StringJunky

I don't think freedom to harm others is in the Constitution, they should realize.

Some food for thought, maybe: https://www.thelightbulb.co.uk/resources/5-reasons-why-my-led-light-bulbs-arent-lasting/

Sorry, I read it the wrong way... the limitations of reading text.

It's easy and consequence-free to be an armchair military tactician with hindsight to work with.

Read some of the upgrade blurb and spam should go down.

What was that saying: 'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

Lets just forgive them the most audacious attack in living memory, dig three thousand graves and forget about it. I think not. Nobody knows the consequences of their "solutions" until they are carried out.

As long as one is absoluteley sure it's not smouldering in any way. I wouldn't bring spent charcoal in, just to be safe; it can produce carbon monoxide if stll glowing unseen. You probably meant that anyway, but I'm just highlighting that point for those not familiar.

If the top topples, the lower parts have no chance. When Ghani fled, that was it. It seems to be his poor timing that has caused this situation unfolding worse than it needed to. My overall feeling is that not enough Afghani's are prepared to fight with the same conviction as the Taliban, so the end result is predictable. Is the lesson that we need to totally overrun a country, like the Allies did to Germany, in order to put into effect durable, peaceful change?

Luck and environmental selection pressure brings them into dominance, They can come from anywhere. Wherever there is a virion, a mutant can arise from its replication. They don't have to 'learn' to be resistant, derived from a series of external pressures, a perfectly resistant mutant can also just happen to be spontaneously generated... it got lucky.

Cheers guys

You think it will be persistent and ubiquitous, like flu and other common respiratory pathogens now? Is there too strains now? What factors tell you that herd immunity is off the table?

They are solutions conceived to fix a problem, which they then see if the data agrees.

It wouldn't be practical for domestic laundry and it's potentially dangerous in unfamiliar hands. You do have an immune system and microbiome to keep the little critters in check. A maximal aseptic strategy is not good for your long term health.... mental or physical.

Yes, chronic use can play hell with micro-memory, can lead to frequent distractions of thought and feeling ambivalent about things, causing indecision.

The forum software does not show names when one can plus or minus a post. If there was a like-only option, ala Facebook, then one would see the names. The mods felt showing the names of those who disapprove was not a good idea... IIRC

Putting @Sensei should alert him.

I'm reminded of Douglas Adams snippet in Salmon of Doubt:

`Generally, you don't just post a url. The url is added to a body of information at the end. Things get complicated with personal blogs and websites because many use their membership just to encourage traffic to them aka spammers.

People who identify in between genders, or spread across them, will probably have the hardest time because, even amongst some of their peers, they may be told to "make up their minds" which group they fall in.

Right, that could cause diffusion and desaturation of the viewed scene. If it's a phone, you could try shading the lens with your hand or something to cut off incoming side light, which gets scattered in the lens, softening the image. A neater solution would be a lens hood. They seem quite widely available. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-ULHmobile-Ultimate-Mobile-Phones/dp/B082VKFDDD

The first one probably used a polarizer.

Yes. We are genetically hard-wired to to sub-classify ad infinitum everything when describing our experience, so this idea is a natural extension of how we actually behave. Unfortunately, tradition is the counterforce to things changing as quick as we'd like.

Talking solely in terms of two sets of chromosomes is not describing things properly. For sport,I think we need a set of classes that are not based on gender, and compiling pertinent parameters suitable for each class. I think it reflects the continuum nature of gender differentiation