fallinghawks

At least they had the Dickcissel.

And it's a single case which could simply be an anomaly. You'd need a serious controlled study to get any meaningful info about the effectiveness.

Very curious exactly who made the decision/gave permission to take granny on a shroom trip.

In most cases, infected droppings are the primary source. But my understanding is that there does exist a strain that transmits between humans, and the cruise ship situation has just been confirmed to be that type.

The good news is that hantavirus has been around and known for a long time.

I'm not sure why you'd say sexual orientation is a choice; it's not, any more than race. Religion is a choice. Politics are a choice. The operative word of "earnestly-held belief" is "held" -- you can let them go if you want. There have been a few MAGAs changing their minds. I have a friend who was a Democrat until he went MAGA. If you suggest those must have not been "earnestly held" beliefs, I'll have to remind you about true Scotsmen.

A political position is not a weakness, it's a choice.

I suspect many towns have "A Street" which has always given me a giggle. In the Bay Area, Hayward has a sign for A Street Downtown. Downtown is on the 2nd line but could be misparsed as desired.

"email us for a chance to win a free trip to Switzerland"

A chance to win is not enough motivation for me to actually write the email. I would assume it was simply an opportunity to collect email addresses, so I (personally) am not to likely to email them even if I did fully read their privacy policy.

In the other direction, my camera regularly identifies cats, crows, and shadows as people. I think recognition in security cameras has a very long way to go.

Unfortunately, consequences have been largely absent for anyone in this administration since the last time they were in power. That's part of why this round they've been flaunting it so egregiously.

As others said, security definitely existed, typically in the form of metal detectors and x ray scans. Planes had been hijacked since the 70s and that's when it started. 9/11 just ramped up security to very high levels.

I brought a foil wrapped breakfast burrito through security with not the slightest idea that it might look like an IED. This was years before 9/11 so they just made me open my backpack and assure them it was food.

I remember when the place started to go. It had been Mecca for all the components and switches and tools, and fun to visit. Then shelves were no longer full and as time went on, sported increasingly wide gaps. Toward the end, far more shelf than product. And the packages, as you said - there were always a few that were obviously previously opened, retaped sloppily, sometimes having a returned-item sticker. I don't recall if the returns were a lower price. It was depressing and I stopped going. I think I went to a closing sale but there was nothing I wanted.

I kept a dream journal for years and very rarely had lucid dreams. 6-8 times at most over 30 years. I definitely got better at remembering dreams -- it also helped if I could build a narrative that would keep the different segments tied together.

I played this quite a few years ago and felt pretty certain that they deliberately chose photos that were atypical of each ethnicity. That said, there kind of is no typical Chinese look since it's such a huge country. Those in the north are taller and have similarities to Koreans, those in the south will have more similarities to Vietnamese.

I agree the way he writes about it is uncomfortable. At the same time I also think some people motivate themselves with a version of "Do or do not, there is no try." He desperately wants to do something, but a lot is simply out of his hands. Still, that energy has to go somewhere.

It's appalling how they go straight to making things up to suit their narrative, as if video evidence doesn't exist. They know the MAGAs will believe them, and may shed doubt on interpretation for people who aren't that curious about truth. A lie can travel halfway around the world, as they say.

Ironically, last year i decided to relearn piano after some 40 years. Learned one piece (a pretty good one, fortunately) and a once a day play triggered it. So. It's more like once every 2-3 weeks now, not long enough to forget, but long enough to keep the thumb feeling all right.

The joint at the base of my thumb started telling me it's 60 years old. I stopped being able to open jars easily last year and would like to get my grip strength back.

Just recently, Twitter started making the default view "For You" instead of "Following" with no way to switch back. Fortunately there's an extension that fixes that and lets you eliminate the For You view entirely.

Any way that doesn't involve a boatload of oils is fine, I'm sure.

One of the things I'm surprised they didn't mention is cooling. Cooling converts the starch in rice, potatoes, and pasta into resistant starch (and it stays resistant when you reheat it because nobody really likes eating cold potatoes). Starch normally gets processed by the small intestine into glucose but resistant starch is digested in the large intestine, so glucose levels don't spike. There are a number of other benefits described in the articles below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/

https://hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org/what-is-resistant-starch/

In all cases it should be a website, not a "download our app"

Increasingly often, it is "download our app". And they will try to force it by sabotaging their website. I did a pickup order from Walmart once. You're supposed to take a numbered parking place and check in, but if you try it from the website on a mobile, it'll redirect you to download the app. There's no getting around it. I don't recall if I tried desktop mode on the website, but the website is a pretty cluttered widescreen mess anyway. (Fortunately at the parking area there's a phone number for checking in posted.)

I run into similar sabotage issues with Facebook (yes I am just a year or so shy of being a boomer). You can no longer use messaging on mobile, it tells you to download the app. Desktop mode does work, though (for now; I'm sure someone will try to take it away). All this stuff used to work on phones.

My garbage disposal service sends me a survey once or twice a year asking if I would recommend them to my friends.

Where I live, garbage disposal is a county contract. You get get whatever company your county has engaged. Do they think people would to move to another county for better garbage disposal?

The first time I saw them was around Christmastime and I was just stunned by the sight of surfers in the middle of a snow-filled park.

Mustard is not OK. Where do you think mustard gas comes from? ;) That guy was deploying a chemical weapon in violation of the Geneva protocol.

It's all transactional. Do something Trump likes, he'll help you, laws, morals, and ethics be damned.

The administration's sowing of distrust in medical community also played a big part. Recommendations of useless and/or unproven remedies as "cures," claims of big pharma driving the decisions, and hyping up the changes in CDC's recommendations as waffling, have legitimized distrust of medicine.

Google has been clamping down over the past year or two on sideloading too. I used to be able to install games restricted to Japan if they were uploaded to apkpure, but every one lately gets stopped either by Play Services or the Play Store under the claim of "safety" and can't be worked around.

I've lived in California all my life and was in San Mateo during Loma Prieta. How close you are to the epicenter has a strong effect on what you experience (it's undoubtedly more complicated than that but distance is a big factor). Last night's was 14.8 miles away from me and although I woke up, I didn't hear earthquaky sounds and shaking was moderate. Thought my partner had just flopped over in bed harder than usual. By contrast, a few years ago we had a 3.1 centered about 1.5 miles away that really made me fear it was a big one. The house jumped and stuff swayed, and I was just thinking I'd better get next to the bookcase when it stopped.

Air pollution [1] but since things like pollution and climate change are too woke, I'm sure RFKJr will have a different reason.

[1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pollution-linked-with-incr...

Trump has a trope about saying he'll have a big announcement or deal with something "in 2 weeks" -- something that sounds lofty but the delay is long enough for it to pass out of the news cycle. I think RFK is doing the same here.