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.

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.

Pretty happy myself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.

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.

It was good though.

Huge break with lots of interest for both the stage and the classifications. Let's go!

I don't get this take.

"Putting yourself ahead of the team" might be a bad thing. But in this case Primoz and Jonas aren't putting the team's win in jeopardy.

Maybe Jumbo Visma decide that three different winners is fun, maybe they decide that Jonas needs a better palmares, maybe having Kuss win will motivate him in future, maybe they decide to simply see who is strongest on the road, maybe they play rock paper scissors. Ultimately, between the three riders and the team management they'll make a decision. And frankly any are fine. Internal team politics doesn't seem like something to get worked up about.

That's a good idea. Would you or anyone else like to be a mod and help with this. I've not much idea what can be done!