Good morning Womble. Hope the Burrow is dry, amidst this endless rain. Reading The Echo of Crows, the latest (and I think last) Merrily Watkins mystery.

Such as PAYE , which has been operating since the 1940s?

Quislings is exactly the right word.

This was on BBC Breakfast. They were very carefully not saying “this is Barney”.

😊

English does to other languages what the Borg do to unfortunate space travellers

We will be in excellent hands! (& thank you for doing T&S Advent despite EVERYTHING ELSE. It is a gentle chink of light in dark times.)

48 hour deodorant, perhaps

I agree. The big sell from AI is often to make your life easy, but building understanding, structuring your thoughts, is meant to be hard, and that is what changes you. i.e. if the product you care about is you and your brain, do the work.

Oh I had many of those as a child!