Peterkin

As long as you're managing the condition, that's fine.

Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, cooking from scratch, and lots of time spent among trees. Simple is best, I think: less self-obsessing (which tends to be stressful), less remembering what goes with what and comes next (which occupies brain cells that could be more happily employed) and less effort to maintain (complication tends to cause high failure and non-compliance rates.)

Meh, a fern is a fern. Lots of plants haven't changed since his time. An he'd like something else, we'll re-animate some of its favourites. Wouldn't you, for such a lovable dino? Jurassic parks, yes. Too expensive (Bezos is building a space station, not a petting zoo) expensive, too extensive, too impractical. That's why I'd only bring back a few species that could take the place of some recently or soon-to-be extinguished species in the present ecosystem.

Pig-Footed Bandicoot, - because the world needs more marsupials. Ibermesornis - because it's blue Triadobatrachus - an amphibian to replace the frogs we're losing Aquilops - just to have a nice, herbivorous dinosaur around They're all very small, so that territory where they can roam free shouldn't be a problem. I always worry, when somebody talks about cloning giant prehistoric animals: Where will you put them, when the elephants and bison have no space? It's better to be extinct than to live in confinement.

I guess they have the Imperial/metric conversion under control by now. It'll be fine! We'll all be glued to our little screens watching it go through its paces, just like we did with the Voyagers.

That's why I don't take their loyalty for granted, nor their personal ideas of what patriotism requires of them. They may be wearing uniforms, but underneath, they're still individuals, to a point. Those soldiers (not active, I believe, but retired?) who participated in the riot didn't do so in their capacity as members of the armed forces, but as private citizens with a particular conviction about some aspect of a Great Again America. The crucial question regarding the actively serving armed forces is how the proportions work out: how many high- and mid-level officers side with the usurper vs how many side with the legally constituted authority, and only then, which ones are obeyed by how many of their troops. As for the veterans who were not at Trump's clambake, who know how they're all thinking, what they each want, how they would respond in a national emergency? That's a lot of people with combat training. Then, as matters military unravel further, there is the question of state militias, state and municipal police forces: who commands them, where their loyalty lies, whether they'll obey this or that kind of order. And since so many intransigent positions have already been taken, so much bile accumulated, so much propaganda spewing out of so many radios and websites, so many of the untrained, undisciplined, volatile civilian population is also heavily armed.... Martial law might not be as neat as simple as the man who invokes it imagines.

There are too many of us, we want too much and we're all barking mad.

It's their way or the highway.

'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd! But I can't stop the stuff I don't want jumping up on my screen every five minutes, demanding action or attention or stroking. And they're all hideous greedy bandwidth hogs! A company with sense and regard for its customers would offer different packages to users with different requirements, rather than stick everyone with all of it.

What am I to do with Android apps? I need a decent word processor, Photoshop, email and internet connection. At my desk, in my house. Preferably word processor, photoshop, email and internet connection that I've already learned how to use and that don't ask me inane questions about whether i want to do things I have never considered doing. There must be other people like me, who only need their computers to perform a few tasks - well and reliably.

Have you ever tried cooking them in a microwave? In the days when that labour-saving appliance was gaining popularity, many new owners did. Works okay if you have have them in a water bath.... I've never seen one. What is the advantage? Doesn't it take more power to generate enough steam to cook eggs than it would to immerse them? I mean, it's not as if they'll lose nutrients the way spinach does. Is avoiding the risk of an occasional crack - which mine don't, as I lower them into the water tenderly cradled in a slotted spoon - worth $35 and one more appliance cluttering up the counter that has to be washed whenever the blender spits up a smoothie?

