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"I can't quite work out whether you're a tremendously silly man, a tremendously serious man or, as I suspect, a rather unholy combination of both."
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There was a window of time between the introduction of train PA systems and of platform gates and barriers where it made sense to announce “please leave the train now if you don’t intend to travel”. It faded out but seems to be returning. I guess it might be to help staff cleaning or restocking?
Baby whales have extra whiskers and we think that’s to help them find their mother’s teat! Oh my goodness.
This is the sort of experience that can shake my normally rock-solid empiricism for anamnesis. It does feel like I have always known this and have merely rediscovered it. This is all so lovely and beautiful it must be part of the innate perfect knowledge of the immortal soul.
I only just learned that the bumpy bits on whales’ front ends are nerve-rich tubercles holding vibrissae - ie whiskers! As with other mammals, they enable them to mechanically sense their environment and their own movement through it. How did I not know this? Whales are great, whiskers are great.
Literally NO cervical cancer in the vaccinated cohort! The HPV vaccine is so brilliant. A world without cervical cancer is within grasp - if we can get the vaccination rate back up to where it needs to be.
Many people are posting about a thing they like. I briefly considered explaining that I did not like it and why, but thought better of it. What good would that achieve? I am glad they have joy from the thing. I have joy from other things. We can all be happy even though we like different things.
In the 1990s I had an answering machine (=voicemail for landlines) which would announce, in cheapo voice synthesis/threatening Evil Robot tones, “That. was. your. *last* message.”
Joke’s on you, Evil Robot, I’ve had loads of voice messages since then! Loads. Hmm. Maybe not such a clear win for me.
Ok I do not fully understand how CPI inflation in the UK is stable at 2.8% but it's 4.2% and rising in the USA. As a net exporter one might think they're better insulated from an oil shock, but I guess the law of one price means they aren't, and low fuel taxes means greater proportional impsct.
Also, turns out that most folk on here posting about 'inflation' are talking about something entirely different than a general increase in prices. I should've known: yes there are plenty of FT journalists and wonks on here, but the furries were here first.
