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I didn't get it, so looked to see if the answer was on other sites. Full credit to Tisha Bell on Facebook.

"if you notice, around a certain time, there stopped being villains and became more about breaking generational traumas, and believing in yourself"

I tried to find out what you were referring to - was it the rude person in the vegan thread? If you look, they were pretty heavily rebutted and downvoted by the other users.

The mods uphold the community guidelines, ideally without overreach. If someone's out of line, but not technically breaking any rules, the other users are usually good at putting people straight.

This. Dirt cheap material cost, no additional machining costs.

The Bee Network is the biggest quality of life improvement for me personally.

In the bad old days, the buses were contracted to a company called First. The service was both unreliable and expensive.

I'm lucky enough to live in a place on the outskirts of Greater Manchester that isn't too densely populated. Unfortunately that means it was also not profitable for First, so we had one bus an hour - the absolute minimum required to fulfil the contract. Except that wasn't the reality - frequently the busses would be cancelled (with no way of would-be passengers knowing), so you could be waiting for two hours or more.

The fares were extortionate - it was actually cheaper for me to drive to work.

The buses themselves were antiquated piles of scrap that rattled as the vibrations of the engine violently shook the whole frame.

With the Bee Network, the buses are nice, clean and run on time. They can be tracked by app. The fares are capped at £2. They are more frequent and more reliable.

This probably all sounds stupid to anyone from London or anywhere else with competent people running their transport services, but the change has been like night and day.

I really hope this doesn't happen.

Not because I don't think he'll be any good as PM, but because he's already brilliant as Mayor of Manchester. It sounds absurd, but Andy Burnham has made so many improvements to the quality of life for us Manchester folk, I don't want to entertain the thought of losing him.

As much as I hate to fight his corner, I don't think we should really be pulling people up for things they said as children, especially four(?) decades ago.

Children are idiots. Teenagers especially.

Farage has plenty of nasty friends, nasty ideas and nasty actions to focus on, I'm worried that all this kind of thing will do is distract from that stuff.

You've basically said much of what I was going to!

We know where memories are stored in the brain, physically. The biggest problem with targeting specific memories is simply a matter of working out which neurons are tied to that memory.

We can already, fairly crudely, see roughly where a memory is stored by looking at brain activity when the patient recalls it. We can also directly trigger memory recollection by applying electrodes to the brain during brain surgery.

There's still massive engineering challenges to overcome to get this to a practical stage, but engineering challenges are usually surmountable. With that in mind, do I think the technology will be doable, ever?

• Technology to erase specific memories - absolutely.

• Technology to replace specific memories with new ones - I suspect yes, but that'll need some big leaps in our understanding of how memories actually work.

• Technology to do this with just a flash of light - no, probably not.

I like to think there are still some good Labour MPs. They just need to be liberated from the New Labour guys who have been parasitically sustaining themselves on the goodwill people still had towards the old party.

Labour can then go back to protecting people's rights instead of arguing that they have too many, and New Labour can do whatever it is a spineless morally-amorphous knee-jerk-policy-making vote-chasing group of self-important posh-boys want to do, now unshackled from such legacy burdens as principles and ethics.

But, realistically, they won't split. New Labour can only exist because of the masses of people who vote Labour because they've always voted Labour. Lose the name, they lose the votes.

TIL George Orwell was a pen name.

I think by coalition they mean the "broad church" within Labour - the left-wingers and right-wingers.

An actual coalition with another party is impossible under Labour's own rules - party members are not allowed to endorse another party under any circumstances.

I honestly think that instead of trying to hold it all together the only thing that can save Labour is a schism. Remove the New Labour bods like you'd extract an aggressive tumour, and let them fend for themselves as a separate party. Labour gets back to its roots as a championing the working man, without all the Machiavellian nonsense from the New Labour side.

As long as Robbie Gibb is there, the BBC will never regain any of the trust it has lost over the past decade. The guy would never have been allowed near the board by a government with any shred of propriety, but unfortunately for us the Tories inserted him onto it like Palatine putting Anakin Skywalker onto the Jedi Council.

You stopped reading after the first few words again? Makes sense.