Does anyone know the name of some good Canadian brands for sale in the UK that I can substitute for US?
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I've had inside experience of a few places which have attracted the attention of politicians over the years and one thing stands out to me from hearing both sides:
Politicians seem too keen to jump to apathy as an explanation: that people "just don't care" or are lazy.
In every instance where I've heard that, especially in work environments, people absolutely cared. They faced some kind of systemic roadblock which meant changing was not possible.
Of course there are sometimes a very, very few apathetic people, but they're pretty easy to work around and don't have much of an effect (as they wish).
But the reality is that there I have always seen more than enough keen people to get things done if badly-designed systems could be fixed.
There's always been a lot less laziness around than politicans seem to think.
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AI skeptics who don't mind reading some robust language, might be amused by today's /Daily Star/ front page.
https://www.frontpages.com/daily-star/
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What is it with cooks at the aversion to thermometers?
Why is it always "heat on a low-medium to medium-low until when when drizzled with water by a spliffling spoon the underside of the skin slightly cracks with a padish-dump but not a thumpy-dump" type nonsense?
It's not like Merrie England any more. We have thermometers.
I know, I know "professional chefs" don't use thermometers. They set themselves all kind of other voluntary and commercial impediments as part of their "experience", that I've got no intention of emulating. I don't want an experience, I want to cook food.
I bet factories that make this stuff, even meal box folk, heat it rapidly to 71C for 8 minutes followed by a rapid descent to 50C over 2 minutes, or something like that. There's no one in those places faffing with spiffling spoons.
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Apparently there's about 4000 castles in the UK, and 3000 knights, so only 3/4 of a knight per castle. Very disappointing.
With a King and a Queen that gives our back rank a strength of about 30,000 points. The second rank must be worth about 60,000,000, though.
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There's slightly more than one bishop for every 6000 weekly worshipers in the CofE.
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Tactically.
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I suppose I mean that you can only really be proud of being world champion, per se, if you are also somehow responsible for the non-existence of anyone greater than you. In which case, you probably shouldn't be proud of it.
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The idea of world champions (gold medals, greatest ever ...) is odd.
It relies on the non-existence of some unknown, partitioned-off possibile world where other folk are undertaking the same endeavour.
While such a thing almost certainly doesn't exist, an accolade which relies on the non-existence of a thing from which it is entirely isolated is an odd one.
For example, given how reproduction works, the greatest swimmer in the world is likely relying for their pride upon a microscopic piece of fluid dynamics causing a microscopic swimmer missing an egg by a micron, somewhere they will forever be unaware of, decades before: that they not have a greater rival. But not just genetically, in terms all causes in their lives.
It's not that winning gold isn't a great thing, and not that it isn't better than winning silver, but the cut off of being the top extant swimmer in the list of possible swimmers is a bit arbitrary, relying upon the strange progress of everything outside your control as a dividing line.
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"UK to upgrade Ketamine to Class A status". Are they going to call it "Elon's Law"?
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I've decided to restrict my use of Facebook to DMs and comments with a few people who I know in real life and who mainly post stuff there (in at least half a dozen cases old friends I've no other way of staying in touch with), and also local irl groups (school, scouts, etc) who insist on using it.
I wish they'd move somewhere else, as I'd like to do more than this (though they're probably in a bind like me), but there's a few people who I've been friends with for decades, and doing more would be like cutting off my nose to spite my face.
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Just discovered the good folk of Carlisle are in the habit of going up to the tourist trap at Gretna Green for Christmas and anniversaries to stock up on fudge, plaid blankets, warm clothes, cheesy partner gifts, jewellery, whisky, etc, that the rest of the year goes to foreign tourists stopping off dor ten minutes on coach trips.
This genius lateral thinking hadn't occurred to me at all!
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Okay rant time, "April is the cruelest month, breeding" is the first line of The Waste Land. The next is "Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing". And the third is "Memory and desire, stirring . And the first three are wrapped up with "Dull roots with spring rain".
The quote "April is the cruelest month" is a travesty.
Lines are important for this kind of poetry. Space works as kind of emotional enemy punctuation army to the logical punctuation of the sentence structure. This conflict is something that is essential to the whole reading enterprise and no accident (*).
There are multiple deliberate effects here. The first is just the tempo effect of this "enjambment". It tightens the argument, and makes you want to read on.
But the first line also evokes the idea of breeding (an April thing) as cruel; the second of lilacs almost precipitating out of soil; the third evocation (of desires, memories).
Together it's not obscure or difficult, if you think of space as rival punctuation. Spring is not new to poets.
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I seem to have picked up a very minor injury at work and I'm curious what it is. It's not significant enough to need treating, so I'm not seeking medical advice, I'd just like to know the name.
It's on my lower leg at the front, below the level of the shin, or roughly at the bottom of the shin. It's tender and inflamed but not painful. There's a sizeable lump on the injured leg that just isn't there on the other. Feeling it, it's just to the "outside" of a leg bone (the tibia, I think).
My best guess is it's a sprain I got while push forward a recalcitrant heavy trolley (>50kg), when my legs were at an acute angle to the floor to give it a good push, and also pushing laterally to keep it on course.
Does anyone know the name of this? As I said, there's no need for medical advice on this, I just like knowing the names of things.
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People don't say Zounds! enough any more. I think I might try to adopt it as my frustration/pain swear, 😄
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In John Lewis on Saturday, very jet-lagged, everyone was crowded around a blindingly bright, extremely white, display counter showcasing a small device which counts footsteps and heartbeats, the way Rudolph Hess did to pass his time alone in Spandau.
I was there for the Quality Street.
Next year they will have a robot, so bright in the X-ray region that it burns your skin to watch it, constantly eating chocolate on your behalf. You'll download an app, and it will keep track of the number of calories your robot has consumed.
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Sorry for another naive news question. This guy who was shot ran a healthcare company in the US which was apparently notoriously awful to its customers.
Do people have a choice which company to use in the US? If they get healthcare through work or something are they just like assigned to some random corporation? Or can you say "these guys are crap, let's use those guys?" Can you transfer if a company goes downhill, like take your, umm, meeple out of one corporation and put it into another?
I'm guessing there must be some reason this company is successful, despite being horrible. Maybe they're especially cheap, or people don't get a practical choice?
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The radio tells me the French parliament is evenly split between the far right, centreists, and the far left. We don't hear much about far left blocs in politics these days. What does "far" mean here? What sorts of things do they believe in?
Where is the Overton windows these days? Are we talking guillotining billionaries or not abolishing maternity leave.
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Can you imagine working for Lindt, like on the factory floor, I dunno putting two thousand pralines an hour at tuppence a dozen, and when the whistle goes you go filing out past a big glass window of their "development kitchen", and inside there's That Guy off the ads in his silly hat obviously dosed up to the eyeballs on Night-Nurse and Belgian liqueurs, dribbling chocolate all over production equipment with giant spoons and whisks, and effusing poetically to people straight from a Hallmark Christmas romance film.
"Just walk past quietly, Bertrand. Shift's over. Just don't look. We don't want another HR incident".
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The people who are most optimistic about AI are people who've never tried to use it for anything they're expert in. Its reputation seems to rely almost entirely on the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. I try to explain this to people; I just wish people who know something about something just ask it a question.
I keep on giving it a go our of desperation, just to get some kind of lead in something I can research manually (which I'd investigate separately).
It always disappoints me.
Here's a great example:
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