It feels feature-vs-bug to me cos LLMs are probabilistic by nature, and as soon as you throw more compute at them, sure enough the odds shorten.
To my potentially jaded eye, the bigger issue is in recognising what output is a function of probability vs ai-aided insight.
guardian news update: Farage says defection from Labour he promised still 'work in progress' At his press conference Nigel Farage was asked happened to the Labour defector was was promising a few weeks ago. Farage claimed that was a “work in progress”. He said the party was talking to two or three “formerly quite senior Labour figures” about possible defections.
It was Mandelson wasn’t it.
No easy answers right 😭
I had a flex HD outside for a while and has that meshed to an otherwise inaccessible room. Eventually swapped for more painful powerline setup because of the wireless impact for the rest of the house.
Now, if I had a rat…
I hear you. My house is such a ridiculous mess I’ve resorted to running cat5 around three exterior walls before 😬
I suspect the networking tool that’d make the most difference to my life is a pet rat.
Second thumbs up for the Swiss Army knife from me. Blown away by its performance, albeit somewhat angle/lean position dependent in my Victorian house of a thousand poorly-built extensions.
If you haven’t watched A View to a Kill, I’m afraid it might shatter the too-comic illusion of his portrayal.
My wife and I were doing an all-the-films-in-order thing, and I remember us just sitting there with open mouths. This??? Mid eighties??? Dear lord.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea
This country’s morals are based on Christian… biblical values? Oh silly me, somehow I’d forgotten our national and time-honoured rejections of cheeseburgers and prawns.
The nonsense these people speak.
Why can't they all just fuck off back to Saxony and leave the place to us Welsh?
Hahaha i know that feeling far too well :)
Gotcha. While I get the distinction, if we’re talking within the context of unintended consequences, I think this particular battle is long over.
Is this happening already? I can’t think of a car maker without a cloud + phone app that uploads all movement data as a matter of routine, for their electric cars at least.
I’m under the impression that if the police asked, they’d have to hand it over?
and the signalling staff , in under 4 minutes they had to reroute the train and make sure that didnt lead to it hitting another train that was scheduled to be on that line.
(Also, I would point out that he wasn't a crank, he was one of the leading scholars of his day working on one of its most important topics, and he should be a constant memorial to modern researchers: one day all this will be a punchline.)
Counterpoint: the markets reacted and priced-in acts of madness a while ago. It’s easy to miss quite how much money professional investors have lost since January, especially anything that touches on exchange rates.
I mean…. and the home invasion assasination of the leader of the opposition party in a divided state house, by a christian nationalist goon, whose actions the right is trying to gaslight at massive scale.
a pigeon leans down and pecks at a clump of gum on the sidewalk, saying "some sort of sticky clump worm. Chewy. Just gotta pry it up and-" The pigeon, having wrested the gum from the pavement, blows a bubble, exclaiming "oh!" The pigeon with the gum begins to float up into the sky, carried by the gum bubble, saying "I can fly!! Dare I dream the impossible dream that I can soar above the earth?" A second pigeon interjects "you could already fly." The pigeon with the gum says "shut the fuck up. For once in your life get over your asinine need to feel smarter than everyone else and shut the fuck up. You're not adding anything."
a pigeon finds some gum on the sidewalk
A mastic gun cartridge held in hand. The cartridge’s label largely consists of a white background with thick black text written over it. Except for the colour description, which is a large outline font with thin black letter outlines, large white interiors, and again, printed on a white background. The colour printed is: BLACK.
The psychopath test: product design edition.
In my neck of the woods, the bus company keeps trying to drag down the less profitable routes by throwing progressively worse buses at them, driven by their most problematic drivers. And they never realise: it’s the only route to the train station and commuters will never stop taking it, lose/lose.
Yeah, that’s fair (and thanks for taking my reply in the spirit intended, just did a little eek reading it back)
I kinda see the OS stuff as a good warning beacon for future attempts. Like, the time and effort they must put into tweaking coordinates so that nothing aligns with UPRNs *rants to self*
A glorified vanity project that goes out of its way to harm its users and make any useful analysis pretty much well impossible? :-p
... slowly losing my marbles thanks to Open UPRN, USN, Roads, Names, Vector + Local Map trying to get them to play nicely with the lovely datasets from ONS 🤦♀️
