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That was Otto Chriek from The Truth.

Or the vampire in Feet of Clay who gets jobs in a pencil factory, as a sunglasses tester, making holy water, etc.

HOLLY: Alright! What's happening, dudes?

CAT: We're having a really nice time. I'm dating Marilyn Monroe and also I have another girlfriend who's a mermaid. She's half woman, half fish. (He starts licking and kissing a photograph then turns round.) It's Miranda, my girlfriend.

As she comes out of the water we see the top half of her is a fish, the bottom half is a woman.

HOLLY: Somehow I'd imagined she'd be a woman on top and a fish on the bottom.

CAT: No! That's a stupid way round. (He sticks out his tongue briefly and grins and waves.)

So it's a pseudo sudo?

Marmite is British, Vegemite is Australian.

(Apparently, there's a New Zealand version of Marmite too. Every day is a school day)

But playing Achilles.

It's not even a new thing: https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publisher-inserted-a-soup-ad-into-his-novel/

1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catwoman#Creation

There's Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung laptops too: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs

I assume that's what happens, but you know what happens when you do that!

From https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c

Your PC needs the following minimum system requirements for Recall:

• A Copilot+ PC

That links to https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#faq1

Copilot+ PCs are a new class of Windows 11 AI PCs that are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) – a specialised computer chip for AI-intensive processes like real-time translations and image generation – that can perform more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS).

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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