He presented himself as a moderate, which in reality means he wanted to pull the labor party back to the right again. The very first thing he did was purge the left wing of the party

There hasn't been any specific event which has cost him his position (at least, not known to the general public). His problem is that there's basically nobody who likes him, and the only reason he got selected in the first place is that nobody particularly hated him either. Now new parties have sprung up to fill the void left by what were traditionally the majority parties, so "he's not the other guy" isn't going to swing it any more.

It does matter, because that Google integration didn't happen by magic. Whatever the site is, they chose to do things that way.

The only way Google stops things like this is if they get actual pushback, and the only realistic way to achieve that is to make the people using their service reconsider.

Like fuck it is.

All sucking up to trump achieves is making yourself more vulnerable to his next mood swing. The smart leaders have been scrambling to insulate themselves from the USA, not make themselves more dependent

The party has the ability to kick them out, which they'd rather do as far as possible from a general election so that the new leader can be in a position to carry out a successful campaign.

When they resign between elections, it's usually a matter of leaving before they're kicked out, to minimise the damage of a public power struggle

I feel like you're getting a lot of partial answers, so I'll try and fill in the gaps.

Palestine action are a protest group who believe that Palestinians are being mistreated by Israel, and that the UK shouldn't support Israel in doing that. They e been around for a while, but obviously they've gotten a lot more active recently.

The key thing is that when they say "action", that's exactly what they mean. They aren't about the usual things like protest marches, although I imagine they take part in those as well. Their approach is to do things like shut down roads leading to companies supplying the Israeli military or police by physically blocking the road.

The significant thing they did which brought them to the center of attention was to break into a military airfield, and throw paint into the engines of aircraft which they believed (and were likely correct to believe) were about to go to Israel to provide reconnaissance over Palestine to support military operations there. A lot of the news called that "vandalism", but in reality a bucket of paint in the intake for a modern jet engine means the engine needs to be partially dismantled and thoroughly cleaned before it can run again. That costs a lot of time, and a huge amount of money, so really it amounts to sabotage.

That seriously angered the government, who used certain powers they were given by parliament years ago to declare that Palestine Action weren't just criminal, they were terrorists. Those powers allow them to deny all sorts of fundamental legal rights, so much so that they can't really be said to have been given fair trials. These are powers which were intended for people planting bombs in public places, and they're alarmingly authoritarian even for that.

Among other things, declaring them terrorists has made it illegal for anyone to support them in any way. As a result, the overwhelming majority of people who have ever been arrested under the terrorism laws are now people who's only crime was to say that Palestine Action did nothing wrong. Police were rounding up whole crowds of protestors, including harmless elderly people, and arresting them all for "supporting terrorists"

My understanding is there was little to no actual science in that data.

To be science, the data would need to be systematic and care would need to be taken to exclude confounding factors. What that unit did doesn't become science simply because they made notes.

Missiles of every size, not just ICBMs. There's a huge demand for air defence missiles right now, which I'll bet use solid motors, as will some of the offensive missiles

It's actually not necessarily a stupid thing to do. If the building you're in would become a deathtrap when subjected to an explosion, then you might be better off finding shelter outside. Same logic as for earthquakes

If you're sure it's the same day, then I'll bet they take far more photos than they actually use. Those photos go into some database somewhere, and they have a program which goes through them all and picks the ones it needs to generate street view.

What must have happened is that they've made a change to that software for some reason, or possibly they've gotten new photos somewhere nearby, so they've run it again and it's picked different photos to use this time

It's a very capitalist way of thinking about the problem, but what "negative prices" actually means in this case is that the grid is over-energised. That's a genuine engineering issue which would take considerable effort to deal with without exploding transformers or setting fire to power stations

It was pointed out to me a while back that the paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you consider tolerance to be a philosophical position.

In fact, we don't treat it like that. We treat it as a social contract, in which context it is no paradox at all to say that if you aren't tolerant then other people aren't obliged to tolerate you in turn

I get really irritated when my phone limits volume with a notification like this, because the phone has no idea what hardware I have playing the sound. They've made some unfounded assumption about how loud 80% volume actually is, and interrupt whatever I'm doing to complain about it

I've heard it's actually really difficult, because a good translator doesn't do it literally.

They're supposed to say something which gets the same meaning across, which often isnt what you'd get just by translating each word.

That leaves people translating trump with a problem: you can't generally turn his long rambling speeches into something with a clearly understandable meaning without putting words into his mouth, or summarising so aggressively that you'd only say a couple of sentences for every few minutes of speech

Jesus Christ, when did choosing not to throw away a perfectly good device become "device hoarding"?

Be cautious about trusting the AI-detection tools, they're not much better than the AI they're trying to detect, because they're just as prone to false positives and false negatives as the agents they claim to detect.

It's also inherently an arms race, because if a tool exists which can easily and reliably detect AI generated content then they'd just be using that tool for their training instead of what they already use, and the AI would quickly learn to defeat it. They also wouldn't be worrying about their training data being contaminated by the output of existing AI, Which is becoming a genuine problem right now

The only thing I'd add is "not particularity nice to the Muslims living there" is putting it mildly.

Because there's always tension, Israel takes its security very seriously. Unlike most countries, who put a token effort into security most of the time, Israel really is an armed fortress. That makes it very easy for someone with an itchy trigger finger to shoot someone who didnt deserve shooting. Even with the best will in the world, it would happen from time to time.

That, of course, makes the Palestinians very angry. An angry population poses more of a threat, and is more likely to do something genuinely aggressive. The Israeli security is thus tightened further, and their soldiers get even itchier trigger fingers and around and around we go.

It doesn't take long before everyone involved has a personal grudge for one reason or another, and things can get really vicious.

Because billboards are giant adverts offering to sell it

In principle they could have pulled out slightly, if there's jostling and tiny movements in skull then you'd expect them to work loose over time if they're not securely anchored

Well there's a clickbait headline if ever I saw one