“Getting coffee with people in cars” or whatever it’s called really revealed how nasty and self obsessed Jerry Seinfeld is to me. Up to that point he was passably funny to me or, at least, the show was. Looking back it was really Larry David, and the other cast that carried it all.

No Geoff. No show.

I rewatched Coupling a little while ago. There are some aspects which have not aged well. Anything Geoff centric is still pretty good. Anything Patrick centric is “yikes” and some of the relationship stuff is a bit messed up too.

…as opposed to the M. Night Shamalan movie?

Not depraved, just pitiful.

That’s what I always found. Sure Karl is an idiot, but Ricky bullying him isn’t funny. I know it’s an act, but that knowledge doesn’t make it funny. I’m just left wanting to punch Ricky.

That said, I do like Extras. Mainly the first series before “When The Whistle Blows” became an allegory for The Office.

America is going to have to purge its ruling class if it’s going to recover from these years. So many institutions are getting deeply corrupted and the culture of markets without limits has to have significant limits placed on it.

Grifters and conmen are criminals not people to be enabled and raised up.

Ok, that’s not going to happen.

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They’re all widely seen as either tainted by Starmer, not good enough, or too new (as about half of them came in at the last election 2 years ago). There are some who have ambition, but not sure if they’ll have the support necessary to challenge.

Isn’t that a really easy captcha to defeat then? Just send the URL to another one in your bot farm.

“Thinking” means it talked to itself for a while. I expect you can expand the “thinking” by clicking on it.

This is probably certifying your nationality as the US government has placed anthropic under export restrictions.

Who’d have predicted that heatseekers go towards fire.

Pent up demand at a much lower price point.

What’s contained in the QR code? Is it “just” a web URL or is it intended to start an app?

My takeaway from stories like this is that it was always really easy to crack in to companies, but most knowledgeable people had better things to do.

Paper is an organic material with structure. Recycling damages that structure when actually you want to preserve it as much as you can. At some point you need a tree to grow to put that organic structure in place.

Batteries have human made structures constructed from pure materials. Battery recycling completely shreds the batteries and then mechanically & chemically separates the materials giving you the pure copper, gold, aluminium, cobalt, zinc, etc back. You’re then back to step 1 of the manufacture except you didn’t mine your raw materials.

Down 6%.

The line wiggled a bit.

No, you need to say that moving to a place with lower tax rates leaves you liable for some period after you’ve left.

There are countries that levy taxes on you as a citizen regardless of where you’re living. This is possible.