Just such relief, for a moment.

… Although I would not actually be surprised if a significant portion of the American population most supportive of Israel are really motivated by a desire to have a place for Jews to live so that they don’t live in the USA

I’d probably just want to keep believing that vs HSM, lol.

An 11 year old Corbin… High School Musical fan parents spotted.

They sell vegan meat imitation products made by actual trained butchers. Some of their stuff is wild. I used to eat meat, but I’ve never been able to digest pork and it’s never appealed to me, and I find their pork-style products way too realistic to eat (confirmed to be accurate and not just unappealing by my husband, lol).

I’ve spent a lot of time around German butchers, who specialize in two of three areas during their training: 1-slaughtering, 2-meat production, and 3-sales. In my experience (so take this with a big grain of salt), people who specialized in 1 are significantly more callous towards human life than those who didn’t.

My husband’s hopefully passing his licensing exam today and though he specialized in 2&3 (hence the big grain of salt), he still had to work at a slaughterhouse for a few weeks during his training. He’s not a squeamish person at all (he once knowingly selected The Lullaby’s Smile [trigger warning: this is very effective body horror that so paralyzed me with anxiety to listen to that I couldn’t make myself get up to turn it off] to fall asleep to and is a big fan of schlocky horror movies), but he could not stand it. He hasn’t paid for meat since (though he does save things from the trash, both for himself and for a network of people we know who are happy to accept free meat past its sell-by date and capable of determining whether it’s safe to eat) and will work at a vegan butcher shop after his licensing as a direct result of his experiences at the slaughterhouse.

Yeah, Israelis are passionate about this genocide, which doesn’t really line up. The US has the faceless bureaucratic evil of 1930s Germany down.

I’d like to think I’d take one for the team if there are explosive collars involved and the other option is that billionaires enslave humanity even after money is worthless. I suspect most people would (like to think that, that is).

It only takes one to actually do it.

Tl;dr: mosquitoes are good at learning, but they’re unlikely to become attracted to deet outside of laboratory environments in which their response to it is directly being tested, because they go a long time between feeding and each formulation they encounter is more likely to be different. Additionally, it was difficult to get them to feed the first time in the presence of deet, so the risk is probably highest when the repellent is wearing off, meaning you should reapply following the instructions on the product.

The conception of an identity as a woman being rooted in sex and sex based rights being fought and won for by successive generations against a male dominated and sexist society

That’s the part that’s not universal. It’s how the issue is portrayed in the UK, but I’ve never seen it described as such in Germany, for example. “Womanhood” is experienced by those who are judged femme by society and women’s rights are related to gender, not sex. James Barry didn’t advance women’s rights the way that Elizabeth Anderson did, because even after the autopsy, the culture didn’t look at Barry and call him a woman.

Weirdly, I can kinda understand how the second one is a call for violence, but not the first. You’re just expressing your neutrality towards another country’s actions. Surely they can’t expect you to have an opinion about everything.

You also colloquially shorten it to half and halfs.

Is it traceable to the account? I foresee a lot of corporate sabotage otherwise.

Every huge piece of data about this is also from satellite images. It’s so concerning that news isn’t otherwise getting out.

Do you know if it’s eradicated or if we just stopped eating brains?

Gee, you know what I think dad would have wanted? His widow to be murdered (let’s be realistic here, she’s 86 and they don’t have clean water) in a concentration camp.

Tbh, I think it’s that you say putins not smarter than trump, instead of not much smarter. That may be hyperbole, but people are going to treat it as though it’s what you believe unless you specify like you do here

0.02 is bigger than 0.01, even though they’re both small.

No, it is an interesting question. I suspect that with such an old culture, it would probably stick around longer than the Roman one did in Britain. Maybe it would be more like the Roman culture in Germany or maybe it would be entirely unique.

Of course, to your point that it’s not a hard and fast line, I’ve seen the argument that the Roman Empire still exists in Turkey or Russia. I don’t agree, but I can see what they’re getting at.

I’m not saying this is unlikely, I just think he’s blood drunk enough to do it. Our understanding of the effects of dozens of modern nuclear bombs on an urban center is theoretical, thankfully, but even with Iran’s geography, it’s going to cause huge problems with oil production, causing downstream food distribution issues etc.

I guess it depends on your definition of society- they wouldn’t have a functioning government for a while, but the people surviving would still be Iranian and depending on whether they’re Kurdish, Persian, or other, might still have loyalty to the idea of an Iranian state.

I don’t think you can do enough damage to the people that there’s no Iranian (or Persian) state in 100 years without damaging the rest of the world irreparably. It’s not 100% clear what the death of a civilization entails, but it feels closer to wiping out the culture to me than destroying the big cities.