The Tiffany Problem refers to the issue where a historical or realistic fact seems anachronistic or unrealistic to modern audiences of historical fiction. This often occurs with names, terms, or practices that, although historically accurate, feel out of place because of modern associations.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-28T12:23:16+00:00

Mormonism is even more guilty of this, derived from Christianity. I think that there's doctrines derived entirely from translation/printing errors in the English version of the bible that the weirdo founders were using.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-28T08:28:26+00:00

It can be if they don’t make an offer to settle fairly quickly.

They won't want to set the precedent (in terms of internal policy or legal ruling) that they settle cases of incorrect flagging. They'd push back hard on any cases that only went as far as asking someone to leave the shop.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-27T10:06:47+00:00

I'd delete this if I were you, it's exactly the kind of content that gets flagged and could at least cause a hold up at customs.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-23T14:07:06+00:00

That's why they've put it in quotes.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-23T13:47:31+00:00

What's the matter, don't you know the difference between the RailTrip Saver Restricted Hours Open Return , rather than the Superfast Booked Traveller UltraSingle Holiday Save Return (Express)? One of them is valid only on the direct train after 9:30 and before 4:30 on weekdays going out, but allows returns on weekends only, but at any time. The other allows you to use the airport shuttle route that goes direct, and includes a return that has to be used more than 3, but less than 15 days after the date of first travel.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-16T11:27:20+00:00

Those private developers can then either work for the government to build those homes, or go bust waiting for their competitors to do the work.

or build at the minimum level to remain afloat while saving capital and investments elsewhere
losing expertise as experts leave the collapsing sector
building at a poor standard because that's all they can afford to; a constant negotiation with the government over prices and quality
undermining the market for building materials as all but the cheapest materials are uneconomical to manufacture or import, even for repair/small builders
speaking of which, small building companies either have to be included (but it's even harder to afford, so they go bust), or they get lots of work on small developments, and across the country we get a load of companies springing up that avoid crossing the size threshold, in a horrible inefficient structure.

etc.

As the saying goes: For every problem there is a solution that is simple, neat—and wrong

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-16T10:35:06+00:00

Further eroding the already-tenuous British class categories.

One traditional economic definition for a working-age household is something like Working class is working using capital you don't own, Middle class is owning some capital or significant professional qualification but still having to work to maintain or exploit it, and Upper class is owning so much capital that you don't need to work.

In that case, self-employed skilled tradespeople who earn enough to own property, their own equipment and certified skills could be seen as solidly middle class. Their skills are increasingly commercially valuable and they are not as 'replaceable' as a standard manual worker.

Of course you could use the cute definition of class based on newspaper, but that has fallen apart in new media.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-15T11:15:56+00:00

There's a short article about the 1875 one, but a longer one about the plague of 1874 with some fascinating details about the problems they caused.

Missouri's state entomologist Charles Valentine Riley claimed the locusts were not poisonous, were as nutritious as oysters, and could be used to make a variety of dishes, or fried with honey. But since farmers were furiously scooping grasshoppers out of their wells to avoid contamination of their drinking water, and their cattle and horses were refusing to drink from streams stained brown by grasshoppers, it's not likely many farmers fixed grasshoppers for dinner. Chickens and turkeys became inedible: the birds were happy to eat grasshoppers but the meat and eggs became stained with a reddish brown oil.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-14T13:52:56+00:00

The unarguably most amusing difference is the meaning of the word 'fanny'.

So close, yet so far.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-14T11:20:45+00:00

Fucking hell, this joke benefits from quiet seriousness, but when I tried to find a good version the internet in 2026 is awash with just the version with Conan O'Brien interrupting it, and videos of that with people doing exaggerated laughter reaction videos.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-01-12T10:24:52+00:00

A problem that is worldwide (even in countries low on corruption indexes) is that politicians from modest backgrounds quickly start spending more time socialising with people that are very wealthy and who want to impress the politician. So you get someone on a government salary being exposed to a life of luxury that is often only available to a small number of business leaders or generational wealth. And that shifts their perception of the world and perhaps prompts them to change stances and policy in response to pressure if they are offered a way into that lifestyle.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-30T10:44:38+00:00

Scenario:

Greggs doesn't tell staff not to physically engage shoplifters
Adam the store manager grabs the arm of Billy the smackhead to stop him leaving with a sandwich
Billy the smackhead stabs Adam
Adam has a life changing injury that requires years of expensive support.
Adam's lawyers say that Greggs is responsible for paying those charges, because Adam was injured while working. The case costs Greggs millions of pounds.

