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The UK government just enacted a law last week that gives tenants in England a lot more protection against that kind of thing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-the-rent...


That's for long term rentals, and what gp describes was already illegal action against against a normal long term tenant . In the UK a tenancy is a property right not just a contract -it's a right to a specific property, not just a contract with a person. So if the tenancy was executed with the consent of the owner, they can't just kick out the tenants even if the management company didn't pay them . That's because the tenants right to the property isn't just via the chain of contracts between them and the owner. For a hotel room or Airbnb, or a lodger, very different rules apply


Relevant Mitchell and Webb sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AeCo3AD1cM


Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.


Here's another carving from the same site, depicting both what you thought you were seeing and what you were actually seeing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahan_Tepe#/media/File:Karah...


Both the Faroes and Iceland had trees before the vikings arrived and deforested the land, with birch being the most predominant species. But yeah, the wind makes it hard to bring a forest back once it's gone. The rewilding youtube channel Mossy Earth just released a video a couple days ago on their efforts to bring back some birch forests in Iceland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-pT56a5ZUc


Was it just for fuel? I don't imagine birch being sufficiently large for shipbuilding. Were there larger diameter trees?


Fuel and settlement activity (shelter, fencing, farmland, etc), I don't think there would have been much wood worthy of shipbuilding, at least compared to their traditional ships.


Ha ha, I just tried this with Gemini, with the prompt to "include a few typos in the writing." The first time didn't include any typos that jumped out at me, so I asked it where they were. Its response:

"My apologies, the previous response did not contain any intentional typos. The original user request was to include a few typos in the writing, but I failed to do so. The text was edited to correct any accidental errors before being sent. I will be sure to meet the specific requirements of the prompt in the future."

So I said, "Redo the request, but this time show me the typos you include."

And it rewrote the paragraphs, with a message at the end:

"The typos included were:

"investmen" instead of "investment"

"financ" instead of "finance"

"regulashions" instead of "regulations""


Perhaps AI would usually suggest childish or uneducated spelling mistakes.

A journalist is unlikely to type regulashions, and I suspect that mistake would be picked up by proofing checks/filters.

Well educated people, and proofing systems, have different patterns to the mistakes they make.

Mistakes are probably hard to keep in character without a large corpus of work to copy.

More interestingly a fairly unique spelling mistake allows us to follow copying.

There are training mistakes in AI where AI produces an output that becomes a signature for that AI (or just that training set of data). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031375 (thread about "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6"

Unclosed parens to prove I'm a Real I)


"Caterpillar" was a spelling mistake in Dr Johnson's dictionary


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Yep, it's along the ring of fire where most of the world's earthquakes occur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire


Are you saying the excessive number of police results in absurd enforcement practices, or are you saying their officers are large because they spend all day confiscating sandwiches?


> they spend all day confiscating sandwiches?

Enforcing a "no food or drink" posting in a public place that exists solely to drive business to vendors (who've doubtlessly paid an unnecessary chunk of flesh to the government for access to the captive market) is exactly the kind of thing I can see them doing.


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