Great reminder.

bear in mind anytime you read a “scientific” article that

“the numbers of retractions soared jumped from 10 in 2019 to 2,099 in 2023.”

lofi hiphop

okay, this is definitely how I’m going to think of Narnia from now on.

yup, blocked that instance.

it’s controlled by one or a very small group of people, and none of the rules are followed.

you can, it just takes practice.

talking to people reminds me how similar everybody is and how connected we all are, regardless of what I read on the internet.

traveling, even to a different town, will make it much more likely you’ll talk to strangers

international travelers are far more gracious and interested in people as a group than any other group I know.

people anywhere, though, seem to enjoy hearing an idle idea or personal observation. a lot of people are lonely or so set in their routine that anything new is exciting, so I’ll try and say something just to let them know that somebody else has noticed they exist.

I love giving small compliments about hair or clothes, because people are invariably shocked to receive them.

yEs!

thanks

worth it, thanks.

apparently Homer Hickman tried to help her get her job back, but it didn’t work, but now she’s an aerospace engineer at Boeing…so things are going great .

no problems there.

triphallia, was only seen in a human for the very first time in 2020 in a newborn, and is thought to affect one in every 5 to 6 million live births.

diphallia, has been seen in around 100 human cases, and occurs once in every 5.5 million live births.

so these two conditions, one of which is supposed to be more rare, occur with the same frequency?

“or our interests…”

that hegemony talk sure is something.

thanks

got it, thanks

since you sound like you know, what’s a keffiyah?

“you cannot reduce the meme as an attack on Democrat’s policy”

I’m not reducing it, I’m correcting it.

The policy toward Israel has been the same for 70 years, by both the democrats and conservatives.

people have finally learned about it, and since they learned about it while a Democrat was in the White House, they are blaming democrats.

“US-supllied missiles, while keeping their own population protected under the US-supplied iron dome.”

yep, and it is important to remember that without any u.s support israel could continue this war indefinitely.

“One can only hope Trump loses and Harris manages to curb Netanyahu’s extremism.”

I do, although as long as we’re hoping, I’m hoping that the Israeli citizenry and their leaders do something about it instead of team America.

The problem is that the Israeli citizenry really doesn’t like Palestinians either; the animosity toward Palestine is not a Netanyahu or IDF prejudice, it is an Israeli prejudice.

“it is useful and is used by the vast majority of (I’ll assume) 1st world countries”

no, the vast majority of delivery drivers use motor/electric bicycles/scooters/motorcycles

Electric bikes have dozens to hundreds of miles of range, charge fast, have carrying capacity for most cargo.

most countries do all delivery except for something like a refrigerator with motorbikes and e-bikes (and some of them deliver refrigerators with motorbikes and E-Bikes), it works great.

that seems like the obvious way to do it to me, having seen it work in every country except the US, where driving is more heavily tied into ego than utility.

this music video isn’t mine, but it’s so inktober that I wanted to share it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMqCuuzpnI

you don’t know if McCarthy, born over a century ago, is dead?

and you’re calling other people idiots?

famous for stirring up the red scare.

so you didn’t know anything about him at all and you’re using his name randomly as a buzzword?

hello, alt 2

are you asking me who McCarthy is?

what are you confused about, alt 2?

you’re the one dehumanizing folks and paying taxes to support the war effort of Israel.

you’re protesting a bit much, dovarisch.

That’s so strange, you misspell words exactly the same and your account was created at the same time his was banned.

and yes.

“For real, did you know euthanasia is legal in switzerland”

i did.

enjoy your trip.