[–] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I think Nigel has become a bit of a liability for them. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new leader if he does badly in his stupid by election.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 12 hours ago

    He doesn't mind. He was originally "Slinki", (and still is at the vet's - who told us he was a girl), but he kept farting, so it made sense to change his informal name. He's also known as "Binky", "Bonky", "Stonky", or even "Binky Bonky Boo", and he really doesn't care as long as you scritch him under the chin.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    It's a measuring system which is designed to ignore the very thing that you are using it to measure. It's like getting a paper map, measuring the distance between two places and declaring them to be at the same height because the map is flat.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Literally in the first paragraph of the link you supplied:

    "Comoving distance factors out the expansion of the universe, giving a distance that does not change in time except due to local factors, such as the motion of a galaxy within a cluster."

    It factors out the thing you are trying to use to create energy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The Wikipedia page has the details:

    Expansion of space

    It is often erroneously argued that cosmic expansion must be interpreted as the expansion of space itself, such that galaxies are stationary as the space between them stretches. This description suggests the existence of a preferred rest frame, in violation of the principle of relativity. On the contrary, the expansion of the universe is naturally interpreted as galaxies moving apart.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    They are not being stretched. You need to seriously re think what cosmic expansion is. It isn't the physical movement of things in the universe, it's the density of them that is changing. The wires become less dense, along with everything else, so there is no net change between them and the rest of the universe.

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    A leading figure in the Oxfordshire's Raise the Colours movement is due to stand trial accused of making indecent images of children.

    Ben Cullen is due to appear before a jury at Reading Crown Court on July 1 having been charged with three counts of the offence.

    Court documents say the 45-year-old is accused of making 22 indecent category A photographs, including one moving image, in Wallingford on March 25, 2021.

    He is also accused of making indecent pseudo-photographs, namely 36 Category B images of children at the same place and on the same date as well as making 20 Category C images of children.

    Cullen, who lives in Wallingford, has been a leading figure behind the Raise the Colours movement, which gained more than 4,000 members of its Facebook social media page but appears to have since been deleted.

    The group has been putting up flags across Oxfordshire, from Wallingford to Wantage and from Oxford to Witney.

    Motorists will have seen the flags flying from lampposts since last summer. And most of them were put up by the small group of people.

    Key figures have said they are motivated by patriotism, but it has received criticism from others.

    Earlier this month, Oxfordshire County Council won an injunction against the group and four members including Cullen to stop putting up flags.

    Oxfordshire County Council said it brought legal action to stop people raising flags near highways, saying it involved safety risks, as well as trespass and obstruction.

    After a short hearing at the High Court where the group represented themselves, the group members agreed not to put up more flags, not to encourage others to do so, and not to obstruct any council worker or contractor taking them down.

    Cullen, of Wallingford, is due to appear at Reading Crown Court on July 1.

     

    They sneaked the news out in a paragraph near the bottom of an article about a nature podcast - “As part of the BBC’s evolving commissioning strategy, Winterwatch will not be continuing.”

    I thought this was coming when they reduced it from two weeks to one. You can send in comments to the BBC here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments

     

    You get adverts where people drive their cars over beautiful garden chess boards, and up stairs with your smirking face in order to make the woman want sex with you. You get adverts where you pick your kids up from football, actually driving on the pitch behind the goal mouth, and all the kids think you are wonderful. You then drive your stupid fucking car down the middle of a row of tents with people outside, inches from their faces, and they are all wowed at your prowess.

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