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Thanks so much for the clarification! I do recall A. Bundy and all those shenanigans in '14. SMH!

No rent. Food, clothing, healthcare, so many other things taken care of. I can see how it might be appealing to some, even if it’s not for me. Makes me wonder, what did she escaped from, that seems worse than jail to her.

Baby signing is a really useful thing to have evolved from all this, as you are correct that young one’s can think in words much earlier than their vocal systems come on line. We’re such a weird species, to be born in such an under developed state, which development takes years, or a whole lifetime to complete. :-D

It’s true. My sign name is the letter J, for my first name, but one moves the little finger in a circle up by the side of the head, like “Crazy J.” That stuff gets used all the time, but is not always as obvious to non-signing people.

I was just listening to TWIV, and they discussed that there was no single symptom, nor set of symptoms that a clinician could use to rule in or rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection. Testing is key to differentiation between upper respiratory infections.

Most likely it was in TWIV 1178 (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1178/), but might have been in 1179.

I changed my vpn to several locations to see what would happen when I brought up pornhub and xnxx. Miami blocked pornhub, but not xnxx. Houston and Atlanta blocked neither. YMMV

Continuing to boycott AMZN and SBUX. It’s so easy to do. I remember when the first SBUX showed up in town. I was walking with some friends, enjoying the evening, and “oh look it’s the new SBUX”. And “Gee, someone must not like this, it seems they unloaded a six gun thru the front window.”

Continuing to boycott AMZN and SBUX. It’s so easy to do.

GOPers are always historically worse for the economy.

Mesa Verde is one of those ‘cliff dwellings’ sort of places, near Cortez, CO. There’s a plaque on the tour that describes the two cowboys who ‘discovered’ Mesa Verde in the 1860s, more or less. I often wonder what went thru those two guys heads, seeing a cliffside apartment house, more advanced than most anything they had seen built by Europeans, and which at that time had already been abandoned for 600 years.

+1 Absurdism

Thank you, Dem25 for thinking and preparing ahead.

Buffalo, buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo bufalo buffalo? Buffalo buffalo buffalo.

Yes, that is also true. Many things make up the mind, and changing a major input, e.g. the microbiota that make a particular mix of short chain fatty acids and other neuro effective compounds, is going to change the cognitive outputs.

Maybe. There are numerous reports of people having changes in personality after organ transplants.

Personality changes following heart transplantation: The role of cellular memory https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31739081/

https://www.sciencealert.com/eerie-personality-changes-sometimes-happen-after-organ-transplants

Hrm, my state reps voted yea, nay, and not voting. Got some letters to write.

If you prefer to read: https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-bom

I’m over here going “Stop using Xitter/Facebook/Instagram/Threads! Why are you still using them!?” and “Join the fediverse!”

“Data from the U.S. Postal Service and Census Bureau shows how the pandemic drove urban professionals who were able to work remotely — disproportionately Democrats — out of coastal, progressive cities to seek more space or recreational amenities in the nation’s suburbs and Sun Belt. This moved liberals out of electoral districts where Democrats reliably won by large margins into many purple regions that had the potential to swing with just small changes to the map.”

Yes, please, we need every tiny bit of help to win this one.

They must have inspired Oklahoma City, in Bricktown they have a very long, narrow pond. And you can ride a boat / water taxi in it. https://bricktownwatertaxi.com/