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amanfromMars 1 Wed 9 Oct 04:48 [2410090448] ...... airs and asks on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/2/2024/10/08/linus_torvalds_grammar_complaint/

Even if British, up close and personal are things more passionate than passive impersonal ‽ .

The person addressed has a right to know who it is that entertains a feeling he may not share or a thought he may consider mistaken, and is justly resentful of the suggestion that it exists in the void. On the other hand, the impersonal passive should have been used in For these reasons the effects of the American recession upon Britain will be both smaller and shorter than were originally feared. Were should be was(i.e. than it was originally feared they would be). ..... H.W. Fowler, via Jonathan Richards 1

That may very well indeed have been true of then, but since the times now, and the places and spaces in which one can work with REST and play, they are so fundamentally a'changed, how best should it be written today to truthfully convey the future news that it is certainly unreasonable and quite possibly even treasonous to try proposing and effectively presenting as fact, the salacious fallacious notion that any American recession upon Britain will be both smaller and shorter than is expected and feared whenever it is sure to be greater and longer than was never even imagined before. ...... for is that not where y'all is at, in an active persistent vegetative state of delusional self-denial ?

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 9 Oct 07:15 [2410090715] ...... points out on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2024/10/09/openai_appoints_international_expansion_boss/

Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey and Lions Led by Donkeys* ‽

Whenever an Open AI Mission is to stealthily capture and securely captivate hearts and minds with/for Learned Large Language Learning Machines, musing that when it comes to governments, many already "have very good roadmaps on their own." is a challenging understatement with all manner of future problems to deny be problematical to satisfactorily resolve to everyone's advantage.

But such is not an impossible and intractable SISyphean task .... if one knows what needs to be done and how to do it with IT and AI aiding and abetting humanity in vital viral operations against existential threats.

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