There is a valid bit of politics here though. The sad remnants of those tory "green" policies are utterly discredited due to lack of any kind of policing of standards. I don't disagree though, it feels as if Ed Milliband lost this argument.

"Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up"

I think it must have been a bit like the normal tide machines but in miniature - each constituent makes a small pulley wheel rise and fall, and a wire goes over and under alternating wheels to add up the movements. Which would mean every other cutout template must be upside down.

Nice! And please invite Alan Garner as a bonus too! He wouldn't have gone, but the thought is there.

Ben Elton has some family connection too, if I remember correctly.

I think tide guages must be how you measure seal level.

I never get that wrong because my Dad always pronounced it neckersessaary!

Bureaucracy is even worse.

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My guess - the sample size is too small to develop a LLM. Physics papers before 1920? An actual human being could probably read them in a lifetime. Physics papers since 2020? Probably not.

There are capybaras in Chester Zoo, in with the giant anteater. They seem very phlegmatic creatures.

Who chose to have red negative and on the right of the colour scale, blue positive and on the left? My brain hurts looking at it!

Yes, so much easier since I randomly discovered that it had learnt LaTeX rules! It's still awful, but a lot less painful now.

That's everything from the mundanity of public toilets, through free library access, to funding fundamental science. GFDL has been so influential because it supports the foundations of science, as well as producing "impact". Killing institutions like GFDL is book burning on a grand scale.

The measure of civilization is collectively working to support things that aren't to our immediate personal gain, because they will make the world better in the long run.

I've got a slightly different take on this. Yes, climate science, important stuff, excellent people, etc. But this is symbolic of something deeper too.