That’s pretty lore accurate, though, right?

Most Links are portrayed as being either kids/teenagers or very young-looking adults, and Zelda is often portrayed as being a more experienced character, still young but often already embroiled in the politics or conflicts that are core to the story’s initial setup. Link usually shows character growth as he rises to the challenge, but Zelda is often a more static character, who starts the story fully fledged.

I’ve never heard of either actor, but a cursory Google to look at their various photos and I can see them working in the roles. Obviously assuming they can act, too.

If only the biggest problem was messages starting “I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said:”

A far bigger problem is people using AI to draft text and then posting it as their own. On social media like this, I can’t count the number of comments I’ve encountered midway through an otherwise normal discussion thread, and only clocked 2 paragraphs in that I’m reading a chat bot’s response. I feel like I’ve had time and braincells stolen from me in the deception for the moments spent reading and attempting to derive meaning from it.

And just this week I received an application from someone wanting work in my office which was very clearly AI generated. Obviously that person will not be offered any work. If you can’t be bothered to write your own “why I want to work here” cover letter, then I can’t be bothered to work with you.

Unfortunately it’s a combination lock, and the code is written on a post-it stuck on the front of the drawer.

They have some valuable IP (patents and designs around their battery and charging systems, mostly), but none of their physical assets are really worth any more than face value (at the end of the day a battery factory is a battery factory).

Potential buyers would be far better off waiting for them to collapse and then snaffling up the IP on the cheap. Paying their current meme stock price is just throwing money away.

She’s talking about Tomiwa Owolade’s words on racism in Britain.

She gives three, and only three, examples of racism to illustrate her point:

In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.

Pre-civil rights America, the American slave trade, and Apartheid South Africa are all explicitly not about racism in Britain.

Tomiwa Owolade’s points may have been more focused (and more valid), but her own commentary takes it in a wildly unhelpful direction. And it’s her commentary that’s being criticised, not Owolade’s.

Don’t forget Tizen too; MeeGo’s other bastard offspring.

I think Tizen is still around?

The rules are different for parties registered in Northern Ireland versus political parties registered in Great Britain.

Great British parties can only accept donations from UK sources. However Northern Irish parties can also accept donations from Irish sources.

Look at it the other way around. Should similar rules be introduced in Ireland would they be happy that UK companies are donating to Irish political parties?

This is already the case, in that Irish political parties can accept donations from any individual or organization in Northern Ireland. The position is reciprocal to the UK situation.

There mostly aren’t standalone Land Rover dealers either. They’re almost always Land Rover and Jaguar, being the two brands of the same company. Again, if they want to give the Range Rover brand more premium billing, it’s not the weirdest thing the context of the history of the brands.

Debatably that’s not strictly true. Both Land Rover and Range Rover were originally two different models under the Rover marque by British Leyland that weren’t really connected other than both being 4x4s. Following the collapse of Leyland, one of the successor companies was Jaguar Land Rover, and Range Rover ended up in that portfolio.

It’s as accurate to say Range Rovers are Jaguars as they are Land Rovers. If JLR want to spin them out under separate branding then it’s really not that weird, all told.

Presuming that’s an AI summary, but it only covers the bit that’s not blocked by the paywall. It’s one of those that has the first couple of paragraphs visible and then blocks the remainder, and that’s just summarised those first few paragraphs. The meat of it, where presumably it tells us about the shenanigans from the local councils and the details of the “policy failures and internal conflicts”, remains a mystery.

Paywalled, unfortunately…

That’s public transport for you. You pay for one ticket, you get one seat; you don’t get a whole row to yourself just because you don’t like other people.

Pay for first class if you want more space and a seat on your own.

For a brief moment I parsed that headline as saying that the woodland was illegally felled in order to make it a nature reserve.

What do they actually mean by “model identifier”? Serial number? IMEI?

Europe is less a place than it is a state of mind.

Arianespace has fallen behind, but they’re not out of the picture. They’re still by far the largest competitor to SpaceX, and they’re aiming for their 7th generation Ariane to be a reusable design.

Arianespace is an Airbus and Safran subsidiary, so it’s not like they don’t have the engineering oomph behind them.

Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.

Worth noting that these were changes implemented by the previous Tory government. The new Labour government was more or less happy to leave it to ride, but now it’s been successfully challenged in court they’re happy to let it fall by the wayside.

Sure, but that applies to the UK too. London has a higher cost of living than Los Angeles; averages being averages, this is weighed against lots of cheaper places to live (with massive unemployment and stagnated economics).

Cost of living in the UK is about 12% lower than the US, including housing costs. But the average salary is about half of the US salary. So you can see that that doesn’t really cover it.

Source: https://livingcost.org/cost/united-kingdom/united-states