If I was Iran I'd have stockpiled many, many sustainable, mobile, hard to stop ways of mining the strait
If we can't get our oil out, no one else will either
US doesn't end this by stopping bombing
Like driving to a fairly accurate map you've been told you *have* to follow
Sooner or later you will hit something not on the map, which you won't have been trained to see, and this harm is CAUSED by adherence to the map
Of course, it'll still be your fault not the system's
Carl Sagan's ‘Pale Blue Dot’ quote is an argument for awe and humility but size alone says nothing about significance
My brain is the size the universe was at one point!
Likely being one of few or even the only species that can make that observation is itself an incredibly privileged position
If you are open to any form of insurance based model it means you haven't done the work on what sort of model or the metrics to assess it, which means you cannot possibly know it will be better
Ie the same unevidenced lazy c**p that gave us #Brexit
Yeah the bright spots on the gas clouds of the odd SN in a galaxy far far away seen on digital image frrom my scope don't really cut it
Those born in 1560s had a chance of seeing 2, if infectious disease didn't get them first
Maybe they're like buses; none for ages then...
#askanastronomer if you had a choice, bright big naked eye comet or daytime visible supernova?
A role sponsored by FIFA?
Expect life-expectancy to flatline and late cancer diagnosis to rise
"53% of claims featured remote consultations"
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This is great but there is a motivational issue: for many *who can't face / refuse a change of mind* are happy to stick with what they would see is fallacious if they thought about it, but rather, they pivot away when challenged; it's easier
Push it & it's anger + ad hominem all the way
Sadly this jonny-come-lately end-times fruitcake theology doesn't work like that
It conveniently predicts 'false prophets' so *when* it fails, it just goes 'Maybe Hegseth is a false prophet (which was predicted!!)'
So the rest stays intact and focusses on the next candidate...
Spoke this evening to a friend with parents in Dubai who heard some missiles landing - she's safer here in Leicester than home right now
Does it not occur to them that the best way to stop missiles at source is to remove the motivation to fire them?
Refusing US/Israeli aggression is openly de-escalatory
To come up with this trash so consistently, Reform must have a standing agenda item at all strategy meetings
Something like, 'What dishonesty will we use to promote racism this week?'
The media are going to need a lot of sedation if we ever get a decent naked eye comet or local supernova!
Oh dear
The cause of terrorism is not a failure to blow people up
Therefore the solution to terrorism is not going to be blowing people up
Seems there's a majority of voters who want a truly centre-left, *actively* Europhile, international law-respecting, non u-turning, non immigrant-bashing, civil libertarian govt
Labour aren't delivering this and now voters know it's ok to go elsewhere
They're right to wet themselves
What they are really scared of is the fact that their blackmail 'vote acquring' argument 'Vote Green, get Reform' is now seriously damaged
Don't like Labour on Gaza or EU - well, don't vote for them!
Getting Tories out by getting Labour in was only phase 1
I see Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus of WHO is still offering support to the US despite the administration's hostility
Very gracious and principled which is a lot more than can be said for...
We don't want them non-King's English speaking forriners coming over 'ere with their measles-ridden gun culture!
Talk about civilisational erasure!
This one might feature this Sunday!
They'll be even more disappointed by the naked eye appearance if we're talking about TRAPPIST-1!
The 'honest mistake' argument fails, even if true
If your level of responsibility requires not inciting murder as a 'never event', then doing it, even genuinely accidentally, proves you are unfit for office
If it happened once it can happen again, as you admit lack of control
No
Saying you won't be Truss is, er, ok but hardly reassuring: he really shouldn't need to tell us this
Like seeing your new GP who says unprompted, "I'd like to say I'm not another Harold Shipman"
A true academic would put out a reasoned argument in preference to an insulting rant on social media
Piece of litter in jaws of litter picker
Sunday thought: it doesn't fall to all to make big environmental improvements, but we can choose to say, "I picked up more litter than I dropped"
Common Frog seen through patio door glass
Frog waking from hibernation says, 'Hi'
Labour voters know what they need to do here - vote Green tactically
Trump spok on @channel4news.bsky.social 'not obligated to follow natural justice'
Maybe not but you just admitted that justice is not a concern of this US administration
Even its friends (inadvertently) admit its corruption
