Two ways to read “a new age verification setup”.

You assume it means:

a new “age verification” setup

But then find out if means:

a “new age” verification setup

I am actually shocked!

They did work on the Simpsons Movie too? Wow.

Well, fair play to them, they do good work.

It’s certainly the best film I’ve ever seen that was produced in North Korea…

Also, the English dub unexpectedly features the voices of Penn and Teller!

He’s also in the Fallout TV series and the Obi Wan Kenobi series

It’s worse than that - he wasn’t being lazy, he was convinced that if he came out of the tunnel, the rain would ruin his paint. Even after it stopped raining, he still wouldn’t come out just in case it started raining again.

Basically he had a mental illness, and his punishment was to be bricked up and forced to watch the other trains going past. One is friendly, one says it serves him right. Because he has no steam, he’s unable to communicate. And all the time his paint is slowly getting ruined anyway because he’s stuck in the tunnel.

As someone who’s had a breakdown, it really resonates in a different way than it did when I was a kid.

Corruption’s gonna corruption.

Also, of course Labour are encouraging their MPs to vote against it. Literally every single time there’s a vote that has an outcome that’ll annoy their own voters, this government is going to take it.

Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.

As a Manchester resident, I’m thrilled that this might mean we get less of their nonsense up here over the next few weeks.

Although, I’m curious - surely Reform would have the resources to fight on two fronts at the same time? They must really be taking the prospect of Farage losing seriously.

He’s right to bring it up, but that wasn’t the time.

She asked an important question and he didn’t even attempt to answer it.

Is this really true? (Answer provided below)

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So, there’s some truth to this, but not in the way that you’ve summed it up.

Crucially, you need to understand that there isn’t a “the English accent”. It’s also important to remember that as wildly different as accents in England are now, they were even more different from each other several hundred years ago.

So which accents are we talking about for this story? Well, the early American colonies had settlers mostly from London and Southern England.

This is the accent that then diverged.

At the time, and in the South of England particularly, speech was becoming less rhotic. In the American colonies, however, it retained its rhoticity, as it still does in many parts of Britain even today.

This is further complicated by the fact that later massive influxes of people came from parts of Britain that did retain rhoticity in their accents, in particular the West Country, Scotland and Ireland (incidentally, all which still have it today).

So, like I said, there’s some truth to it, but it’s not quite as you’ve phrased it. Elizabethan Brits didn’t sound like modern-day Boston folk. Americans very much have accents all of their own, influenced by not just by native English, but speakers of other languages too.

So, it’s definitely a neat little tidbit, but it’s usually wildly mistated!

Honestly, this is the story we need to restore faith in democracy in this country.

I think it mostly depends on the community. There are people from all over the world on here, and different groups have different demographics.

Unless you’re using a server that’s super-picky in its federation, I can’t see that the server makes much of a difference.

Addressing the fact that a disproportionate amount of investment and power is consolidated in London and the South of England isn’t the same as saying Southerners are to blame.

I’m not sure I agree… Even before the 2e version there was still some basic cohesion with the six limbs. The only real exceptions to this were the squigs.

By the time 2e came along, squigs were gone (along with zoats 😢) but the cohesion was increased even further - everything now had the Tyranid Warrior style exoskeletons, six limbs, teeth and shells. They looked like they shared a fundamental biology

I realise that the Armorcast models are based off the simplified cartoonier epic versions. I think the main issue is I didn’t like them to start with either 😑

I realise that everything is designed by someone, and that there’s always more to the story, but…

Even as a kid, I never liked the Armorcast Tyranid stuff - it never felt like they “got” what the Tyranids were. The things just looked like big generic mollusks.

Black Books (s1e4). It’s a daft Father Ted / IT Crowd style comedy.

The main character’s posh friends are angry at him for being extremely drunk at a dinner party and traumatising their son, who has been walking around with a shocked open-mouthed expression ever since walking in on him going to the toilet in their kitchen. He tries to downplay it by saying that’s how children normally look.

“What? What? He looks surprised. All children look surprised. Everything’s new to them.”

FWIW, the UK currently has a bill in place that will lower the voting age to 16 before the next General Election (so, before Aug 2029).

I think it’ll be a good thing. Young people are a good deal more aware of what’s happening in the country than old people are. I mean, the current arrangement has stripped away the housing and career prospects of young people and brought us to the verge of fascism again.

For information based things, absolutely.

Something that people don’t seem to understand is that there’s a difference between AI and GenAI.

And that within GenAI, there’s low cost stuff like text and graphics, and high cost like video and audio.

And that with tools developed with GenAI often do not use GenAI when it is run.

AI is super useful and you use it in a bunch of applications already without even realising it. The camera that interprets speed signs and displays them on your dashboard = AI. Spam filters = AI. Google translate = AI.