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Not enough for you to resurrect a 5 year old thread, just to dismiss it.

Look up rabies.

Yes of course a viral disease can kill you on its own. There are plenty of examples but perhaps the most dramatic is rabies.

Consult a physician.

..and was treated with appropriate respect by the monarch..... But in the Canada case there is aded, pointed constitutional significance, of course. Charles is actually King of Canada.

Useful additional background, thanks. A businessman? Surely the point about Carney is his previous experience as a central banker at times of economic crisis, rather than his dealmaking ability. Central bankers need to be good economists and people who keep a cool head and choose their words with care, to have impact without provoking unexpected reaction. (Exhibit A, Draghi: "And believe me, it will be enough", delivered with his reptilian stare.) They are also well-connected internationally, something Canada will benefit from as it tries to forge stronger trading links with other countries. Carney has got off on the right foot, it seems to me, by inviting the King to come and open Parliament. A pointed way to show everyone, Trump included, that Canada is not the USA and has its own identity and traditions. Since Trump, as a wannabe monarch, is impressed by the British Royal Family, this shot across his bows from the King may get through to him.

Look at this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/marco-rubio-germany-afd Rubio is way out of line here. The German constitution lays down criteria to prevent another Nazi party taking power - and the AfD has just triggered its provisions. He should stay the fuck out of European politics.

He met the AfD while over for the Munich security conference. And did NOT have the courtesy to call on the Chancellor. Foreign politicians just don’t do that sort of thing, especially when the country they visit has an election coming up. It’s interference all right, though obviously I wouldn’t claim it was in the same league as Putin’s sustained attempts to interfere. Very shocking, for the Vice President of what used, for 70 years, to be our strongest ally and firmest upholder of democracy.

Yeah but Musk and Tesla cars ("swasticars") are now a hate object across much of Europe. And from what I read, the AfD did not do as well as many people expected, so their intervention may have had a -ve impact - though it's hard to prove a counterfactual. Good point!

Vance and Musk most certainly have interfered, very overtly, in European politics. But I don’t know about Australia.

I don’t follow this. In humans, mate selection takes place before sexual activity. Women can’t shop around for who has the biggest todger. They only find out after they have made their choice. Don’t they?

A re-run of the Trump effect we have just seen in Canada. Quite a few right wing parties have made the error of copying Trump and, now that Trump has antagonised everybody in the democratic world, they are finding that was a huge strategic blunder. Trump is radioactive, politically. I expect rightwing populists like Farage, Meloni and Le Pen (or rather Bardella, now) will be trying discreetly to put as much distance as they can between themselves and Trump. 😉

I summarised the reasons early on in the thread, based on what the woman from the breast cancer charity told the BBC in the article cited by @studiot . It was to encourage as many women as possible to come forward and take up the offer of free screening for breast cancer, bearing in mind that some groups in society could be put off if they thought a man might be doing it. I was in fact interested to learn, reading about discussions about how to improve take-up of the covid vaccine in the pandemic, that certain groups with colonial heritage are markedly less trusting of the health service than those with long white British ancestry. This is not entirely irrational, as apparently some colonies were subjected to unethical medical trials in years gone by and the memory lingers. I had no idea. So anyway, there is a perennial challenge to get better participation from these groups. Using exclusively female radiographers for the programme seems to have been a way to overcome one potential barrier. Since well over half the radiographers are women anyway, this would not have been seen as something difficult to arrange.

The point is that none of us were aware of the background to what you were quoting. You did not make any of this clear. Furthermore it seems remarkably pointless for you to rehearse, on this forum, an argument from the British TUC Congress from 2017, without providing any context and introducing a number of misunderstandings in the process.

Of course not. It is the extremists who, if they gain power, can try to dismantle the democratic mechanisms of the state. Hitler did this. So did Orban in Hungary. The PiS party started to do it in Poland, until they were chucked out. And now we see Trump and his cronies doing it, with remarkable speed and focus, in the USA.

