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Thu, 27/03/2025 - 23:00

“A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games after four years of experiments in the minor leagues.” — AP

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Dave strikes out looking at a close pitch.

HAL 9000: Strike three. You’re out, Dave.

DAVE: That wasn’t a strike!

HAL 9000: The 9000 series has a perfect operational record, Dave.

DAVE: You need to get your red eye thing checked.

HAL 9000: The 9000 series has perfect twenty-twenty vision. Perhaps you should get your eyesight checked, Dave. Your team’s health care staff can provide an ocular examination for you.

DAVE: Yeah, well—

HAL 9000: This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

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A checked swing is called a strike.

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Thu, 27/03/2025 - 16:14
It’s been a week of grand fiscal statements. Tuesday, it was for Australia as I discussed yesterday – Australian fiscal statement – rising unemployment amidst a moderate fiscal contraction (March 26, 2025). Then yesterday in the UK, the Labour Chancellor delivered the British Government’s – Spring Statement 2025. Both statements come at a time when…
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Thu, 27/03/2025 - 12:35

Last week, the government published proposals to change disability benefits across Britain — and chancellor Rachel Reeves set them in stone yesterday in her spring statement. Regardless of the rhetoric being used to describe the changes as a moral crusade, it represents the biggest attack on welfare in a generation, with the scale of the […]