Of course - and they believe it. They always believe it. In this instance, however, I was referring to the soldiers' loyalty to the constitution and duly elected Commander in Chief. Each soldier may also have a very particular concept of their own nation, its laws and what that should mean. I am not at all certain of the inclination of most military personnel; I've only heard and read comments by a few. My fervent hope is that more high- and mid-ranking career military are more like Col. Vidman. Otherwise, there will be a very great deal of blood and fire in American streets. Anything can be written. Anything that's written can be obeyed - or not. Like those famous Commandments. Which is unlikely? A coup? (No, it isn't) Or that the army will support a coup? (That depends on who is leading it.) They existed, but were not implemented - partly by design, with forethought, and partly due to blind it-can't-happen-here faith. Unfortunately, only the more paranoid, chink-gauging and ruthless elements could prevent an overthrow by the other side - only, it's they themselves who stage it against the more trusting, optimistic, unguarded side. Oh yes - there are.

It would have been a coup. Only, the army was not ready to step in, short of an invasion by aliens or Aliens. Even though Trump had replaced some of the top brass with his own choices, the majority of army brass are still patriots. Even his appointees, there as elsewhere, were not necessarily loyal. That whole administration was so riddled with distrust and fear, as well as incompetence and corruption, that it was incapable of concerted decisive action. However, a smarter, more aware, more disciplined leader could wreak all the havoc he wanted, by the same methods, better carried out. That's what the red states are preparing for now: sideline the wrong kind of voter, disable their legal and political organizations, keep arming the confederate volunteer militia and wait for the next Goldwater to lead them. Maybe the Trump presidency was a weather balloon... A constitution is only as strong as the people who respect its intent. If only the weak respect it, and pin their hopes on it, while the strong twist its meaning to their own ends and disregard the parts that don't serve them, it's not worth the crumbling parchment it's penned on. In the end, the issue may very well come down to which way the armed forces - not just the top brass; all those officers and enlisted troops who swore their own individual oaths - decide. If they're split down the middle, you know what follows.

You mean that some expert on elections predicted that the UK population would swing back and forth between Conservative and Labour for the last fifty years? They have done that, and if they were reporting it accurately, the BBC was not "doing it wrong". An electorate being offered a very limited choice, election after election, by the same ruling elite does not constitute a political direction or entail even the slightest change in direction. PS I hope Mr. Mckenzie's eternal slumber is not too greatly disturbed by my tactless remarks.

Oh, groan, oh moan, Microsoft is telling me that Windows 11 is ready to download. Another buggy, prematurely released, insufficiently tested program that gloms up my bandwidth (There are six computers at this address!) so I can't watch Silent Witness for a month, that offers five new features that I don't need, don't want, don't know how to turn off and it causes at least one of my essential applications to crash. I'll resist as long as I can, but sometime, I know, in the middle of the night, it'll just break in, disable Bitdefender and download itself anyway. D'you ever feel like you're living in Masada?

In which instance? The OP one and my response: washed the stale water and spittle out of the bottle and off the rim. The other examples were self-explanatory.

second best Drilled well on gravel that's never been farmed is best.

When I refill the hummingbird feeder, I use hot soapy water and brush to wash it, then rinse with 4 or 5 changes of cold water, to remove the soap residue. When I refill my mobile water bottle, from which nobody else ever drinks and which, since its brief commercial stint as a mickey flask for rum, has held nothing but my own tap water, I settle for a quick cold rinse. Wine bottles used to get the full soap, rinse, boil, cool, rinse, rinse, rinse treatment. One reason I stopped making wine was all the damn washing.

approximately 1/4 of the volume. Too much less, and you don't have enough water for a good rinse; more takes a longer time; too much more, and the liquid is too sluggish for a good rinse. 1/4 - 1/3 is sufficient liquid to carry away contaminants, but leaves enough room in the container for vigorous movement. The scientific method trial and trial and trial. There can't be any serious errors - you're just looking for an optimal amount.

I think there may be lacunae in our children's education that have more significance to their adult life than the nomenclature of oval components.

Can I give them a down vote for linguistic transgression? With competent editing, that rant might have been a quite good comic piece.

At least we know now what wants to live forever, even if flopping around the floor in little pieces: this thread.

I wonder how many subjective meanings the word "objective" has.

Nice!

Okay. Thanks.