Since when?
svcg
joined 2 years ago
Baked potatoes fancy? I love a baked potato with beans and cheese, but it's hardly fancy.
Fondant potatoes are what you want for fancy (and delicious).
Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?
Because once you have them, who's going to try to take them away?
Celtic was founded by Irish immigrants to Scotland, and they're big on that connection to this day. Waving Scottish flags is left to the Rangers fans.
One and the same person, Jack.
I also love Jasper Fforde, and it is because he was guest of honour at a Jodi Taylor event that I also got into her books. She writes a series about time-travelling historians which I would recommend.
She also writes at a much faster pace than Fforde does these days, so that's a plus. I was never half as annoyed waiting for GRR Martin to write A Dance With Dragons as I was waiting for Red Side Story!
It would be reasonable to not believe an exec's statements when it comes to enshittification. But this guy talks as if he knows what he was talking about. If he did know what he was talking about, then he would have known who Meredith Whittaker was. And if he did, and thought she was lying, he would have said as much. Besides, it doesn't seem as though this guy would consider adding AI to be enshittification anyway.
He's unironically doing the "crispened potato snacks" bit.
Ah, fair enough! I forgot therapy dogs and guide dogs are a thing for a moment, there.
I'd be looking askance at whoever it was that said "good girl", TBH. I can't imagine saying that in a workplace to anyone who isn't a literal child.
According to the British (during the Malayan Emergency) and Americans (during Operation Ranch Hand), indiscriminately starving enemy civilians by spraying Agent Orange everywhere was legal.
In more recent history, we of course have Captain Drone Strike's reign of terror against wedding parties and aid workers in Afghanistan.
The only thing that's changed since the Geneva conventions of 1949 is that when civilians are targeted, the rest of the world says "tut tut, that's a war crime" before it proceeds not to do anything about it.*
* Unless you're from Africa or the Balkans, apparently.