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Still waiting, funnily enough.

Pun not intended, more's the pity.

Not quite, 200 is the lead required for that. I reckon Root would have decided to have another bat, pile on some runs quickly and bowl last anyway.

Well, looks like 175 would have been plenty, let alone 275 or 290.

Useful final wicket stand both materially and psychologically there.

No disagreement there whatsoever- the system is clearly deeply flawed.

Interesting read, that. It does highlight how important economies of scale appear to be when it's apparently cheaper to ship fish parts all over the world to be made into fish fingers in what appears to be an entirely unnecessary fashion, rather than doing the whole thing locally. And the shipping industry has been pointed out as a significant contributor to emissions before. Be all of the above as it may, however, the elephant in the room remains power generation in terms of such emissions and their consequences.

But very on brand for the man and his sycophants. Bring on the midterms. Either he's a lame duck afterwards or he suppresses the vote enough that there is civil unrest that shows the world, irrevocably, exactly who he and those who follow him are.

Now in the hands of the jury.

It sounds like the law against unlicensed breeding for profit needs to be better enforced, too.

Jofra going full haymaker for a six will never not be entertaining.

Given the conditions and their batting lineup I would think 275 would be plenty tbh.

Decent rebuilding work that session.

A fraud with an overall Test average of over 53 and a yearly average of no lower than 45 across five years so far is a fraud who's pretty good at being so, I reckon.

But in all seriousness, he does seem to be struggling to make a decent score at the top of the order and I'm not sure if that's just bad luck so far or some technical issue he has. Not much time between now and the home Ashes to decide to stick with him or not, too.

Difficult batting conditions, Cox and Brook deciding to counterattack which is somewhat understandable given the situation - get the bowlers off their line and length otherwise in these conditions there's inevitably going to be one with your name on no matter how good you are defensively.

The speed at which such devastation occurs is truly scary. I honestly do not get the mentality of so many resources in a zero sum system, across so many places, being put into countering purely human based threats, when nature can come up with something like that pretty much on the spot and with precious little warning. One would think that it's the job of any community - tribe, nation, globe, whatever - to defend against the greater threats to them first.

Appreciate the extra info. I guess because they can't prove the anemometer was faulty they can't invalidate the record for that reason, either. It'll likely never be proven any way or the other, but for me her performance records in the year she broke the WR, as well as her abrupt retirement, tells its own story.

Florence Griffith-Joyner, when she set the 100m WR that stands to this day, was a drugs cheat who was smart and/or well-connected not to get caught. That others have barely come close in the nearly 40 years since and the amount of other athletes busted for PED use around that time makes it obvious, but not proven, IMO.

Those Nepal floods are sadly another example of how the natural world can be more brutal and devastating in a heartbeat than any humans have the power to be. We should act, prioritise, and plan, accordingly.

Think it rather clearly shows that when it comes to the death of current 80 year olds, there is no kind of universal justice governing the process at all.

Root not particularly happy about the whole thing, then.

More on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e3905pkqo "Those involved are believed to be known to each other and there is no wider threat to the public," said the police spokesperson.

Also one of the most naturally gifted and driven all rounders on the field England has ever produced. What is it about genius in one area that lends itself to ego and idiocy in another? It's seen so often.

But then there are better SM finds, too: