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quarecuss commented on the post, America Cares About Climate Change Again 18 minutes ago

and this in shenzhen

Olgun commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 33 minutes ago

A change of subject but if you missed it, The Choir: Our School By The Tower (Grendel) was amazing and a tear jerker the other day. Great to see what children can do when given the right direction.

Olgun commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 37 minutes ago

Marco

One the Brexiters got right, but no where near the numbers they claimed, is a lot of Turks are coming over. Not the ragtag immigrants that Borris was bleating about but the well off and bringing […]

Olgun commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 48 minutes ago

Thanks Marco. Was googling to find that out as you posted.

Marco commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 57 minutes ago

Olgun #106
Not because firms are employing people to sort out the mess from Brexit by any chance?
Doubtless there’s a bit of that going on, but the main reason is the way the Tory government now defines […]

Olgun commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 58 minutes ago

@#106

I should have given the answer as I know it I suppose. My wife’s firm has sent, or is the process of sending, her bosses to France. Her department alone is hiring another two people to take up the slack a […]

Olgun commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

Rogerony #105

”….record number of employed…..”

Not because firms are employing people to sort out the mess from Brexit by any chance? What happens when it’s all over?

rogeroney commented on the post, Open Discussion – March 2019 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

Stephen #99
Meanwhile, Britain’s Labour Party is abandoning its members, its voter base (if polls are to be believed) and its conscience…
That’s what happens when, courtesy of ‘Wallace’ Milliband’s bungled ‘re […]

Alan4discussion commented on the post, America Cares About Climate Change Again 2 hours ago

quarecuss says:

who thinks public transportation “sucks”
It seems the Chinese don’t – and could corner the market!

China takes the lead in adopting the all-electric bus equipped with sup […]

phil rimmer commented on the post, America Cares About Climate Change Again 2 hours, 46 minutes ago

Q,

EVs and trains are about the same fuel efficiency and both twice as efficient as standard busses. But EVs will pull ahead substantially because…

A virtual train of powered but independent […]

quarecuss commented on the post, America Cares About Climate Change Again 5 hours, 6 minutes ago

phil #1
It is the threat of not partaking sufficiently in the transformative new technologies that are seizing the initiative. GM sells more cars to China than the US. China makes three times as many electric […]

Tris Mamone wrote a new post, After Two Decades, a Fishy Genetic Mystery Has Been Solved 5 hours, 22 minutes ago

By Ed Yong

It has taken her two decades, but Chi-Hing Christina Cheng has finally solved her ultimate cold case—a fishy mystery that extends from one frigid end of the planet to the other.

Cheng, a Chi […]

Tris Mamone wrote a new post, Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission 5 hours, 28 minutes ago

By David W. Brown
Is it time to go back to Neptune?
Scientists representing NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a spacecraft and mission on Tuesday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas t […]

Tris Mamone wrote a new post, South Dakota Will Now Force All Public Schools to Put Up “In God We Trust” Signs 5 hours, 33 minutes ago

By Hemant Mehta

South Dakota will require all public schools to display “In God We Trust” signs in a prominent place beginning next school year, after Republican Governor Kristi Noem signed Senate Bill 55 yeste […]

Tris Mamone wrote a new post, West Virginia accuses Catholic diocese and former bishops of sex abuse cover-up in unusual consumer protection lawsuit 5 hours, 36 minutes ago

By Michelle Boorstein, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, and Tom Jackman
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sued the Catholic diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and its former bishop Michael J. Bransfield on […]

phil rimmer commented on the post, America Cares About Climate Change Again 8 hours, 3 minutes ago

I think, Ollie, if only for the purposes of winding him up.

There is nothing so unifying as a shared threat and its burgeoning enormity is just now seeping in at the highest levels.

Those too scared are […]

Olgun commented on the post, America Cares About Climate Change Again 8 hours, 24 minutes ago

I don’t want to put anybody off but does Trump deserve a (sarcastic) pat in the back for this?