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They'll be queuing up on the docks ready to get the first boat back, mark my words.

He's a man with a dream: a dream of building a big windmill.

Unfortunately he doesn't appear to have any land, money, or expertise in building big windmills. But it's quite the vision.

Hey, don't you cast shade on the Magic Roundabout. That is peak traffic engineering.

Even the US he ce why Vauxhall exists.

Not to detract from your point (because you're completely correct), but just an FYI that Vauxhall/Opel has been European owned for some time now. General Motors sold it to Peugeot back in 2017, and it's now part of Stellantis.

Ford had (and still has) essentially the same arrangement, only in their case they use the same brand. Ford Europe and Ford USA are pretty much entirely separate companies, owned by the same parent; hence why their European car lineup looks mostly nothing like their US lineup.

“Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right,” she says. “You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”

"If they look like this animal then they are the animal" really doesn't sound like a particularly useful (or scientifically rigorous) position.

Not least because there are lots of animals that look alike but aren't the same species.

In the spirit of Britishness, there's also: https://sheffieldknives.co.uk/

I'm not an "outdoor knives" sort of guy, but I have and greatly enjoy a couple of kitchen knives from them, and they have a full range of outdoor knives that...er...look like knives to me.

In my limited experience experience, Gemini responds better with flat, emotionless prompts without any courteous language. Using polite phrasing seems more likely to prompt "I can't answer that sorry" responses, even to questions that it absolutely can answer (and will to a more terse prompt).

So I think my point is "it depends". LLMs aren't intelligent, they just produce strings based on their training data. What works better and what doesn't will be entirely dependent on the specific model.

Obviously toasted. I mean what the fuck.

I'm pretty free and easy with the toppings. Marmite is good. Jam is good. Golden syrup is good.

My dad used to make his standard "Sunday night supper" of crumpets with cheese, garlic, sliced tomato, done under the grill cheese-on-toast style. Haven't had that for ages, but it was awesome.

apart from Safeway but I haven't seen one of those in a long time

I hate to break this to you in a "you're getting old" way, but Safeways disappeared literally 20 years ago. They were bought out by Morrisons.

Morrisons, while we're on the subject, is owned by an American private equity group.

You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system?

I mean, I don't not want to see that...

Adding baking soda to the soak can help. Baking soda in the boil is the secret to mushy peas, and while you probably don't want them to go that far for a stew it could help soften them up a bit.

Alternatively, give them a quick boil on their own for about 10 minutes before adding them to the stew to give them a head start. Just enough water to cover, boil hard but don't let them boil dry.

Now you mention it, Branston Pickle pizza sounds pretty great.

Like a cheese and pickle sandwich in pizza form.