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[Richard Hakluyt]

Nick Clegg

BREAKING: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promoted his top policy executive, Nick Clegg, to an even greater role inside the company with the new title of President for Global Affairs

Such a disappointment 

[Sheilbh]

Apparently he's basically going to be one of the top three, which is how Zuckerberg described it: Zuckerberg for product, Sandberg for business, Clegg for policy.

Slightly crazy that from the 2010 coalition Clegg is arguably becoming one of the most powerful people in the world. Also interesting how Osborne and Clegg have absolutely minted it and been pretty successful since leaving office (Osborne through traditional London/establishment style roles - Clegg more interestingly), while Cameron's basically been beset by scandals and not very successful at selling his wares

[Josquius]

If Facebook are the lib dems just who is the far more unsavory element they're going into coalition with?

[Razgovory]

I felt that there was insufficient videos of bats eating bananas on the OTT.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8zhnXZdTFM   So here

[Richard Hakluyt]

Apparently he's basically going to be one of the top three, which is how Zuckerberg described it: Zuckerberg for product, Sandberg for business, Clegg for policy.

Slightly crazy that from the 2010 coalition Clegg is arguably becoming one of the most powerful people in the world. Also interesting how Osborne and Clegg have absolutely minted it and been pretty successful since leaving office (Osborne through traditional London/establishment style roles - Clegg more interestingly), while Cameron's basically been beset by scandals and not very successful at selling his wares

I imagine Cameron in his shepherd's hut, only let into the main house on rare occasions, dreaming of things that might have been.

[crazy canuck]

A video conference meeting was scheduled for 5:30pm tonight - I thought that was a bit weird but ok, and just noticed it is UTC.  Which is in a little over an hour from now  - 9:30am local. 

First time I have seen that - is UTC a thing where you are?

[Jacob]

Man, I'm out of the loop... I didn't realize Greenwich Mean Time had been renamed to UTC until just now.

[Syt]

Been for a while now.

[Jacob]

Been for a while now.

Apparently since before I was born 

[Josquius]

Cool little bit of local-Canadian news.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/12/durham-police-help-save-woman-3000-miles-away-in-canada

This being reported much over that way?

[Grey Fox]

eh. The perils of 21st century policing.

[mongers]

Man, I'm out of the loop... I didn't realize Greenwich Mean Time had been renamed to UTC until just now.

I think there's a technical reason why GMT still exists, even though it means the same as UTC. Might have something to do with who decides when to add 'leap seconds' etc or maybe incase the UK authorities decide to change GMT?

[crazy canuck]

Odd to set a meeting in a meeting 8 time zones away by UTC though.  Normally its done on Pacific or Eastern time depending on how you are talking to.

Never had someone in North America set it to UTC.

[Jacob]

Odd to set a meeting in a meeting 8 time zones away by UTC though.  Normally its done on Pacific or Eastern time depending on how you are talking to.

Never had someone in North America set it to UTC.

Probably a fuckup.

[Eddie Teach]

GMT is good enough for me. Like American Indians and the Ukraine. Pluto is a planet!