Article doesn’t say what the consequences will be. Possibly a small payout?

But I’ll give you one of my favourite obscure-ish fact instead: baby sloths are so inept, they sometimes mistake their own limbs for tree branches, grab hold of them with one limb, let go of the actual branch, and fall out of the tree

I just touched my nose. Until I posted this, I was the only person who knew this fact.

Try a few different accents out - but I’ve never had better than a 95% success rate myself

Fucking hell

Well colour me impressed!

As someone who is friends with a handful of cops, plenty of them are ok. The sort of people youd want to help in an emergency. They do have thugs and bullies, not suited to a fair bit of police work, but the police need the numbers, and so assign people like that to units who specialise in crowd control, riot control etc. so it frees up the more level-headed ones to be e.g. 999 responders, desk sergeants, interviewers etc.

“Nobody really likes them, but they do come in handy sometimes” one of my friends said.

Edit: however, this does probably result in the Thug Units basically agreeing with the more moronic protestors, and having a bone to pick with the ‘clever-clever leftie’ ones.

By not having a car you don’t pay road tax, fuel tax, or have to pay for an MOT each year.

I think bureaucracy for small tax exemptions is a good thing, like the rebate you can apply for if you have to wear a uniform.

I don’t agree in general - I like the trad sitcom “sort of live” approach, as in Cheers and early Red Dwarf, but it is definitely used as you say far too often. The fecking Flintstones used a laugh track - an animated show.

But search YouTube for “Big Bang Theory without Laugh Track” and you’ll see a dew examples of how shit most of the humour actually is

Yes, definitely. I think it would do wonders for the economy by making jobs more accessible.

BUT there could be a claimable annual tax refund if your sole residence is more than X miles from a train station, or if you can show you’ve not used a train that year. Something like that.

If they raised CGT to be the same rate as Income Tax, that would achieve it.

Yeah I think dialogue for videogame characters so they don’t all just repeat the exact same thing again and again would be great.

Works in theory for written dialogue anyway. Spoken would be a bit ropey.

Choosing the lesser evil is the cornerstone of our great democracies!

Thankfully, if made incorrectly it’s pretty good. A shepherd’s pie made with baked beans, or a jam roly-poly served with real vanilla ice cream is decent!

Most of the corner shops I’ve been to don’t even sell the refills, just the devices.

They need to jack up prices on the latter, and maybe enforce a rule requiring nicotine refills to be sold separately from devices

Maybe rethink that statement

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/11/fxti-m11.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15140671

Check out Wiby - its a search engine for old-looking internet pages

They’ve made fictional AI seem that much more far-fetched.

Obviously, we all learn by imitation and instruction - but LLMs have shown that’s only part of the puzzle

In other words, the bad guys in Blade Runner were right all along

Sorry for the insta link, but this is good

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFe_GvqIh6x/