Ginny [they/she]

He used the slop to destroy the slop.

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Americans call things the wrong name all the time. Some of them have even been known to refer to pizzas as pizza pies, so clearly they are not to be trusted with respect to pie identification.

I’d be pretty upset if a custard tart tasted tart, too, but that’s what it’s called.

No, that’s a tart. Sorry.

If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)

The difference is that fragrant and arrogant relate to words that end with -ance, i.e. fragrance and arrogance. For that matter, so do ignorance and vacancey (ish). Applicant and claimant are a separate category of -ant suffix.

And the 13th month shall be called Gormanuary.

The thing that many people point to as being “crazy” in England and Wales defamation law is that if the defendant is relying on truth as a defence, then the defendant must prove (on balance or probability) it is true, rather than having to have the claimant proving it is false.

Now, I will happily argue with anyone that that is the correct way round, actually, but the more relevant issues that made England and Wales ideal for libel tourism were:

• no minimum for the amount of reputational damage, and
• the fact that the loser pays the winner’s legal fees (true in all civil cases, not just defamation).

This meant that if I said your company killed hundreds of people, when really you only killed a few, you could sue me for defamation, and even if you were awarded £1 in damages (which often happened when you were only “technically” defamed), I’d be on the hook for your legal fees, which would be in the tens of thousands at least.

Since the Defamation Act 2013 introduced a requirement of “serious reputational harm”, this has no longer been so much of an issue.

The main issue is that JKR is engaging in SLAPP suits. JKR would not win against Amnesty UK in a defamation suit, IMO, since the damage to JKR’s reputation has already been done (amongst other reasons) before Amnesty UK said anything, but the fact remains that if she sued and Amnesty UK fought it, they’d be on the hook for paying out hundreds of thousands in legal fees over several years, out of pocket, until they eventually won in the end, in which case they’d get most of it back. And while I think Amnesty UK definitely could do that, and are cowards for choosing not to, I definitely concede that it’s rational of them to not bother.

I would definitely argue that we should have some anti-SLAPP legislation, most places still don’t, so that’s not really particularly crazy.

Interesting how you respond to:

I love how the 2014 followup showed that 100% of studies out of China are positive. It is just a marketing gimmick for industry.

By posting a bunch of links to Chinese studies. At least two of which are referenced in the link provided.

That’s why I vote for the Lib Dems, who will instead feed the homeless into an environmentally friendly mulching process. /s

You can’t find quality puns like that off the RAAC!

Not news about social media personalities, or what someone on youtube or tiktok says. Actual news about current events.

Andrew Tate: ‘I fear online influencer radicalised my son’

Influencers driving extreme misogyny, say police

Southport attack parents share Andrew Tate fears

Do you pay attention to the actual news? The vast majority of reporting on the radicalisation of boys and young men to the far right in the past few years has mentioned Andrew Tate by name.

These facts have really cemented my respect for the material.

You know how the US is having an explosive diarrhoea outbreak because they stopped enforcing food standards and now all their produce is contaminated with cyclospora? Apparently Taco Bell’s lettuce is covered in it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2gnglyv0jo

If the model was trained on GPL code then one could argue anything the model outputs is a derivative.

In England and Wales you can be done for assault occasioning actual bodily harm even if there was consent.

R v Brown

Germany taking responsibility for trying to create an ethno-state by helping to create an ethno-state.

Found the Sheffielder.

No, he was Hades.