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In one area at least, there is progress: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/free-speech-rules-to-prot...
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Maybe that's true but there's also the down-stream effect of a persistent public voice telling us 'we should be ashamed of this country's (UK) past'. If accepted without examination, this view has rather obvious con
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Not Claude but ChatGPT - I asked it to pipe down on exactly that kind of response. And it did.
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> Don't like Farage. At all I love the way folk feel they have to apologize to HN users (guess which way the majority lean) when they recognize someone like Farage has a point.
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'hoarding more and more of the wealth'. Sounds very much like you believe in the pie fallacy. A zero sum game? Maybe that's not what you meant though.
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Well while celebrating, let's remember that the dream leans massively on the US. 74% of Europe's publicly listed companies depend on US-based technology services like Google and Microsoft for their core operations. And can Europe
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The model that netted a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Maybe but I don't follow your 'So ...'. Just who decides the qualification? I suspect that most here will agree with you. However in the interests of encouraging a sober analysis: https://www.villagenews.com/s
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w29320
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Meanwhile: https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-suffer-up-to-22-minutes-of...
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Interesting that this is happening in concert with "a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4% of the globe shows decreasing LAI (
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Very much a matter of defining 'themselves'. Our data in their hands. How do we know these people aren't the same incompetents who emailed a spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghan asylum appli
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China dominates US in 7 out of 10 major scientific fields(freewestmedia.com)
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2025 is 4th consecutive year of record fossil fuel demand(energyinst.org)
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https://ourworldindata.org/part-one-how-many-people-die-from... "Cold deaths vastly outnumber heat-related ones, but mostly due to “moderate” rather than extremely cold conditions."
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Is the text available for those who don't hear so well?
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Instead of cheap rhetoric, a few 'corrections' would have been more to the point. This isn't the MailOnline comments section.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1 'Net increase in land area of 2.9%' 'Land area increase in eight of nine atolls. Island change has lacked uniformity with 74% increasing and 27% decreas
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I won't put words in your mouth but given what you say - doesn't this imply calamity? So how do we explain why Net Zero is essentially collapsing? Why do a number of countries say one thing and do another? There's certainly
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While it's obviously true in some cases that science 'progresses funeral by funeral', some exceptions are noted here as in plate tectonics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
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Positive link between cannabis use and 'Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events'(heart.bmj.com)
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See also 'The Spirit Level Delusion' by Christopher Snowdon. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/th...
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Seconded! In my experience, Gov.UK does pretty well in general and am happy to say that as one who privately fumes about various aspects of Britain in recent years.
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Britain has a very generous welfare system it cannot afford and appears to be unable to even reverse its expansion. According to the Center for Migration Control, there are 1.15 million foreign born individuals claiming some form of in-work
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'actually combating climate change' is turning out to be more complicated than we might think. It appears that 'Contraction of the World's Storm-Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Ear
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i.e., IDC - information-free_comment. Thankfully comments on HN are mostly not in this category. You may well be correct but it would interesting to see where in your reading you made this decision.
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Not any longer but one might have thought of Britain as a theocracy at some point in the recent past insofar as members of the governing party would have put down Christian in the box marked Religion. On the other hand, in 2025, formal occa
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As you say 'probably. How do you know no simulations have been explored? Or is this an assumption that events somehow prove that suggestion? Some might take issue with that.
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So stale that ~750 folk have commented.
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Accepting this and purely as a logistic problem, how would you deal with Hamas who have in their basic charter made clear they don't want Israel to exist? Should they get the chance, their intention to repeat October 7th has been clear

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