Basically the concept is ‘if you buy loads of fags in (eg) Italy you will save about £9 per pack – by that token, if I purchase 20 packs of fags I have mainly bought a £180 flight for free’ – SEE, IMPECCABLE LOGIC! Let me see if I can do a greater job – tell the site where you’re flying from, and to, and it will tell you how many packets of fags you’ve gotten to buy at your vacation spot to cowl the cost of the flight in the savings you make. The Pop Craveification of Breaking News: Or ‘the information happens everywhere and nowhere concurrently and it’s basically bizarre being alive in a time when it’s as likely you’ll hear about, I don’t know, an asteroid being about to hit the earth on the information as it’s you will hear about it third-hand by way of an incredibly sophisticated meme it’s a must to reverse engineer to understand’. Are they the form of 15-18 12 months outdated who wish to spend their free time creating an artwork inspired by the UK’s Supreme Court to rejoice its 15th anniversary?
That is their TikTok account, which solely has three movies however two of them are ‘doing polar research within the style of Wes Anderson’ and are so beautifully, completely realised that I feel fairly-assured recommending the channel to you, because, really, who doesn’t find beautifully-presented Artic landscapes delivered via the medium of completely-composed cinematography compelling? Sarah of the Antartic: Sarah is somebody who has recently arrived in Antartica to do research into polar ice cores. Joanna Rothkopf investigates for The Cut, in a bit which may be very humorous but which also did nothing to disabuse me of my perception that a very good 75% of people who live in Manhattan are actually sociopaths. This is a lovely piece – transcribed from a podcast – looking at why the ‘no workings’ thing sends the numbermongs into a frenzy, and who Cleo is, and why they post the best way they do, and, truthfully, I adore this sort of stuff, the random anonymous online heroes, your Let Me Solo Hers and the like, extra power to them and Long Live CLEO, whoever they could also be. Hell Is Haggling With Chatbots: A bit on 404 Media presaging the inevitable future during which AI will get baked into every single fcuking interface on earth – a actuality which came a small step nearer this week with the release of the new model of Llama – and we should deal with enjoyable things like ‘having your buy journey interrupted by a conversational assistant that invitations you to ‘barter’ with it for a low cost, besides you’re not actually haggling, it’s a pre-agreed low cost that’s already been baked into the mannequin and the financials and so all you might be doing is playing out a dispiriting pantomime with a machine to realize precisely the same outcome as you could possibly have gotten with a simple voucher besides now you’ve lost 3% of your soul and you will never get it back’.
Made me almost miss the days in which I used to get to go to celebration conferences and get paid to be spectacularly rude to Tories (I mean, that’s not what I obtained paid for, positive, but it’s positively a major proportion of what I actually did). While he kept staring at her like a zombie, she bought up and checked out his huge belly with disgust. Of their heart, Zoya drew Gorey-esque little boys, one trussed in rope, the opposite naked and chubby like a Renaissance putto. ’ as an advermarketing mechanic in 2024, more’s the pity, however this is a superb little gimmick. Which is a superb and progressive idea, at the least in principle, but which floundered slightly on the cruel actuality of the country’s current EV infrastructure, which is… MTV’s actuality television series Real World, which focuses on a group of numerous strangers dwelling together for several months in a distinct metropolis each season, as cameras observe their lives and interpersonal relationships.
I consider the television collection and the novels by Jim Butcher to be fully separate – variations on a theme, totally different takes on the Harry Dresden mythos, parallell worlds, whatever you want to call it. Founded in 1908 by Robert Baden-Powell, with the purpose of instructing boys
the talents and mindsets wanted for good citizenship, it was rapidly followed in
1910 by the Girl Guides, a separate organization that, just like the Scouts, quickly
expanded past Britain. The pseudo-fireplace is nice, also, however it take up room that could be used for other things, like a desk or my workbench. To be clear – on a personal degree I do not bemoan the relative demise of conservatism as a movement, however I discovered the dialogue of the philosophical underpinnings of the movement and the way in which in which the author argues that it’s simply not suitable with a put up-tech society, vastly interesting, and you might too – see how you are feeling about this: “The modern conservative venture failed because it didn’t take into account the revolutionary precept of know-how, and its intrinsic connection to the telos of sheer revenue. I don’t know, guaranteed, state-backed, assured quantity of storage that might be assured for every citizen, a sure number of Terabytes guaranteed for 100 years for you to dispose of as you’ll, and the way that could be an fascinating approach of securing a certain sort of small, private net…