AcousticallyChallenged

I wasn't sure what to make of it when I first read it. But, you've got two 17 year old kids, who won't have much experience on the road, trying to get home safely in what is godawful weather. Probably the worst weather they've driven in. They've made a wrong turn, then made the sensible decision of stopping as the conditions didn't feel safe, and realised that even then, they were concerned for what was happening. Regardless of whether they were actually about to blow away, it would've felt pretty intimidating up there, especially when you weren't expecting it. They call 999 because they're concerned for their safety, and they can't reach anyone else. Then they get told they're not in any bother and to walk home, only to be taken the piss out of later. Not great all round really.

Humouring you, you can find the actual paper reviews here: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991/review_report However, if we look at the authors of the paper, they describe a hypothesis that: "IgG4 antibodies produced by B cells in response to infection by SARS-CoV-2 generate immunological tolerance, which prevents its elimination and leads to persistent and chronic infection. In summary, we believe that this constitutes another immune evasion mechanism that bears striking similarities to that developed by cancer cells to evade immune surveillance." https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/13/9/1338 You'll notice that the paper linking it to COVID infection is newer. As for your second paper? Here's a published response to it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691523002995 But why let questionable science stop us when it's in a journal, so it must be good.

A handy computer tip for you: a box appears at the bottom of the text field when you paste, with the option to “paste without formatting”. You can even press the quote button, and that’ll let you put it in a nice collapsible quote box.

What makes you qualified to ascertain whether they are good or bad papers? How can you interpret them and account for biases, scope and study weaknesses? How do those weaknesses or strengths reflect on other papers in the field? Go on, give us a proper literature review.

Nah, just a l33t c0d3r

Justice is hard to find. But, I'm not sure you'll find it at some traffic lights.

Off to Heysham for the freight trip back tonight? Sometimes they don't run with passengers as it'd simply be miserable. The boats and crew can take much rougher weather than the average person.

57% of stats on Internet forums are made up on the spot. Research is hard. People do PhDs to learn how to research well. You need to be able to identify good studies, bad studies and misrepresented ones. What were his research credentials? 'Do your own research' is a dangerous term. It's akin to giving a banker with no mechanical knowledge a spanner and telling them to change their own clutch with YouTube. People spend years or decades of their lives dedicated to learning how to research well. There were higher rates of myocarditis long before any COVID vaccines existed. Turns out, viral infection is a cause of myocarditis. Even the flu can cause it. So, is it more likely that a virus in wide circulation known to cause myocarditis, is doing just that, or, that it must be the vaccine?

Even if it was true, Are you suggesting that autism is worse than polio or meningitis etc? Many of the things we vaccinate against have life changing effects. Never mind that the one study that claimed it was completely debunked over and over. Nobody has been able to replicate those results. Not least because the data was deliberately fiddled.

You can, using clever combinations of gases that boil at low temperatures, or peltier elements. The soviets used to use the latter with kerosene lamps to run a radio. You got a whopping two watts. But, I'd hazard a guess that you'd struggle to even break even on the electricity to pump the water up, let alone making any money with it. And frankly, why would you go with something expensive, experimental and not guaranteed, when you could get something off the shelf? Actually, let's not give anyone high up ideas there.

They only do that when they dress as the global elite. Don't you know anything about the truth?

I got to go on a trip beyond the Great Ice Wall to meet the Lizard People. Lovely bunch of reptiles.

Yet, they keep getting bigger and more severe. Fire used to be fairly manageable, there's the argument to be made that fire prevention is part of the problem, interfering in the natural cycle, but equally, the fires are so big now, they create their own weather systems. We live in the information age, you can collect the data yourself, and in real time. Much of the old data is available in archives, you could sift through the libraries and become a leading scientist on it if you have the knack. Please do, I'd be fascinated. Maybe the real money lies in convincing people it isn't happening, by the time they realise, they might be too fucked to do anything but be enslaved by the new elite. We'd be back to serfdom. Of course, if there was a new elite, the first thing you'd do is ask, who are the mouthy ones on Facebook who won't listen? That would probably be the modern day list of subversives. They used to hold those in case of nuclear war. The plan was to round them all up so they wouldn't interfere.

So, it's not getting hotter? and we've not been having bigger wildfires, or worse storms? No temperature records being broken? Gosh, how did I miss that?

No clutches to mash, no synchromeshes or first and second gears to take a hammering, and no engines idling all day long. Lots of the braking will come from regen too, so less wear on the discs and pads. If Amazon have figured out that building their own EVs saves them money in the long run, there must be a business case there.

It’s a very good question, and arguably a loophole. But it also explains why they are popular https://www.parkers.co.uk/company-cars/2016/pick-ups-as-company-cars/

They’re as much a status symbol as doing handbrake turns in Mum’s Vauxhall Nova was a sure way to charm any girl.

That’s the thing though, there’s a balancing point. Power plants have a sweet spot in terms of efficiency, and, low load at night likely isn’t it. That’s why things like Economy 7 came into existence. So, if you can save yourself the inefficiency of ramping up and down, it can work out cheaper. As for the fossil fuel question, most petrol cars don’t have lots of engineers maintaining them and watching for small drops in their efficiency. And they can’t be kept in that efficiency sweet spot. Most of the energy in the fuel goes out as heat, rather than motion.

Aren’t the luxury pickups a “tax efficiency” thing if they’re a company car?

Are you qualified to tell the difference between a good and bad scientific paper? Anyone can pay to submit to a crap journal. The irony is that some of the various anti-vax and anti-5G claims have not insignificant links to Russia. The GRU specialise in spreading fake news. And as for Dr McCullough, you’ll notice he’s being sued by a former employer for falsely claiming ongoing affiliation. If he isn’t honest about his employer, what else isn’t he honest about?

Polio only started breaking out in the 1900s in big numbers. Sewer systems were quite trendy by then thanks to the Victorians. Surely, if it was sewers what fixed it, it’d be the other way round. Plus, there are still billions who don’t have indoor plumbing or even good sanitation. Yet still no smallpox.

Well. In the 80s, you weren’t dyslexic if you struggled with literacy. You were just thick and called a waste of space. How many people got put into that category?

It's not about the wind being free, it's about the fact it's there and that adding it into the mix results in saving money overall. We have to keep a backup anyway for if the interconnector doesn't interconnect. Pulrose has a bunch of diesels for it. Plus there's Peel.

What are you using as the basis for the working life? See here for a previous back of an envelope calculation. I am open to corrections and amendments.

Free speech may be a right, but, with power comes responsibility etc. As a result, there's a whole list of reasons it might not be as free as you think. Hopkins promised to run around London naked with a sausage up her bottom if Sadiq Khan was elected. I believe she's still yet to get around to it.