MattBlackAlien

“You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a baby. You wouldn’t shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman’s grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences.”

Everyone is stealing The Verge.

Also Gareth Williams, an MI6 analyst, who allegedly died after padlocking himself into a holdall. From the outside.

You can generally replace the word ‘economy’ with ‘rich people’s yachts’ -

"Trump claims ‘a lot of people don’t see’ that America has ‘the greatest rich people’s yachts right now’ .

Yep - still works.

You need to be as precise as your resolution, otherwise the precision is meaningless. I guess you could argue that your resolution is units of half-billion (since some things are measured like that), but the initial value of 0.1B, and your use of 0.5 rather than ‘half’ suggests a resolution of 0.1B.

This is different to the aphorism ‘The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion’, both because of the difference in scale, and the quoted resolution.

It’s exactly 11.4 billion, really.

In France: s/if/how

The bosses of the UK’s largest supermarkets warn the chancellor that they won’t tolerate a drop in profits, so will pass higher taxes onto their customers.

Tesco made £3.1 billion profit in the last year.

https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2025/04/10/tesco-profits-top-3-billion/