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Lack of progress/reversal of progress in STEM is almost always due to politics, at a macro or micro level. It is possible to care about politics because you see what the political numbnuts are doing with your chosen field.

A journalist is defined as 'one who keeps a journal'.

Always thought Gandeys were serial litterers; The circus is here for a week or two but their posters are on any building they can get away with, rotting away all year round.

If you were a snidey utility provider that wanted to extract more money from your customers, why would you want to do it via a costly replacement of meters when you could simply increase tariffs?

It's a cult. The cult tells the uneducated that they're gifted, special and better than all the rest, a feeling they've perhaps wanted to feel all their lives. For them, shouting 'educate yourself' to others is the ultimate thrill because they were never good enough academically to be the professional people they are emulating. Reminds me of the Melanesian cargo cults but in this case they're cosplaying as lawyers, medics, biologists, etc.

I would say the argument is subtly different. It's not absolving from responsibility as much as accepting that removing online gambling businesses from the Isle of Man would not help people on the island struggling with gambling addictions. The protesters likely drove past betting shops, supermarkets with National Lottery stands and pubs with fruit machines to congregate outside of a business that mostly works with businesses located outside of the UK.

If I had left the island and was missing it terribly, maybe regretting my decision I'd write something like this.

I agree, Courtenay is very unlikely to accept help because right now because he's never felt better. His belief system is constantly telling him that he's special, he's gifted, that he's one of the enlightened few. He's buzzing; he can't wait to get up every morning, march into town in his blue shirt and leer at passers by.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt perhaps, but I read his post originally as being tongue in cheek. A sort of 'bye-bye, deary' with feigned affection. He clouded this with his personal views about Abbotswood, admittedly.

The verdict some weeks ago made him seemingly double his efforts, at least as was visible on on his Twitter account.

manxcare-48-audio.mp3 For those who thought a 7 gig file for 2 hours of speech was a tad excessive...

Every crank theory has to fight for its own survival, or it gets forgotten about. The crank theories that refer to and support other theories are mutually doing each other a favour and tend to stick around more.

When I lived there the cleverest people drove around in Aston Martins on an island with a maximum speed limit of 40 mph.