Simon Harris

More of an Earthsea ripper offer really.

Not exactly the age of Roosevelt, is it!

“Tidied up”

No longer carelessly strewn across the bed, but tastefully arranged on the bookshelf.

I think he means the shitshow that happened last time. We shouldn’t forget Rumsfeld thought it would be 5 months, max. It was almost 9 years.

"I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks or five months. But it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that." - Donald Rumsfeld, 2002.

US troops were engaged in Iraq for almost 9 years.

""The missiles are flying. Praise God" - Greg Stillson, The Dead Zone.

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Isn’t that more-or-less the premise of the Philip K Dick short story Autofac?

You’re making a mocha-ry of the legal profession.

...with whom do you have to negotiate a surrender and cessation of hostilities? Do they even have a leader to negotiate a surrender, or do you have to do it with a load of warlords?

Isn't there a military doctrine that you don't kill the leadership of the enemy (at least until everything is under control) firstly, because it can lead to a power vacuum, loss of chain of command and a much more unpredictable and dangerous situation; secondly, if you do consider you've 'won'...

After wearing the EU Flag hat during the 2017 state opening of parliament, was the Queen attempting some sort of political balancing act by combining the Elizabeth line colours and her dress to recreate the UKIP colour scheme?

I have some memory that someone (I can't remember who) quipped that the difference between pornography and erotica was the quality of the paper.

An investigation into data rates and codecs might prove instructive these days!

Indeed, Starmer at 61 is the first PM to take office in his 60s since Callaghan in 1976. We haven’t had a PM come into office in their 70s since Churchill’s second term in 1951.

I’d forgotten he was in the last 6, it seems so long ago!

To be fair, in the UK we’ve had 8 different prime ministers since then!

…sorry, 54

G W Bush was 55 when he became president (one of the ‘Born in the 40s’ crowd), which is not exactly old.

Trump 2016 on George Bush: “Everything that’s happening started with us stupidly going into the war in Iraq….and people talk about me with the button. I’m the one that doesn’t want to do this, okay?”

Trump 2026: “Let’s do that George Bush thing, but in Iran”

Still three days left to bugger things up.

Should have done your toastie making more Caerphilly.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this homework deadline.

Aggressive selling of extended warranties/insurance comes to mind.

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I still remember the cries of woe when it turned up in Wordle years ago!

Only 2.5-3 hours. I would have thought he’d be trying to beat Putin’s 4+ hour annual press conferences!

It would bugger up my journey to work for starters.

TV choice for tonight:
The State of the Union Address
or
Episode 1 of Designated Survivor?

By that logic, since totally blind people can’t see any of the lines on the map, for ’accessibility sake’ should we fill the entire underground with concrete?

It probably all makes sense if you realise the human race, on average, isn't as nice as you want it to be.

Best to separate out LLMs from the general field of AI. Image recognition, text to speech (and speech to text) all involve AI, just not the currently hyped version.

Ok, text to speech you can do primitive versions without, but with AI you can get a more nuanced reading.