Aqarius

Pinker has been the Pangloss du jour for as long as I've known about him, only recently replaced/supplemented by Harari.

It's by design very verbose and "English"-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go "MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x", the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.

The contents of the previously unknown 35-page assessment could sway future war crimes trials of EU politicians for complicity

Now that would be a sight

Reminds me of Reagan, actually. That was more or less the response he and Bush gave back when a US ship shot down an Iranian airliner.

Gaza and West Bank surveillance and control systems are the proof of concept for dealing with climate change fallout.

Gobshite is silly and clearly lacks any linguistics knowledge, but the most ignorant are often the most confident.

Shouldn't that be "Gobshite are silly and clearly lack any linguistics knowledge"?

"The arrival of a train at La Ciotat", with sign above the screen sayin "the train is not actually here, remain seated".

semantically wrong

This, TBH. It's just speaking in third person. You'd think if it's not trolling, at least you'd know what a pronoun is, from a grammatical standpoint.

Just this outstanding example of acting, directing, and prop management.

Not so - fine gazelle!

And before the switch, they showed him speaking Russian so the audience could realise what a good decision it was!