Mike Ranson
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Mike Ranson
@ransonwrites
Treehugger who supports defence: these things are not mutually exclusive.
Tham gia Mayıs 2013
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In 2020, a resident in the Philippines entered his garage only to find this bat hanging there.
Known as Flying Foxes, these creatures boast a wingspan of almost 6 feet, making them the largest bats on the planet.
Though extremely large, the bat in this photo looks larger than it is due to forced perspective.
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@Nick_Pettigrew Saw this on BBC New24 about 20 minutes ago. In the same interview he slipped up and said "...in the General Election, next year..."
Next year.
They're going to take it right down to the line. Squatters in Number 10.
@Philmoorhouse76
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Sunak. Mate. You can vow to bring back dinosaurs, beat the Olympic high jump record, turn Lake Windermere into Merlot & colonise Jupiter by 2025 if you win the next election. But you won’t, so you won’t. Why not vow something less cruel and small-minded? If it makes no odds?
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@Rainmaker1973 I see your Asch conformity test and raise you the Milgram experiment.
openculture.com/2013/11/watch-…
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The Asch conformity experiments (1951-1956)
people conform for two main reasons: they want to fit in with the group and because they believe the group is more informed than they are
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@Mangosingh420 @Rainmaker1973 It broadsided the blue bus, so it's hard to see. It was a blue on blue!
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Always pay attention to the sea
This is what happened today along the Sinamale bridge, connecting Male' City to Hulhumale in the Maldives.
[full story: buff.ly/3OFzrzH]
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I would also add that new car sales fell off a cliff over a year before Covid hit. We are now several years into a completely irreversible decline in consumption. Causes are many: demographics, the end of the economic model, political ossification, etc.
Joey Politano 🏳️🌈@JosephPolitano
@Moritz_Wichmann Lockdown, fears of follow up lockdowns or rule changes, plus a really weak consumer recovery
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@MARCHANTK @GaryLineker Also the ocean temperature. The "It's just summer" trolls don't understand that the North Atlantic is experiencing a marine heatwave which is killing sea life. Next time they go to the chippy they might notice how expensive their battered cod has become. Short supply ⬆️ prices.
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@GaryLineker It's not just the air temperature. Which is boiling and ahead of even scientific worst fears . Its the ground temperature. How can anything grow at 50 plus to 60 degrees
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Yeah, it’s a bit hot, but it’s summer. Let’s keep drilling for new oil. Who cares about about our kids and their kids’ future anyway?
BBC Weather@bbcweather
The heatwave in southern Europe intensifies further today/tomorrow Here are some of the forecast peak temperatures Many coastal areas will remain a touch cooler. Nights remain hot too bbc.in/3DgzlIl
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Bloodletting did not work, but doctors continued with it long after they knew that.
Interest rate rises clearly do not work to control inflation, but the Bank of England is continuing with them, nonetheless.
Is the Bank now the quack doctor causing harm, rather than good?
Richard Murphy@RichardJMurphy
We face a cost-of-living crisis created by events outside the UK triggering rates of inflation that many in this country have never witnessed before. In the face of these rising prices the Bank of England has increased the price of money itself. This is bizarre. A thread……
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@CovertShores Ah, didn't realise that was a payload.
Would it be a realistic option for deep sea recovery of, say, missing submersibles? 👀
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@CovertShores What are the advantages? More volume without increasing overall length? Redundancy?
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@nicholadrummond Can't read that. Feel like I'm having a stroke.
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Having followed the Russia's Special Military Operation for the last 16 months, very few new isights have come to light. Instead, we have re-learned a number of important older lessons. This list is by no means exhaustive.
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The US Navy is expected to roll out a new, conversational AI program “Amelia” that is capable of resolving tech-support queries from marines.
Check out this article to read more👉 marineinsight.com/shipping-news/…
#Shipping #Maritime #MarineInsight #USNavy #Amelia
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@TonyJuniper @BBCNews Warm is good weather but hot is bad weather, just like storms and freezing and droughts. We misuse the word 'hot'. Ask anyone who has to live and work in +30° temperatures, like in Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Australia, Central and Eastern Africa... they'd love it just to be 'warm'
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Dear @BBCNews could you please stop saying how pleased we all are with continuing dry, sunny & hot weather? Our rivers & wetlands are dying & wildlife fading away. We need RAIN. It is good. You can’t make the weather, but please stop saying global heating is a positive thing.
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@ptaipale @sarahrainsford Indeed. We don't need to give this the oxygen of publicity, because that's what Putin is hoping the West will do: he wants Europe to feel fear at the idea, and for a fearful public to demand its politicians step back from supporting Ukraine.
Won't work, but that's his idea.
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@sarahrainsford But then again, we don't really believe that Lukashenko's hands are anywhere near any nuclear buttons. He's just a sock puppet of Putin. Belarus is under occupation.
So we'll rather downplay the worries Putin is trying to create. He has nuclear weapons, but he can't use them.
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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is frustrated that Europe is ‘staying silent’ about Russian nuclear weapons being deployed to Belarus because ‘they don’t take it seriously’
‘Nuclear weapons in the hands of a crazy dictator is very dangerous’, she told me in Warsaw
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Stuka for sale. One careful owner.
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A video published by the Ukrainian General Staff reminding Ukrainians for the need of operational security regarding the coming counteroffensive...
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@thinkdefence @rude_mechanic @JakOSpades @shashj @CrumbMontgomery Not much different to Skinner's pigeon guided anti ship missiles, in that respect, and we wouldn't consider them autonomous.
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@rude_mechanic @JakOSpades @shashj @CrumbMontgomery I visualise Brimstone as pattern recognition, against a library of patterns, and a set of rules about what to do next. It is clever, but it is structured, logical, and repeatable within a narrow set of outcomes
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@harry_lye Clickbait. Intentionally reporting wrong information generates larger numbers of views/clicks/comments but algorithms don't distinguish between criticism and praise, so you still get boosted. Eg, you can find videos talking about T45 and showing pictures of Horizon: same reason.
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@combat_boot @bealejonathan The only "cohering" I ever did involved duct tape or vaseline. Sometimes both at the same time.
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@bealejonathan Audience Centricity? That sounds like something I made up in a spoof blog or tweet. Maybe a bit of Cohering the Synchronicity of Audience Centricity to make it bit better but pretty much peak mil buzzword already.
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"One of my biggest bugbears is people getting honeybees to help pollinators generally," she said.
"It's the equivalent of saying 'we need to save wild birds, so let's get some chickens'.
"Honeybees are a domesticated species".
#SaveTheBees
news.sky.com/story/weve-bee…
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