Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were recited and heard for many hundreds of years before they were ever written down and read. Spoken storytelling is at least as vivid, engaging and stimulating as reading *if* the story is worth hearing *and* narrated by a good storyteller. There are some truly brilliant audiobook narrators but also far too many so inept that they cannot even read and pronounce their own language well or with understanding.

Lenovo make some very nice tablets for the Chinese market. I have a Y700, a couple of years old, bought on aliexpress (I'm in UK). Unfortunately Lenovo is one of the worst offenders for not supporting their Android stuff longer than a year or so. It matters a bit less than with a phone but it is still disappointing. Anyway, they are nice tablets with excellent display and audio, lots of RAM & storage, take a microSD, very fast charging on USB-C. The bootloader can be unlocked and there are custom ROMs but last time I tried any they weren't great.

He finished by stating "Period." Proof indeed.

Write them and ask.

I don't think there is even one in Wales but there are tens of thousands in Argentina (Patagonia).

The Welsh Version of Newspeak is just English.

Aging occurs mostly via the....ears.

The headline is misleading. Gmail will continue to have POP support but *not for fetching mail from non-google accounts*. You can continue to retrieve your gmail from a client i.e. Thunderbird & similar, using POP3.

They haven't gone anywhere near far enough. We won't be safe until and unless we can only see websites and use services explicitly licensed and overseen by a gang of idiot, drooling, bloviating, pious, intellectually deficient, Marxist, pro-Islamic terror fuckwits.

My MP is a Marxist Green who supports HAMAS and hates freedom. I'm not sure it will help.

They make superb displays and excellent digital stills and video cameras. An awful lot of the content you see on youtube, TV and even in the cinema is being made on Panasonic Lumix cameras.

If the market and its value is expanding while your income remains stable it means you are losing market share. Your competitors are winning your customers or potential customers. That is not stability, it is stagnation, at best.

Fabulously sweet, juicy apples!

My phones were from the II & III series so maybe they have improved their support. On one phone I had they promised 2 full upgrades, only supplied one, and stopped even security updates. That's when I switched to Samsung even though I liked the Sony phones better. I recently got a full upgrade on my Samsung A52s 5G, a phone released in 2021. I think that was its third full version upgrade.

I agree but there are some forms which really can only be pretend meat i.e. the burger in a bun. I've been vegetarian for over 40 years and I like to I cook, mostly from raw ingredients - almost no pre-prepared stuff except noodles or pasta. Plant patties are the only meat substitute I occasionally buy because it's nice to eat a burger with onion, tomato, relish etc.