Not really. It's not unprecedented elsewhere and Brazil only has about 40 years of events to compare to, which is a small dataset - it was going to happen for the first time at some time.

It's a pretty standard outcome where you've got a candidate where people who don't like them also don't agree on what they do want, but are very sure that it's not them. It looks like people rallied around Da Silva because they absolutely didn't want Bolsonaro.

The results should certainly be checked in the normal way, but winning the first round and losing the second isn't a smoking gun. It also depends on what has happened in the news in the meantime.

The 'manufacturers' (apt word) of social media content are largely corporations and political pressure groups. The fact that they have successfully dressed the content up to make you think it's come from individual citizens posting solely their own thoughts is exactly the problem. Most posts need a big 'I have a financial interest in you believing this' stamp on them.

If that manual _had_ been fed to the AI machine, your initial search for 'How do I repair a 1973 ToastyBoy Toaster?' would have given you full instructions, saved you having to pay up to 2 orders of magnitude over what you actually finally paid, and saved 6 months of your life. I'm not sure that's a great example of why not to do it.

You'd probably need to analyse the risk of making Swift re-enter in such a way as to not fully burn up before reaching the ground as well.

You've checked that every single space-flight qualified part of that design is still available for purchase? Otherwise you may need to do a loop of design changes and part and board re-qualifications.

Did Syd take a measured dose of a specific, professionally refined and purified chemical? Or are the two situations not comparable?

It's not 'the' question. It's barely 'a' question. It's just been a popular one that has been seeded over every social media site for the last few years by multiple anonymous accounts - wonder who has been paying for that?

It's insulting to think that people who work day-to-day with climate data haven't thought of and accounted for that effect. We've got global, daily, satellite-based monitoring of both land and ocean surface temperatures. We can detect the local environment component of temperature change at specific sites with long time series.

That 'careful look' you wanted has been done - some people are just really 'invested' in trying to get people to discount the result. The world, as a whole is warming. The level of warming is in keeping with what we expect from the physics of atmospheric CO2. Those are facts. What, if anything, to do about those facts is still up for discussion.

Honestly, you bellowing at the family that they need to run because you've only budgeted 5 minutes in your schedule for this rest stop sounds like much less of a vacation than a chilled out trip in an EV.

If work need me to go somewhere for a meeting they pay for a hire car to avoid insurance issues, or send me via public transport - why would you put miles on your own vehicle?

Here, what I've saved on buying petrol has paid for the car, so it's very much the case of people needing to do their own due diligence on how the numbers work out for them. As for range, the car has a better range than my bladder. The discussion surrounding EVs is indeed full of lies, but they mostly are not being told by the people who are saying that an EV worked out well for them.

Or you can take the intention of the project and focus on the word 'Left'. It shouldn't be about ensuring nobody is behind (impossible anyway) but about ensuring that nobody is LEFT behind purely because of their starting point. It's about not wasting talented students who just need a bit more extra attention to them for whatever reason. Not wasting resources is prudent conservatism.

1 year Software Engineering MSc for me, to turn the coding skills I'd learned as a physicist into something more formal. Project management and design skills, and then a broad spectrum of taster courses in languages, technologies, and topics - just enough to get you started if you went in that direction.

The removal of those tests helps those who have not been tutored to pass those specific tests ANS who also have the natural aptitude that will allow them to excel when they enter higher education. I've met students like that. The overall number may be small, but the number of students who benefit from the removal of that hurdle is non-zero. It's up to you to decide whether to treat them as acceptable losses.

What we actually need is a better method of selectively assessing who is ready for higher education. That's not a simple problem to solve.

Successfully dismantled government waste something something overreach something woke ideology something Biden

What makes you think there is any interest in balancing the budget? The aim is to continue to buy a stream of 'victories' that can be used to convince a power base to keep voting. Doesn't matter about the budget - you can blame that on whoever 'them' is today.

No idea why you are currently -1. Algorithmic targeting of people to push views that will swing them on wedge issues is absolutely what is causing the increase in polarisation and encouraging people to dismiss any fact that differs from their carefully curated stream of opinion reinforcement as 'fake news'.