> two sellable

I'm a southerner and we generally have squirrels in plentiful quantities, so it's never occurred to me to sell them. /s

It’s been a part of sci-fi for a long time.

And Jellied eel, why not?

Pork pies and scotch eggs are widely-available savoury snacks in the UK, but jellied eels are not?

I want to make clear to the US folks here that there's about 2 or 3 cafes that still sell traditional eels, and it's explicitly a London food, not wider British cuisine. From the number of videos and articles I see about them though, you'd think the country was covered in Eel cafés. Honestly, covering them at all is tabloid ragebait content at this point.

Correct.

Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now:

https://www.mmppa.co.uk/

Scotch eggs are a common, if old fashioned, pub snack and are sold in supermarkets.

Jellied eels are a London thing, mainly poor areas of central East London, and very very rare even there now.

Do you know who needs to start banning "books"? Amazon. They truly need to start finding a way to ban bullshit books and lousy books printed on demand --it's a racket and they just don't seem to care.

Can they not hire some people to curate titles to ensure they are legit and anyone doing a bait and switch gets banned from the site altogether. It's not like they can't ID bad actors.

Exactly.

It’s the same defeatist attitude people who get an extra three months of pay to train their Eastern European or Indian replacements.

They will gladly take the three months pay to train a replacement. I’d quit on the spot. Let them figure it out.

Practically speaking, the person who stays has three months salary, plus severance and then unemployment. The person who quits loses their entire income stream immediately.

Do you think your small act of defiance has a bigger impact on you, or on the company? Now imagine you have a family at home that depends on your income and do the math again.

If people affected banded together and all defied the company, the company would find itself in a difficult situation. If the then became standard procedure for workers affected by offshoring, companies would hesitate to do this. It would have to be much more organic and would have diminished and drawn out impact on workers. Yes companies could open foreign offices, etc., but it’s more work and fewer companies would consider the option. Today then simply say “we’re transitioning network and security to an ATT, Verizon, etc. organization based in (some low COL geography).” If companies had had pushback over the last 25 years, they’d be less likely to consider the option.

Of course that's true, and I'll happily join the United Technology Workers Union when it exists. In the meantime, I don't think you can fault people for taking the safest option for their families instead of sticking it to the man.

How about voting against offshoring? That way I don’t have to have an uncomfortable showdown with my employer, and every working person benefits.

Yes, but that ship sailed. Bernie Sanders used to be for the American worker. He used to block re-settling refugees in his state. Nowadays even he doesn't care to curb immigration or off-shoring. Some people in the Trump admin make motions about curbing some (unnecessary legal) immigration (ala Canada and Australia -vetting for skills needed). Very few want to curb offshoring. Both Democrats and Republicans monetarily benefit from offshoring and increasing competition for American workers. Elon pretends his companies could not run without more imported workers --sure, I get it, you don't want to bother to train a capable local population, much of which is descended from relatively recent immigrants.

It’s been going on since the Obama admin. Could be longer. Purportedly a unit was smuggled out of some former Soviet republic and we now have a copy of the actual device. When tested on animals, the device produced injuries in alignment with those experienced by US foreign service personnel.

It’s been a great source of fodder for conspiracy theorists though.

I like mustard AND catsup on mine. I guess that's a big false step to them.

Toronto has awesome hotdog vendors. They serve different types of sausages, and of course weiners ready for the flame grill. They are all large size, and there are a gazillion toppings for you to put on yourself. I've never seen better in the US, or anywhere else for that matter.

Like many NGOs/NPOs they suffer from perverse incentives: reduce or solve the problem and their reason to be disappears and the directors and higher staff no longer have well paying cushy jobs. You see this in NGOs "helping" addicts, homeless, etc. On paper they have a well meaning goal, in practice the goal is mostly for show and most of the money goes to paying salaries.

Did Schliemann pass through Berlin, maybe?

That, or German soldiers and engineers and adventurers passing by in the 19th and early 20th century bringing home "a souvenir". It would be in character since the large sections of ancient Pergamon were also lifted and shifted to Berlin as well.

> It’s not a bad idea to tear things down and rebuild in order to extirpate that rot and misdirection.

Regardless of whether it’s actually a bad idea or not, there’s been zero effort by this administration to rebuild what’s been destroyed.

Move fast and break things is, in fact, a bad philosophy to work by and govern by. Especially when the people in charge admit to not wanting to rebuild.

It's also all too easy to arbitrarily label something as "bureaucratic" and demand that it gets razed and rebuilt. I'm sure Palantir has some level of bureaucracy internally with all the new contracts it has won - perhaps we should also rip that apart?

Fact is that a university that must simultaneously handle education, research, publishing, estate management, legal stuff, media coverage, health and safety etc etc etc ends up being somewhat bureaucratic.

I summarily reject any notion that our "universities" are broken. This claim has been parroted around for the better part of a decade now. IT is an obvious right wing think tank target. Sprinkle in some heritage foundation too.

The reality is, these universities were independent institutions that did their jobs to teach without bias.

Only when fox news and right wing media captured all the news sources did "universities" suddenly become "liberal thinktanks".

Our science and research institutions arent broken. It never was. It's under attack by right wing propaganda to "bring them in line".

That's not at all what privatization does. It tears down a system built to benefit the public, and rebuilds a structure designed to profit a small number of individuals instead.

There certainly is a problem in universities and some of it might be a recent cultural development. It also isn't restricted to US universities either and some of it mirrors the a church that wanted to keep some knowledge under wraps. Publishing is also a perverted circus if you indeed are employed as a scientist and want to publish your work/findings.

That said, just razing everything down is probably not the solution, especially if there are indeed no ideas how to improve the current state.

For that to work you need someone with good intentions doing the rebuilding. Fascists like thiel and andreesen don’t have good intentions.