Current figures show that 7-11 (depends on the source) thrombosis cases are on record to 1.2-1.6 mio does. Birth control pills sold to women starting at age 16 have a 1:10 000 risk of thrombosis. This reaction of some EU countries is insane. I am totally disappointed in our governments. Most likely they are just afraid of the nutters who "think" Corona is fake. They are close allies of qanon and Nazis. Esp. in Germany. They only have approx. 10% of the population behind them, but politics are not doing anything against them. Suckers.

It helps to read the article to understand that scientists have addressed this particular bias.

Maybe we can grow beyond dick measuring contests by more women in leading positions. It does not always work, but sometimes.

So it is 4 times as difficult as a normal Mars mission. It could be worse. However, there are a lot of firsts in this mission. Landing a huge device on Mars. Starting a device which gets into orbit around Mars (or at least far enough up to be captured and then into orbit). Create a transfer orbit. Capture at Earth. All remote controlled. They try to play a real world KSP Duna mission.

There are limits to free speech. These limits lie in all the other human rights. Bullying is certainly not ok, and antisemitic and racist speech also. This also applies to other typical group who get attacks, e.g., women, POC, children, etc. The human dignity must be protected.

Jitsi is also ok, but requires more Bandwidth.

Classic anti EU rhetoric. The commission is controlled by the EU governments which are elected and controlled by their respective parliaments. And we have an EU parliament which controls the commission.

Honestly, it is too early to tell. The highest possibility Mike Bloomberg, Elisabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden seems to make too many small mistakes (he is just too old).

Do you hear the sound of a goal post moving?
- Electric cars will never work
- Electric cars is a niche market. Only rich can buy these cars
- Tesla cannot build a middle class car and generate profit
- See they have troubles, therefore, it is never to work
- One 1/4 could be a temporary effect in the long run they are not profitable.
- They cannot build a factory in a year in China

However, now they facing their the ultimate final enemy East-German NIMBYs protecting a tree plantation (which they call a forest) to save nature. If he manages that he can land an electric car on Mars by Wednesday.

They wasted 560 mio € or more on a toll road scheme which was asserted by their own experts to be illegal before they signed contracts. Later the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the law illegal. Subsequently, they wasted 260 k€ on a expertise by lawyers to show that they did nothing wrong. Can we send these people to the US, they would fit perfectly to your current president.

We can measure how much plastic ends up in the ocean, but when we search for it in the ocean we cannot detect that quantity. Plastic ends up in the ocean from different sources, e.g., rivers which can be monitored and freight which went over board which can be counted. Other sources are fisheries, "recycling" and micro plastic from beauty prdocuts. The question is where does is end up and how to measure it there. We have identified plastic patches on the ocean, shorelines, animal stomachs, food (e.g., micro plastic in fish). Open are, e.g., plastics in the water column and sediments.

From the article:

So in a sense, it becomes invisible to our present abilities to measure plastics in the ocean.

Really, I rather go by train, tram, bus, light rail, subway/tube etc. or by bike. However, that works only well in densely populated areas. Still never owned a car.

I am not so sure it that was clear to everybody, but you are absolutely right with the notation that they mean information and not words or bits.

German syllables are more complex and longer. In the end you need less syllables in German, but you need more time to produce them. The syllables in Italian are also more similar, like it is easier to say la la la or ra ra ra instead of school, awk ward.