Semjeza

Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I’ll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:

The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.

Learning and making use of novel materials.

Think of “memes” as condensed ideology.

Good, we should have an ideology and let that influence the governments we choose (while we are forced to have any) and the actions that they undertake on our behalf.

You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.

But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.

Existence of copyright hasn’t even stopped that.

It is but a blugeon to control and limit the common people. And puts a slow on development and dissemination of culture.

I always figured it was due to vulgar culture not usually leaving written records prior to that.

So we get 37 plays written as popular culture, it makes sense that we get a lot of newly attested words used in the popular culture of the day.

The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.

Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.

Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.

I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.

But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.

Just make a TV series of adaptions of Pinter plays.

They’re basically all bottles, with a heavy sense of meance and "off"ness.

Oh, and Inside No. 9, which finished last year is all self contained stories with tight cast in often a single set. And it is one of the best pieces of TV ever.

Yes, that they don’t/didn’t have enough freedom is always a legitimate reason to invade an occupy a nation.

You could try Invidious, or another alternative front end.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget) too.

So there’s no version of the solar system where there’s only 9 planets. It’s 11+ lads.

If only there was some way to bring the physical infrastructure without the misogynistic social structures…

Sane use of hyperbolic naming, helps show your commitment to the safety of women.

I didn’t say don’t take him back to be processed.

I just don’t see the need for him to be cuffed once the police know it’s a skipping rope and he’s no threat.

As for “no big deal”, it’s also about optics and respect. A lot of law enforcement techniques are about imposing lack of personhood on someone and by limiting those impositions it shows that the individual isn’t a threat and is being treated as something other than a criminal.

A troubled teen runaway cosplaying as his dead teen crush cosplaying as himself cosplaying as a travelling actor cosplaying as a professional torturer?

But processed with the guy in cuffs?!

This is the sort of stuff that shows our bobbies are becoming ever more like Americans’ pigs.

One could certainly make the case that the two missiles into the sea near Cyprus were unintentional misses, which shows an attempt to preemptively attack. But even that was earlier the same day it all happened,

The strikes into other Middle Eastern countries, seem, especially early on, to be primarily targeting fossil fuel facilities, US military locations, and airfields.

So, at least to me - any assistance we provide to the US is aiding their war of aggression and belligerence, which is a repetition of Iraq. The British people deserve better than to be the back up attack dog of the US bully.

“The explosions came shortly after Prime Minister Keir Starmer authorized the United States to conduct what Britain described as defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites from British bases on the island.”

In Iran strikes Europe for first time, hits British base in Cyprus , which was one of the top results when I searched for the event to find out more.

Would you care to elaborate?

And which territory was that?
Was it a base being used militarily against them?