The problem is AI is more of a sales term than anything else. If a politician is talking about buying AI, they’re most likely being duped into paying more than they should be for the technology - the terms you listed wouldn’t sell for as much. Meanwhile, that same politician is talking about cutting public spending elsewhere, on things people actually need.

The UK can be a leader in snake oil all by itself!

Yeah you get reduced hours with a number of things, particularly buses. Shops have more incentive to stay open, though.

Classic examples being Good Friday running like a regular Saturday, Saturday running like a regular Sunday but Easter Sunday is as normal because everything is already sparse enough.

Is it just me, or does that photo look like both Trump and Boris at the same time??

FYI for anyone it concerns, clicking “Disagree to all” on the cookie screen of that website definitely still accepts the “legitimate interest” crap.

Yeah, this article is saying they’re ready to do something they’re already doing.

The one thing I would say on top of your comment, however, is that North Korea have generally been less interested in attacking other state actors and more interested in monetary crimes, like when they stole millions in crypto. China and Russia generally don’t devolve into that kind of “petty” crime; not sure about Iran though.

Lol was thinking it might not have been a good idea to move back to East Anglia, but hey ho…

I would lean towards there being chickens available, but KFC doesn’t want to pay for them. They want one supplier to provide all of it, rather than a bunch of smaller suppliers.

But you’re absolutely right, this is the kind of question the author of this article should have asked.

Their chicken generally isn’t that great either.

Such a bullshit article using Trump in the headline when talking about what a gay Republican Senator said. Trump has famously disowned his mentor/lawyer when he got AIDS and it became apparent that he was gay. Graham might have his nose painted by Trump’s ass, but Trump doesn’t look his way.

You won’t get a ticket until you average 60 in a 50 limit on motorways. Motorway speed cameras don’t trigger until 10mph above. If it’s one of the smart motorways and it’s running the national speed limit, they won’t trigger until 90.

The police don’t have authority to dictate laws, they don’t even know the law half the time. They can say whatever they like, the courts are the ones who decide.

and working toward something like a wealth cap.

I don’t think a wealth cap is necessary. Rather, we should look to US pre-Reagon - there was a 95% tax for earnings over $1 million, and Reagan said “If I get taxed 95% on my earnings for my next movie, I’m not going to make that movie. Then everyone else making that movie will be out of a job!” Nevermind the fact that, if they didn’t have to pay him, the movie would have had far more money and been free to make something else. The workers would have had a job, the marketing may have been less effective but the overall commercial enterprise would be by and large unaffected.

Instead, we’ve got backhand deals. A common scandal story in the UK is an MP being paid a few £10,000s or maybe £100,000 - small fry compared to the US and their Super PAC’s. However, the way the Tories have things set up is that there are 60 or so MP’s who are on the party’s payroll. All you have to do to write law in your favour is engage with one of them and donate to the party. The party will write a law, the whips will follow suit (just like they collectively voted against feeding children over Christmas during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic) and then the party will pay the MP that negotiated it a healthy bonus. Money is literally laundered through the party.

And the worst part is the Labour party have no plans on changing this. They just want their bite at the pie. The Tories stretch the standard for what MP’s can get away with, Labour comes in and draws a line, then the Tories come back in and stretch it again.

Sack the fucking lot of them. We don’t need “representatives” to go to Westminster and facetiously “vote on our behalf” anymore. A direct democracy, certainly once it’s established, would be better than this.

I think he needs to hurry up and catch Sonic already.