No cheese filling. So we are all made from the same star dust.

Well, Francis Bacon lived in the 17th century last I checked.

>"what if your list is two elements?

Then it isn't needed.

>"you can pretend there isn't a conflict but there is one"

I would write that:

"You can pretend there isn't a conflict, but there is one."

Economists don't say this, what they say is a small amount of predictable inflation is better than deflation.

They do say it, and the reason they say it is that "wages are sticky" -- that is, they tend not to drop even when the market-clearing wage drops. Since it's very hard to reduce wages in nominal terms, inflation helps allow labor prices to drop in real terms.

>"Seriously, make symbols for humans that are easy for humans to tell apart: lI|" :)
At least when I hand-write, I usually print (not cursive) yet I always use a cursive lowercase "L" when it is a code (like in a user ID or variable name). And capital "I"'s I always put top/bottom strokes. Pipes I write as two vertical hyphens (with a space in the middle). Oh, and slashes through zeros.

>"Now tell me your take on the Oxford comma"

I was taught in school (USA) that commas are important, lists should have commas, and there should be a comma for each element in the list (even before an "and"). I have written that way my whole life, I think it is clearer and more logical, and I am not going to stop doing it. :)

Related on reusing coax cables...

The original builders of our house had coax in every room (I guess they wanted to watch TV a lot). No Ethernet. Fiber comes to house technical room, but from that point onwards no network cabling. Would have been a pain to deploy a new set of fiber or CAT6/7 cable everywhere, so mostly surviving with Wifi. However, for "trunk" connectivity I got a couple of these:

https://www.gocoax.com/ma2500d

I'm just using them for point-to-multipoint connectivity - had to get a new splitter. I got one next to my router where the fiber comes in and I get a pretty sweet throughput. Even though the bandwidth is "shared", it's actually close to 3 Gbps total across all endpoints. For point-to-point you get 2.5 Gbps because the Ethernet port only supports that.

There's a lovely collective facepalm right now as Virgin Gin isn't allowed to be called Gin anymore because the regulations governing alcohol say to be called Gin it has to have certain ingredients in it.

That might or might not be fucking stupid depending on what Virgin Gin is and what those required ingredients are. As an example, I'd think that most people would find it quite reasonable to require that anything called "gin" would have to have juniper berries as an ingredient.

I expected lower, a lot lower

Sounds like they are deflecting from the backlash.

Flying Car is the new name for a Small Helicopter. This is necessary to get investments and subsidies. Once they are in danger of going bust and need more funding, they will throw AI, Quantum and Blockchain in there too.

Yup - there were times when the whole earth was a snowball and times when the whole earth was a tropical jungle. Whatever we do, it will eventually happen again - due to tiny wobbles in the earth orbit and tiny changes in the sun luminosity. So, we just have to learn to deal with it.

The refugees are mostly coming from the tropical areas, where there will be no starving, if they will just stop shooting up drugs and shooting at each other all the time.

The climate issue will solve itself as technology always improves and keeps getting less 'dirty'. Czech and Poland are shutting down their gigantic coal mines and going green with solar, wind and nuclear - Slovakia and Hungary are building more nuclear power stations - Why? Because the coal in Poland is running out.

I live in Central Europe. You seem to be a bit confused.