The Saga of Erik the Red states: “In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name.”

Greenland - Wikipedia

In fairness, a lot of news organisations are run without input from adequate journalists.

Alterations to a comfort food! That’s exactly a problem I’m having at the moment.

Do any of you know if they’ve changed the recipe to Cadbury’s Fingers in the last few months? I used to always have a box in, but they’ve been tasting weird the last few months - so much so that I didn’t buy them in the last big shop.

I mean, Google has over 90% of the global search engine market share - I think it’s safe to assume that most of those users are not MAGA.

Sorry, no can do. I’ve never had an Instagram account, a Facebook account, a Bluesky account, a Snapchat account or anything like that.

My entire social media presence is/was a Twitter account that I abandoned even before Elon Musk bought it (because Twitter was turning into a tyre fire even back then), a Reddit account that I abandoned during the great exodus, and a YouTube account that I posted a single video on in 2012. And this, of course.

Also… Are you genuinely using the fact that someone uses Google as evidence that they’re a bad person?

All that following Charlie Kirk proves is that she clicked a button once. Literally that’s the sum total of the evidence.

It’s entirely possible that she’s not even aware of what her “public perception” from a few internet oddbods even is.

Look, I’ve been called MAGA in the past and I:

• A: Am British
• B: Have literally been on a march to protest Parliament’s decision not to ban Donald Trump from the UK (back in 2016)
• C: Would rather pay 100% tax than have a system that allows billionaires to exist

The internet is full of people who are eager to assume the worst about people. The world is horrible enough - if this woman hasn’t actually done or said anything bad, then let’s leave her be.

Sorry, but this is bad form.

The onus of proof is on you proving she’s MAGA, not on her proving she’s not.

To do something like this, something she will likely never see, and say that you’ll take it down if she proves your theory otherwise, is unfair.

Kudos for the seamless edit, but it’s not a cool thing to do.

My friend, nobody is blaming you - it’s a failing of the language. I was just explaining where the misunderstanding likely occurred.

I don’t think that’s the part of the sentence that’s the issue - I read it the same way as the previous poster, and realise what the problem is. You said:

But in every other civilized country they wouldn’t have to be able to self-assess something like that

On first read, it sounded like you’re saying “they wouldn’t have been able to self-assess something like that”, whereas you’re actually saying “they wouldn’t have needed to self-assess something like that”.

Please remember that this is an internet where seemingly half of the Americans we meet are 100% convinced that the US is the only place in the world with cars, electricity, running water, etc. The assertion that the US is the only country with nurses capable of self-assessing injuries totally seems like something that someone would post.

In the UK the mountain rescue air ambulance is free to use. As far as I understand it, that the pilots are actually RAF pilots assigned to the rescue teams as part of their training. Putting them in the rescue helicopters kills two birds with one stone. Many rescuers are volunteers, and the service is funded via tax and public donations.

There are definitely a couple of bits of the trailer that are pretty jarring, but the starter Pokémon feel like a welcome return to form - they’re clever and distinctive.

The bits that stood out to me as really weird in the trailer:

• The art style of the drawings changes in the beginning.
• The arm opening the door seems weirdly realistic.
• The Pokéball stays in mid air instead of landing on the ground after capturing something.

None of those things reflect on using AI to create the actual game, though.

Another touch typer here. I cut my teeth on online MUDs in the 90s - literally a type-fast-or-your-character-dies situation.

I noticed a lot of the players doing that neck grabbing thing in the World Cup this year.

I get a visceral reaction every time I see it. It’d be a massive red flag if someone tried to do it to me.

Is it a new Andrew Tate/alpha male kind of thing? It’s weird and I don’t like it.

It’s not used for marking, obviously.

Just talking about my field specifically, but LLM agents are used in educational institutions to support students with both the course and admin sides of things. They’re doubly handy because they’re also used to collate all of the interactions and identify common blind spots and flag students that are at risk of failing.

This took me too long before I realised it was probably an accent thing. Is “dew” pronounced like “do” in the US?

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Two ways to read “a new age verification setup”.

You assume it means:

a new “age verification” setup

But then find out if means:

a “new age” verification setup

Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.

Is this really true? (Answer provided below)

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