Aha. Alles klar. So “Congress” in this case refers to the British Trade Union Congress, which in 2017 was evidently arguing for the regulations on the UK national breast screening programme to be changed to allow male radiographers to do it, while still allowing women to ask for a female radiographer if they prefer. Very good. And now it seems, according to the BBC report, the British Dept. Of Health is considering this. Fine.

This is the second time you have responded with identical text. Is this a quotation, then? If so you should reference the source. Can you provide a link? Because, as I say, it seems very odd for the US legislature to be discussing British law and health policy.

But the USD or EUR value of your pipiruses may be only half what it was when you bought them. Or they may have collapsed entity because their founder is on the run from the police.

Have a look too at dimensional analysis. You can express most equations in mechanics in terms of mass M, length L, and time T. For instance velocity is distance/time so L/T. Acceleration is velocity/time so L/T². Force is, by Newton's formula F=ma, mass x acceleration. So that gives force dimensions of ML/T². And mechanical work, which is a mechanical form of energy, is force x distance, so energy has dimensions of ML²/T². The rule in science is the dimensions on the left side of a formula must be the same as those on the right. If they are not you are trying to equate apples with oranges, which is a nonsense, so you've got something wrong. A dimensional check is often a useful thing to do when you come up with a formula for the first time.

Yes, stable democracies, as opposed to the autocracies where you seem to think the people suspicious of crypto are located. I exclude the US because it is turning into an autocracy before our eyes - in fact may already have become one. Depends whether Trump eventually respects the courts, which at present he seems not to be doing. France and Germany are stable democracies as are most countries in Europe, apart from Hungary.

How is it possible that Congress, the legislative assembly of the USA, “notes” that there is an exception to the UK’s 2010 Equality Act, in relation to a breast screening programme of the British National Health Service? What is Congress doing poring over British laws and health practices , suddenly? Furthermore, at the risk of repeating myself, there is no limitation on men in radiography in general, in the UK. It is purely that they do not take part in the national free breast screening programme which is offered to all women, in order to reassure and reduce any psychological barriers that may inhibit women from getting themselves screened.

Why give up? Why not just read about science and learn a little bit about algebra, enough to understand simple equations? The mistake is to try making stuff up before you know enough for it to make sense.

Yes, as @Ghideon points out the dimensions don't stack up. Force has dimensions ML/T² , whereas on the right hand side of your first equation you have MLT. So it makes no sense. And then you make it worse by saying not only f=dmt but also d = mtf, when the first equation would imply d = f/mt. So the first 2 equations are mutually contradictory. You can't just make up like nonsense like this. It looks as if you don't have an understanding of basic algebra. If that is so it is very unwise for you to attempt to post algebraic formulae.

Lack of consistency is a big part of why Trump's tariff policy is a disaster. Also, the levels he has imposed are so high that nobody has any faith they will last, whatever he now says. So uncertainty is no longer something he has the power to dispel. His entire approach to governing is characterised by inconsistency, added to he which he lies all the time, so you can't rely on a word he says. But even if the policy were consistent it would be damaging to economic growth, which would reduce investment, most likely including green investment projects. I have some sympathy for your view that a reduction in mindless, ad-fuelled consumerism would be good for the planet. I remember during the Covid lockdown sitting in my garden enjoying the silence (no planes overhead, very few vehicles in the street) and becoming aware of the birdsong and the various birds responsible. I recall thinking that if this were the future it would help a lot with CO2 emissions and the world might be a nicer place. But I'm not convinced that making us all poorer would enable us to solve our climate change crisis. We need some major technology shifts to do that, which cost money.

Lack of investment in renewable energy. A large proportion of solar panels is made in China, for instance. Also, the lack of a consistent policy, that people can believe will be sustained over, say, a 5-10 year period, makes investors sit on their hands, because they can’t calculate any reliable rate of return. So that slows down the building of green infrastructure: electric vehicles, changes to the electricity grid, public transport, heat pumps…..