Expropriate all Russian and allied oligarchs’ holdings in EU countries and send the funds as aid to Ukraine.

The use of LLMs for ppolicy making is probably an obfuscation technique to complicate later court challenges. If we still have courts by then.

An actual idiom where I live is to say “I feel rougher than a badger’s arse” when hung over.

That might be a motivation not to lick one a second time.

it’s very good at explaining the plots of movies badly

Generally by recapitulating plot points with no understanding of their relative importance.

The Germans have it right, their word for butterfly means something like “little crusher.”

That’s only a partial saying. The whole is “you can’t butter a fly, but you can make a bi flutter.”

Words to live by. Sounds like something from my dream diary.

I hate to break this to you, pal, but that’s not why they called her the village bike.

Yeah, there’s some low-paid guy in Chennai who has a completely absurd job speculating on the meaning of nonsense idioms.

ChatGPT is probably trained on Stackoverflow responses, which in my experience, are often confidently-asserted bollocks, especially the ones that inform you of the impossibility of something.

I had recent experience of that. What was claimed to be impossible took me two short evenings after work. It wasn’t at all esoteric, either, it just took lots of steps and required lots of validation.

It did what any human would do

I’m a human and my response would be “I have no idea what the hell that means. Must be of Southern origin.”

It’s not a hard requirement, but it’s sure nice to leave the house at a low but non-freezing temp in winter while you’re away for a few days, then use a web app to bring the temperature back up right before you come back in.

Being on the home LAN, though, is a requirement for me. That is extremely convenient.

We have a Tado system, not the current generation but the one before. It was easy to self-install and configure and has never given us any trouble. There are a couple UX quirks, such as not having a confirm dialog after you touch the Shut Down All or Max Out the Heat buttons, but overall it’s one of the rare electronic gadgets that has led to no buyer’s remorse.

At least there aren’t as many fascist mods here, yet.

Russia will get their ass handed to them if they try taking on NATO, even without the US involved. The Ukraine invasion has made it very clear how degraded their capabilities are, and even more, how primitive their tactics are. And Russia’s fleet in the Baltic can’t do shit because of the Swedes and Finns joining NATO, and because Ukraine sunk most of the fleet using drones. Building warships is a long lead-time activity.

And as for Poland, Germany will not tolerate that. And the Poles are a far more powerful state than Ukraine, and hate the Russians even more, if that’s even possible.

Trump might be capable of a brief hog-trot, but I can’t imagine him swooping.

It’ll only benefit Tesla if anyone buys their shoddy cars.

Why would you?

…and that system is only activated in case of an accident. The spec explicitly states that there is no continuous tracking of vehicle position or other parameters.

When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I’ve said to myself “I need a browser that spies on me more”?