I would argue that you actually have to do the "enacted successfully" part to be able to say "deliverism failed", and I don't feel like Starmer has done that... (View Post)

If their motivation to change leader cannot be sustained for even four days, they should certainly not do it. The decision will affect their political futures and the country's trajectory over t… (View Post)

Merriam-Webster traces it back to a 1966 Star Trek episode as a plausible popularizer of the phrase, reinforced by South Park in 2000: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/before-times-covid-hist… (View Post)

At a previous company a couple of years ago, I was very pleasantly surprised when the response to reporting a noisy aircon outlet was that one of the onsite maintenance staff turned up the same day, … (View Post)

Depends what you mean by a mainframe, doesn't it? IBM will happily sell you new s/390 systems if you want them, running Linux if you like. Anyway, if you're a bank are you really going to v… (View Post)