Peter Flynn

Ah, thanks for the info

Senior Apple leaders ‘alarmed’ by Jim O’Callaghan’s comments on data security Tech giant told officials data privacy and security are ‘core values for the company’

Both are possibly mistaken. Apple refuses to comply with local legal orders to release or unlock iPhones, apparently.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Somehow I always managed to avoid Slough, although I did once have an interview in Reading.

Tiny violin being played in the palm of the hand.

Gasoline is the USA is reportedly now $3.50 per gallon.
That equates to €0.77 per liter in the EU...but the actual price here (at least, in Ireland) is just over €2.00 per liter, or $8.85 per US gallon.
I'm afraid your heavily subsidised US gas has a long way to go yet.

Have a great time!

Mark Moriarty’s easy recipe for green beans with minced pork, garlic and chilli Make sure you have a good non-stick frying pan to hand before you begin

Mark Moriarty's recipe for a Chinese dish of green beans with minced pork, garlic, ginger, and chili, from last weekend's IT colour mag. Probably paywalled at
www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes...

I can just hear @terryandrob.bsky.social (all Gods rest his preceptive and fabulously edgy soul): "The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters.”

When it comes to science, editors and owners are entirely ignorant

I think it's important to give full credit to the original idiom here.

"The US has its arse lined with noodles"

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Or wool 😎🐋🐑 (Warning: only UK oldies will get that)

Context in V2T is rarely more than skin deep and often absent entirely, AI or no AI. Best examples are in snooker or pool championship commentary, where the number of colours is limited and known. But the captions can refer to "rayed ball" instead of red, or "cream ball" instead of green. WTF, AI?

My hottest take is that gasoline should be ten times more expensive because ending the world should cost a lot of money.

you could not pay me to go to dubai even on the most peaceful day the world has ever known. i would not be caught dead there. literally if someone said here's one million dollars but you have to spend it in dubai i'd be like, thanks but no thanks

TBH I am not going to dismiss or accept any hypothesis without reproducible proof one way or the other. One-time anomalies, however interesting, don't cut it. Show me your aliens, Ma'am.

I, for one, welcome our new transdimensional overlords

I use a slow cooker for the stew, so yes, there's a lot of liquid to reduce, but it's sooo worth it 😋

Oxtail stew for sure but never done it as the soup.

Is there any ISP anywhere still providing 56Kb/s dialup access?

Voters and purchasers have got to start realising that business people, like politicians, are not "smart" or "talented" or "clever". They are as thick as two short planks and twice as dumb, otherwise they wouldn't have to pull shit like this. All they know is how to make money for the already-rich.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Not just Jewish. It's anti everything that isn't fundamentalist christian fascist. Pagan, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, the whole lot.

She lied, deliberately. They all lie, Labour and Conservative. You need to continue voting them out.

Chicken Samboukka and hummous with a glass of Roza at Comptoir Libanais

Right. But before you dismiss it out of hand, remember all the other 32,768 claims of christofascist encroachment that were dismissed over both Trump presidencies with a glib "Oh, it'll never happen, they won't let it", all of which turned out to be true.

We can hope.

My apologies for misunderstanding the arrangements. Keep up the good work.

(Correction, it was Mr Happy)

GK3 (4): I need to pee.

K3: [motions to door]

GK3: Only a small pee, but nevertheless, a pee.

K3: ... 😂

Checking later, GK3 had been reading Mr Small, where "only ... but nevertheless" occurs. Ability to absorb and ability to transfer context are fascinating.