That’s £2.3k each if split evenly.

That seems pretty cheap given how much marketing (particularly when involving “talent”) usually costs, assuming these campaigns actually had some kind of measurable success.

Why does this read kinda like rage bait? I don’t really expect that from the guardian

Edit: just another helpful number I remembered, for context:

The Tories spent £100m on an advertising campaign to gaslight us with how great Brexit was going to be as it happened

That’s 200x for much less tangible benefit

welcome to your life

There’s no turning back

Remember when we let an (American style) libertarian take control of Britain for a month?

She managed to wipe £21bn of wealth in our country out of existence in a fucking day. Predominantly wealth held by the public sector

+6% expenditure? You’re fucking lucky.

The experiment is over, let’s fire these wankers into the sun so we can get on with not dying in the next couple of decades

Oh really? I’ve been having it the same time as my vitamins, should I space them out then?

I don’t think other civilisations would see it as any different to reality television

It’s ultimately just videos of humans doing human things

Honestly, we’re at the point now where anyone attempting to downplay anything related to this is so fucking obviously involved

Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.

Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can’t work for a living, that isn’t just them dying.

I didn’t know being designed for screen rather than print was woke now

This list is getting long

I can think of a load of reasons you might want the smart fridge of your imagination where you’re never at the shop again wondering how much cheese you’ve got left or stuck wondering what recipes you can make out of what you’ve got

The reality seems to have ended up being a tablet you can’t move or really use for much beyond an ad supported whiteboard you don’t need pens for

If they’re gonna buy a nas anyway, how many years to break even?

Kier is busy trying to court faragites

As much as this would be a sensible political decision that could potentially ease the cost of living issues, he’s not gonna go for it

If you can get an old final-intel-gen MBP in decent nick, they can make pretty decent Linux machines if you’re okay with not being able to do any internal hardware upgrades.

tiny-dfr is your friend if you happen to get one with that touchbar F-row, which is probably the only big downside compared to a conventional laptop.

They specifically mentioned the enterprise ecosystem.

I would not be surprised at all if Apple’s MDM system is less painful to use for smaller businesses than Microsoft’s AD and everything attached to it. Hell it might even be nicer for big orgs, but I’ve never heard of one (apart from the likes of Google) not using AD

Also if you’re already dealing with one of those systems, an IT department is probably motivated to not run both and set up interop if they can avoid it

It accuses the EU of going after successful U.S. space companies via the legislation, saying its rules “appear targeted specifically against U.S. companies due solely to their size, prominence, and successful track record of innovation …. such unfair and unwarranted regulations are unacceptable to the United States and must be removed.”

Hmm, I wonder what draconian legislation this must be

The EU proposed the law in June in an attempt to dial up regulatory oversight of satellite operators — including requiring them to tackle their impact on space debris and pollution, or face significant fines.

Oh… “Don’t litter”

Having been to a few over the years in different places, the Germans just do it better. Any of the main cities will get you the experience

Take another look, this is a good thing.

It’s not good that Wall St (and therefore typically American investors with American values) has such a huge amount of influence today. This is hopefully a correction for that.

but I figured, why not? And left my likeness open to everyone, just like Sam Altman.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Honestly about as bright as posting your credit card details on social media.

Privacy is something you can’t really get back once you give it away. Your likeness is just another part of that

My favourite is the difference between French french and Canadian French.

Many of the uniquely Canadian French swears are oddly religious compared to French french

FWIW I think it’s mostly gone the Aussie way in the UK over the past decade unless you’re taking to a pensioner.

Just the yanks now

Lived in Liverpool and then Manchester from the age of 18, now nearly 2 decades of never needing to own a car.

The odd couple of times I’ve needed to move stuff around it’s either enlisting the help of a friend with a car or just renting a van. Other than that public transport and taxis cover 99% of any journey I’d need to make, and ultimately cheaper.

The only thing I’ll say is travelling across the country by train is forced into being something of a privilege at the prices of the tickets these days. The fact that if I decide to go to London for the weekend with my partner at short notice, that’s going to cost me about £200 discounted with a Railcard, is patently absurd when I could rent a car for the weekend and get a couple of tanks of petrol for less.

Still, travelling by train for long journeys beats having to concentrate on driving anyway IMO, so I’ll still pick the train.

I reckon we’d see a lot more people forgoing a car if more areas invested in their local public transport like the north west has, and if we can find a way to slash the prices of longer train journeys equivalent to equivalent prices in Europe.