exchemist

I have seen, on another forum, people making use of something called "GPT Zero". This I understand is an AI tool that returns a % likelihood that a given piece of text has been generated by an LLM. It was part of the evidence used in banning a recent tiresome contributor on that forum. I have no idea about videos or images, though.

If cassava is better for your digestion I recommend pāo de queijo. Any Brazilian community will have access to these. There are ready made varieties.

I got mine last year. Now I’m even more glad that I did.

Hmm citric acid eh? I'll need to look at the ingredients list, next time I buy a tin, and check. There's none in the house at the moment. All this talk makes me think it could be time to make cheese scones again. Or even have another stab at pāo de queijo, as I still have some cassava (a.k.a. tapioca, a.k.a. polvilho) flour from the last time I tried it. (It worked, sort of, but was very oily for some reason.)

The Parkin recipe reminds me of a curious feature of golden syrup. It corrodes the tin and can even leak through the joints if stored for many months, in spite of being so viscous. ( I often have some in the house for porridge in the winter months but the tin can sit untouched for 6 months over the summer.)

Can you not buy an oven thermometer? If your flapjacks don’t burn I expect you could make a cake or scones in it. 180C is good for most things.

Yes my son used to make those for munro expeditions. At my instigation he used to include chopped dried apricots, which add some balancing acidity and a bit more flavour.

I don't have a regular emergency stand-by, but occasionally I will bake a Victoria Sandwich cake and have a slice of that with my afternoon tea every day until it's gone. I normally bake a half cake and get 8 slices out of it. Alternatively I sometimes make cheese scones. These can be frozen and microwaved up at tea time, one at a time, so probably better for the waistline as one doesn't feel one has to use them up before they go stale. But I find if I eat too much at tea time I am not hungry at supper time so I try not to overdo it.

Thanks. I’ll know their names next time they crop up in news reports.🙂

Who are they?

Mandelson has now also been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. So the apparent unfairness as between the two suspects has been rectified, at least.

Yes he is a bad apple all right. The unwritten contract between the public and the Royal Family is that they should behave is a respectable manner, given that they get funded through the Civil List. He has broken that contract. At the same time, some of his treatment looks to me heavy-handed. For instance I now learn that while Andrew was arrested, presumably on the grounds of reasonable suspicion of Misconduct in Public Office, Mandelson was not. Yet Mandelson was a senior government minister at the time, so unquestionably in Public Office, whereas Andrew had an unpaid role as an informal trade envoy. So Andrew was not a government employee. Was he nevertheless in Public Office? Seems doubtful a charge would stick. One doesn't know what agreement he may have signed in relation to handing of confidential government information, but if he is suspected of breaking such an agreement I would have thought that would be a civil breach of contract and not a criminal matter. Unless it was the Official Secrets Act, I suppose. I wonder what the grounds for arrest were. The police need both reasonable suspicion of a crime and a reason to believe that arrest is necessary. Perhaps the police felt that, unlike Mandy, Andrew would not cooperate in the investigation, so they had to arrest him to get him into a cooperative frame of mind. Still seems a bit odd though.

Since these are all taken from Faecebook I can't see them. But there is at least one real device of this type, as pointed out by @Sensei . That one uses jet engines - and costs $0.8m a pop, so only of interest to broligarchs. Might be entertaining if if Zuckerberg bought one and crashed it, while wearing his creepy AI glasses............ 😁

Hahaha, yet more mad "pothu" shit.😆

Indeed, more about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2025/08/21/introducing-the-volonaut-airbike-a-futuristic-ride-built-for-superheroes/