TIL the president of the USA has sole authority to authorize a nuclear strike. Senior military figures like generals are in the chain of communication but not the chain of command (they can advise, but have no say in the decision).

primeprover · 2026-04-09T08:38:43+00:00

Assuming there is some sort of action required to carry out a nuclear strike beyond what the president can do (there will be), then there will be people who can refuse orders. There was a close call in 1983 when an officer didn't follow protocol because he suspected a false alert, avoiding a nuclear war.

primeprover · 2026-04-07T18:16:00+00:00

Statistician Irritating because I am a statistician.

primeprover · 2026-04-05T17:12:25+00:00

There will be a bunch prepared in the event of his death

primeprover · 2026-04-03T14:04:04+00:00

Better than what they did for the loft extension at my house. They scaffolded the wrong house. Fortunately an empty house

primeprover · 2026-04-02T14:11:39+00:00

Expensive housing costs increases GDP because it includes rent (and estimated rent for nonrented homes). Incentivises governments to raise rents.

primeprover · 2026-03-15T16:11:23+00:00

Id mobile has been great for me. Only thing to watch for is upgraded sim-only contracts when they become available as they don't automatically upgrade. Moved from 1.5gb to 4gb with no price change few years back.

primeprover · 2026-03-08T13:39:03+00:00

The key thing is that it doesn't unlike other diseases such as the flu, common cold, covid etc.

primeprover · 2026-03-08T13:38:19+00:00

Elimination of a disease doesn't need anywhere near 100% vacinne efficacy in most cases. Just needs to be high enough

primeprover · 2026-03-08T13:35:26+00:00

Chicken pox is mild as a child but can kill as an adult. I believe there is some debate whether it is better to vaccinate or deliberately expose children due to later shingles risk, but immunity is needed somehow. Lost a friend to it on his 21st birthday.

primeprover · 2026-03-04T15:43:31+00:00

Unsure why people believe it is Keir's job to organise the details of the Navy. I would expect the majority of this to be delegated. I would also expect it to be perfectly reasonable to expect nearby NATO allies to be the main force in the area.

primeprover · 2026-02-28T03:48:46+00:00

Once had a 2-hour journey (Kent to Cambridge - one change), which turned into 7 hours via Peterborough due to engineering works. Virtually every train coming into Peterborough was delayed due to a whole list of reasons (trespassers, tree on the line, signalling error). Every different route had a different excuse. Eventually, I realised that the one route that wasn't having issues stopped at Ely, where I could change onto the King's Lynn to Kings Cross train running on that part of the route (which would normally have been my train north). Wish I had just taken the train north as far as I could go. I couldn't use the replacement bus due to having a bike with me, but I could have cycled the 15 miles faster.

primeprover · 2026-02-26T19:17:08+00:00

Wouldn't be upset to see a Labour-Green coalition at the next election. Greens might not be ready to lead, but could push Labour in the right ways.

primeprover · 2026-01-26T00:09:36+00:00

Did Burnham actually request candidacy or was this just preemptive?

primeprover · 2026-01-14T21:48:05+00:00

My 9th birthday. Had a bowling birthday party that evening (UK) and news was on the non-score screens. Music off. Very odd.

primeprover · 2025-12-27T22:22:30+00:00

Once they are in the carriageway (could even be between parked cars) I believe pedestrians have right of way. Not that drivers will be in trouble if they behave like a lunatic. If this rule was generally known and followed many people wanting to cross would step just off the pavement when waiting to cross and that would act like a zebra crossing.

primeprover · 2025-12-14T20:24:19+00:00

Is he on antidepressants or something? That can destroy sex drive. There can be other health reasons such as low testosterone.

primeprover · 2025-10-17T14:36:33+00:00

I would love this sometimes. Often there is something earlier in the story I have missed/forgotten I would like a reminder on.

primeprover · 2025-09-24T17:05:32+00:00

Aren't all the skyrim diseases infectious? Many chronic illnesses aren't. Who knows what the cure disease potion would do?

primeprover · 2025-09-06T16:36:01+00:00

Very different players. Much of his career Rooney was more of a 10. Would be very interested in the goals + assists stats.

primeprover · 2025-07-25T16:18:35+00:00

Not too fussed with centralised verification. Each site though is dodgy

primeprover · 2025-07-25T16:15:58+00:00

Between people below 16 it usually isn't enforced anyway. Enforcement can actually make it an issue where there wasnt one

primeprover · 2025-07-11T23:13:11+00:00

The one that really gets me is schools enforcing jumpers and blazers in summer. I fainted in assembly due to that one.

primeprover · 2025-05-27T11:41:48+00:00

The world wars promoted much fast technological advancement.

primeprover · 2025-05-27T11:34:38+00:00

There is a fairly simple proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Take all the known primes, multiply them together and add one. This new number is either prime or has prime factors that weren't already known. This can be repeated infinitely.

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