I used to love that every time I drove through Bedford, the sign said “welcome to Bedford midpoint of the Oxford Cambridge arc”

Such a nonentity that even the council couldn’t be fucked to say something about it.

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In theory. It’s just standard contract law. You violate the contract, so you have to make the other party right.

In practice, the court is likely to go, “You should’ve hired someone else to do the work. No costs”

No, not at all.

If the company fire you they have to pay you, e.g., three months notice, regardless of if they want you to do the work or not.

If you quit without notice, you might have to pay the costs incurred by you quitting early, but that’s not your salary -because they now wouldn’t be paying you.

Costs might be something like the company having to refuse an order because they now don’t have enough people to do the work, or the increased cost of an expedited hiring process.

I don’t know how common costs are in France, but the UK has the same rules and essentially no one ever claims costs. You need to really fuck over your employee in a very explicit and well documented way for this to even be considered.

The main disadvantage is you will have a bad reference if you leave without notice.

If you hate billionaires but like steak, have you tried eating the rich?

“Get out to vote” is a direct instruction. It means you personally should go and vote.

“Get out the vote” means you should get everyone else out to vote. “Vote” is being used as a mass noun that you want to make as large as possible -by getting it out and making sure people turn up.

Two things.

1. Think of the colonial UK as an early model for the US. Yes, a small number of people got fantastically wealthy but they did so at the expense of the entire world, including most of the people in the UK. However, it was much more lopsided than the US. There was no boomer phase where everyone assumed it was their birth right to have a large house with a garden. Country poverty and city slums were normal. Colonialism has always been about sending your poor to die in wars, as part of oppressing other countries.
2. World war ii wiped out the UK finances. The empire collapsed, and it dropped from being a declining world super power to the “sick man of Europe”.

Even before WWII, where do you think Marx lived when he was writing? For much of his life he was in London, and the poverty around him informed his work.

A relationship graph which requires no gay relationships is called a bigraph (honest, I’m not making this up) or bipartite.

That follows because if you can two color the graph so that edges only connect different colors, you just assign male to one color and female to the other.

This means there’s a tone of mathematical identities describing this. Wikipedia has a good introduction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartite_graph

That’s just what they want you to think.

I heard that if her white van drops below 30 the cat explodes.

I mean if it was a realistic list around 4 (not sure how many were actually released) of the top ten would be fantastic four films.

This is just a list of “superhero films everyone has seen that were kinda mid”. I want a list of the films that were so bad I’ve not heard of them, because they crashed and burned so spectacularly.

Grammatically, introducing “her” doesn’t reduce the ambiguity.

The sentence still could refer to her ordering someone to steal her handbag. E.g. “the crime minister had her partner killed” will almost always refer to a murder for hire.

“The crime minister’s bag was stolen” is less ambiguous. But it’s English, everything is going to be a bit vague.

Probably for the same reason we write -1 for the first integer below zero, but 1 instead of +1 for the first one above.

It might be more consistent to write more, but we’re lazy and everyone knows what it means.

He fucked up dropping out as well as everything else. People can still vote 🪱 in a bunch of states.

The original case was just bullshit made up by a bored journalist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found “no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive”.

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It’s a recurring thing.

Right wing astroturfing groups keep trying to get control of the national trust.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/06/right-leaning-group-fails-to-wrest-control-of-national-trust-from-political-takeover

If it’s not vegan food, they’re complaining about pride, or people explaining where all the money for these big country houses came from.

The group’s actually run out of the same place as a Tory think-tank. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/national-trust-captured-by-well-funded-fake-grassroots-group-restore-trust

I just went looking for this. Here’s a link to the podcast for everyone else: https://pca.st/episode/b8388458-0062-47c5-a259-fae295a45305

Having drunkenly talked to German philosophers about this, some of them actually prefer reading him in English.

Heidegger does all kinds of fuckery with the German language, and imposes new technical meanings on words. If you’re reading it in English and you come across a loan word from German in italics at least you know there’s some fuckery going on, and you don’t make the mistake of assuming he’s using the word in the same way everyone else does.

I remember playing Max Payne. There was some battle in a bar against a guy with a shotgun. If you timed it right between reloads you could run up to the guy, stand on the bar so your guns were exactly level with his face and empty two Uzi clips point blank into his face before he could reload.

Then you would run out of ammo and he would one shot kill you.