This is also an oversimplification.

Colonies were always rebelling. The main issue that led to decolonisation was that there was no longer the resources required to maintain these big empires.

Coal was more expensive, troops were more expensive, everything now cost too much to maintain.

It’s the end phase of every empire.

Or something went wrong and they somehow seduced an entire nursery.

100% recommend these.

You can get remastered versions on Steam (Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are both excellent).

Simon the Sorcerer is also in this genre, very funny, and voiced by Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf.

I’ll roll out

“What about the good things Hitler did?”

Well if you really don’t have a preference for one or the other, it might be worth keeping an eye on the future.

People’s jobs, especially expensive jobs, are going to be replaced by software.

So ask yourself:

• What does an accountant do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?

• What does a lawyer do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?

• What does a doctor do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?

From where I’m sitting, medicine seems the safest bet.

Ah, so you have BMWs in the States as well?

They were doing so to find out which country you lived in, since you neglected to provide that information yourself.

I’m British, I charge my car at home, and on the few occasions I use public chargers, I interface with and pay for them through apps.

Knowing that you are from the US, though, means that YMMV. Your home electric supplies have significantly lower voltage than here in Europe, so home charging might be a less viable option.

They weren’t being creepy, they were trying to give you a helpful answer.

Yes. Kind of. Probably.

What we have is an issue with terminology. The thing is, “white” only makes sense when specifically referring to human vision.

Our eyes have cells (cone cells) that are tuned to specific wavelengths in the EM spectrum. Three different wavelengths - one set of cone cells peak at 560nm that we see as Red, one at 530nm that we see as Green, and one at 420nm that we see as Blue.

“White” is just our interpretation of a strong signal in these three frequencies.

If, everything else being equal, our cones cells responded to higher wavelengths that our eyes can’t currently see, then our “white” might easily be what we see as “red” now, because we’d be also seeing the infra-red that we’re currently not.

I didn’t say that, that was the guy you replied to before. I replied to your response to him, so I can see how the mixup happened though.

All I was saying is that there are no good guys here, and I’ve seen no evidence that anyone is implying anything other than that.

You are the one who said you thought it was being implied.

Which people, though?

Neither the article, nor the OP are saying anything that could remotely be construed as support for Hamas. As far as I can see, nobody in the comments is either.

• Likud = bad
• Hamas = bad

And for good measure:

• Tories = bad
• Reform = bad
• Republicans = bad
• Australian Liberal Party = bad

And to a lesser extent:

• New Labour = bad
• Democrats = bad

They are all bad.

I love your commitment to spelling “hampster” with a “p”. At first I thought it was a typo, but now I see it’s crucial to the thing.

I want to be sympathetic but alarm bells are ringing with the immediate juxtaposition of “that’s all fine but I genuinely begin to develop feelings for her” and “I just don’t really care all that much for a friendship”.

If the issue was that it’s painful to be around her until you can work the feelings out, then that wouldn’t be half as bad as saying that she’s not worth keeping as a friend if you can’t date her.

They lent me a tent, but the one they sent had been bent. I wept, but at least it hadn’t been lost in the mail. I’m sure they never meant any harm.

At the end of the day, isn’t that just how we work, though? We tokenise information, make connections between these tokens and regurgitate them in ways that we’ve been trained to do.

Even our “novel” ideas are always derivative of something we’ve encountered. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t make any sense to us.

Describing current AI models as “Fancy auto-complete” feels like describing electric cars as “fancy Scalextric”. Neither are completely wrong, but they’re both massively over-reductive.

So kind of like Taming of the Shrew but more so?

Instead of it being a man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse, it’s a woman-hating man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse?

Even if it did exist, I’m not sure it’d be that watchable. Taming of the Shrew is pretty dubious as it is, but it was written over 400 years ago, so it can be excused somewhat.

Username checks out…

Functionally, in conversation they’re the same. But, that said, if I was talking about somebody the listener was close to, I’d use “had died”, rather than “is dead”.

Why? Because it’s slightly less direct, and I’m British so that’s the path we take.

Pointing out that someone “is dead” directly alludes to them being a corpse right now. Saying that they “had died” merely references something that they did.

This. It always baffled me why the BBC legitimises it by including it in the newspaper summaries. Might as well have included the Daily Sport.

You could just buy the book second-hand. Authors don’t get any of that money, and you’ll be able to get it for much cheaper than new.

In the UK, certainly. It’s not the library’s job to censor what the borrowers want to read, even if it’s David Icke.