When normalised by population size, the death toll of US troops in Afghanistan is broadly similar to that of four other countries, including the UK... and Denmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti...

I find it very odd, especially when you see how low the engagement rates are now on the bad site. City supposedly has 36K followers there but averages less than one retweet per two posts.

Thanks for this very timely analysis, @andytattersall.bsky.social. Here's another non-posting university for your starter pack: @citystgeorges.bsky.social

Besides the one-point format, I guess it helped that "Coco Gauff admitted she didn't want to win" and the same probably applied to other pros

And yes, I'm aware that one of the examples in the vignette generates a couple of warnings about deprecated code. As is so often the way, I spotted this only moments after submitting to CRAN.

Which is in turn a typo ...

I guess "paradox" here is a typo for "predicable pattern"

I expect I'd like the better ones. I've nothing against a good action film. It's just that cinema is dominated by such variations on popular themes. Like if Spotify were two-thirds Taylor Swift songs.

So you've watched them? I just read there have been three reboots since 2002 plus various animated films and spin-offs. Only 7 of the 16 films are reckoned to be good, 4 mediocre, and 5 awful. I write this as, tragically, my kids watch the banal gateway drug that is Spidey And His Amazing Friends.

Yes, and the highest grossing restaurants are McDonald's, KFC and Subway.

And yes, I'm vaguely aware that X Men and Avengers are different franchises but I've no interest in understanding how they differ

I wanna read Life Lessons From Phage