StringJunky

I think your body's temp responses are geared to maintaining homeostasis in the brain.

I use uBlock Origin in Brave browser and it's clean as a whistle.

Google 'old tom style gin'. It is juniper berries and gin.

GOPcare.

#MeToo.

I find this satirical view from Philomena Cunk quite funny: "“Newspapers are a sort of paper version of Twitter for your nan. Apparently, they still exist, but only outside petrol stations near the briquettes, behind little plastic windows, like a little news zoo. Newspapers were how people in olden times found out what was going on the day before. The words in the newspaper would be made up by people called journalists. A “journalist” is what we nowadays call a “content provider,” someone who copies and pastes what people are saying on Twitter and puts it into sentences, and it’s those sentences that make Twitter into news. But in newspaper times, people in the news didn’t just type up what they were thinking and doing, journalists had to actually go out and find out what was going on themselves, usually by hacking people’s phone messages. It was a different world.”

Just saw this in my FB feed. It's different to how I imagined it. I pictured a collision of solids with fragmentation and gravity doing its stuff after.

An important step to imposing authoritarianism is to strangle the dissenting media. The other step is to mess up the system enough, and then appear to be the only one to be able to fix it. Then, the public will accept anything better than what they are in at the time, which will be the new dictatorship's agenda. At that point it will be a fait accompli.

My grandad, who was a chief technician on Avro Vulcans loaded with Blue Steel nuclear standoff bombs then, said he was on 24 hour standby at that time. He said it was very close to happening.

Spiny Flower Mantis.

Is it better to have a dictatorship without physical resistance, and all the other tools of applying political instability? Does one passively accept being coercively entered into a state like Russia, China or NK? I'm ignoring whether it's left wing or right wing because the end result is the same on the citizens.

Looking at the incoming US administration as an example. Does one have to passively accept that a democratically elected government that turns out to be subversive, seeks to undo the checks and balances of its country's Constitution, remodelling it to create a long term dictatorship and leader beyond the normal time limit, have the ethical right and mandate to do so?

It's like website companies that state in their privacy statement "We and our 6457 business partners take your privacy and data very seriously...."

Ok. Ta.

I just looked and 5mm or 10mm mild steel is used for BBQ hotplates. OP Can you mod the top to take a 5 or 10mm steel plate and have the necessary seal? I'd be inclined to use 10mm.