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@Rhodium103
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Oh, Emma Raducanu is playing. I almost didn't recognise her without Piers Morgan being a creep in the corner.
i might not be a trillionaire but my child loves me

Congratulations to Elon Musk on becoming a trillionaire.

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I would take "employers want AI skills" with some salt, because my academic background is one that serviced a very specific industry, and even in that case it was enough of a struggle to interpret "problem solving" and "communication skills" and the other buzzwords into something tangible that can feed into a curriculum.

Employers say a lot of things, but generally they want anything that can avoid them paying for the training themselves.

If someone fancies becoming the first quadrillionaire, I extra special pinkie promise to buy your house for $1,000,000,000,000,000. That's how it works, right?

"A trillion dollars. In this economy. In this country. Localised entirely within a company that barely makes 1% of that in revenue."

"Yes."

"Can I see it?"

"......No."

Look, I'm just saying that it's very, very weird that Santa Claus shows up in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe to kit them out with weapons like it's the first act of a JRPG.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was released today in 1981. 45 years ago.

The film is set in 1936, which, coincidentally......

The main thing I've learned from moving to a posh-ish university that has college formals is that, while tuxedos on a Hollywood red carpet will make men look dashing and handsome, they'll make 19 year-old students look like a preteen who's had an accident with his dad's wardrobe.