Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de)

Ok, this is worse.

Me: "This expression is not correct, because it will do X in addition to doing Y."
Them: "But CoPilot said it was correct."
*sends me <expletive> screenshot*

I am disappointed. Fine, use it, whatever. Don't blame it. Take responsibility. Think and understand.

I will send you to 1987 and give you a C64 with a cassette tape drive.
*grmbl*

@sun @gemlog Nope, the "e" is a curiosity and a red herring. German "Klaus" gets you closer, that's the cognate, but there is no "u" in the Swedish rendering.

"Klas" is a more sensible spelling, and it is in use, but I see more "Claes"; Archaic spellings look cooler to more parents, I suppose.

@gemlog "Claes".

Pronounced "class" if you're in London.

Pronounced "clause" if you're in Boston.

@mcc That and Google+'s is circles are ideas a lot more sites should be ripping off

(in case you never used Google+, circles let you organize people into groups, so you could put all of your role-playing people into one circle, then just click that to see all the posts from those people. You could also use them to send messages to only certain groups, so you wouldn't spam your family with posting about dungeons and dragons, rather than having to maintain multiple accounts)

You were so agitated before.

Your silence now speaks Valiums.

Alas:

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@gemlog Another one of those points of HK efficiency and professionalism:

HK has a Disaster Victim Identification Unit, and as soon as the fire department allowed it, they sent 600 agents in to collect evidence, combing each floor in teams of four, cataloguing and tagging remains, then bringing them back for sterilization, identification and returning them to their families.

@gemlog No official convictions in either case at this point, but here's my impression:

Glenfell was neglected because the city doesn't allocate resources to public housing and doesn't care about their living standard and safety.

Wong Fuk was undergoing renovation. It's a Home Ownership Scheme residence, and home owners were involved in the decision and ultimately funding the work. The commercial contractor was unprofessional and didn't follow regulations.

@gemlog HK just isn't London. 🤷

Wong Fuk did not happen for Grenfell reasons.

Not whatabouting it, we should have zero fires like this, and I am certain regulators will work to prevent another one.

Just putting things in perspective and urging people to worry about the right things.

It sometimes surprises me what people worry about on my behalf.

Them: I heard a typhoon is coming, will you be safe?
Me: We're typhoon country; It's the seventh this year, less severe than one we had last year.

But in this case, I admit it is fair to call this extraordinary.

If you compare US and HK population sizes and relative impact, at this point this is a a 9/11. Just most likely caused not by intentional harm, but by criminal negligence.

The point though is that it is newsworthy. A fire this severe hasn't happened in forever.

Some people see this and think a big city with highrises is unsafe to live in, but even including this disaster, the statistics say the opposite.

Not to mention that we have sooo many fewer traffic deaths than e.g. the US or even Sweden. Cars on Swedish roads kill about twice this amount of people every year, while this tower fire was a once in several decades occurrence.

Confirmed dead now at 128. 😥

That's almost half a SARS epidemic, which was still a topic on people's mind for 16 years, until Covid hit.

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