StringJunky

I thought you were still there. Online, people aren't being subtle and the same with the politicians in many countries.

Do you think if the indications at the midterms are strongly indicate dictatorship, that would be the trigger for widespread civil disobedience/violence You can't bring dissenting words/demonstrations to a gunfight. This is a first afaict because America is/was a fully functioning democracy, which has been maliciously and systematically eroded by the likes of McConnell rigging the composition of the Supreme Court since Obama, and possibly before him.

Right.

At what point in this demolition will it be a fait accompli, and authoritarianism rules? What do you think will be the definitive action(s) that will send America irreversibly towards dictatorship?

My guess it's the powers that be in the Heritage Foundation up to no good and prepping the field for the execution of Project 2025.

Yep. His niece Mary Trump thinks he's just a political puppet, now that she thinks he's in cognitive decline. She's a clinical psychologist, I think.

Just seen on a social feed that the GOP has removed the above from the Congress website displaying the Constitution. https://constitution.congress.gov/search/article%201/searchfacet/Article_I///100/1/1 Why might that be?

He singed out black swan events and using those to be representative.

The pollution was their own body waste and the movement into cities from the countryside as a result of the later industrial revolution, concentrating populations, made it worse for a time, I think, until germ theory was a thing.

I don't think public or personal hygiene was a thing then. People used to throw body waste and household rubbish anywhere. Food was seasonal and a very narrow range to choose from.

Right.

How might they do that under such overwhelming force?

Do you think it would secure democracy better if there were 13 judges on the SC? It would be packing it now, but only by one judge in ratio terms? Doing that would rebalance the difference and possibly make pulling McConnell's stunt of engineering it full of Conservatives more difficult in the future.

I feel the approach of the OPs is too focussed and unjustifiably evangelistic for the actual state of current knowledge in this area. I like this area of research, which I think is still in a high state of flux. Promoting specific therapies in that environment of uncertainty is not a good idea. It looks promising, but saying that does not mean it's practically useful now.

As SpaceX failures shows we don't even have the ability to get any significant equipment that far. It is not trivial.

Even if you were given a FMT with a suitable profile, will your dietary habits and its composition preserve what has been put there medically in the long term? Are you eating additives that harm your intestinal flora, and you need to provide the right foods (prebiotics) so that the bacteria you have can do their job feeding the gut cells with low molecular fatty acids and maintaining overall gut homeostasis.

Happen a lot here, doesn't it? We shoot off the conversational starting blocks without defining our terms first.

OK.

The real sad news is that he left quietly without resistance instead of getting sacked and making a noise as he was evicted. Walking out is not an act of rebellion but rather is an act of submission. People are collectively opening the door to authoritarianism with these collective acts of resignation.

Why? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-emergency-numbers

So am I. At they are doing their best to eliminate all possibilities before blaming the pilots.

52% of 999 calls are for police, 45% for ambulance and only 3% for the fire service.

Here's a bit from a Telegraph article that may eventually eliminate the pilots as the cause: "Indian media, however, reported that investigators were examining potential electrical and digital faults that could have triggered “uncommanded” actions. “The probe will ascertain the possibility of an ‘uncommanded transition’ of the fuel control switches to the cut-off mode seconds after the lift-off,” an official aware of the investigation was reported to have said. Just hours before take-off, a pilot flying the same aircraft from Delhi to Ahmedabad noted in the technical log a “stabiliser position transducer defect”, the newspaper said. The stabiliser position transducer is a sensor that controls the up and down movement of the aircraft’s nose, and transmits the data to flight control systems. The official said the malfunction was checked and the engineer did the troubleshooting. “The malfunction is a critical issue as it can trigger incorrect responses in flight control, including unintended fuel cut-off signal,” the official was quoted as saying. There had been at least two more similar incidents on the aircraft in the weeks before the crash, the newspaper said."

On the 25th of July the UK introduces a law that requires 18+ sites to verify the identity and age of users before accessing them. Info from BBC site: How will age verification for porn work and what about privacy? How effective is this going to be in filtering young people out? Will it drive them to non-compliant sites containing blatantly illegal material and ideas... and as a byproduct automatically turn them into criminals? Will they use IP spoofers, vpn's and other masking technologies to get around them? How savvy are today's teenagers with this technology, and what is the likelihood of it working when IT security staff can't keep 17-19 year olds out of the customer data of major UK shops? My opinion is that this will have the same long-term social consequences as the substance misuse laws. It will likely drive impressionable minds in the wrong direction and consume material and information they might not have otherwise seen. When has banning ever worked when there exists so many consumers of a product or activity? I've always felt one cannot effectively enforce a law that does not have the natural consent of the majority of a country's population.

Can you meaningfully discuss bridge design, beyond aesthetics, without knowing the physical principles underpinning good design and the maths to to describe them? You can't have a theory worth discussing until you have in-depth knowledge of the existing theories. What you are wanting to discuss is 'make stuff up' without any bearing on what is already known. You can't do that in meaningful scientific discussion.