One candidate is 78 years old, types in all-caps, and forgets what he was saying halfway through a sentence. For my money, I think it’s a fair bet that the difference between a PDF and a native MS Word file eludes them.
Come to think of it, a regular client of Epstein’s teenage human trafficking ring probably know more about ‘PDF files’ (ahem) than most of us.
Video of the speech from ABC. The award was for best scripted variety series. Music starts at 0:58, so I guess they’re allotted a minute.
The Sarah McLachlan joke is presumably because she’s an animal rights activist, and appeals for donations are normally set over somber orchestral music?
Robert Molesworth in a session on 12th August 1720:
in his Opinion, they ought, on this Occasion, to follow the Example of the ancient Romans, who having no Law against Parricide […] adjudg’d the guilty Wretch to be thrown alive, sew’d up in a Sack, into the Tyber. […] As he look’d upon the Contrivers and Executors of the villainous South Sea Scheme, as the Parricides of their Country, he should be satisfy’d to see them undergo the same Punishment.
No specific mention of snakes, but that was part of the Roman “punishment of the sack”.
*IR light, in the interest of avoiding confusion.
Its functionality to integrate with whatever LLM you use - local or SAAS. I can’t say I’m excited about the feature, but I think it’s also a bit silly that people are angry about it (though I take the point about development priority).
It’s healthy for Firefox’s market share to keep feature parity with Edge and other browsers that have the same function but with a manufacturer-pushed service.
Quis lautus ipsos lavat?
Here’s a before-and-after-and-after of the Catharijnesingel by @fietsprofessor@bird.makeup (from X, which I won’t link to).
Also Œ, Ȝ, and arguably W and U.
This is funny, but also, fuck Graham Linehan.
Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu were more or less equal partners in their despotic role over Romania, until their joint execution in 1989 during the Romanian Revolution.
It’s anglicized from Hebrew בַּיִת (house); there are a bunch of accepted ways to spell it, including “bet” and “bayt” as well.
Crassus’ lost legion is just conjecture, there’s no convincing evidence. It’s a fun thought, though.
Obligatory Big Train link: “the actual train wouldn’t be quite as fast as that.”
Rules 1 and 5 apply here - please don’t just use this as a place to rant.
Human. He’s just pudgy with unkempt hair and a beard. Here’s a different scan of the same piece - it’s black and white but less artefacted.