Thank you for confirming :)

Just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly: Faster than the speed of light, within the medium, right? So the neutrinos are a bit like Cherenkov radiation. But not actually faster than the speed of light, since if that was happening, my world view was just revised rather abruptly :)

Thank you!

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Good point!

I like this

Well, while we are being ‘that guy’, factoid is one of those words which has changed its meaning by being used wrongly for so long that the original meaning has all but vanished.

A factoid is technically supposed to be something resembling fact, but not actual fact. (The Greek suffix ‘-oid’ normally being used for that purpose, like in paranoid, “like knowledge” or asteroid, “like a star”).

The best thing about factoid, is that factoid is now a factoid. Because it resembles what it is not lol…

Anyway, nowadays, you are allowed to use it the way you did, at least in the descriptivist world view. The prescriptivists may disagree, however. And those people are often ‘that guy’ ;)

That millionaires leaving in droves myth is always trotted out in these debates.

The very institute that was perpetuating the idea recently rescinded their own report because the UK is making millionaires at 10x the rate they are leaving. But of course that’s not reported on.

Plus, again, the ultra rich operating on a global scale don’t pay taxes anyway, so good riddance.

Did all the millionaires leave when taxes were incredibly high compared to today’s standards? And again we’re talking progressive taxation. Only income above a certain threshold would have a higher rate applied. They won’t notice it. They literally are just fighting it because they can.

Many UK millionaires only speak English and don’t want to uproot their lives to save a tiny amount on taxes (the S&P500’s returns will always make up for whatever tiny additional percentage we might tax the rich).

It’s so silly to think that there’s this millionaire flight. By now we wouldn’t have any left.

Oh and conveniently it’s happening in all other countries too. So where are they going, space? Antarctica? It’s propaganda for the stupid.

I couldn’t agree more. Living in the UK I can tell you this is a dangerous opinion to hold. To me, their music is like nails on a chalk board. I cannot stand their music. I could never quite explain why. I’ve always just put it down to taste. But it’s annoying to have to deal with just how much EVERYONE loves them for some reason. Like, there isn’t much music I’d hate to hear more than Queen. I almost find it weird that this is the case. I sort of wish I liked them, so that there weren’t so many occasions where I have to listen to music that I find shockingly bad.

And as another counter, in my village there is no (!!) signal at all. At my house I can only get one bar of 4G outside the house. Broadband is capped at 1mbit up and 10mbit down. But we have Starlink, so it’s fine. Not everyone can afford that though. The infrastructure has been promised for a decade now. Beyond ridiculous. Being in a national landscape (formerly AONB) doesn’t help either