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The Mandalorian Hype Thread

For those of you who are interested, it's 10 days now until The Mandalorian returns to Disney+. Best thing to come out of Disney Star Wars yet, and the second season looks set to be even better, with...
15:31 Tue 20th Oct 202050 answers, last by jim360 23:10 Fri 18th Dec 2020
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A Pardon For Ed Snowden?

One of the more bizarre stories in recent weeks has been this one: Trump is apparently seriously considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the whistleblower that was such a big story seven years ago....
13:09 Sun 16th Aug 202028 answers, last by Answerdaquestion 00:35 Sat 26th Sep 2020
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Women Against Women's Suffrage

It is pretty obvious why I'm posting this: I'm attempting, perhaps mistakenly, to draw at least some analogy between the debate then, when women were fighting for decades to gain access to what we now...
15:51 Tue 23rd Jun 2020126 answers, last by pixie374 22:08 Wed 24th Jun 2020
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Pastor Who Calls Police Because He Was Assaulted Gets Arrested

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/pastor-criminal-charge-dropped-struggle-not-finished/article_94cc6488-bf90-5133-b413-6f77ae7133f2.html...
11:14 Sun 14th Jun 202084 answers, last by andy-hughes 13:55 Mon 15th Jun 2020
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Covid-19 Modelling

For the two of you who may care, my ongoing personal quest to understand the latest UK Covid figures and make predictions about the future continues. Things are naturally complicated by the fact that...
14:53 Tue 05th May 202020 answers, last by Peter Pedant 19:25 Tue 05th May 2020
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Lockdown Raok

It was hard not to read the thread about AB members and how lockdown has affected them without being deeply moved, especially by the tragic stories there. It got me wondering if there was a random act...
21:56 Mon 04th May 202049 answers, last by jim360 10:44 Sat 16th May 2020
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Disinfectant Injections May Cure Covid-19

Well, certainly the patient wouldn't be worried about Covid-19 any more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgVxGkrX1Y...
00:41 Fri 24th Apr 2020366 answers, last by jim360 19:50 Sat 25th Apr 2020
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Are The Lockdowns Working/How Effective Are They?

As is usually the case, the answers are "possibly" and "fairly, maybe?". But this is also an interesting video to see how statistical analysis can be used to even try to answer the question....
12:26 Thu 23rd Apr 202036 answers, last by 10ClarionSt 19:09 Mon 04th May 2020
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Burglary Rates Plummeting During Lockdown

Should the petty crime industry be the next target for a Government bailout? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8213795/Burglaries-plummet-30-cent-parts-Britain-coronavirus-hit.html...
12:36 Mon 13th Apr 202012 answers, last by teacake44 12:47 Mon 13th Apr 2020
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Covid-19 And The Important Of Testing

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/...
12:21 Sun 05th Apr 202020 answers, last by woofgang 14:10 Sun 05th Apr 2020
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Epidemiology 101

A highly relevant video providing a hopefully easily watchable introduction to how to model disease spread. NB: plenty of disclaimers from the video poster himself. Toy models only. But still highly...
21:58 Fri 27th Mar 20205 answers, last by jim360 16:35 Sun 29th Mar 2020
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Coronavirus In The Us

On its current trajectory, the US will record more confirmed cases than China by Friday, and should pass around 1000 total deaths from Covid-19 at around the same time. Some of this is down to...
22:16 Tue 24th Mar 202036 answers, last by douglas9401 07:48 Fri 27th Mar 2020
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Good For Him, I Guess?

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/william-shatner-horse-semen-divorce-settlement...
11:54 Fri 06th Mar 20209 answers, last by shoota 15:02 Fri 06th Mar 2020
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Johnson's "new" Deal

So far so quiet on AB, but since the new Deal* (text available at the bottom) has now been announced, what are people's thoughts?...
11:24 Thu 17th Oct 201932 answers, last by jim360 20:38 Thu 17th Oct 2019
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Early General Election On Its Way?

Looks like TTT might be set to lose his bet...* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49549960 *Reference to https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1668562.html . If you want to actually make...
12:42 Mon 02nd Sep 201922 answers, last by ichkeria 13:27 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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Wholesome Video To Brighten The Evening

https://imgur.com/gallery/dwlqWID...
21:52 Wed 14th Aug 20199 answers, last by Mamyalynne 16:55 Thu 15th Aug 2019
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The Purge -- Over Half Of Cabinet To Be Replaced

As I type two more ministers, David Mundell and Claire Perry, and Leader of the House Mel Stride, have stepped down from Cabinet roles, presumably because they were pushed -- joining a long list of...
17:21 Wed 24th Jul 201966 answers, last by ichkeria 07:36 Fri 26th Jul 2019
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The Most Important Story Of The Week

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49060280 So relieved to hear that all the puppies have been saved, and that potentially the culprit(s) has/have been caught and identified....
12:29 Sun 21st Jul 201921 answers, last by 10ClarionSt 23:12 Mon 22nd Jul 2019
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This Is The True Cost Of Brexit

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7219283/Swedish-mother-50-blames-Brexit-stress-drink-drive-crash-ditch.html Is there any more reason needed to end this disaster? The effects are real. The...
12:19 Sat 06th Jul 201929 answers, last by New Judge 16:12 Sat 06th Jul 2019
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The Continued Us Presence In Afghanistan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-afghanistan/trump-says-he-is-worried-about-terrorist-attacks-if-us-troops-leave-afghanistan-idUSKCN1TX042 Like Bush and Obama before him, Trump hoped that...
23:34 Tue 02nd Jul 201910 answers, last by jim360 12:38 Wed 03rd Jul 2019

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