Smoked salmon looks "raw" largely because it is raw. It has never been heated.

Smoking the fish does indeed give a very different flavour to non-smoked fillet. That shouldn't be any great surprise.

Why is it safe? Well good quality raw salmon is also safe (see sushi). But the smoking does have an effect of preserving the fish and making it less of an environment where bacteria would thrive.

But it is absolutely true that telephone networks and email servers that get used too much for spam calls/messages will get blacklisted by other providers.

If your email provider gets a bad reputation then your emails will get blocked (that is a lot of how spam filtering works). That is pretty analogous.

Pretty happy myself.

I think that Johnson's truth distortions have got to the poor lady and she no longer knows what "I am resigning with immediate effect" means.

SECOND WEEK AS IT STANDS

GC is a completely split race. Pogacar and Vingegaard are so close it is hard to pick a favourite. All to play for. There are then another 15 riders probably in contenion for a top-5/top-10. One good breakaway could move any of them up and they are all far enough back that JV and UAE won't chase them.

Points Classification looks wrapped up. Without something dramatic happening it is hard to see anyone closing the >100pt lead that Philipsen has. He obviously needs to get to Paris though.

The KOM competion has barely begun. Powless's points tally so far is insignificant compared to the points available in the Alpine stages to come. It is perfectly possible that it comes down to a battle between riders who are still on zero. Probably the bigger question is whether the breakaway taking the Puy de Dome sets a precedent or whether the Alpine mountain finishes are taken by the GC contenders. If the latter, then another year of the GC winner 'accidentally' winning the Polka dots too is certainly on the cards.

Fantastic result for the Lib Dems! And it wasn't even close. A new majority of 11000. This has got to give so much confidence going into next year that they can pick up lots of seats.

Why do you want to create a user there? I imagine it will reopen eventually, but you are likely much better off creating a user elsewhere.

breaking federation

Federation doesn't imply that everything is open to everything. It can't do, there are too many people that just can't be civilised to each other.

If federation is to work and build enjoyable and productive discussions, then people's behaviour cannot be completely free. And the work to notice and block individuals will largely be done on an instance level. You can't have every instances maintaining a blocklist of every undesirable account across the entire 'fediverse'

If instances are not able to keep on top of bad users then unfederating those instances is the built-in check. Hopefully that will not be required too often.

There are plenty of instances whose entire purpose is to facilitate discussion that is fundamentally distasteful. They are free to do so, but we should feel no obligation to allow that to happen through our site.

I've no problem with maintaining a minimal blocklist in as far as we are a small site and are less likely to face problems, but we should be prepared to block where not doing so makes the experience worse.

The underappreciated Teams competition is unusually competitive. The time gap between the top 4 teams at this stage in the race over the last 10 races is as follows:

2014 - 47:44

2015 - 36:07

2016 - 38:59

2017 - 70:50

2018 - 47:43

2019 - 36:22

2020 - 37:43

2021 - 32:02

2022 - 64:39

2023 - 10:22

Jumbo-Visma, Ineos, UAE and Bahrain are in a battle for the ages. And no-one cares.

Ethical Consumer do a decent job in assessing this sort of stuff, so if you are generally interested then it might be worth a subscription https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/

I'm going to go for Van de Poel or Bilbao. But it could be anyone!

Wout's gone home, Yellow jersey only needs to be shepherded to Paris, so what will Jumbo-Visma be doing? Breakaway? Laporte to sprint? Or just chilling?

Philipsen has got over the mountains well and won all the flat sprints to date so looks strong favourite for today, but these flat stages late in Grand Tours can spring surprise breakaway wins.

Not sure I agree that Pogacar needs time here, though I can very well imagine him taking some. I don't think the race will come down to ~4 seconds so I think the bonuses are a bit irrelevant.

I'm expecting Tadej and Jonas to take 1st and 2nd, but I don't think Jumbo Visma will chase a break today so there could easily be a surprise winner.

Absolutely, it is both ridiculous to declare the race over after yesterday, but equally Jonas is strong favourite.

If he can keep that form through today then he will win, probably with a bigger gap. But that is a sizable 'if'.

Building societies are usually a good bet. Natienwide have a reasonably competitive selection to choose from.

Henri Desgranges would disagree. "In the ideal bicycle race there would be only one finisher." I'm not sure what he thought of swagger.

Seriously though, it is fair not to like it, but to me a stage like that is what the Tour is all about. Absolute limit of endurance stuff, everyone struggling.

Yeah, it's complicated. It's about friendships, it's about jobs, it's about nightlife and events and transport, ...

I work for a big tech employer in Coventry. We'd be very happy if some of the London/South-East based employees wanted to move here. And we're within easy commuting distance of a number of towns and villages as well as the city itself. And we're only an hour from London on the train - hardly the back of beyond.

If people actually want to move, it is perfectly possible for them to do so right now. If they don't, for any one of a number of reasons, it is their choice. But it is very naive to imagine that Government subsidies would help when simple economics already provides a subsidy worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Good stage for Pinot and Martin to get themselves well positioned for the GC top-10.

Perfectly timed attack from Izagirre - never looked like being caught.

It is really hard to get a feel for big numbers, but important to try.

In terms of "buy everyone a house". What could William do?

Well according to a random website, he has a personal wealth of about £100 million, and controls the Duchy of Cornwall worth about £1 billion. If we combine that with all the other assets controlled by the Crown or the Royal Family, then that is more or less £30 billion.

Now suppose he decided to give absolutely all of that to "everyone". So he liquidates the lot, sells off all the palaces, all the land, all the businesses and shares out the proceeds evenly.

(This rather begs the question as to who could afford to buy it all, but let's ignore that for now.)

How much would this windfall be?

£30 billion, divided by £70 million people is a smidge under £430 each.

So no. Even in the most extreme case, where nothing is left of the Crown's fortune, William could not get remotely close to buying everyone a house. Maybe, just about, if he held on to one of the larger, cheaper estates, there would be enough left to give everyone a small plot of land and a cheap garden shed.

William is rich, very rich. But not even close to "resolve the country's problems" rich.

I'm interested where you got that information, because I think you are wrong about some of the facts of the case.

The web searches I'd read about were things like "How to get an abortion at 6 months", which were considered aggravating circumstances as it reinforced that she was fully aware of what she was doing.

There is certainly a case for keeping law's up to date, but equally this country has been very well served by having a sufficiently sensible law that abortion is not a live political issue.