I’ll take those three exceptions…

And the scary thing is most people were basically Eloi in terms of political and social consciousness well before A.I.

This time we…..

It’s the thing I’ve been noticing for a long long time (ever since Mike Gatting threw away a catch off Alan Border at Lords in 1985 actually…)

Given England’s recent series performances in Australia why not this guy?

Are we missing some parameters here, like ‘No one called Don Bradman or Gary Sobers or Viv Richards or anyone else for that matter who played before 1972’?

Unis in Australia are just corporations now really: the rich history of public education, the legislation that establishes them for public benefit, the representative senates - all just dead relics. No soul, no conscience, no nothing…

Wow this post just escalated into Breaking Bad hyperspace…

A recurring story :

Political media : Do this stupid thing!

ALP : No.

Political media : DO THE STUPID THING, DAMMIT.

ALP : [sighing] Alright, fine.

Political media : [headline] 'ALP does stupid thing. Why this is good for the Opposition.'

Not to mention the hallucinations of AI generated police reports….

Definitely: the whole Western ‘developed’ world appears to be suffering an extreme collective nervous breakdown

I think he also worked for Idi Amin didn’t he?

Nice

Can we have a ‘masked lapwing vs spur-winged plover’ name debate in the same spirit as ‘potato scallops vs potato cakes’?