I don't wish to belittle the suffering of a PBer but is the person who thought he was one of the first people in the UK to get covid now thinking he's one of the first people in the UK to g… (View Post)

But still exists: In 1981, Mauritania made slavery illegal, the last country in the world to do so. Nonetheless, tens of thousands of people – mostly from the minority Haratine or Afro-Mauritanian gr… (View Post)

Added it later to include a French slave colony. Now you could also contrast the lives of the slaves and their descendants on Haiti compared with Martinique or Guadeloupe. It just strikes me that the… (View Post)

Its callous to delay the non-covid medical treatment of others because hospitals are wasting their resources on anti-vaxxers. But I'd be quite happy to financially dis-incentivise anti-vaxxers f… (View Post)

A 92-0 pattern is just as likely as any other 92 stage pattern. But a 92-0 result is a lot less likely than a 46-46 or 47-45 or 45-47 etc. (View Post)