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A noble ambition - not sure ‘POWER’ is the way I’d seek to achieve it. But it would be boring if we were all the same.

<confused stare> We are very different men.

Plus with just a bit of empathy you'll see that the point generalises further. e.g. rich people are lower risk, so they can lock in borrowing at a lower interest rate for longer, while poorer people have to roll extortionate payday loans. i.e. credit/debt itself is a "boots" type of good

Maybe so, but for people with disposable income right at the bottom of the range, even the mid-range "more durable but more expensive" goods are inaccessible.

Heck, the principle generalises far more widely than goods. Rich people are lower risk, so they can borrow money for long periods at low interest rates. Poor people have to roll payday loans. Credit/debt itself is a "boots" type good.

Clothes, household furniture, basic everyday items. More durable items carry a cost premium.

What, you mean it’s not helpful to call a variant Tarrasque or Gormenghast or similar? Shocked Pikachu face.

3 3-4 0-3 depending on cut

It's in all four quadrants. AI is intermittently powerful but both it and we are very poor at knowing what it's good at, and what it's awful at. Harm arises because it's being used without understanding, and/or towards malign ends.

Unless they’re descended from a transmissible vertebrate cancer, which would fit with the “started evil, decided to serve something even more evil”. Maybe they evolved from hagfish butt cancer. (And there’s today’s entry in the “sentences never before uttered” stakes)

Putting a quid on ‘call a spayed a spayed’

WTF

See also “levopone” and “dextropone” where the meeting is at the same time but moves one room to the left or right respectively

The green parts and unripe fruits are mildly toxic - ripe fruits are merely pointlessly bland. For Googling purposes, this is passiflora caerulea rather than passiflora edulis

Glad to hear it!

Are you in touch with @solidevidence.bsky.social ? I know he has an interest in persistent Covid infection in the gut. Not sure if there’s ongoing research aimed at detecting/eradicating it, but it might be a place to start looking.

Or breaking into the British Embassy in <random other country>

Screenshotting this before he realises

365 months in a year, everyone knows that.