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Not exactly the kind of local celebrity the region needs.

Adaptation techniques of that type should definitely be welcomed, studied and utilised. It will not, however, be enough by itself - in the UK or the wider world - to prevent real problems if the current course continues. Minimisation of the forthcoming changes still has to be the priority.

Matt Walsh and Dale Partridge. The only reason they don't belong on the ****s thread is because they haven't actually done anything materially and egregiously ****y yet, but they sure do like the idea of a race war followed by a white Christian ethnostate where everyone apart from one particular demographic is either second class citizens or simply chattel - you know, the way the US used to be.

I would hope that the OP had their tongue in cheek for that one. The farmers giving legitimate and fearful warnings of reduced crop outputs due to more extreme weather events driven by climate change... that, however, is rather real.

It's certainly not a matter of 100% empiricism, that's to be sure, but I don't have much reason to suspect it's wildly off. Mosquitoes are, however, statistically proven to be the only animal on the planet deadlier to humans than other humans, at the present time. We underestimate the natural world and what it can do to us at our peril, being the main point here.

Tbf I can understand the scepticism, it's one of those stats that sounds unbelievable when first stated.

Certainly. https://macleans.ca/culture/books/mosquito-killed-billions-changed-dna/ Consider, as Canadian historian Timothy Winegard does in The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, the bottom-line statistic. The general consensus of demographers is that about 108 billion human beings have ever lived, and that mosquito-borne diseases have killed close to half—52 billion people, the majority of them young children.

I should elaborate that it's by no means a certainty, merely a possibility that keeps getting larger the more stunts like this get pulled. That very national self-interest that you talk about may well be the thing that ends up breaking it all.

It's darkly fascinating how the mindset of people like that and their lust for power creates so many different possible ways that all human civilisation itself can be destroyed. (A combination of them is also rather likely.)

...wrt the above, the current US administration has made many horribly damaging decisions, but this one might be one of the most damaging of them all, in time:

Wasn't it great to have a period of around ten years where there was a British player actually capable of winning a Wimbledon singles title?

He'll have to hit the ground running, the attempted character assassination in various corners of media has already begun.

Unfortunately it wasn't difficult to see this coming. Deeply frustrating that with the resources available and the legacy of a great player as inspiration, next to nothing has been apparently built from either.

Hey, I was just pointing out flaws in the evolutionary process, don't get me involved in this

Coward, too. Folks remember how he hid like a frightened mouse in the Capitol from a coup attempt he helped incite five years ago.

Looks like it wasn't a day for stereotypes, then. They'd likely have little trouble anyway, but the French must be laughing their arses off.

But, unfortunately, that's not really where the prestige lies.

Murray must be doing his nut. He did about everything he could to inspire both people and the system to follow in his successful footsteps...and look at how they are doing.

Anyhow, can't see Paraguay running Germany similarly close, but we'll see.

Are there any documented incidents of foreign born individuals being made samurai before him? I can't find any. You're right about there not being a massive link between samurai status and modern citizenship, but imo it does show a level of acceptance that had apparently been granted to precious few, if any, gaijin, regardless of skin colour, before him. The Sengoku Era is an absolutely unbelievable font of historical wonder, it's great to learn about.

I hope everyone can agree on how much of an idiot tryhard that man is.

Depends on which historical records you believe accurate (if any), I guess. In any case, the OP has elaborated so I'll personally leave it there.

And to add to this, practically the first "foreigner" to be given samurai status in Japan (in essence a form of citizenship), was black.

Damn shame.

Damn shame there's not a "no comms, just crowd noise" option.