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Associate Professor, Dept of Chemical Sciences, University of Limerick. ORCID: 0000-0002-0489-0579. Likes Bacteria and their Mobile Genetic Elements. All views my own.
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Excuse my Friday evening brain with its terrible reading comprehension
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My only objection to this story is that it is begins with Kristin Scott Thomas being described as 'a minor celebrity"
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I have unblocked Elon on the other place and grabbed the popcorn. The world might be screwed but at least we can enjoy a bit of schadenfreude on the way out.
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It is wrong to be enjoying this as much as I am? I have even unblocked Musk on the other place.
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🤣
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Congratulations
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Fair play to them for taking a stand. I hope it has some effect.
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Happy belated one in that case!
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Happy birthday!
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"Owning the libs" still very important to a lot of them. Still at least they are admitting their errors (if begrudgingly)
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The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act?
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Congrats. I read (and enjoyed) the preprint. Must have a look at the finished article
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45 minutes and then give a break (5 to 10 minutes)
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I suppose if you squint. Follows the great British tradition of movie spin offs of TV shows that are different to said TV shows.
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I agree parts are excellent and it is very quotable. I suppose I just really missed Glenn, Ollie and Terri.
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Nice to remember a time when you could satirise things...(Not a patch on The Thick of it)
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What an utter disaster.
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Congrats James! I look forward to reading it (at least I look forward to add it to reading pile)
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I like the rubbish jokes (we need all the jokes we can get right now)
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What is the saying "History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme". 100 years ago it was Europe (and Japan) turning that way now it seems the whole world is.
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🤣 Had my fill of them lately...
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As for the rest of us, hopefully we weather the storm.
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I presume in 4 years time we will be very much living in a world where China will be streets ahead in all sorts of areas (reputation, research, economic power, etc.) while MAGA types are bemoaning the loss of American power (and absolutely blaming the Democrats for it).
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Hope there is something left after that time is up...
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The entire last month has a joke, just not a particularly funny one.
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This is a reminder to me why every attempt I have ever made to read Ulysses ends in failure.
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You sent me down a ChatGPT rabbit hole with that one..
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I have taken the approach on these things of believing that things like this are true because "looks around"
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Be very careful, Americans are very sensitive on that topic (American exceptionalism has no better example then them believing Fahrenheit is the best temperature scale)
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Interesting theory, I did and still do find vacuum cleaner noise soothing.
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That has happened to me for something as simple as teeth cleaning. No idea why.
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