95% of businesses fooled by the AI snake-oil. These are presumably run by these oh-so-smart business people we're always being told are so much smarter and that's why leaving everything to be run by businesses would be such a good idea.

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Never found any way to contact the mod that would get a response, so I wasn't able to find out anything. But he is apparently notorious for this, I have been subsequently told.

In the more northerly parts of Ireland it's much different, and sounds like naaü (naa-eww).

I would, but I got banned for saying something rude about a royal family, and found that bans on Mastodon are permanent, irrevocable, and cannot be appealed (server mods apparently have scope to design their own rules). But my tribes seem to be here rather than there ATM.

Wrong. The Dems won't change, nor will they reverse Trumpism: they're just kicking themselves that the Reps managed to get where they are first. Two right-wing authoritarian capitalist parties is NOT what you want, trust me (we have them here too). You need a party that will help, not hurt.

Talking of BBC bias - here's the man in charge of the BBC's online Middle East output drooling over Mossad.

This guy is now suing Owen Jones for saying he's biased towards Israel.

I am told that Americans believe the English make their tea in the microwave.

And the Americans pronounce scone as "biscuit"

Nope.

As I said before, I asked my Devonian mother and she was quite clear: butter first, then cream, then jam 😋

Unless you are Cornish, who are permitted deviancy.

But it MUST be clotted cream. Anyone caught using whipped cream will be whipped.

I discussed this with the guy at my local post office. Provided (a) the package is personal, no corporate names or addresses, (b) the customs label says value < $100 (as low as reasonable), (c) it is marked GIFT, and (d) has a residential return address...it ought to get to the USA unmolested.

I'm sorry, I didn't look hard enough. That was intended for Adam

It makes perfect sense. The phrase "good...and true" is in normal use, as in "twelve good [men] and true" referring to a jury.

I'm not clear about this. Investors don't care where money comes from. It's not like they have any moral standards or anything.

Zero clue why my nearest (and very excellent) Chinese restaurant is called The Wylam. Maybe those syllables are a Chinese word or phrase.

There will be no no no no no no parking in t'upper field

Interesting. Rels moving there next year from an adjacent jurisdiction

Thank you. It's the words 😆 I didn't clock they were nighlights.