No gambling, one of the rules.

Takes a long time to close sales like that… Although I suspect paying above market rate for things would help grease the wheels.

My whole org is down for the count. 100k+ employees got a free day off (at least those fortunate enough not to be in IT support lol)

From The One Sentence Persuasion Course by Blair Warren: “People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies”

I’ve found this helpful when trying to convince anyone of anything. The book breaks it down more, of course, but is probably not worth reading Vs the various summaries you can find online.

My summary, at least what I took from it is that you must try to understand the person you are negotiating with/pursuading. Figure out what they want, or what they’re afraid of, and offer that.

What??

Wait, it’s all regex?

Always has been

Yes, but that doesn’t mean they would be able to entirely make a new habitat habitable for them. You can’t dump a beaver in the Sahara and expect it to survive. Even if they did, like I said the impact on the preexisting ecosystem also needs to be managed or you just trade one problem for another.

You don’t have to do this in Botswana because the elephants are already in Botswana…

The last time elephants naturally lived in Europe was thousands of years ago. The climate was very different and there wasn’t the same level of human occupation. Yes the vegetation and landscape would need to change, and I’m not sure why on earth you think the elephants would do it?? There aren’t a lot of elephant ecologists as far as I’m aware. Plus the effects of releasing elephants would go beyond the effects on the elephants themselves, there would need to be management of other species that may be impacted by moving elephants in to avoid other damage to the ecosystem.

My point is the elephants already live in Botswana, releasing them into Europe without a managed environment wouldn’t necessarily be good for the elephants.

Very true! Although to be fair there are many conservation-focused nature preserved in Europe where a variety of animals live. Outside of their natural habitat some degree of human intervention is necessary to keep them alive so perhaps just having elephants roaming the Czech countryside isn’t practical… Or perhaps I don’t know what I’m talking about and they’d love it!

The Europeans of today do not have any way to influence what the Europeans of the past did.

There are certain people I know who have a very distinctive smell that I would recognise… But realistically I’d have to get very close to reliably smell it.

I’m not sure my income can support a full time student and full time layabout lol

ML is not good for coding, it is good for approximately solving very complex problems.

Makes absolute sense.

Yes, I think this illustrates the point more than provides any useful advice. I don’t know before I sleep on it if I’m going to sleep well, so how do I choose?

The world needs to radically change for that to be possible. And it should!

I don’t actually thing you’d manage to swallow any of the molten iron…