I can't recall encountering a word for it, but it's gotta be a super common phenomenon for centuries. I read this fascinating book a few years ago that makes a division between professional copyists and amateur copyists... I need to revisit it to see what it has to say about copy errors.

(come to think of it, I didn't realize it, but we haven't had training on that since the early 2000s: post 9/11 but not only a few years was the last time)

OMG, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act! I used to have do training on that! One time, like 25 years ago, it was a classroom setting and I got selected to roleplay a guy that was gifted an expensive heirloom art object by an attractive client. I was at an ad agency. It was super embarrassing.

Bleagh! I've never visited but I have friends up there who generally make it sound great (in the summer), and I've often worked with guys at Shaw [now Rogers] for the past decade (you may curse me for this). "The Texas of Canada" is certainly a mixed bag, but I'd like to take it as a positive.

Are we supposed to read this to the Bloodhound Gang's Chasey Lain? Cause I can't help it.

How is this NOT a NYTpitchbot headline??

I don't know if I'd say we've moved away from it by design: Texas is such an ideal place for solar & wind (esp. along the ridge where the high plains drop off) that even our fossil-fuel loving Republicans can't oppose it. Though, they do tout our state as the ideal cryptomining environment ARRRRRRG

Fine for now, but just wait until 2029 when Elon pays $110 billion for it?

Yeah, our state (Texas) seems to think batteries can fix everything, so no need to upgrade the grid.

I assume we're talking 80, not a 50s serial. That was amazing. It's just so fun! Half of the fun is because of Brian Blessed! (and it never takes itself seriously). I was 12 and saw it with my friends and it's a coin's toss whether it was that or Empire Strikes Back was our fave film of the year!