Sir Paul McCartney put that one to good use in Penny Lane, but there's enough to go round!

"Your Holiness, non of these psychotic mutants is taller than six-foot-eight, are you entirely sure this will work?!"
"Arse! You're right! Stand down the launch program!"

(I love this cartoon very dearly.)

As an old person, I endorse this view

Well in a sense, but we for one owe to D Kehlmann's _Tyll__ the observation that if a passing army seizes all the food your village had stored for the winter, the population issue will largely take care of itself

If I offered a good or service that cost me money to provide, I might consider charging users (or "customers", as I might call them) an amount of money that covered my costs (plus maybe a bit more as "profit"), but I am quite old-fashioned I guess

(The *real* anti-Bergsonian manifesto, too me, remains J Monod's _Chance and Necessity_, but it remains a charming irony that Bergson and Russell both received the Bad Swedish Prize For Fine Writing and their critics in both cases suggested there was little more too them than that.)

I really don't want to side with B Russell, but I don't understand the force of Bergson's account of Zeno's account of Achilles vs the tortoise in a world where summing infinite series is straightforward; is there a defence of this perplexity anywhere public?

The soft bigotry of low expectations, innit?

Not normally a huge fan of colorized vintage photos, but I will make an exception here

They need to line up a successor for the (very unlikely almost inconceivable really) case that the AI bubble bursts in the next few months

Bathetically the same is true of Dutch ("onweer"), even when its just a regular non-viking-themed storm

It's surely a moral obligation for *someone* to double down on behalf of the original authors, but probably on balance not mine

In a world where object permanence is apparently either a luxury or a leftist affectation, confabulation is a pobably a strength

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As a more experienced scurvy knave, I am still hoarding all of mine (which admittedly is ~2 factoids)

"A 'sniper station'?"
"Yes."
"Tell me, is that something fundamentally different from a 'window'?"
"No, why?"
"Well it's just that lots of houses have windows without any specific sniping intent."
"Look, if it has a window it's a legitimate military target. Simple as!"