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I was disappointed that Bellingcat wasn't included in the Peace Prize awards.
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More of a preliminary post in that there's no details on who to put on the new Anki slide, but...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63332037
Liz Truss has dramatically resigned as prime minister after just 45 days in the job.
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In a speech outside Downing Street, Ms Truss said: "I recognise that I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party."

Ms Truss said she would remain in post until a successor formally takes over as party leader and is appointed prime minister by King Charles III.

Ms Truss - who took office 44 days ago - will become the shortest-serving PM in British history when she stands down.
But does this mean the lettuce wins?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/worl ... tream.html
Purchased at a Tesco grocery store for 60 pence (68 cents), the lettuce has become a caricature of the Conservative leader’s flailing hold on power, pitted against the prime minister by The Daily Star, a left-leaning British tabloid.

“Will Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?” the newspaper asks in a live video that has been running since Oct. 14, attracting bounds of viewers and comments on social media.

The lettuce gag was inspired by The Economist, which noted on Oct. 11 that between a near-immediate political implosion at the beginning of her tenure and the 10 days of mourning after Queen Elizabeth II died, her grip on power amounted to seven days, or “roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce.”
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Didn't last long enough to be mentioned in a J! clue.

If we see one in the coming weeks, you might see one of those "this was taped before..." graphics.
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Giving lots of content for Season 7 of The Crown
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cinemaniax7 wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:50 pm Rishi Sunak will be the UK’s next prime minister. The former hedge-fund manager turned Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to meet Tuesday with King Charles III to be formally appointed. Sunak will be the first person of color and the first Hindu to lead the UK. At 42, he the youngest prime minister since Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, in 1812.
*buys lettuce*
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How many lettuce are in a scaramucci?
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Volante wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:50 pm
cinemaniax7 wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:50 pm Rishi Sunak will be the UK’s next prime minister. The former hedge-fund manager turned Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to meet Tuesday with King Charles III to be formally appointed. Sunak will be the first person of color and the first Hindu to lead the UK. At 42, he the youngest prime minister since Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, in 1812.
*buys lettuce*
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Over the weekend, I culled all the old veggies from the fridge and made a slaw and a cabbage soup. Yeah, I Trussed it. 🥬🥕🧅🧄🍅
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MattKnowles wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:34 pm How many lettuce are in a scaramucci?
I insist on giving this a reading where "lettuce" rhymes with Scaramucci.
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seaborgium wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:39 am
MattKnowles wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:34 pm How many lettuce are in a scaramucci?
I insist on giving this a reading where "lettuce" rhymes with Scaramucci.
To prevent chaos, I’ve learned not to question what this board says about rhymes. Suit yourself.
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MattKnowles wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:21 am
seaborgium wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:39 am
MattKnowles wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:34 pm How many lettuce are in a scaramucci?
I insist on giving this a reading where "lettuce" rhymes with Scaramucci.
To prevent chaos, I’ve learned not to question what this board says about rhymes. Suit yourself.
"uce" as in Danny Bonaduce.
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Volante wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 10:42 am
Woof wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 10:03 am
Volante wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:53 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63121287
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales.

The award goes to Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger.

...

This year's three laureates conducted ground-breaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two sub-atomic particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated.
Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance", one of his rare misses.
I think that many physicists would agree with Einstein. All the available evidence suggests that flipping the spin of an entangled particle will result in its partner flipping its spin (because Pauli) instantaneously , no matter how distant. Thus, information seems to travel faster than the speed of light, which contradicts a tenet of relativity.
Seems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafGL02EUOA
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Space Time made a followup! Apparently there's still one loophole left that allows hidden variables...
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Robert K S wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:50 pm In the category not the Onion: Actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) changes his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson as part of climate change activism advocacy.
I don't know how to begin to process this mentally.
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cinemaniax7 wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:15 pm
Robert K S wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:50 pm In the category not the Onion: Actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) changes his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson as part of climate change activism advocacy.
I don't know how to begin to process this mentally.
Obviously, you have to make a mnemonic out of RHWEWW.
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alietr wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:23 pm
cinemaniax7 wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:15 pm
Robert K S wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:50 pm In the category not the Onion: Actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) changes his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson as part of climate change activism advocacy.
I don't know how to begin to process this mentally.
Obviously, you have to make a mnemonic out of RHWEWW.
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cinemaniax7 wrote: Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:08 pm Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100

I hate how streaming has made the music charts largely worthless as a measurement of trends lasting more than a few moments.
If not for this post I would not have gotten the LL question about it right yesterday.
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Bamaman wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:56 pm
cinemaniax7 wrote: Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:08 pm Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100

I hate how streaming has made the music charts largely worthless as a measurement of trends lasting more than a few moments.
If not for this post I would not have gotten the LL question about it right yesterday.
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