Well, that sucks.

Better than spending it giving tax breaks to the rich or subsidising companies that are destroying the planet.

Yeah cause leaving companies and the super rich to self regulate has worked so well.

It wouldn’t make it easier to arrange meetings because you’d have no clue if you were arranging the meeting for when people would be at work, have finished for the day, or fast asleep at night.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it’s not in the public sphere but your private collection, so you do you chap.

In my opinion privately owned art of a high enough cultural value should either not be allowed to be privately owned, or if it is then it should have to be on permanent loan to free admission public galleries. But that’s not the case.

Meanwhile:

GCU The Gravitas Meme is so Last Year: I’m gonna sort out that extension event, then we should probably send a couple of Special Circumstances operatives to guide them in the right direction. In the past picosecond I’ve absorbed and analysed their global information net so know exactly what actions we need to take to give them the correct nudge.

But you wouldn’t text another iPhone. You’d WhatsApp the person.

Prodigy is in about the right time period too.

Looks absolutely fine. Just that you had an extra thought that you’d forgotten to mention before.

I can’t see anything wrong with the formatting.

You’re all good.

Fair. It’s hard to know sometimes if someone has English as a first or second language. People can be really technically good, but then not understand more subtle cultural things.

Never know maybe both of our comments will help some people.

It’s common in English to refer to a collective like a company or government as though it were an individual. I think it’s just a simple short hand really.

Eg “The whitehouse said today…” We know that the whitehouse (a building) doesn’t have the power of speech and that really means “a whitehouse spokesperson working in an official capacity on behalf of the government said today”.

Really the headline should be something along the lines of “what, exactly, are Xbox business strategists thinking?” But because of the common knowledge of how this shorthand works they can just use the headline they did.

There’s probably a fancy linguistic name for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

That works. So it’s abortion not murder.

They had a black woman as a high ranking officer on the bridge in the 60s.

And yet I’m DS9 Bashir says that murdering a clone of yourself is still murder. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But maybe that was Bayorian law.

The UK doesn’t do life sentences with no eligibility for parole. Every sentence will include eligibility for parole, with the maximum period for eligibility being around 25 years.

That’s not entirely true. Full life orders do exist.

That nurse who killed all those babies got one last year, that police officer who kidnapped raped and murdered Sarah Everard has one, Dr Harold Shipman had one, and probably most famously Mira Hindley and Ian Brady had them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_with_whole_life_orders

22 years is the minimum custodial part of the sentence, the rest will be ‘on licence’ so out of prison under set conditions like reporting in at a police station every week. Breach of any of the conditions or breaking any other laws is basically back to prison do not pass go.

Your comment makes it sound like BYD are using the labour directly. The article is about materials and improperly audited supply chains.

As that article points out, it’s currently not possible to tell how much is being used by each company. So, yes there’s likely a percentage of that aluminium used. As there probably is in your kitchen foil, and the aluminium in your phone.

Given that, only around 68% of aluminium is new (the rest being recycled) of that new aluminium, according to your article, around 9% is suspected to be affected.

I’ve worked 3pm-11pm that’s nice because you can get up at about 6 and do tonnes in the morning before work. I’ve also worked 4am-12 that’s nice because you’ve got him midday to going to bed at about 10 to do shit you want.

9-5 or thereabouts sucks because you don’t really have much time in the morning or the evening.

Not just that. Even without getting better productivity grains should mean your wages go up on average above inflation.