Apropos typos: writing advice
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Losing electricity causes significant disruption, emergency generators have to turn on for hospitals, the transport system stops.
The BBC is not what it once was, so assume it is no better than any other outlet in wanting to create a narrative.
The actual reality on the ground for many people would have been far from the whimsical event the BBC portrays.
> We have also seen a series of problems involving misuse and exploitation of student visas, where visas are used as an entry point for living and working in the UK without any intention to complete the course, and increasing numbers of asylum claims from students at the end of their course, even though nothing substantive has changed in their home country while they have been in the UK.
> In 2021, international students at UK universities generated an estimated £20.65 billion in exports through living expenditure and tuition fees, but it is right that these benefits are shared.[footnote 48] The Government will explore introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students, to be reinvested into the higher education and skills system. Further details will be set out in the Autumn Budget.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/restoring-control...
I think they meant to say "cinnamon", biscoff do not contain ginger
German: es regnet French: Il pluet
I don't see why English is special here.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCuvSqzfO_LV_QzHdmEj84SQ
From Wikipedia:
> Starting from 2022, Emanuar would begin uploading videos discussing Nintendo 64 technical details and optimization techniques,[15] along with outlining Super Mario 64's bugs, technical shortcomings and poorly optimized features, fixing them in the process.[16][17][18][19] He would heavily rework the game's source code in 2024 and use it as a base for his collaborative ROM hack Return to Yoshi's Island, which resulted in increased frame rate and improved graphical fidelity compared to the original game, even when running on the original Nintendo 64.
However once they killed the "elite" or "oppressor" they couldn't stop the killing, and kept redefining who the "oppressor" was, until it was anyone who had one more cow than the rest.
It has some interesting ideas and architecture.
I wouldn't even mind seeing advertisements.
I just don't want to have an X account.
If you have a highly conscientious personality, this is easier said than done.
The label "far right" is just used to smear people, rather than something that represents a real group in Britain.
> Our conclusion is deliberately modest: under the conditions Prisma Compute cares about, the Rust rewrite behaved better than the stable release we had been testing. That was enough to change what we shipped.
Can't you update it to the latest firmware?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
In particular, the Human Rights Act means that the UK cannot control its border, despite the population repeatedly voting for decreased immigration and stronger borders.
So far, politicians have not wanted to change these structural issues, so they keep on getting removed, as the population becomes ever more enraged, by instances such as this:
"Ahmadi and Alshafe met on a small boat from France arriving in the UK in June 2025, while Alshafe and Al-Danasurt, who arrived in the UK in October 2024, were roommates at the hotel.
The evening before the attack the three got ready at the hotel before getting a bus into Brighton."
"Three men who raped woman on Brighton beach jailed" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv0vqp04pgo
https://bun.com/bun-unsafe-audit
If the tests pass, then why not accept the rewrite?
An interesting article of Prisma using the rewrite:
It is odd how removal of DEI is framed as being political, when it is the other way round. DEI schemes were deeply political, and depended on who can claim to be the biggest victim.