Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

That billionaire who funds the climate crisis denial you've been conditioned to repeat has built himself a bunker to retreat to when the climate crisis becomes intolerable to human life.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears.

This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash.
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He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social here's a fox photo I took for you to consider using in your fox of the day series

Interesting that here, there's about 50x more posts to read about that nazi doing the salute

When it comes to the drinking vessel the dictionary also offers the potpanion (fellow drinker), the tosspot (a hard drinker), the pot-knight (ditto), and the gossip-pint-pot (a chatty one). A pot-wit is a drinker who gets wittier when drunk, while a pot-hardy one becomes way too confident.

New cars in Europe are getting 1 cm wider every two years. T&E says the trend will continue due to the rising sales of SUVs unless lawmakers take action.

50 % of new cars sold are already too wide for the minimum on-street parking space in many countries.
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