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They are touted as being good for deterrence (not military defence as such) I even wonder whether ,if we ever succeeded in complete nuclear disarmament we would be forced to bring them back to continue their present "usefullness"

I wonder if the fishing industry is in any way directly responsible for the degradation of those particular habitats. They might have to cough up something if they were(and pass it on to the consumer as well so they wouldn't even be out of pocket,I suspect) Over here ,in Ireland the farmers are being told they have to cut their emissions and they are digging in their heels (claiming they are being asked to do too much)

Yes ,I noticed that.Makes it more immediately practical I would think. I wonder if it is much less costly to maintain those systems than to develop them after they have been lost.Does the soil just get washed away and take hundreds of years to reestablish. I wonder if the carbon credit economy will take off as I think I saw mentioned there or perhaps it was elsewhere. Would be good if that system worked to the advantage of poorer regions . I noticed that the marshes in Essex (and elsewhere).were being flooded in recent years by punching holes in the sea walls. Would that be the sort of thing they have in mind?

This seems much better and goes into much more detail but they are "players in the game" (not that I would be a skeptic for that ) https://www.thebluecarboninitiative.org/about-blue-carbon

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/02/opinions/mittermeier-nicklen-oceans-blue-carbon-climate-change-scn-spc-c2e/index.html "Opinion: The ocean’s ‘blue carbon’ can be our secret weapon in fighting climate change" This is the first I have come across this idea. How promising is it? Can we "farm" the seas to sequester carbon from the atmosphere?

I think that was the sentiment at first Such a stout (and humiliating) counter attack was not anticipated. It is a very different ball game now but I still don't know what the (largely unspoken?) rules are. I want them to target Russian infrastructure in a tit for tat exercise but I cannot say if this is (a) wise (b) possible(c) ,Nato friendly(d)self defeating (e) avoidable Is it Russia itself who will take out Putin? I wish I had a better sense of what will happen

I think traditionally it was the Port(s?) In a military capacity.

Sure ,it is black and white but the perception might be more nuanced had Russia played by the rules. As it was/would have** been I expect Ukraine would have allowed continuing privileged Russian access to Crimea. As things have turned out I don't know if that is on the cards anymore. **had Russia treated its neighbour with a modicum of respect.

Crimea seems to be a grey area as (to the best of my sketchy knowledge,)there may actually have been a majority who wanted to revert to Russian control. But the "referendum" was entirely unsatisfactory and is unrecognized internationally(as was the covert "invasion " that preceded it) If Ukraine succeeds in regaining it I wonder how stable the situation there will be in the aftermath. If this war with Ukraine leads to a civil war in Russia then presumably it may be more difficult for Ukraine to stay uninvolved but I doubt a missile into Moscow would be in their interest.

Sure that is their only card At the outset it was expected that, (a) their army would roll in effectively and decapitate the government and (b) nothing could be done by Nato for fear of a direct conflict btw two nuclear powers Ukraine's balls and seeming intelligence has prevented the first outcome but nuclear escalation is a nightmare for the whole world. It is very ,very unfair on Ukraine but we have to hope they can see a way through this without provoking a nuclear showdown (which they might not get -perhaps they will just be abandoned in the immediate term if they are defeated militarily) Edit:what did we do for Hungary and Tzechoslovakia?

In my 70s.It is the first time I noticed it (yesterday as it happens) Perhaps it is an onset of dementia. I don't see why the habits of a lifetime should be easily cast aside.Maybe just a natural progression kicking in.

Is there a personality trait that depends on the degree to which a person filters their thoughts before they express them in public? And ,if so how many common types of filters are there and can they be classified? This occured to me because I felt I was noticing a tendency to "speak my thoughts" a little more freely recently and so the issue of a filter came to the fore in my mind and then I recalled that it is often said of some people (one public monstrosity in particular 😉) that they have virtually "no filter" at all.

Sure ,he is a victim too.You can be both victim and victimiser/exploiter. That is the whole argument over criminality. Revenge or deterrence /example.

It is "democratic" ,just not very honorable.(they have their 4 year mandate as per the rules then pertaining) I agree with a new proportional electoral system.

Moral superiority will get us nowhere.Russia has its own circumstance and this has lead to the present triumph of the bad over the good. We too have had our dark times and will likely visit them again (our trashing of the ecosystem and shitting in our own and others' beds is less cine graphic perhaps but probably as bad as anything the Russians have done.) Loose the dogs of war and prepare to be surprised. Had Putin been successful (as most ,including myself expected) there would have been a puppet regime in Kiev within weeks and the Soviet empire would have been half way to being reinstalled. We know how that felt.Miserable and sickly oppressive but not bloody. It is his failure to date that has exposed the total moral bankruptcy that Ukraine has had to resist-and which ordinary Russians have had to endure over the period of Putin's rule. In the end we may have to thank the Russian people for cleaning up their own house -and they will have cause to thank Ukraine and its allies for not allowing the madness that characterises the Russian political system to prosper and expand.

That may be so.But another possible method of choosing the leader would be to exclude the party membership and to let the elected members (some 350 in number) choose the new leader That would be around a 1000 times lesser percentage but the elected representatives (the Tory MPs and also Parliament in the round ) would have more validity perhaps insofar as they represented their local electors. I wonder what proposals there are to make the system fairer? The Labour Party would be happy with a general election now but the Tories know that tthat would probably bring about a Labour victory and a very weakened Tory Party -so they will try to hang on .

Well ,like it or not the Tories did win the last election and it is their prorogative to choose their (and so the country's ) leader. I suppose the problem comes when this change of leader happens a lot and also if the new leader takes the party (and so the country) in a direction that the country's voters did not vote for at the last general election. I suppose the party is free to change its collective mind as events unfurl over the years but any drastic change of course should mean that they go back to the electorate.(which is probably unrealistic unless they are forced to do so)

Tiny? What percentage normally?What percentage in the most recent period? Edit:perhaps you meant to say that Members of the Tory Party make up a tiny percentage of the population? At 170,000 that would be true but Tories (meaning those who generally vote Tory would not be a tiny proportion of the public since they have been in power for much of the last 60 years.

No it isn't.If true that is scandalous.

Have you a counter example? A moment when two systems are stationary wrt each other? (There is also the saying "This too will pass" which might give comfort to the Tory Party - or the country at large right now)

See you have πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει in your profile. I like that phrase and often recall it. You didn't do Greek at any stage did you? (I did but it didn't suit me at University-I didn't want to teach for one thing as my father was a teacher and of course I had to be different to him)

I had an inguinal hernia until the spring (when I had the operation) A surgical truss **can be prescribed in the period before the operation (never used it ) I was responding to "brace yourselves" and the truss came to mind as something a bit comical. I never imagined quantum tunneling might come to my aid in my time of discomfort but ,if my other (rhs) inguinal canal pops out I will be sure to mention it to my doctor. Thankfully my own operation was very successful and with no painful consequences-not an outcome granted to everyone it seems **it works to keep the intestinal wall from bulging too much.

Sorry,that one went right through me😀

Now you are just being half- double-arsed

This? https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-entanglement-has-now-been-directly-observed-at-the-macroscopic-scale#