Dr Hannah Pethen

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Also the insurance payouts when it massively cocks up and downs e.g. an airliner or something.

AI is a like a Penis! Very useful, necessary and even fun for certain tasks at specific times and places. Not to be randomly inserted any old where at any old time, and especially not without consent. For best results get to know the one you're planning on working with.

Not just London either - basically any weird ass structural stuff that happened 1939-45 in England the answer is always a bomb.

Translation - bomb made facade collapse during WW2 I assume.

Sutcliffe, The Sword at Sunset is hard to beat.

ALL policy should be driven by what's best and safest and will actually work.

This is true. I think its also true that while there always seem to be those who recognised something perceived to be 'normal' was 'wrong' they are typically a small group. We should not assume we would automatically have been one with them even though from today's perspective they are right

"And the second time as farce".

I understood that reference.

Oh look another thing to add to my long list of 'why I will never live or work in the Gulf'.

Or central American generally. I have not had a good tamale in 20+ years and that's just how it is.

TCM have hilariously been doing the lord's work for a while now.

Yeah lots of pretty ordinary people got a job there or their job moved there etc.

The bathroom in the bedroom is certainly a choice.

They really named it 'Aldi's Avenue'. Lol.

Surely the very idea that humans could 'bring about Armageddon' deliberately is some kind of blasphemy!

There's some suggestion the image is fake. Friends who live in Egypt inform me there's no verified consular advice for them.

The most irritating aspect of the SM discourse around this war is being exposed to the attitudes of twerps like the quoted guy! I know these muppets exist, I have no desire to know their thoughts on the subject.

There are many terrible aspects to the war with Iran. The most annoying (as opposed to digusting, terrible etc) is that I' now getting exposed to the blithely ignorant statements of the worst kind of expatriate.

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One would hope migrant workers home nations would evacuate them - given the conditions of employment though. . .

Everything with her appears to be a straw man to the point where its not even a straw man its a complete fantasy.

This is true but also quite depressing. What a nasty self righteous little island we've become. It's not my choice but there are a lot of ordinary people working in the gulf who went there because their job moved, got outsourced, or they want a change.

Another box in my 'global politics of the 2020s is basically a bond film' bingo card.

What is this woman smoking?

Cato would probably be all for it!

I assume the 'anyone but reform' aspect plays quite a role here. If you think reform have a short you're probably voting for whoever has the best chance of beating them even if you wouldn't normally prefer that candidate.

This is nice but rather too much like my boarding house for comfort.

An excellent reason not to upgrade.