What does “permanently” mean, in this case? Surely, at best, this means until we have a government that decides to overturn it. And I’m not even confident that that wouldn’t be a subsequent Labour one.

I am still using a dumb LG TV from the before times, and love it. I fear the day that I need to replace it.

I watched half of the first episode of season 2 then realised how utterly disengaged I was feeling, and so stopped there.

I suppose there’s still some lingering resentment of the final season of GoT which is making me feel reluctant to invest my time in this.

I think the point of this comic is that AI is doing all of the fun creative stuff for us but the jobs that we actually hate doing are beyond its capabilities.

Maybe not “as many years as they need” because it would never get finished, but definitely allow them 4-5.

Fleshlight

Nando’s was amazing when I first went, twenty years ago. Huge portions, great value, really quick. It’s been going downhill ever since. I’m surprised anyone still goes.

I had one of those a few years back. On one day, the thing I was looking for was on the exact same door.

His interview certainly lent some additional weight to the theories that he’s been trying to run the company into the ground the whole time.

This is the song that sparked my love for “songs with holes in them”. Love that big bar of silence.

If you own multiple homes, then you can view all but one of them as an investment, as you can sell them when the market is good.

If you own one house and have a mortgage on it, then the market going down is bad because you end up with negative equity.

If you own one house with no mortgage, then the market going up is bad because it’s harder to upgrade. I wouldn’t mind my house being only worth £10,000 if it meant that I could buy my dream house for £20,000.

We do 80s covers, all sorts of stuff from Madonna to David Bowie.

I’m playing a gig tonight at a pub in Staines, then tomorrow I’m heading off to Gloucester for the rest of the weekend.

YouTube have such a stranglehold on the >1m market, that’s why they can afford to stagnate in that area and look into other markets. They don’t have to fear a competitor threatening their core market any time soon.

I’ve been rewatching Third Rock From The Sun. It’s held up beautifully. There’s just the right amount of weird in it.

My concern is that it feels like using Google to confirm the truth of what ChatGPT tells you is becoming less and less reliable, as so many of the pages indexed by Google are themselves created by similar models. But I suppose as long as your search took you to a site where you could actually buy the thing, that’s okay.

Or at least, it is until fake shopping sites start inventing products based on ChatGPT output.

Flower jar

Fuck Nestlé.