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  1. Still, it fails in situations that otherwise have a "dark matter" explanation, just slightly fewer of them. It's not a solution to the problem.

  2. Re:I get the feeling that on Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's the Standard Model. To be fair there are a good 18 orders of magnitude to traverse between it and the fundamental nature of reality, so it's better than nothing.

  3. Re:Dark matter is hydrinos (and a vast energy sour on Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are all corporate energy scammers called Randell?

  4. MOND doesn't eliminate the "need" for Dark Matter, does it.

  5. So what? Cheap steel is good for absolutely everybody except the people who manufacture steel. Sugar protectionism simply makes products that contain it more expensive in the UK.

  6. the significant cost of rewriting 40 years of laws

    Really? We have to re-write 40 years of laws? No we fucking don't. Our laws can evolve as they have done for the last 1,000 years, except this time it'll be our own MPs changing them, not some twat in Brussels. IT systems? Again, don't be so fucking stupid.

  7. Complete bollocks. Leave wasn't a political party you fucking moron. Why are you treating it like it was? Twat.

  8. The US doesn't prevent cane sugar imports because Mexico or Canada don't want the competition. The EU does (for the benefit of French beet growers). This has cost jobs in the UK (British Sugar), as our companies have to use a more expensive, inferior product.

  9. I believe there were many positive reasons to leave the EU put forward by the Leave campaign, the best of which are displayed admirably here. It's not my fault you're a fucking moron who can't be arsed to watch a 5 minute movie on YouTube. Or how about this. Why don't you educate yourself.

  10. Re:Science can be wrong, yes...but... on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    The scientific method does not allow for intentional deception when practiced correctly

    You need to emphasise the when practiced correctly because, let me see, around 40,000 MRI neurology papers are now considered invalid, there's something called The Decline Effect in medicine and there's a Replication Crisis is psychology.

    So what, specifically, are you proposing here?

  11. The point is that the EU is a protectionist enterprise. The idea is to prevent free trade, not encourage it.

  12. The Remain camp couldn't think of a single positive argument for remaining in the EU.

  13. But I'll admit that the outcome being clearly wrong by any objective measurement

    There is no "objective measurement" and those that there are tend to be funded by the fucking EU, so not really all that objective after all.

  14. Wanting to be an independent nation is a "failure of democracy", is it? Quite ridiculous.

  15. That is why I used the phrase demos, "The populace of a democracy as a political unit". There is no such thing across Europe. There is in Britain (under strain at the moment), France, Norway, Denmark, Germany, etc.

  16. Hilarious. As if the EU is good at trade deals. Even tiny Singapore has more trade deals than the EU. The EU was set up and is run precisely to prevent trade deals. That's the whole point.

  17. The currency hasn't "crashed". The stock market has gained back its losses (the 100 at least). Major companies are not planning on leaving. And no, the idea isn't to continue to be bound by the EU's rules, except when exporting to the EU like every other country on the planet, the majority of which are not in the EU.

  18. In this case the decision wasn't "galactically stupid" though, was it. All we've done is propose leaving what is effectively a Franco-German protection racket. If you want to see galactic stupidity just look at all of those countries that joined the Euro - mostly under advisement from the experts.

  19. Why are you comparing Germany's history with that of the United Kingdom? They're completely different. Even the constitution of the United States can be traced back to British institutions (or English) alongside Scottish and English philosophers. Britain never had a Napoleon, Stalin, Kaiser or Hitler.

  20. Everywhere in the country voted to Leave, except Scotland, London and Northern Ireland. Londoners were thinking about their house prices. I have no idea what the Scots were thinking given SNP policy is to remain in the European Union, where 10% of its trade is and leave the United Kingdom, where 90% of its trade is. As for Northern Ireland there are historical reasons why nobody wants to rock the political settlement there.

  21. They were lied to and manipulated by politicians seeking a Remain vote. It was called Project Fear.

  22. Just so I understand, you would absolutely be calling for a confirmation vote if Remain had won and Leave had lost?

    No, I didn't think so.

  23. The goal should be to get turnout in EU parliamentary elections to increase by giving parliament more power

    How absurd. There's no European demos. The British electors elect only 10% of MEPs. For our Parliament the British people elected 100% of MPs.

  24. Two problems here: (1) most of the executive are themselves elected (they're MPs), (2) The House of Lords is a revising chamber just like the European Parliament. It cannot repeal or propose legislation.

  25. So the voters have advised the government to leave the European Union. What's your point?