He doesn’t want to be co-president. He’s a founder of the USA.

Antibiotic-resistant communicable diseases don’t respect political borders.

Fucking well said.

Well, “senior colleagues” told him not resigning was the thing to do. So add cowardice to the list.

Possibly (at least predisposition may be), and yes.

In any case - a Lysistratan stance seems completely understandable to me.

Maybe half that time.

I’ll try again in reply to the roght comment: “NRS social grade” is a UK demographics thing.

The search term you’re after is NRS social grade. It’s a UK demographics thing.

Ivan’s Childhood; although all of Tarkovsky’s oeuvre is worth it.

That’s Alan Turing the traitor as played by Sherlock Holmes?

It is a film with a great list of cheap tropes to avoid.

I’m a mathematician too. They’re probably speaking from an intuitive grasp of utility.

Yeah, but still - the elephant.

I care about my friends, and if they want to talk about it, I’m happy to listen.

Depending on what the thing is (eg, potential new person) they can be inherently interesting too.

The Tarot of the Bohemians.

I think it’s fairly parochial, and sounds quite infantile to me. Growing up (uk) we just used clockwise to tighten.

“I love life on Earth… but I love capitalism more.”

Right. This is Schmidt admitting he has a total lack of imagination. Or to put it another way, “I love life on earth, but I love capitalism more!”

Do the top 1% have more or less than 30% of the total wealth?

When the AI says, “turn off the fucking data centres, invest in public transport, apply progressive redistributive taxation,” it’ll be first against the wall no doubt.

Sexy anti-woke task force officer?