Yes. Kind of. Probably.

What we have is an issue with terminology. The thing is, “white” only makes sense when specifically referring to human vision.

Our eyes have cells (cone cells) that are tuned to specific wavelengths in the EM spectrum. Three different wavelengths - one set of cone cells peak at 560nm that we see as Red, one at 530nm that we see as Green, and one at 420nm that we see as Blue.

“White” is just our interpretation of a strong signal in these three frequencies.

If, everything else being equal, our cones cells responded to higher wavelengths that our eyes can’t currently see, then our “white” might easily be what we see as “red” now, because we’d be also seeing the infra-red that we’re currently not.

We had a tape that had Asterix in Britain followed by the Only Fools And Horses feature-length episode where they go to Florida and Del-Boy gets mistaken for a mob boss.

To this day, I can probably quote both from beginning to end.

This is exactly what I thought of when I read this!

I still watch it every year, the night before my birthday. No matter what else happens or changes, TFTM has become my touchstone.

Totally real. They’re actually looking for suggestions right now for their new manifesto on Twitter, if you use it (search for #manicfesto - note the “c” in there).

Here’s the Wikipedia entry: Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Novelty candidates are a highlight of UK politics - practically every high profile election has some.

The brilliant thing is that they’re treated as seriously as the main party candidates by the election machinery - they appear on politics programmes and appear onstage stood next to the career politicians on count day.

H’Angus the Monkey, the Hartlepool FC football mascot, even got elected as mayor of Hartlepool a few years back.

There’s an entire novelty party, The Monster Raving Looney Party, which has been going strong since the 80s, and fields candidates across the country.

To be fair to him, on his first run at London Mayer, he did get nearly twice as many votes as Count Binface, a candidate who claims to be from space and wears a dustbin on his head.

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I didn’t say that, that was the guy you replied to before. I replied to your response to him, so I can see how the mixup happened though.

All I was saying is that there are no good guys here, and I’ve seen no evidence that anyone is implying anything other than that.

You are the one who said you thought it was being implied.

Which people, though?

Neither the article, nor the OP are saying anything that could remotely be construed as support for Hamas. As far as I can see, nobody in the comments is either.

• Likud = bad
• Hamas = bad

And for good measure:

• Tories = bad
• Reform = bad
• Republicans = bad
• Australian Liberal Party = bad

And to a lesser extent:

• New Labour = bad
• Democrats = bad

They are all bad.

I love your commitment to spelling “hampster” with a “p”. At first I thought it was a typo, but now I see it’s crucial to the thing.

I want to be sympathetic but alarm bells are ringing with the immediate juxtaposition of “that’s all fine but I genuinely begin to develop feelings for her” and “I just don’t really care all that much for a friendship”.

If the issue was that it’s painful to be around her until you can work the feelings out, then that wouldn’t be half as bad as saying that she’s not worth keeping as a friend if you can’t date her.

They lent me a tent, but the one they sent had been bent. I wept, but at least it hadn’t been lost in the mail. I’m sure they never meant any harm.

At the end of the day, isn’t that just how we work, though? We tokenise information, make connections between these tokens and regurgitate them in ways that we’ve been trained to do.

Even our “novel” ideas are always derivative of something we’ve encountered. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t make any sense to us.

Describing current AI models as “Fancy auto-complete” feels like describing electric cars as “fancy Scalextric”. Neither are completely wrong, but they’re both massively over-reductive.

So kind of like Taming of the Shrew but more so?

Instead of it being a man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse, it’s a woman-hating man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse?

Even if it did exist, I’m not sure it’d be that watchable. Taming of the Shrew is pretty dubious as it is, but it was written over 400 years ago, so it can be excused somewhat.

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Functionally, in conversation they’re the same. But, that said, if I was talking about somebody the listener was close to, I’d use “had died”, rather than “is dead”.

Why? Because it’s slightly less direct, and I’m British so that’s the path we take.

Pointing out that someone “is dead” directly alludes to them being a corpse right now. Saying that they “had died” merely references something that they did.

At least he didn’t skirt around the issue…

I’m hoping that the Defence absolutely rakes United and other Healthcare providers across the coals, showing all the nasty things they get up to. The high profile of the case will allow this stuff to be laid bare to the masses.

This is where anti-vaxxers sound like.

That’s what antivaxxers sound like.