Today (Shrove Tuesday) is Pancake Day in many countries. IHOP in the Philippines closes their branches that day due to it being a holiday there. Their manager is the most incompetent marketer in the world for not even attempting to make Pancake Day a thing in the Philippines.

Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.

Haven’t had that yet, but having travelled a lot I find it jarring how many other countries seem to think that Thatcher was a great leader to look up to, and not a dreadful callous nightmare who sold the country out on multiple levels to create the illusion of prosperity.

it’s your choice to live there

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not because that is an awful argument. The housing market isn’t this perfectly liquid thing where there’s always another house to choose from that fits all your requirements a reasonable distance from your workplace.

Or you could get aides

She’s on a tear because she thought she’d get a top cabinet position, only to discover that Trump along with everyone else in the party thinks she’s a moron.

If we’re playing “everyone who disagrees with me must be a shill”, how much is your agency billing Google to simp for them on social media?

/s

To me it feels like there’s two Googles. The one that was run by Page and Brin was awesome, pretty much everyone in the industry wanted to work there.

Then they put someone else in charge to maximise shareholder revenue, and it went to shit soon after.

I’m going to throw that accusation of disinformation right back at you. He’s careful not to use the words “open source” verbatim, but it’s very clear what he’s talking about.

Every detail of the article is a fair summary of what he said, and you’re trying to pettifog over a string match.

I’m not clear on what your point is then. Your initial “it will be a struggle to get rid of” pivoted to “abrupt event”.

If you’re trying to make the case that we should all move off MS as soon as possible in order to avoid the damage of an abrupt event then yeah I’m in complete agreement.

I don’t see how that’s true. It’s a little bit of a change to go to open source. Might need a day of training for a small percentage of particularly slow-minded staff members. Definitely nowhere near “organization is no longer viable” territory.

Remember, whenever you see a patently weak argument like this from a trillion dollar corporation, they’re not saying it because they think anyone will believe it. They’re saying it to give the corrupt politicians in their pocket some way to pull a straight face when voting in the corporation’s favour.

Writing a syntactically correct SQL statement is not the same as doing accurate data analytics.

I heard she flipped off a box of kittens

Technically yes, but unlike e.g. Facebook it isn’t specifically calibrated to prioritise engagement over anything like truth or sanity. https://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/machinelearningtimes/five-points-for-anger-one-for-a-like-how-facebooks-formula-fostered-rage-and-misinformation/12344/

It’s a shame you’re getting downvoted cause you’re on the money. People are kidding themselves if they think the Right are the only ones who have cynical media outlets telling them what they want to hear for clicks.

What Thatcher taught us was that it’s acceptable for women to be in charge as long as they’re overtly callous.

Ok but that photo of a building you posted could just as easily have been taken in any British town in the 1980s

fr I’ve been reading headlines like this for years now, and LLMs are still shit at doing anything other than produce things that superficially look good but rarely stand up to close inspection.

Sorry to disappoint anyone who hasn’t watched the video yet, but it doesn’t look anything like what’s being implied by the description given by the Daily Beast or by Harris’ team. They make it sound like he had a mini stroke on stage or something, when it looks more like he was reading off a written speech someone made for him and tripped over a sentence that took him mildly by surprise. If anything it looks like the same Trump interrupting himself mid-sentence that we’ve seen for decades.

It’s not a great moment in speechmaking history, and it would be nice if he did step down for health reasons, but I didn’t see anything there that I haven’t seen hundreds of perfectly healthy people do when reading from a card.