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Elbows up!

The new wunderkind didn't help India much in this one then.

Good spirit from England to get their way back into this one.

I'd agree that the ECB and their deals with ticketing and access to view Test matches on tv really has shown contempt for the public in the last couple of decades. Regarding the team and regime itself, though, while there's legit criticism to be made based on recent performances, I'm hearing far too many talking heads going on about it either without suggesting an explicit way to get the team winning again or suggesting a method that was the reason the England team changed things up in the first place (because it really wasn't working). Neither of those viewpoints are helpful and really just sound like negative self-gratification rather than actually wanting the side to do better.

Genge just absolutely flattened his opposite number on the way to scoring there

... being tough with both teams, apparently, though. In other news the Saffers are annoyingly good.

SH TMOs at it again.

Right. Top priority, all other priorities rescinded. More than people think hangs on that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevlkzer7vdo Extreme heat has disrupted Fourth of July celebrations across parts of the US, including the cancellation of a parade in Washington DC. The Great American State Fair in the nation's capital - marking the country's 250th birthday - was also temporarily shut after multiple people were treated for heat-related illnesses. More than 165 million people were sweltering on Friday under record temperatures along the US East Coast and Midwest, according to the US National Weather Service. The heatwave is disrupting the holiday weekend as US President Donald Trump hosts a celebration marking America's 250th birthday, while multiple World Cup matches take place outdoors. There is a certain delicious irony in those who reject the laws of physics and their own part in its consequences being inconvenienced like this on the day that they want to appear all powerful.

He also doesn't understand that the Chinese system is much more hybrid than it is communist these days.

We live in a damned weird timeline, mon ami.

When the Papacy, one of the most historically corrupt and unequitable institutions of all time, actually appears reasonable by comparison... ... then you know you're dealing with a special group of psychopaths.

Nah, mate, you don't get it. The Tories didn't do Brexit properly. Or something.

Some of the specific science related news sites have decent comment sections too - those that haven't been invaded by tinfoil hat fruitcakes, anyway.

It's certainly up there, but I would offer up practically any thread on almost any social media site concerning anything vaguely controversial and the misery is self evident there, too.

Yeah, that is likely the main concern. I guess we shall find out in due course.

Well, to clarify, I do think I'd like to know what record they have in competitive games there against elite non-CONCACAF opposition. Probably little, considering that like you said, those opportunities naturally come few and far between. My point being that while the Mexican record at the Azteca is damned impressive, it is possible that they haven't really met many sides, at all, that have the quality to test them there in a competitive game, so I'm not sure how informative it might be regarding the game coming up. And yes, it was there that Maradona scored one of the greatest goals and engaged in one of the most egregious acts of cheating all in one match. The duality of the man summed up.

.... no, that's just him. That's who he, and his supporter base, and their ideology, have been for a long time now. The mask just keeps slipping more and more.

I'm curious to know how many of those games were against top tier opposition in tournament conditions.

Reprehensible, but totally on brand.

That a multi-pronged approach is needed here is an entirely fair point to make. Ideally, though, we do want to be in a situation where such desalination is not relied upon in many places, because that would indicate that we've already got a shortage of freshwater that will cause massive geopolitical concerns nomatter what we do. Like you said, the problem isn't going to go away by itself. And the issue and its effects will extend beyond the UK. This issue will be solved as a species, or we'll face massive problems as disparate "tribes".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70yk07vq0po Harry Truman left the White House without any income other than his Army pension of $113 (£85) per month. The 33rd US president later wrote that it was wrong to "commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency". George W Bush put his investments in a blind trust before running for president, and said in his last week in office that he had no idea how the 2008 economic crisis affected his net worth. Donald Trump, in contrast, made at least $2.2bn (£1.7bn) in his first year back in office, according to a new financial disclosure report - a sum historians said was unprecedented and shattered the norm of US presidents avoiding financial conflicts of interest in the White House. On a scale of 0 to Absolute Kakistocracy, how corrupt is this?

There's so many different possibilities there. Perhaps another highly deadly vector would have arisen. Perhaps war or another disease would have resulted in a far more catastrophic population crash. Perhaps improved development of those nations that would have been ravaged by mosquito borne disease would have meant faster world development as a whole and we would be further along the tech tree than we are. Perhaps something no one has thought of yet.

No, there's a veritable laundry list, most of which are highly dangerous and/or debilitating to a human. The mosquito is, really, a disease vector perfected by tens of millions of years of evolution.

That would require a pretty serious jump in renewable power generative capability and infrastructure in a lot of different places, to say nothing of other attendant difficulties. Transitioning to that kind of grid is a good idea, of course, but I would still suggest that doing it for the reason of reducing carbon emissions as quickly as possible should be the primary aim, rather than for the purpose of desalinisation itself.