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Perhaps the world we're moving towards is one that parallels so many other industries, where the routine stuff is highly automated but quality work still requires a lot of artisans on the fringes.

Speaking as a trainee glider pilot, I'm green with envy at the ability to use orographic lift in such a finely-tuned and efficient way!

Since the lift is right there for any bird to use, I'd guess this behaviour could emerge anywhere rather than being culturally specific.

It is wonderful how long a dog's neck can become when there's food within a certain range of distances.

Given that these things are true, I don't feel you're making unreasonable demands of either your brain chemistry or the universe at large.

If I'm ever to work in an office again I'll need to figure out a way to override the ingrained muscle memory in my fingertips which invokes a browser and opens my favourite furry porn website.

What a lovely illustration of how actual humans want to use discretionary capital, as opposed to parking it in tax havens or using it to take over political establishments.

Photograph of a bronze statue of a vaguely panther-like monster in an urban setting. The creature is notable for, among other things, surprisingly conspicuous male genitalia.

Just to let @khaki.dog know that the Bahkauv is doing fine.

I wonder what it means when I wake up and my watch tells me I've already taken 410 steps.

I'm not even sure what "extreme masculinity" means these days. I mean (with a slight apology for dragging politics into it) the current Secretary of War performs extreme masculinity, but pro wrestling strikes me as a categorically more wholesome way of doing it.

You know how the saying goes — lucky in cards, unlucky in Lôf!

I will *definitely* take you up on that. Nerkitt ♥ has provided me with a useful model to follow and my next task is to adapt my Anglo-Saxon CV to the German model.

The Macmillans are a godsend for my family at the moment, and for so many others for so many years. I've never heard anyone who's needed them describe them without sounding awed. You bet I'll sponsor you. Good for you, go get 'em. ♥

Note for non-Brits: this is the reaction of the Conservative Party leader here to a by-election where the Greens came out of nowhere and won a safe Labour seat.

Her candidate lost his deposit (got less than 2% of the vote).

She's so far out of her tree the squirrels are sending out search parties.

That was interesting, thank you! And I most certainly feel the AI typographical pain — em-dashes and
• bullet points
and boldface and all.

Yay, somebody asked! ♥ The colon-dash symbol :— hasn't been used in mainstream typography for most of a century, but in earlier times it was colloquially referred to as the "dog's bollocks".

Despicable! Execrable! Scandalous! Invidious! Unconscionable! Reprehensible! Scatological! Reprobate! Scandalous! Emetic! Unforgivable! Decadent! Carminative! Degenerate! Apostate! Ingrate! Bad dog! No!

why am I so alone

To honour the modern zeitgeist of targeting convention guests, I and my fellow pubescent sociopaths respectfully request the privilege of fabricating something we don't like about you and screaming at the management about it until you get relegated to a meet-and-greet in the broom cupboard.

Sure won't, but I guarantee you plenty of folks will be willing to try!

thisthisthis! ♥♥♥ Exactly the kind of culturally non-obvious context I completely lack. Definitely going to grab your offer on the CV too: I've draughted one on paper, which was the style at the time, but it'd probably look weird to a German recruiter.

You didn't answer my question.

Of course they do, and they don't give a shit. You're not their target. This is for people who're already partly addled by a campaign of similar headlines. It's textbook radicalisation: leading people through progressively more extreme perspectives until they normalise the positively deranged.

Thank you for taking the hit, that the rest of us may learn from your misfortune.

Have you ever asked anyone from Lebanon about your idea that the British and Lebanese political systems are in any meaningful way equivalent?

Sadly, my wonderful Lebanese colleague isn't here for me to check with her and relay her answer, but I'm sure her expression would be unforgettable.

Okay. It's time. Let's start looking for a job.

Except, ulp, I haven't hunted for a job since before LinkedIn was a thing, and I'm now in a foreign country in my second language.

Does anybody have any competence I can borrow?

*slowly crescendoing aaaaaaaAAA*

Hubert on Steam Play as a working shepherd dog protecting his flock and the only human who trusts him. As wolves draw closer, you must face the growing divide between the world you serve and the wild that calls to yo...

"Hubert" is a very promising game demo with a gorgeous German Shepherd protagonist.

store.steampowered.com/app/764930/H...

Fabulous visuals, game mechanics still need some work but should get there. Everything else hangs on the scriptwriters getting it right. Fingers crossed.

A curse upon your second favourite pair of socks! — you have just ensured that for the entirety of the remainder of my existence on this nondescript ball of rock I will never again be able to forget the Welsh word for 'dawn'.

Gwawr!

For some, I guess, especially the big ideologues? I'd imagine the rank and file are more likely to be true believers. But I can't begin to imagine how you'd measure that empirically.

My personal intuition is that it is possible to develop a destructive focus on the stimulation brought by porn, but I'd usually expect it to be a symptom of some underlying pathology rather than a disease in its own right.

The "not a thing" argument is that people are very seldom addicted to the porn itself: the damage comes from their own religious or moral concerns over their behaviour. In other words, most of what moralistic dipshits call "porn addiction" is actually a syndrome caused by moralistic dipshits.