My old home desktop is from 2013, and it runs KDE pretty much the same as my 'new' (2022) machine.

Prove that it did not.

Agreed, absolutely (... no mod points ...).

Yes, I probably consume more than the average person on the planet. Do I also pay proportionately more? I don't know.

It was first reported long before then, from 2009 according to the wikipedia article. I remember reading about it in https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.com%2F at about that time, and saw articles in Private Eye not long after.

Indeed!

And what's going to go even further, is if you have 'presence' as well as personality, of the right kind to make your boss look good.

but ... Tulip mania ?

That we have evolved to cope with some pollutants is not a reason to test them further, given that we have little or no resistance to some others. The naturally occurring hydrogen cyanide comes to mind ...

That's because you've not looked far enough, or deep enough. There's monkeys there, somewhere... and humans, and three armed moties too.

You must be using a really weird atlas.

We've all learned to ignore apostrophes if needed in real life, without IT, and make other adjustments in pattern matching. When you misused "THAT" in capitals (misused in my eyes at least), I did not even see it the first time I read it. We can adapt, software should be able to do it too.

And software does change and adapt. I just did a google search for "st mary at finchley". The top result was the correct one, a Wikipedia article for "St Mary-at-Finchley Church" (I never knew the name was actually hyphenated) .

Would it not be more effective to treat the SMT like other workers, and just sack them forthwith if or when there is insufficient progress?

That could be interesting, if the yeast cell escapes, for instance into natural soils. Given the way industry operates, it probably will escape at some point.

Not just that. My Chromebook, Asus 434T, was introduced in 2019 and bought by me in 2020 with an advertised update duration at that time to about 2025. This has now been extended to 2029, presumably the date of first introduction. For my light use as a holiday laptop, it has been near perfect (some quibbles about the keyboard, but that was Asus making it funky or something).

English has always had a second person plural. It is 'you'.

English also has a second person singular which is 'thou'. Try using that when appropriate.

I think the parent was some kind of subtle joke, all in the writer's mind.