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Technical issue within the ATC system results in a lot of delays: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cewd49znze4t

I'm presuming you weren't around during the entirety of the 90s and early 2000s?

The same being the case with any religious influence on secular societal laws.

Quite so. It's also (darkly) fascinating how because the magnitude scale is logarithmic and these things are so random, almost half of the combined energy ("strength") of all the thousands and thousands of earthquakes in the last 130-odd years was released in just the top three of all of them - Chile 1960, Alaska 1964, and Indian Ocean 2004.

Ah, the high standards of LM journalism.

Thankfully, it seems like the areas the quake was closest to are reasonably uninhabited and the warning systems we have today worked well enough to give people further away time to prepare. (8.8 is joint 6th on the all time list of strongest recorded earthquakes, if anyone wants to know. The 2004 quake is 3rd in that list and was around four times as strong as this one.)

... and that's because the people in charge appear to have the matter as well in hand as could be expected and hopefully there won't be much loss of life and property. The same, sadly, cant be said of a lot of other matters.

Tsunami warnings across pretty much all of the northern Pacific after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia. That's a biggie.

Fair to say

You know it and I know it. Sadly that doesn't seem to stop what appears to be a large amount of people with a large amount of inhumanity and penchant for libellous commentary.

People who seem to deliberately devalue human life by criticising the RNLI for doing their jobs; namely seeking to save any human life in distress at sea.

Agreed, pretty much the same as any other Internet regs that aren't China level draconian in their implementation. That being said, the outrage comes tinged with hypocrisy once again, but I'll not elaborate on that here for risk of derailing the current topic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgery3eeqzxo Nigel Farage has urged Technology Secretary Peter Kyle to "do the right thing and apologise" after he suggested that by opposing the government's online safety law, the Reform UK leader was on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. Reform has said it would scrap the new law, arguing it does not protect children and suppresses free speech. Kyle told Sky News: "Make no mistake if people like Jimmy Savile were alive today he would be perpetrating his crimes online - and Nigel Farage is on their side." Farage called the minister's comments "disgusting," while his Reform colleague Zia Yusuf said the claim was "one of the most appalling things I've seen in my political life". Spicy.

One state at a time would need massive state line enforcement to stop the black market between states and guns crossing state lines. Federally and all at once would be better in that regard, but would still be wildly impractical given just how many firearms there are and how many people appear willing to die (and kill) to keep them. There would be a lot of blood on the floor before it was all over. More blood than the overall total of what is happening now over a period of time? Difficult to say. It's a hugely messy problem which is probably why both the executive and legislative in the US have backed away from any real action on the matter for a long time now.

I can see that. In all seriousness though, the Japanese have already experienced one kurai tanima, they should know better to avoid another.

There's that, too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2k29233jeo Like Germany, you would think that Japan would know all too well where that particular road ends.

If the past couple of decades haven't taught the UK that there are no "good guys" in the big international players and to play foreign policy accordingly by adopting an approach that relies mostly on peacekeeping and neutrality, then I don't know what will.

Current evidence certainly backs this up, yes. An additional complication is at least some of those involved being perfectly willing to die, kill and otherwise treat life as cheap because they buy into the as yet unsubstantiated idea that this life isn't all that a human has. Wouldn't be the first fallacy (at the present time) that has resulted in a large amount of death and suffering but it is one of the oldest and certainly one of the most meaningful in that rather dark subject.

Joey Barton being his usual rational self at the news, then.

24 wickets and around 1400 runs in 5 days would probably result in questions about the pitch if it were elsewhere. So it goes, still ahead in the series, carry the batting form onto the Oval.

Looks like it may well be, but if you can't create more chances than that in tens of overs you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

Hopefully that won't prove critical, I don't think it will though.

Breakthrough.

Terry Pratchett should be required reading for the subject of personal and moral responsibility.