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Yes. What I found also interesting is that the reason it seems to have been a one-off event is that sufferers became quickly too ill to go out and spread the new strain into the population. I presume that must imply a very short incubation period. But the warning overall seems to be beware horizontal gene transfer.

Try reading Hamlet. But also perhaps, see a doctor. Or a priest.

What relevance does chemical signalling between ants have to the technology of AI? If you are suggesting there is something to learn from this, you need to explain what you have in mind and how this would work. Or is this just another woolly notion that has popped into your head without being subjected to any analytical thought?

Ah, now I get it. It is when you decant from the tin into something else. As I generally use paint straight from the tin, dipping the brush into it, I didn't see what this was about. But I suppose this applies when one uses a roller and therefore has to decant paint into a roller tray. When I've done that it has been water-based emulsion paint, which is pretty viscous and doesn't seem to spill much (and is also easy to wipe up with kitchen roll), but with oil-based paint I can imagine spillage could be an issue.

I don’t understand either the problem or the solution here. Can you elaborate?

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Well they won't get it. But regarding Ireland, there is specific provision in the Good Friday Agreement for a "Border Poll". https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/irish-reunification This lays out the conditions that would trigger a poll and stipulates that at least 7 years would need to elapse after one poll before another could be held. At present neither the North nor the South is keen to hold such a poll. (The South would not want to take on responsibility for an economic liability with an entrenched minority of angry "No Popereaigh!!" Prods.) In Scotland, this preoccupation with independence referenda is known as the "Neverendum". We had a referendum in 2014 that was lost 55:45 on an 85% turnout, so pretty conclusive at the time. This had been described by both sides at the time as a "once in a generation" opportunity, though the Scot Nats have subsequently argued that sufficient material change has occurred (notably Brexit) to justify revisiting it. This is a fair point perhaps. However it is noteworthy that the Scot Nat government likes to demand the right, without showing much enthusiasm for actually holding one in the near future. The issues involved, notably finance and defence, are very thorny and the EU, which an independent Scotland would intend to rejoin, does not want to encourage it. This is partly for fear of exacerbating separatism in other parts of the EU (e.g. Spain) and partly because Scotland is far from economically self-sufficient. So I read this as a lot of posturing for their respective Nationalist bases, and little else.

Yeah it’s Hive. A fairly crap system to use, by the way, but that’s another story.

I am personally happy that YouTube persists in advertising pregnancy testing kits to me. Unless the algorithm is so subtle that it thinks I might have a grand-daughter in the family way (which I don’t), this suggests it has no effing idea who I am.😁 But I don’t have a TV and apart from a phone, a tablet and a laptop the only domestic devices connected to wifi are the boiler programmer and the thermostat. Hope there’s no mic in that!

That’s interesting. Is this a recognised term, then? I have never encountered it before. But then I’m British, where we talk of an Aunt Sally rather than a Straw Man. Perhaps there needs to be an Uncle Frank counterpart or something.😀

What is meant by “steel man”, then? I think of Stalin.

Steel man?? Did a bot write this or something?

Should be Misanthropic, really.

Best not to make too much of it. Like all trolls he craves attention. The BBC has done the right thing by quickly showing the actual, unedited footage of the incident, to compare with the Natalie, I mean Trump, version.😉

Hey, look over there, a dead cat!! Trump is trying to troll his way out of the public’s awareness of his Iranian disaster by diverting their attention. He’s also, bizarrely, been showing a doctored video of King Charles, made to look as if Charles just shrugged when somebody fainted during one of his visits. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2z9n8ew49o TFG is nuts now, that’s obvious.

Well it may never actually disappear completely, but there are plenty of signs already that mental illness is far better understood by the public than it was 30 years ago. For example what used to be called "manic depressives" are now known as bipolar and a person with a bipolar diagnosis is no longer someone most people are frightened of, as it's not uncommon, not threatening and doesn't involve significant loss of reason by the sufferer. Same with clinical depression, which is very common indeed, and with people on the autism spectrum. And then there are things like ADHD and OCD which are common talking points in normal conversation about people in one's social circle. Again, 30 years ago it was not like this. People are getting slowly educated about the range of conditions and that fact that most are not threatening or unduly disturbing.

I think people are often fearful of those with mental illness because some varieties of it can make their responses to communication unpredictable and hard to react to in a constructive way. The term "psycho" refers to a psychotic individual, that is, one who has lost contact with reality and reason to a significant degree, perhaps with delusions or hallucinations and so forth. This is quite upsetting to encounter and deal with. How are you supposed to respond if a person tells you there are voices in his head, telling him men in black are out to get him? Whereas with a physically ill person one can at least carry on a normal conversation, because they retain their reason. There are plenty of mental afflictions that don't lead to psychotic behaviour of course, but I suspect one reason for the stigma is that people who don't know details of a person's condition may fear this is what they may encounter.

Sure but a proton is a composite particle, not an elementary one. If one consider compares the elementary particles, the quarks that comprise hadrons have a charge of either 1/3 or 2/3, whereas the leptons, like the electron or the muon have a charge of 1. There seems to me to be a strange asymmetry about this, though of course it is not a rule that everything should be reducible to aesthetic simplicity.

I expect that is so for its core voters, but Reform needs to persuade more undecided voters, concentrated in winnable seats, to back them if they are to gain enough MPS to form a future government. That becomes harder with an atmosphere of sleaze and illegality hanging over the party. The particular irony, Reform being a nationalist party, is that it evidently relies (illegally) on undeclared foreign money to keep it afloat. Orr even admitted in the course of the Channel 4 sting operation that Reform is unable to attract domestic backers, so has to resort to money from abroad!

So yet another attack on western democracy by our resident political troll. It's like a cracked record. The idiocy of suggesting Trump has any interest in democratic government shows the post is not made in good faith. (Oh and Carlson is a Putin apologist and Fitts is a conspiracy theorist.)

I suppose we need to look out for them to publish a paper on their findings.

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🚬🐸🍺 -> 🪿 Yes I think he will struggle now. Also the Tories are, for no reason I can fathom, doing a bit better now, plus he has Restore nibbling off bits of his target voter segment on the far far right. With a 1st past the post electoral system these factors and the air of sleaze and illegality that surrounds him and his people, I no longer see him getting many seats at the next election. I have always suspected in any case that Farage is happier attacking from outside than actually developing a real plan for government. He must be tempted to throw in the sponge and get back on the gravy train of US speech-making. Over there a lot of people will be happy to pay $500 a head to hear him tell them how Europe is finished.😆. And without Farage, Reform has had it. Blowjob Bob, Cruella Braverperson and Lee Anderthal have jumped from one sinking ship to another one.

I think you will find that attempting to bring disputes from other forums to this one will be viewed negatively by moderation. As for other forums, you have a search engine. Based on my impression of you, you are not somebody I would recommend to another forum as adding a great deal of value.

I don't know how the weak interaction works. I'm just repeating what @swansont and @MigL suggested as a means for a WIMP to interact with an atom. But if the constituents of Dark Matter have magnetic properties I can imagine that could in principle have observable consequences.