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I had to run that one through AI ... You obviously had a dirty (or a guilty) mind.He must certainly have said "No,this is mine", meaning his stop. (I wonder what the Alzheimer's mortality rate would have been for taxi passengers if they had thought to include it in their survey)

Was that supposed beneficial effect of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere used to poo poo the dangers of an its consequenti increased greenhouse effect ? Is that talking point more or less put to bed or will they not be bothered to read the fine print and keep assuring us that it will be good for agriculture?

Ghee wiz.

" I didn't expect the brand name "Flora" would be known in America.Apparently it is branded as"I can't believe it is not butter" over there. I think its marketing of its supposed indistiguishability from butter goes back a long way over here-way before the internet ,so I can't find any of the old ads to post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_MacDonald (Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth -sure you won't get that!)

. He could teach us a bit about slipping out of hostlile territories disguised as a container. We are still stuck with woman's clothing in a boat to France. He has Melanie to welcome him home with open arms where our Bonny Prince only had Flora Macdonald to sweeten his dreams.

Richard Attenburgh starred in Rillington Place. Thought "gravitas" was a bit of a double tumble. With a name like that his family may have had previous experience with Madame Guillotine.

Would that imply that thrill seekers or people with an appetite for new experiences in general might tolerate a partner's interest in other people more easily(ie not be prone to jealousy)? Stick in the muds and dullards addicted to routine more so inclined? Too many variables to say?

A river across a pond?

Even the continents migrate. In human relationships,I think jealousy is (can be?) a function of insecurity. It is a pitiful emotion when it feeds on itself but that is where we are.God help us.(Elon won't)

That is how I think I had been using "thought" -as a "disturbance" in the nervous system.An idea being something of a refined or processed "thought" I do not know if this is correct or if I was using the terminology correctly-but it was something I had been ruminating on a while back. (an emotion being a "thought" that was processed in a different way) Emotions don't come out of the blue,do they? They have to have an initial stimulus,although I guess they (like ideas) can "feed off" themselves.

Well,maybe I was just spouting but we don't know what we might learn in the future . Of course any "unpredictability at the heart" would have to also encompass the statistical predictability (if that is the correct term) you refer to and which is apparently well observed.

Do you think we can even hazard a guess as to whether such an achievement is likely or unlikely? It might transpire that discoveries are made that are so fundamental that it might seem that everything that we have observed could be explained on that basis into the finest generality (if that is not an oxymoron) whereas we might arrive at similarly fundamental discoveries that lead to an assessment that no such applicability pertains. I think we have no way of knowing whether the workings of Nature are simple or completely unpredicable and complicated at heart. I don't even know which outcome is the more to be wished for.(the journey is said to be as interesting as the destination)

No,I don't watch much TV or films these days. I do have a friend who does security for some of the films in Ireland (one had Jennifer Aniston in it and I got bit of gossip on another famous actor ,Owen Wilson but I don't watch them much) "We" also provided on site catering for Richard Harris and ,I think Tom "the Yank" Berenger in "The Field". Harris specifically requested "no onions" but chef knew best. Is it just facetious to ask whether a "human construct" is a "fact " or a "truth"? Can it be either (or even both)? As an example of a "human construct" General Relativity might be a "fact" in that it was actually published as a theorem(theory?) but is it a "truth" in that it accounts for gravity more completely than antecedent theories? (A bit of trouble posting and editing this time-lost the first reply to @StringJunky ,couldn't recover any saved draft and see that I have quoted him 3 times,which I cannot edit either)

TIL we are seemingly going to need passwords to communicate with each other in Real Life. The secret codewords that scammers hateDeepfake scams might use your voice, but they don't know what's in your head. Five minutes of preparation could save your loved ones from falling for fraud.Words fail me.