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Ah fair enough, yes that makes sense! Well either way...

This was quite an interesting read. It's good to hear that farming & spirituality have given you a new purpose in life, but I think this pop at Thoreau > and no, there's no manifes…

I presume that's what the parent post is trying to get at? Seeing if, given the cutting edge scientific knowledge of the day, the LLM is able to synthesis all it into a workable th…

Then surely the only "correct" answer is to say the second child has an indeterminate number of red balloons? Concluding it has 2 balloons is wrong imo, its an answer which is not …

I also don't understand the undying loyalty to the royal family either :) And I don't doubt that there are bad actors around, fanning the flames. But in this instance (and without …

Fair & valid points overall. I did hesitate to put the comment about the taxpayer bearing some of the burden for funding the monarchy because I realised I would quickly be out of m…

Yes, just not on the ground where the events are literally unfolding...

> What exactly is an "obedient"? Are you really deploying a disparaging tag on people who are mourning? That seems a bit crass to me. Yeah, its a crass term I will agree with you t…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Grant_Act_2011 https://britishheritage.com/royals/royal-family-cost-british... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57559653

I would say both; you can oppose the procession itself for all of its pomp and archaic tradition at a time where the country is dealing with a cost of living crisis and also have t…

I see this exact same comment did pretty well on Reddit too: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/xckw5v/comme... 1. Not all of the arrests have been made at a "funeral"…

Surely it's up to you now to make the case as to why it's relevant? A 2 two word answer just stating the opposite of what the previous poster said doesn't magically make it so... I…

Thank you for pointing this out. I don't know why (maybe just years of the same pattern repeating with these types of articles) but as soon as I read the word "stormly" in the URL,…

what a tiresome bore you sound

It was just a person, on the internet making a 4 word reference to a famous movie... I don't know why you're intent on endlessly attacking the "lack of insight" from the poster. Ha…

Yeah, but it seems like you're trying to have it both ways. On the one hand you're arguing that the insights into society can be absolute garbage and on the other implying (or sugg…

So why are you criticising someone highlighting annoyance of encroaching bureaucracy referencing a work of fiction that deals with this "shared part of human experience" in a "simp…

Um... Yes, Brazil is fiction but the dystopia it portrays is rooted in extrapolations of the times in which it was made. Its absolute nonsense to shoot someone down on the basis th…

Yes, unfortunately that seems to be the world we live in. The parent poster is not advocating for profits over ethics - just pointing out the reality for companies like Apple etc

Yeah, you're right - I hadn't seen the shapes of stories video in quite a while, i was just taking the authors comment about it. I think if you watch that Vonnegut video and come a…

Yeah, as another comment mentioned I was specifically referring to the UK Office. I've seen the first couple of seasons of the US Office and so not enough to really comment on this…

He's such an idiot https://screenrant.com/original-office-show-ricky-gervais-ca... > "Now [The Office] would suffer because people would take things literally...This was a show abo…

So, how do you explain Ricky Gervais' ongoing presence in TV, standup & social media where he routinely says objectively worse stuff than ever appeared in the Office with no real d…

Yawn, everyone always uses this film as a "prime" example. I don't even think it's true. This film (like Borat) was clearly satirical and the real targets of the jokes quite obviou…

Shock horror, society has moved on in the 40 years since Airplane was made... How do you even know it wouldn't be allowed? People love to spout this kind of stuff, but... have you …