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• Commented on Starship bloopers
  It's been years, decades even, since I read the book but, probably unpopular opinion, I quite liked it. Perhaps it's not having had dreams of, or having played at, being a soldier, sailor or similar but my memory of the...
• Commented on Covid on Mars
  I'd suggest your numbers in the healthcare professions are low, although it's a bit hard to estimate by how much. There are two elements to that. 1) The NHS works by being able to share load - COVID has stressed...
• Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
  Sorry to hear about your losses. You don't care about my sad stories right now, but I'm going through some things that parallel parts of yours. Some things are inevitably different. So I really can empathise and I hope it...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  I'm replying to both bits. I've never made ricotta sallata, the amounts of ricotta I make are small enough it's not worth it to me - I eat the ricotta fast enough. If you've got any kind of reliable heat...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  Cheese basically keeps forever. You want a hard, pasteurised cheese if you're looking to store it, but basically any of the traditional English/Irish cheeses will do pretty much fine, even if you buy them in the supermarket. You want to...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  You could be right - it might not be a formal coalition although I think it will be more than a confidence and supply arrangement. There will be something to make sure they ally to stomp all over Brexit too....
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  The no confidence vote #2 is an interesting one. I think there are a batch of Tories who have held their nerve under May that she'll (somehow) see it through and see off the ERG and the nutters. If BoJo...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  You could be right, but honestly reading the political runes on this one is beyond just about anyone I think. Politics in the UK was never entirely predictable - look at how May took an election where the question was...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  UK politics isn't as hopelessly gerrymandered as US politics. There is really pretty independent commission that sets the boundaries for the constituencies and tries to get a sensible balance of geography (so you don't have an MP who has a...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  What Labour are playing at is a bit more nuanced than a single nationwide poll. I'm not saying I agree with their strategy, but it depends on where you look what the results look like. In a lot of their...
• Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
  109 sans ^ on the UK iBooks store version too. On both the iPad and iPhone, both running the most up to date versions of iOS (12.1) and books. I've got all the other typos already mentioned too. There are...
• Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  Those who shouted most loudly about sovereignty in the referendum debate and before, who are having fits about the ECJ's inclusion in the withdrawal bill go further back than you. They introduce a bill to restore sovereignty properly, that is...
• Commented on Do my Homework
  Uh, no, with the utmost respect to you, it's not that huge. There are women's organisations where it's happening. There are, as I understand it (being a white woman living in the UK, this is second hand) organisations for African...
• Commented on Do my Homework
  Sorry Charlie. No disrespect intended but I read a lot (like typically 3-5 books a week). Remembering who wrote a book I read over a decade ago... not often going to happen....
• Commented on Do my Homework
  Intersectionality is a big buzz word in feminist theory and has been for about 10 years. It is winding up Germaine Greer, who seems to wilfully misunderstand it every time I hear her speak. Very loosely, it says that as...
• Commented on Do my Homework
  There is a little bit of it out there. Michelle Segara and Elizabeth Moon have both written some. They both have children on the autistic spectrum and have incorporated this into some of their writing. The Speed of Dark is...
• Commented on GDPR compliance notice
  With the best will in the world, windypundit, talking about being compliant with the law isn't about normal people, it's about being seen to be compliant with what the lawyers need. Anyone who thinks lawyers are normal people needs a...