I have some friends who like conspiracy theories and some who laugh at them.

But not one believes Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.

I'm not sure how to process that...

Of course some conspiracy theories are later proved to be true (turns out that our governments were lying to us about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction after all... I was called a conspiracy theorist by these same friends at the time for saying this). History is replete with examples like this. So, I don't know how any study can claim to have the monopoly on common sense here.

At least make it sound as if you're not being paid to write this, for crying out loud.

Back to the article: basing any insight on the number of job adverts is bogus. Everybody knows that most adverts are for jobs that don't exist (ask any recruitment agent that you know socially).

And the skills available come from self-reporting. Guess what? In a boom, everybody says they have the skills. A friend of mine is selling herself as an AI expert when she graduated in fashion and has worked in retail for decades. Don't get me wrong. She's a smart cookie in her domain. But AI expert? WTF?

Do you think when I said "script" that I was literally referring to a kind of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" document rather than employing a simple metaphor?

Seriously?

User name checks out...

Please tell me who voted for Ursula von der Leyen? Or maybe it's not me who is talking "about stuff you know nothing about"?

And who voted for Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen? Nobody!

This is now becoming the script to suppress democracy, namely:

1. 1. Get the intelligence services to make a claim about Russians and TikTok supporing your opponent.
2. 2. Refuse to release the full evidence for reasons of "nationaly security".
3. 3. Get a friendly judge to overrule the peoples' vote
4. 4. Watch useful idiots claim that we're safer with unelected officials who can't be ousted when the people watch the wrong TikTok memes.

Can recommend. Didn't actually use a sleeper but just spent 2 weeks travelling as a family of 4 (two kids nearly 10 years old) on trains around Europe.

When you factor in flight delays, security and the fact trains terminate in the city centre, trains are (generally) faster door-to-door than planes. And when they weren't, we spent a night in another city.

"Who wants a day in Paris, kids?"

Python is not "massively more modern" than Java. It's 4 years older.

Agreed. I've bought 2 Dell laptops with Linux pre-installed and have been very happy. Now, I want a third but where the hell are they on the (UK) website?

Dell, take my money for crying out loud!

I suspect Dell don't want to offend Microsoft and you really have to search hard for Linux laptops.

LLM "chatbots" are not search tools. Generative models like GPT are not search tools.

I know, right? It's almost as if the CIA are up to no good. Like, they're automating propaganda...

No, there's a much simpler workaround.

Some other EU country will buy from the Dutch and then ship to the Chinese. There are no export controls within the EU so there's nothing the US can do about it under the terms of this agreement.

I'm sure a respected scientist deliberately lying about results will stop fake news the vaccine-hesitant keep posting...

Pension funds are not allowed to use risky instruments like derivatives (at least in my jurisdiction) so I'm not sure why you're defending the short sellers in this instance.

This is roughly the same as the number of people who died on Tuesday from smoking. From the NHS's own website:

"Every year around 78,000 people in the UK die from smoking".

That's 213 people per day.

You have to keep perspective here. On Tuesday, 263 people died of a horrible virus that has crippled the country. On the same day, a similar number of people suffered a totally avoidable death but nobody mentions it and we certainly don't let it lock down the economy.

Read the tweet. Pao is not talking about Epstein. She is talking about Maxwell who was indicted only last year.

Nobody said she witnessed a crime. She explicitly admits she knew about the crime. In most jurisdictions, knowing a crime took place but failing to report it is an offence.

This is the same Ellen Pao who tweeted that she "knew about [Jeffrey Epstein side kick, Ghislaine Maxwell] supplying underage girls for sex" but failed to notify the authorities of this crime. Clearly helping sisters doing it for themselves.