Once I sneezed among friends and no one said anything, so I said "what? No bless yous for Giacomo?" in an Italian accent and everyone looked at me like I was clinically insane. So I probably won't be doing that again
The Hague being a major city is so funny given how its name is used by most people. Like imagine if you committed some war crimes and people were like “you’re getting sent to Cleveland bruh”
If the Catholics are right and the Pope is the Supreme Pontiff, and if temporal authority is subordinated to spiritual authority, then the Pope can depose the head of FIFA and overturn Balogun's red card
For context on the air conditioning debate between the US and Europe...one must consult the ancient texts:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.
-- Douglas Adams
Seven years ago a representative from Google reached out to me in an official capacity to discuss the company's energy use. I told them it would become necessary for major firms in core economies to reduce energy use in order to enable Paris-compliant decarbonisation.
They assured me that their new AI tools were already helping them identify ways to improve the company's energy efficiency, so they weren't worried. They insisted this would soon yield radical efficiency improvements, and lead to energy use reduction without any change to their production activities. "Just wait, you'll see!" they told me, full of confidence.
I told them that's not how it works. In growth-oriented capitalist firms, savings from efficiency improvements are generally leveraged to expand production. I predicted that even if their AI found ways to improve efficiency, Google's energy use would go up, not down. Seven years later and this is where we're at:
Leigh’s tweet reminds me of this PHENOMENAL photo taken by Gerri Whitley at Montrose Point last year.
It took my breath away when I first saw it. Such a creative way to highlight Chicago’s motto of Urbs In Horto (city in a garden)