Welshfred

I wonder if we're more or less terminally confused by the ai revolution than our ancestors were by the industrial revolution. Information is a lot more available these days but I'm not sure that leads to greater understanding. Especially after reading the above...

Very much in line with my thoughts.

I believe ai personal assistants are bad news. To me it vastly accelerates what I tend to call 'internet poisoning'. It's already occurring, people are so influenced by algorithmic content and a shift in communications away from face to face contact that human to human interaction is changing. Ai assistants appear designed to further this change. We will become more individually insular and, frequently, more wrong about things, led by commercial interests. Using ai to crunch vast datasets has a controllable goal and is already proving very useful. Intelligence can be variously defined, we can naturally only compare anything to human intelligence but there are are other ways. I'm gonna chuck in another author here, Adrian Tchaikovsky, specifically his Children of Time series, which explores communication and intelligence between different species/races in a futuristic post earth intergalactic setting. My point here, apart from recommending some excellent modern sci fi is that if ai ever forms an independent intelligence we won't necessarily recognise it as such until after the fact.

F**k me that's ridiculous. How far back you gonna go? We're all descendents of immigrants in the uk. There were no people here after the last ice age so maybe we just empty the place and there'd be no more crime? Happy then?

Slime mould of some sort.

Buried in the Welsh news of all places Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery WWW.BBC.CO.UK Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Er... Edinburgh's Maclean brothers set new record for Pacific row WWW.BBC.CO.UK Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean endured violent tropical storms during their 140-day journey.

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Actually not if it's male.

It's comb size. A rooster will be developing a bigger comb by that age, whereas hens combs will still be small, not floppy at all, almost like a toothed ridge on top of the head. In the new pic the brown chick (technically a pullet now I think) looks to have a more developed comb than the white one so could be one of each. You should be able to tell by eye easily if there's a difference between them. A roo might be trying to crow now too. Bit of a comedy performance at that age!

You're almost guaranteed a rooster from that lot. Both your others look like hens btw tho a closer pic would be clearer.

By scrapping all things net zero and HS2. Not sure if it's a case of simplistic answers to complex problems or a crisis manufactured for idealogical purposes.

Estonia apparently. Or El Salvador.

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If they produce runners you can use them as the next generation, saves on new plants. I think they all do?? Also irrigation is tricky in baskets, dry year, might affect fruiting. But they do get old and need replacing one way or another