The problem is there are 2 categories. Microwave safe just means it won’t explode, or throw sparks. The other type sorely lacks a name still. It’s the stuff that is transparent to microwaves and so won’t heat up at all, except for heat transfer from the food.

A slightly different way of looking at it is hot anger Vs cold anger.

Hot anger is the obvious “angry” stereotype. It’s built on adrenaline, and often used to counter fear. Cold anger is a willingness to do an unpleasant, but necessary job. It has aspects of hot anger, but they are subservient to the goal. You might still be afraid, but it’s controlled and focused.

Protecting someone is generally a cold anger. You have a goal and an opponent to be either driven off, or disabled. Their own health irrelevant.

Hot anger has you beating the shit out of them, while your grandmother bleeds out. Cold anger is leaving them with a quick shattered knee, from your first kick, while moving on to first aid.

Hopefully it’s a dead cat bounce. Falling shares often recover slightly, before continuing their fall. Only time (and action) will tell.

It lets your phone use the larger screen for satnav. It also reconfigures it to a better setup for driving (bigger buttons and reduced complexity). This also means your phone doesn’t need to be sat in the sun, with its screen lit up for a couple of hours, and so overheating.

My phone no longer even leaves my pocket. It wirelessly links to the entertainment system.

As someone who’s been there, for most people it’s transient and/or a call for help. If someone really wants to kill themselves, they will. These steps are for those who fail to control a momentary intrusive thought.

It’s also worth noting that an overdose on paracetamol or ibuprofen is an awful way to go. It likely won’t kill you quickly. You’ll recover initially, but die to liver failure. This can take weeks in hospital. Imagine the horror of watching a teenage daughter die slowly over 2 weeks. She doesn’t want to die, she never intended to. She just wanted mum and dad to pay attention to her about the bullying at school.

The purchase limit was entirely to stop suicide by overdose. It was amazingly effective. It turns out that the effort to go in and out of stores multiple times, to buy the drugs was more than most people could do.

It’s slightly annoying, but worth it.

Taxes. The EU introduced rules of tax transparency. The UK left the EU the day before the rules kicked in.

Dog particularly pick up on our emotions. If you’re always worried and stressed when you go to the vet, your dog will pick up on that.

My dog had a few checkups, not that long after we got him. None were stressful either to him, or us. Since then, he LOVES the vets. He has lots of new people paying attention to him and lots of new smells!

A fear of the vets is a learned response. If your vet is that frightening to them, I would consider looking at other vets.

A good excuse for a quick visit is to weigh them. Most vets I’ve seen have a dog scale in the reception. If you mention you also want to make sure they are not afraid of a vets visit, most will have zero issues with it. It also lets you check they are growing at an appropriate rate.

Because statistics is a relative unknown to many people. Until people have a good grounding in statistics then they often have to rely on an appeal to authority.

In reality, statistics should be trusted based on source, method and importance.

A survey of preferred ice-cream flavours by an ice-cream company can be trusted easily, even if the wording and method are a bit loose. An analysis of a potentially billion dollar drug requires FAR more scrutiny, even from multiple reliable sources. Between these 2 extremes is a spectrum of trust.

Unfortunately, most people don’t do well with shades of grey. If some statistics can’t be trusted, then none can. It’s all false news (until it happens to agree with their preconceived views).

While dyslexia is actually a cluster of related issues, a common one seems to be with dimensionality. Basically, the reader’s brain assumes the objects are 3 dimensional. When the eyes make micro adjustments, the letters don’t rotate, since they are 2D. The brain misinterprets this as them rotating, or moving. This is perceived as them flickering or moving, in the corner of your eye.

There are several ways to break this effect. I suspect the shape is intended to mess with and slightly overload the depth sense. Strong colours can also disrupt it. E.g. via a coloured filter or glasses.

Just to note, my knowledge/research on this was 20 years ago, so might be outdated now. The coloured filters (actually tinted reading glasses) did help a relative overcome dyslexia however.

Even a small amount of statistic abuse will break blind trust in them. Once that trust is gone, some people will reject all of them, rather than try and differentiate.

Low grade abuse of statistics and related methods is rampant in low grade media.

That’s how most EU regulations are created. They take the best parts of the legislation of various members and combine them.

As for weapons, harmonisation is a thing. However, the exact use cases will vary for different countries. A tank that’s optimal for Spain isn’t necessarily the best for Germany. Neither country wants suboptimal equipment. What is easier to harmonise is ammo, a fact that NATO have been exploiting for a long while.

There are also the implications. Before now, military has been done on a per country basis. If they want to move as a block, they need individual countries to step up. It also allows countries to act independently if desired. A unified army is seen as a threat to the sovereignty of individual countries.

There are levels of abuse, some blatant, some subtle. Leading questions are obvious, when you have the question asked. Publishing bias is difficult to spot, even for trained scientists looking for it.

Learning about statistical methods isn’t enough. People need to be taught how to weigh the data presented against the value of misleading them.

It’s a subsection of logical reasoning, and needs to be taught as part of an integrated whole.

Soldiers fight together out of empathy, as much as orders.

The super tribe effect allows for nations and fandoms. If you’ve ever seen a hyped up group of football fans, you’ve seen super tribe empathy in action.

It also allows for mutual support. We support the weak because we know what it feels like to be weak. I have been helped by the empathy of others. I have chosen to let my empathy help others in turn.

Empathy ties us together. It allows us to reach FAR beyond what we could alone. Empathy is both the glue that holds society together and the oil that stops the whole construction seizing up.

That happened, until 10+ tribes got pissed off, got together, and wiped them out. Eventually those tribal groups grew into villages, towns and city states. Many tribes, united in a common purpose.

It’s obviously the MAGA crowd. They’ve spent years complaining about electric vehicles. They’ve just escalated that to burning them out. The police need to go have a nice chat with the rolling coal types.

I would argue that empathy is one of the most critical advantages we have, as humans. It is fundamental to the super tribe effect. That allowed us to bypass the Dunbar limit and form societies larger than a tribe.

It’s also not soft. Endurance hunting relies on it. When your prey flees into cover, you need to follow. You need to put yourself into its head, to figure out where it went. That is empathic.

Your life must be cold and distant without empathy.

Part of the problem is that statistics can be abused. It takes a reasonable amount of training to be able to differentiate between reliable statistics and potentially dodgy. Even worse, we are often presented with them, striped or context.

The best solution is to teach people how to both spot problems and seek reliable data. The proper meaning of “do your own research”. Unfortunately, a significant chunk just give up with them and only trust their gut.

I’ve noticed 2 types on this, stick-in-the-muds and peak-hunters.

Stick in the muds latch on to the first version of a belief they encounter properly. They will stubbornly hang on to that for as long as possible.

Peak hunters are the opposite, they will rapidly change beliefs to maximise the results/find truth.

Interestingly, after some time, the 2 groups look almost identical. The peak hunters tend to find the ‘best’ version of their belief, based on their existing memeplex. To budge them, you need to show a different belief is better, on their rankings (not yours). This is hard when they have already maximised it. Without knowing how they are weighing things, they can look like stick in the muds.

The biggest tell is to question why they believe what they do. If they have a reasonably comprehensive answer, they are likely peak hunters. Stick in the muds generally can’t articulate why their belief is better, outside of common sound bites.