The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: I honestly don't know

[Euphony]

" I honestly don't know."



Frame it as a category and you seem not unsure but scholarly.

 

[crookedletter]

I'm more a Potent Potables guy myself.

 

[MillieDynamite]

It's about time to buy $ 1,600 worth of candy to be distributed to the kids at Halloween. Mum and Dad will have the same issues; kids from all over their town will come to their neighborhood, in droves, to get the good stuff.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm actually doing a Halloween costume for the first time in many years.

 

[Bramblethorn]

This is a very entertaining post. I don't understand a word of it.

UK readers let me know if I got any of this wrong:

A "consumer co-op" (co-operative) is basically a commercial organisation owned by its customers - think if a bunch of people clubbed together to set up their own supermarket rather than having some rich guy running it for his own profit.

The UK's Co-operative Group, aka "Co-op", is a merger of a bunch of different co-ops, which does retail groceries among other business. Earlier this year they got hacked, with major disruption to their systems and theft of customer data, and at least an attempt at a ransom attack.

A couple of other UK retailers also got hacked around this time, including Marks & Spencer. M&S had to stop all online sales for six weeks, losing an estimated 300 million pounds. So a lot of people had difficulties buying their groceries. The Hebrides are a chain of Scottish islands, and a lot of people there depend on the Co-op for their groceries, so the hacking crisis made it hard for people there to get fresh food.

Also, the Scots have a reputation for deep-frying just about anything.

UK has been heavily targeted by hacking/ransomware attacks lately, widely suspected to be Russian-backed. I do some work for a UK company and their IT systems were crippled by a ransomware attack last year; some of my payments were delayed by months because they had to rebuild their payment system pretty much from the ground up.