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Would agree in principle, but a caveat that I think is necessary: there is a marked difference between hearing "both sides" regarding government policy based and contingent on scientific events, and doing the same regarding the scientific events themselves and their consequences. There's rather too much of the latter happening, and it has very real consequences of its own.

It's certainly not aged well.

Doing this is pretty typical England tbh. 2019 excepted, of course.

Is this classic England? Wait until the tournament is half over before actually showing up.

....I really really want to go off on one about the Indian cricket fans here and their habits, particularly involving Kohli. Or just see him out for a very low score. Know it's wildly irrational though. Sorry @StanSP.

It's not really gone great either way so far, I think. Bowl first and you get the Saffer situation, bat first and you get Sri Lanka.

Did the Saffers get a bit lucky with that turnover call there?

Two small points on the bolded: - sometimes, such measures are due to exactly that, or at least a lack of concern for the real consequences those measures will have on vulnerable people. - isn't the healthcare system in the US and the utilities and train networks in the UK proof enough of how privatisation alone really doesn't benefit the consumers it is supposed to benefit? A combined solution, like in many European and Far Eastern nations, might be examples to follow.

The whole mentality in some areas of the US is entirely different and alien to most people from the UK, quite frankly. And that mentality is the issue imo.

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1850961776 @RoboFox better late than never from The Onion.

A statistically significant proportion of them see the situation and simply don't view it as a problem. To them these deaths are an acceptable cost for some nebulous concept of "freedom".

Well, this is a bit messy.

Yeah, normally The Onion is pretty swift with such things.

I wish I could say I was surprised.

Second highest margin of victory by runs in ODI history.

Yeah, that's fair, and I know that some folks use the word differently to the way I do. I get this too, but I can't bring myself to have a massively strong depth of feeling towards it compared to other things. Again, I know everyone's different in that regard though.

An interesting point: The hosts or co-hosts have won the last three world cups, and it looks like the hosts may well win this one too. Do home conditions convey too much of an advantage?

Honestly can't get the depth of feeling that people put into football that some folks choose to "hate" any other club (that's a pretty strong word with strong connotations for me, look at what's happening around the world driven by that word right now), but then other people clearly think and feel differently and fair enough.

Yeah, I saw that one too. Best we can hope for at this point is likely limiting the consequences to change that probably results in a seven or low eight figure count of people dead or displaced, rather than higher. But that's a best case scenario, and given they'll be people out of sight of the "richer" nations, likely their plight will be treated as trivial.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67198206 The world is on an "unstoppable" shift towards renewable energy but the phase down of fossil fuels is not happening quickly enough, a new report says. The International Energy Agency, the global energy watchdog, predicted renewables would provide half of the world's electricity by 2030. But it warned that emissions were still too high to prevent temperatures rising above a key threshold of 1.5C. Some good, some bad.

Afghanistan just need not to panic here, they can easily do this in singles.

The opener to Planet Earth III was everything you'd expect from the BBC nature documentary crew given the first two series - namely, the highest possible quality. Amazing stuff.

Even supposedly healthy people - some much younger than Putin - can be dropped in a moment by an undiagnosed cardiac or neural condition. I guess we'll have to see more about this and the exact events as they happen.

Kohli in showing his ego shocker Been a good game though, do expect these teams to meet again in semi or final.