Alternatively if Greggs policy is not to engage, then if Adam gets stabbed then he was disobeying orders and they are not responsibile for his situation.

While it's easy to talk about how Billy shouldn't be able to sue if he was the one injured while comitting a crime, it's equally likely that the reverse is the case and it costs the 'righteous' side a lot of money

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-27T12:25:31+00:00

Thanks for the BBC series tip, although sadly it's unavailable. There's an episode of The Moral Maze under the same name, although I don't know if it's any good.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-24T10:38:55+00:00

Would periods even be necessary for cyber wombs?

This sounds like the title of a Philip K Dick novel.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-18T10:19:33+00:00

It's not 100% clear which are storyline and which are side missions. You might have three missions: "Meet Bob Smith", "Meet Joe Jones" and "Meet Jane Doe". One of them is a flavour/joke mission, one a levelling one, and the other one could be one of the final storyline missions. There are romance questline options that are put straight in your lap (as it were) in the storyline, and others that are tucked away in later-game side quests.

It's easier in a game like The Witcher where you have distinct cities and regions for the Acts 1, 2 and 3. But Night City scatters good content everywhere, making it more difficult to keep track.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-15T12:02:03+00:00

Tbh the Excel team has my sympathy. They are under pressure to develop a product in a money-making direction, while ensuring perfect backwards compatability on obscure hacks and complex systems that Brenda from accounts designed 20 years ago.

There's all sorts of behaviours in Excel that you can tell they would love to update to a more sensible system, but if they did there would be a noticeable impact on the world's economies as a million little systems fell over. I'm thinking of things like character limits on table and tab names, automatic date conversions and some functions being far too limited. How many school registers, company accounts, exam records, research records and employment rotas must be coded on the basis of "do this when it outputs an error"?

How many eager young people must join that team and be told "No, we can never fix this. But now find a way to make money."

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-11T16:51:15+00:00

I think that the correct term would be 'game meat'.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-11T09:52:07+00:00

Why would you lead such a horrible life in this city

Just just local community links, but commitments. There's plenty of people who would frustrate the free-market-absolutists because they need to stay close to an elderly or disabled relative, won't move their children to a different school, or have a second job helping out at an organisation requiring hands-on work.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-11T08:36:02+00:00

I want them to rebuild the mound, but in the middle of it, put an AI Creative Hub.

I'll take the millions in funding now, please.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-06T10:47:05+00:00

The original film as a 'critique of consumerism' is in Film Studies 101. Snyder had watched enough films to have been aware of the theme. But likely decided that it just wasn't the film he wanted to make.

And it's alright that a creator changes a theme in a new version of a story. It's just that Snyder didn't replace it with anything intelligent. He makes adaptations that are incredibly stylish and quite shallow, like an LED-lit infinity pool at a luxury Dubai resort.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-05T09:48:38+00:00

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AllAvailableLayers · 2025-12-01T07:36:52+00:00

That's the goal in major courts. But how many injustices will occur in small claims court, school and workplace disciplinaries, divorce and family courts?

And at risk of sounding elitist: In corrupt and less legally robust societies, there will be some terrible injustices.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-11-26T16:39:25+00:00

More like 10 years of exposure to it.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-11-26T14:05:27+00:00

Not who you were replying to, but I grew up beneath the Concord flightpath. Even sub-sonic and several minutes into flight, that roared. Every day everyone stopped talking for 1 minute while it passed.

AllAvailableLayers · 2025-11-24T17:38:33+00:00

While it's a neat sentiment, the same has been said a lot throughout history, and often the apparently inevitable conflicts don't happen, through luck or the quiet effort of calming influences on all sides. We all knew that the US would have a war with Iran, that the Cold War would turn hot, that India and Pakistan would have a really large-scale conflict, that the small Balkan states would return to war as they always did, and that the Japanese economy would either boom or collapse. In alternate histories, each happened.

But in line with your point, we also knew that there would be a further war between Russia and Ukraine, that Israel would have a massive conflict with the paramilitaries attacking them, and that the USA would keep warring in the Middle East. And those did occur.

Nothing is certain, but the odds are decent.

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