In all fairness, some statistical methods are so much fun that you should be allowed to write exactly one paper whose entire motivation is "we wanted to apply this pretty cool method to some data we had lying around"

Yes. In Scotland you get a "dummy" or "imitation" sgian dubh (dagger worn in one sock when wearing a kilt) and, unlike the real ones, these have no blade. Proof that if people are willing to compromise there are ways around the concerns & surely worth it to help minimise risk of serious harms.

AI in the streets ML in the sheets

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

The microbiome is an easy target for purveyors of pseudoscience.

I truly wish all immigrants could stop work for a week. I don’t think it would take much longer than that to change everything.

/endPS

I think Lucas Pope needs to re-release "Papers, Please" which now requires you to refuse entry to anyone who has a meme about the dear leader on their person.

Who is asking for this rubbish. Lower the price of food for godsake.