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Depending on how active your site is, you should expect Google to crawl it anywhere between every four and thirty days. Sites updated more regularly tend to be crawled more often, given Googlebot tends to hunt for new content first -Google

Better hope the last picture is a nice one.

Memory gives us the flow of time. A friend's mother, who is about stage 3 of 4 Alzheimer's has a memory of just a few minutes, is repeatedly executing the same thoughts and actions. Every minute she hums, before that it was "Oh God". Gradually steering towards a single perpetual moment, surrounded by nothing.

I imagine a clear sky out into space and the photons reflecting out into space all the visible events occurring on Earth, like a never ending movie. We are the stones thrown into a pond, and our actions are the ripples on the water, which move through time long after we are gone. Even when we are dead there will still be ongoing consequences from our existence.

It seems if you use a sawn off shotgun it will leave characteristic striations on the wad after exiting the barrel. If you've got the gun and they find the wad, I suppose they just have to match the powder trace chemistry on the wad and in the gun as well to implicate your weapon. A reloaded used cartridge won't necessarily get you off in that situation.

With rubbish.

If we had remained a common market instead of towards a common government, Brexit wouldn't have happened.

Aitch derives from French. Posh people follow that, hence the derision by them for haitch. The structural form of the letter H is derived from Latin, pronounced haitch, therefore, I would say the 'correct' pronunciation, if one is to be originalist, is haitch.

Pretty fruitless to proactively try to regulate language on others outside of a professionally-regulated setting. You are farting against the wind... it'll just come back at you.

You have to find it first and you may have to do significant disassemby, which you have to do covertly. Even an owner/leaser does not know where it is in commercial cars and diggers, for example. There may be more than one installed.

Professional or otherwise critical settings where it is imperative the language needs to be unambiguous and specific.

No, perdant.

Being a pedant in social settings is a fool's errand.

I would imagine that a would-be thief's compatriots would consider it a treasonable act, considering how valuable these are to their war effort. It doesn't compute. The manufacturer will know where it is as well at the login of a computer. Hidden trackers are in many vehicles as standard. At $7.5m each I think it's pretty likely.

GPS trackers. Smells like propaganda to dispirit their enemy. These are gold to the Ukrainians and they don't have enough. The leadership will be monitoring the positions of these vehicles constantly to keep them in useful positions. Got a six-man crew as well that you need to get to conspire together. It's BS.

It's snobbery. My favourite is "More bigger". Generally, I accept people are as they are... c'est la vie. Language constantly evolves, so correct usage is period-sensitive.

Here's me looking for a post by Janus! LOL!

I also noticed that what is considered slang or dialectic in the East Midlands and East upwards are often Scandanavian in origin.

Think of the police using "zero, alpha, tango" and all that jargon... for the same reason.

I think potential ambiguities are well scrutinzed for before standardizing mission-critical parlance in the armed forces and other safety-sensitive bodies. e2a. modified for clarity

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@CharonYThanks. @Endy0816 Good thinking, Batman. @CharonY Thinking about Endy's thought: are coronaviruses naturally zoonotic?

I haven't got a clue. It looks like they were co-dabbling in bat viruses.

Prof. Andrew Sachs (economics), who was on the Lancet's Covid 19 Commission, and Prof. Neil Harrison (molecular pharmacology) jointly suggest covid-19 may have originated in a US biotechnology lab and the technique shared with Chinese researchers, who then accidently let it out into the wild. PNAS paper by them: Do SFN biologists think they have a case? I felt this was more about politics, even though it's technically biology, so I put here because I think this conversation may well head in that direction.

Its all down to "consciousness" and our not appreciating its pivotal importance in understanding life, the universe and everything.