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Yes, the first attempts via the more obvious approach of using a live mosquito were a lot trickier, because the techniques involved in persuading the mosquito to comply were outside of the highly-specialised knowledgebase of the team. That is, until the serendipitous moment when one particularly heavy-handed researcher accidentally killed a mosquito whilst trying to attach it to a printer. The surprise and elation that must have resulted when they realised they could use mosquito husks was, surely a sight to behold. The missing piece of the puzzle had finally fallen into place. Some might even say… by Divine Providence, perhaps?
I daresay some of the project leads were kicking themselves nonetheless: “It’s so simple! Dead mosquito proboscises! Dead! Why didn’t I think of that?!”, etc. But I think we should go easy on them; we could all get a doctorate in the field of hindsight!
In the end, just like many discoveries before it: penicillin, safety glasses, velcro etc., this breakthrough simply owes a lot to blind chance.

The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few, where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe, and where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.

-Labour Party Rule Book, clause IV.

(I’m not claiming the PLP are democratic or socialists, merely pointing out that they are breaking their own rules, and they they publicly claim to be socialist)

I disagree. Critical thinking abilities are the antidote to thinking an opinion is the truth.

Illiterate medieval serf with no critical thinking abilities: “it is written, therefore it must be true”

Vs.

Modern, educated person subjected to gigabytes of information at their fingertips: “I’ll need to see a primary source for the info in this video because it looks like this YouTuber might have an axe to grind”

Used GPUs

There are always biases though? I’m having trouble understanding why you find obviously biased media less useful. The more obvious the bias, the easier to boil it down to facts, no?

It’s pretty useful to own all the media though. Which the right wing do in fact own.

It’s worth asking your local library. My library card gives me read-only access to every ISO standard I’ve ever needed.

There’s also the Estonian standards institute which offers the same standards for much much cheaper.

A lot of GB isn’t either, to be fair.

*brevity is the soul of wit"

~Shakespeare

“Um actually, wit is actually a subjective phenomenon, with everyone having a different idea of what it actually means. How could such a construct actually possess a ‘soul’? And that’s not even getting started on the assertion that souls actually exist in any real way”.

~Obinice