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selwooton We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

I reminds me of something I read years ago. Maybe sometime around 1984...

selwooton The return of never-ending job interviews: 'It can go beyond the pale'

That's the exact opposite of what the link you included says.

From https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/12/beyond-the-pale.h...

As for the relationship between the two expressions, the OED has this to say:

“The theory that the origin of the phrase [‘beyond the pale’] relates to any of several specific regions, such as the area of Ireland formerly called the Pale … or the Pale of Settlement in Russia … is not supported by the early historical evidence and is likely to be a later rationalization.”