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What actually is a 'buttermilk biscuit"? It just says use ready made ones, but we don't have those here.

Am I right in remembering that they're something like a scone?

Whenever I've seen pictures of US style chicken and dumplings, the dumplings always look fairly similar to a UK-style suet dumpling, and ultimately we're just talking about different ways of mixing flour and fat together into balls, so I wonder if ultimately it amounts to much the same thing.

"Comms" sounds bad.

I propose we call them 'nities.

Great game, and great franchise. I remember many a fond hour being horrifically stuck trying to figure out what to do next in Blood Omen. The sequel, Soul Reaver, was really my jam though.

Good advice in general; even contractual fuckery aside, you can't guarantee a company will even still exist this time next year.

Or places which are already heavily inhabited/productively used. Inland river valleys are some of the most desirable real estate, in human habitation terms.

Major river dams are often only feasible in countries which either have lots of sparsely populated wilderness (like North America), or which don't have a problem with displacing hundreds of thousands of people and destroying whole communities (like China). Takes it off the menu for a lot of the world.

Would it particularly affect the performance if the sphere ends up covered in barnacles or coral? It's what's inside that matters (it's just a big hollow tank).

You've pretty much just described ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

Anyone can spin up their own instance. You can self host on a machine in your house, or with any cloud provider. You can broadcast messages in Twitter-style or Reddit-style format. Anyone can navigate to your web address and see your messages. Anyone who federates with you can see it on their website. FOSS Android apps are available.

You can't force anyone to actually read your messages of course, but that's a different matter.

I've worked in jobs where my colleagues are good friends of mine, and other jobs where my colleagues are just colleagues and nothing more.

I'm lucky to currently work with people I genuinely get on very well with. I don't go out for after work drinks with them (because I have small children and lots to do and no money), but I'd happily wile away an evening in the pub with them when it comes up.

I don't know how they do it in the US, but in the UK most big companies outsource application checks to several big clearing houses. They handle the logistics of checking qualifications and obtaining references from previous employers, plus the optional enhanced checking that some companies need (such as DBS/criminal record checks).

In the UK there is a single official centralised system for checking degree qualifications which covers most major universities. It's also only a 5 minute job to email a university registrar directly. I think most big companies would consider this a bare minimum task when recruiting for any role where a qualification is in any way important.

What's the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.

I used to work as a trade union officer representing people at disciplinaries. I've represented several people over the years who were sacked for lying on their CVs.

Not only did they lose their job, but they'll get a "sacked for gross misconduct" reference from that employer making it much more difficult to get another job. Those in regulated roles also ended up with gross misconduct records with the regulator, making it essentially impossible to work in that field again.

So no, it's not a risk free game.

Turing made a strategic blunder when formulating the Turing Test by assuming that everyone was as smart as he was.