“Digital librarian”

That was an enjoyable read. At the end I couldn’t help thinking about Penrose’ cyclic conformal cosmology, in that a universe with only massless photons, distance becomes meaningless.

If you have the kind of tax affairs you really don’t want auditing, quite possibly.

Thanks Nigel

Left previous position with an open mind

The Sudetenland branch is hiring.

Ukraine will be giving them to Russia for free. With express delivery too.

Feels like a “render unto Caesar” non problem

Necessary jobs are mostly farming, mining, manufacturing, and customer service.

And elder care, which is set to be a real growth industry

Reminds me of a joke told by an old Polish priest from his time in the Soviet Union.

A party official is sent to a village that hadn’t been meeting it’s quota.
He meets with the mayor and tells him "Trucks are coming tomorrow. The central committee has decreed you will fill them with your potato stockpile.
“As you say Comrade” says the mayor, “our potato stockpile is stacked high enough to reach God.”
“God?” Retorts the official incredulously “There is no god in the Soviet Union!”
The mayor shrugs “There are no potatoes either”

Some will some won’t. The contrarians will never budge, the “I’m not anti-science, I just don’t trust evidence I didn’t gather myself” ones should. I suspect most flat-earthers are the former.

Would hate to be the member of the cabin crew who has to clamber down the gear to fit the chains during final.

Unauthorized persons discover this one weird trick. Fat controllers hate them!

Sabine Hossenfedler did a video on the topic: https://youtu.be/9vRtA7STvH4?si=y4_KuLbd1DzKmIX8 Basically, it is an issue humanity will likely have to solve eventually, but nowhere near as pressing as our current problems.

I don’t know why, the big fan is on

Andy Peters

I have a purpose made device for that job. It’s a clear plastic cone with a hollow handle at the point. Half the open end is closed off. Inside there is a semicircular ‘door’ with it’s own handle that sits inside the hollow one.
You place it over the creature that’s getting evicted, then rotate the inner handle so the door rotates over the opening, sealing it (taking care not to trap any legs).

Then go outside and reverse the process to release it.
Personally I don’t mind spiders and would rather have them around than the pests they eat, but wifey is incredibly arachnophobic, so they have to go.

Russia perhaps had no advantage wrecking Nordstream. Putin on the other hand, had the advantage that removing it as an option meant the oligarchy couldn’t just oust him, walk back his war, and then use turning the gas to Europe back on to get the money flowing back into their accounts.

Octopus tracker prices for gas are up, but still lower than the cap, and way below where they were last year.