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Another thread from discussing general politics in any country of the world. The previous threads are here and here.

This is a fast moving time in the world of consciousness research. Modern tools are giving us insights impossible before, and the stakes are getting greater as AI smashes through the Turing test and threatens many jobs that previous had been considered the preserve of humans. I have some...

On 8 September 2023 at 23:11 DST (22:11 UTC), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.8–6.9 and maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) struck Morocco's Marrakesh-Safi region. The earthquake's epicenter was located 73.4 km (45.6 mi) southwest of Marrakesh, near the town of Ighil in the...

Nature has a review of the new book Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer, a massively revised and updated edition of his influential book Animal Liberation from 1975. It was one of the first books to document the suffering caused to animals in detail, and present it together with strident...

Read before voting: The poll is unlimited choice. Vote for anything that should have further regulation/criminalisation. Do not vote for things that should have less regulation/criminalisation. No neutrals are allowed, the status quo is not acceptable, you have to vote one way or another...

“We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.),” wrote James Watson and Francis Crick in Nature in 1953 “This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.” [1] In the 70 years since this was written and the field of genetics was...

Around this time in the UK the queen wasps are out. These are much larger and slower wasps than usual, and are nothing like as aggressive as their progeny. If they find a find somewhere suitable and successfully found a colony that will result in tens of thousands of wasps over the summer. I...

Say you are in a car approaching a corner that has great visibility, such that the only limit of your speed is the friction you can generate between the rubber of your tyres and the tarmac of the road. If you are in a manual car you would select the appropriate gear for the corner while...

This is a thread to discuss general politics the world over. We could also discuss what politics is. I like the definition "The distribution and application of power".

It seems one way or another the UK may not have a queen for much longer. For any Brit under 70 this is the first change of head of state they have ever known. Should we take this chance to rid ourselves of the Monarchy, or should we preserve this institution? If we did, would we have to...

Is there a guide to modding the scenarios? There are a few minor changes I would like to try.

We quite frequently here refer to "Working Class", as a demographic, as a voting block, and as an indavidual label. However is is not well defined, and "only 1 in 3 people say they know precisely what ‘working class’ means". I think that in the olden days it was defined by your job, in that if...

Well, it has happened: Roe v Wade: US Supreme Court strikes down abortion rights Millions of women in the US will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalised it nationwide. The court struck down the landmark Roe v Wade decision...

Are you bored of the covid epidemic? Do you pine for a simpler time when hundreds of millions died of a disease that could not be treated? Well you are in luck as we now have Monkeypox to deal with. The World Health Organization (WHO) chief said on Wednesday that monkeypox infections in...

You know this wordle thing everyone is talking about, that was bought for millions? It has been implemented in 50 lines of bash. It works with just these commands: $ wget...

How to guess the map: 1. Someone posts a map, and you try to guess what the map's supposed to represent. 2. Person who guesses correctly gets to post the next map guessed on, or they can declare open floor, and then the thread is left dormant for several months it's first come first serve to...

New thread on UK politics, to celebrate BoJos great levelling up efforts such as reducing duty on champagne. Old thread is here.

It is in the news the Britney Spears is under a probate conservatorship in which her father, Jamie Spears, had control over her person and her estate. She is arguing in court that this should be removed. The most worrying requirements are: Required to take Lithium Signing of a contract that...

Coronavirus Coronavirus 2 Coronavirus 3 Coronavirus 4 Coronavirus E Coronavirus: awaiting for the next wave COVID - A light on the horizon? If I get to start the tread, I shall make the point that the most important thing for everyone is for everyone to get the jab. For that to happen, we need...

They have been talking about it for years, now they have gone and done it. Only just happened, but it looks like the 12 biggest european clubs outside of Germany and France have taken their ball (and presumably most of the money) and gone to have their own game, and not play in the national...