Would you still love me if I was a worm? 🥺👉👈

I’ve seen him make these remarks in some documentaries - I think - and it comes across as a joke.

Worth noting that “con man” is short for “confidence man”. Inflated egos help with the confidence needed to trick people out of money.

“Except sometimes you can’t use them more than 18 laps”

Is it? I actively avoid their tyres. 🤷

Given the weird constraints of tyres in F1, I’m not sure how much value this partnership actually brings to Pirelli.

The beating will continue until morale improves.

Two episodes even: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane

The Delta Quadrants is not featured in that image, only the lower two quarters. Putting into context, that map is the lower blob in this:

I switched to DDG recently after realising how much worse Google is for giving good results. After doing so on a trial basis, I’m now switching on all my devices as it’s just overall a better search experience for me. (Even if DDG is just Bing.)

LLM and AI gives regular people a lot of crazy power and creative ability that can challenge current power dynamics.

My view is opposite in that LLM and AI will further entrench the skewed power dynamics, as only really the big companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google can fully exploit it, drive and and afford it. Sure I can run some LLMs on my computers at home, but you really need access to a lot of data and computing power to create the models in the first place.

in the southern hemisphere

On a side note: I’m always amused by grand claims that get ever more specific.

“the largest in the southern hemisphere’s third biggest metropolis that has a giant guitar with at least three strings and a large pineapple”

“¿Even the new b…”

April 2018.

The Dutch have had weight based roax tax for a long while: link in Dutch It just does not apply to EVs.

It’s worth bearing in mind this war could be over in a single second, if the Russian army and its various mercenaries hoisted the white flag and proceeded to leave Ukraine and went back to Russia.

Typically, the upper congressional chamber fast-tracks and confirms military nominations all together at once with bipartisan support, via a process known as unanimous consent.

But a single senator can prevent it, and Mr Tuberville has done so for eight months in objection to a US Defence Department abortion policy. […] On Wednesday, the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, moved to confirm General Charles Brown as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing outgoing General Mark Milley.

The Senate approved the nomination by 83-11, with Mr Tuberville and a handful of Republican colleagues voting no. […] While Mr Schumer could theoretically confirm nominees on an individual basis, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) concluded that doing so would eat up nearly 700 hours of floor time in the Senate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66873107

TL;DR: switch from “quickly grant unanimous approval for groups” to “slowly approve one by one”

The Fairphone is faster - although perhaps not by a huge amount, has better battery life and a better camera. The official spare parts shop has parts for the Fairphone 3 onwards, earlier models’ parts are sold out. The Fairphone 2 was released in 2015 and has stopped receiving software updates this year, the 3 came out in 2019. 8 years of support and replacement parts seems to me to be much better than what Samsung or Google would offer you.

Specs differences: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?&idPhone1=12540&idPhone2=9536#diff-*,*,*

Chipset comparison: https://versus.com/en/qualcomm-qcm6490-vs-samsung-exynos-9820

Spare parts shop: https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/category/spare-parts-4?ref=header