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The world continues to be imperilled by the megalomaniacal looting warmonger squatting in the Kremlin. With the Springtime counter-offensive imminent, yesterday the UK freshly pledged 200-mile range cruise missiles. The longest yet at the invaded army's disposal. Gifted Ukraine as "a calibrated and proportionate response to Russia’s escalations ... [giving]

Heartbreaking. Chiefly due to those struggling to make ends meet ensnared by the lure of making life that little bit easier at the hand of ruthless criminals. But also because of how the bad name of such tactics can infect those of us trying to reach out in the commercial

I've noted the gravitational pull on Sales before. In 2022 & 2016 for instance. Now add to these leanings the discovery of an ultra-massive black hole. The researchers from Durham University found something so vast as to be almost incomprehensible; 33 billion times larger than our sun. The image up-top takes

Welcome to the hottest euphemism right now. Courtesy of Space X engineers. The title of this post being the term they use to describe a mission-ending explosion. They also initial-ise it. Forming the word, RUD. Footage of their flight today, the largest rocket ever launched, shows the moment in the

"Precision technology enables farmers to lower their input costs, increase their crop yields, and improve their productivity." Parag Garg, Chief Digital Product Officer, CNH Industrial I read this in a magazine earlier in the year. I instantly nodded, approvingly. Whatever its veracity - and it really ought have factual foundation

Having seldom tuned in down the years, I was nudged to view episode number 321 of South Park. As the above opening credits screenshot shows, the Worldwide Privacy Tour riffed on plenty of meme-ables. In this particular case here, The Magical Mystery Tour of The Beatles, 1967. To our main

Never one to miss taking a PR utterance of a global exec out of context, here's Ford ceo John Lawler. Discussing the billion dollar losses currently being racked up by its nascent 'Model e' division; "as everyone knows, EV start-ups lose money while they invest in capability, develop knowledge, build

Another piece of clickbait, and I learn about how nicknames from firstnames are formed. It was a short clip before I realised this provides Sales insight in at least two ways. Whether you have a nickname and whether your prospect also has one. I suspect the first organisation nickname most

I caught a 'reno' expert pass on tips for those wanting to get into buying a fixer-upper property. Namely one that can be 'flipped' at a profit after renovating it. One guideline for the first-timer was that brutal catch, the over-run. They suggested the time-span for typical work - redo