I'm now waiting for someone from HMG to use this as justification for Rosebank and Jackdaw licences.

... but doing that just for the US seems to me the most cowardly of the options: have the courage to oppose Trump and all his works or have the courage to back him because you think he's doing right. This way the people at Google come-out as rather mealy-mouthed.

Money in Meta's bank account. What Wynn-Williams has doesn't even qualify as loose change for Zuckerberg. See OP.

... over Russian ties, Epstein ties, fraudulent share dealers ties, ...

I'm sure we all have something to hide, even you Mr Tide.

I can't help thinking it'll be young teenagers installing VPNs while their (grand)parents grapple unsuccessfully with the verification system.

Just because everyone else is too interested in the topic to nit-pick I'll do it. Electrons aren't baryons.

Someone? I don't think 'Someone' is the issue here.

It's nice to find something Putin and I agree on - any non-Russian company operating in Russia should be driven into the ground.

After talking about finishing the war in Ukraine in a day Putin's going to draw him into months of fruitless negotiations. Now Apple, Alphabet and Meta will be given an even bigger slapping by the EU regulators as a result of his intervention. He's going to look rather weak early on in his Presidency.

As I understand it some of the value of a scientific theory lies in the testable predictions it makes that differ from those of others (as an aside I wonder if the authors have considered competition between scientific theories) so it would be interesting to see some for this theory. There's some discussion about what may or may not be going on in Titan's atmosphere but that doesn't really hit the spot, what we need are some predictions in one of the domains this theory covers that differ from what current explanations offer. Maybe that's something the authors are working on for the next paper. No predictions and it's just stamp-collecting.

If it was made of eg small bits of lint and those tiny screws that help hold watch-batteries in place I'd agree that it is a new type of nucleus.

I suspect the energetic defence of 'British English' was to ensure our new EU friends used British spellings, not the US ones (with mixed success - I think overall we are losing / have lost on 'centers'). What price Brexit?

Perhaps they moved from round to square (kilometre array).

I go to a lot of EU meetings in Brussels on behalf of the UK Govt. Like many English speakers I can order beer in a number of other European languages but usually a stronger grasp of the language is needed to understand the technical and policy comments made by my Austrian, French, German, Italian and Spanish colleagues (all of whom are under instruction to speak only in their native languages) - so it's on with the headphones to get the translation. It's my ambition to provide a contribution to the discussion in one of the other EU languages before I'm done - to see the momentarily baffled looks on my colleagues' faces and watch them scrabble to get their headphones on before I've finished.