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  1. Woosh

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    No need to kill Trump, he's going to lose anyway. Harris is on course to take 6 swing states out of 7. Did you see what trump did yesterday? He gave his microphone a fell...o in front of thousands of his rally goers. How such a rude person became a potus? Good heaven!
  2. Woosh

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    there is only one reality, we live it, share it. Why do you want to question it? Your reply reminds me of the invention of the number i, the imaginary number. Does physics need the number i to explain the world around us? For the majority of us, no.
  3. Woosh

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    humans have been pregrogrammed to believe in right and wrong. Would you question that?
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    Trump sues CBS because he doesn't like criticism of him in the '60 minutes' interview with Harris. https://news.sky.com/video/trump-reveals-why-he-is-suing-cbs-for-10bn-after-kamala-harris-interview-13245781...
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    Climate models are built on flux dynamics, then verified by satellites. The problem is while we can measure the amount of irradiance from the sun or the amount of heat from fossil burning etc quite precisely, the current models are still not good enough when back testing against fossil records...
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    to analyse emails. Another pet project is to produce audiobooks.
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    I do a fair bit of work with LLMs. OpenAI is facing a lot of court cases for copyright infringements and its current models still fail on many reasoning tests. It's rumoured that the next version of OpenAI model is going to solve two of the most oft cited weaknesses of the current models...
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    Add to that hole, the blood scandal: £11+ billions, Post office scandal: a couple of billions Greenfell scandal: ? The size of the settlements would make any taxpayer wince. Various pay deals that were approved, HS2 closing down cost, work to be done on trains etc.
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    Mostly universities.
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    All the small businesses are very little affected by the tax changes announced today.. You have to pay £150k+ in payroll a year to be affected by employers national insurance, turn in a pretty healthy profit to be affected by CT change.
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    unlike VAT which is an indirect tax and passed on to customers, Business Tax or CT, is charged company's net profit. It is the most effective way to make the billionaires pay at least a minimum. The remainder is split between dividend and transfer to reserve. People like Richard Branson don't...
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    Last year, Germany's renewables contribute 59.7% to generation of electricity. At the current rate of expansion, in 5 years, Germany will generate practically all its electricity with renewables. Public Electricity Generation 2023: Renewable Energies cover the Majority of German Electricity...
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    They can earn 50% more in Australia. Compare that with starting salary of an MP (£91,346) and the amount of training involved.
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    the problem is those who don't believe global warming happens don't believe climate scientists. Still, here are their general findings: CO2: contributes 76% to global warming through green house effect Methane: 16% NO2/NO: 2% Flkuorines: 2% Other sources: 4% We have to reduce the rapid growth...
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    the amount of CO2 in the manufacturing of EVs and old cars are roughly about the same, ICE cars continue to burn fossil fuel throughout the hundreds of thousands of miles while EVs don't. The carbon credits given to EV manufacturers account for the difference.
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    We have reached bottom with liz truss. The only way is up. I don't think pay rise for the junior doctors is a mistake. We need to retain them here and stop them leaving for Australia.
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    how do you explain why a few things happen around the world in our lifetime: shrinking polar ice cap, antartica ice shelf, disappearing glaciers in all mountainous countries, great barrier reef coral bleaching, el niño in the Southern ocean?
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    I don't think we need to make fossil fuel redundant. The point is sustainability. If you burn methane gas for example, and synthesise it again with solar energy, then the system is sustainable. The same has happened with wood chipping. The solar capacity increases about 29% last year and will...
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    in the past, levels of CO2 took millions of years to change even a couple of percents. In the last 20 years, CO2 level has gone up 11%. It's not natural.
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    There is much to congratulate the two scientists who work on those amines. Think of them as batteries. The air is forced through the amines which selectively retain CO2, a couple of weeks later, the amines is heated to about 80 degrees C. At that temperature, the CO2 molecules detach themselves...