Mary Thomson
Scientist, Scot, UK and US citizen, now living in New Zealand. Opinions expressed are my own. If you don't like 'em, think up your own stuff.
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- I think Hodges is with the Mail on Sunday. I remember him getting shirty with those of us who didn't grasp that that's entirely different from the DM.
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- So ... are you looking for recipes, or what?
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- Huge opportunity here for the LibDems, I would think. And for the SNP if they get their act together.
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- I know what you mean here.
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- Yup, or a giant pile of sand.
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- Bear in mind that Scotland has been a net exporter of people for hundreds of years. I exported myself to the US in the 80s, for example. They want to know if "where you're from" is a place they might like to move to.
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- Former battery scientist here. Yeah, once a lithium battery gets going on that scale, you just have to stand back and let it burn. Unless you have a very, very large powder extinguisher handy.
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- To quote Bruce Schneier: “If something is free, you're not the customer; you're the product.”
- 🔥 "The idea of Canada joining the European Union is ambitious, but it follows a certain logic. Canada meets the Copenhagen criteria (rule of law, democracy, market economy) and shares the fundamental values of the EU."
- I assume that the point is to put the wind up Trump and his gang. As a Brit who lived in the US for 30+ years, I enthusiastically endorse this idea.
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[Not loaded yet]- Oh, the old GET TO THE WOODS line! I'm not falling for that.
- It says right here he died at 77
- Born in 1963. No sign of a death announcement.
- Mate, Conan Obrien is 62. And still seems to be alive.
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- Jojo Rabbit. No, seriously.
- *sighing, head in hands* don't send death threats to will stancil, guys
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- How coherent was the Vietnam War, when you stop to think about it?
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- As long as we're being "real-world" about it, that's not how you find root causes. You may find some weird and wonderful correlations, but they won't tell you a damn thing.
- after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours
- pls clive palmer just build titanic 2 yes elon musk build rockets to mars and brain chips
- No brain chips. Too many primates have died.
- CNN - Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week. cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics…
- Don't they--I dunno--tie them down or something, when they're not in the air?
- This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.
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- If this were Trump's first term, you might have a point. But it ain't.
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- To be fair to the ramshackle constitutional set-up in my country of birth, Johnson was booted out by his own party in fairly short order.
- I still remember the first time someone in Europe pointed to what looked like a little hill and proudly called it a mountain, no sir I grew up next to the Himalayas and I can assure you that is in fact nothing like a mountain
- You take that back, Ben Nevis is so too a mountain!
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- They must've got hold of some of my old PowerPoint stacks.
- RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
- Can the vaccine manufacturers sue him for defamation or something?
- europe has many wonderful foodways (i love greece and greek cuisine!) but “european food is uniformly better than american food” is a crock of shit and only holds if your knowledge of american food and foodways is what you’ve seen on TV
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- Don't get Mexican food in New Zealand, either, unless you like mayonnaise on your slightly sweet tacos. The Thai food, on the other hand, is often very good.
- Just got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.
- Very sorry to hear.
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- 1: anything out of or relating to Myanmar. 2: the most complex thing I carry around is my mobile. But I can do a reasonable hand-waving ac ount of how it works.
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- Bit unfair to Milli Vanilli there. They were just harmless lip-synchers.
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- Plus, it was executed more slowly and deliberatively.
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- It seems to me that analyzing and optimizing traffic flow *may* be a reasonable use for a specialized AI.
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- "...rabbit-themed group"?
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- For decades, Biden was regarded as a kind of hawkish foreign-policy genius. His behaviour towards Ukraine speaks against the "hawkish" part; he was all for evacuating Zelinskyy when the Russians attacked. Concerning Gaza you're right, he was plumb stupid.
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- "I used fat-free half-and-half, and the sauce wasn't creamy at all" is my favorite example of the genre.
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- Yes, we can, although American airlines still discourage it.
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- I live in New Zealand. I'm talking about 12+ hours in the air across the Pacific. You bet I'm going to stretch my legs.
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- Back before 9/11, some airlines recommended occasional walking around during long-haul flights to combat cramp, provided the seat-belt sign was off.
- ok whats a british food item that you actually really love
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- Straight-up white stilton without added fruit and sugar is lovely, though.
- Yorkshire pudding
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- Adding "...they tell me" at the end is a nice touch.
- Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay
- Where's poor, drowned Ophelia?
- Dude, Where's my Pope?
- Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.
- Alternatively, you could take it as a sign of your awesome fascistic powers and hire yourself out to "have tea" with other troublesome priests.
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- Colin Powell
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- And yet, if Harvard had caved, Trump would be doing a victory lap. Incompetence is sometimes just an excuse.
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- He's already caused a lot of trouble for Canada and Mexico. He's quite willing to let Russia take over a chunk of Ukraine. He's placing tariffs on China and the EU. The collapse of the US as an international player will have all kinds of implications, all over the world.
- He's still doing a fantastic amount of damage, though. We have to take that seriously.
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- Fair enough. That's not what I meant. But, looking from the outside, the entire process seemed very slow. I mean, I and millions of other watched Trump on TV on Jan 6th as the insurrection unfolded. It's hard to accept that he could not have been effectively prosecuted in under four years.
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- I don't see why Jack Smith couldn't have been appointed much sooner than he was.
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- Summary execution? No. But the investigation of Trump for incitement on Jan 6th was absurdly slow.
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- Fair enough. I hadn't considered that possibility.
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- I'm sure trans men will be targeted ins all sorts of ways.
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- I am not calling them women. I have no problem saying that trans men are men. My point is simply that the big sports panic is directed at trans women. The genital exams are directed at all women, cis or trans.
