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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.

Oh now that is interesting. I had thought Dark Matter was said not to take part in EM interactions. But if WIMPs can have a magnetic moment that clearly can't be right. So we have two possible mechanisms now: momentum transfer via the Weak Interaction, or via a magnetic interaction. But I would have thought if these things have a magnetic moment they might be subject to EM absorption and emission via magnetic dipole interactions with EM radiation. So they would not be 100% dark! Although.....thinking aloud here......unless there was something to create space quantisation, i.e. so that the energy of the state depended on spin orientation, I suppose there would be no absorption or emission.

A collision must imply a force of repulsion, surely? These are QM entities, after all, not billiard balls.

Would the Weak interaction produce a force of mutual repulsion then?

I know next to nothing about the physics proposed for WIMPs (if they exist). But if they are not subject to the EM interaction, in what sense can a WIMP "collide" with an atom of Xe? Something to do with the Strong Force? Or something else? And why would this create a cascade of electrons?

It’s a question of accuracy rather than sensibilities. As we have learned more about the early Middle Ages we have come to recognise a lot more was going on than c.18th and c.19th historians thought, raised as they were on the notion of the Roman empire as some kind of golden age. Details in the link I provided.

No historian speaks any longer about the Dark Ages. We now know they were far from “dark” in terms of culture and civilisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

The geology of the British Isles is like a Rubik’s Cube. It takes many twists and moves to unscramble it over geological time. The Tornquist Sea closed about half a billion years ago and there was plenty going on before that. Scotland is particularly nightmarishly complex.