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My parents had 100 acres in the country with an old farmhouse and we'd have a party the whole weekend with lots of friends. We would just dig a pit in the ground for the charcoal and have the pig on a spit, turning it every once in a while. We'd usually have a keg, horseshoes, frisbees, weed, guitars, and it would run from early morning till late at night. Everyone would then crash inside or in tents. Brings back fond memories.

There are a couple of bits of the human skeleton which are not "attached" to the rest. IIR|C the hyoid bone is one. So, in a model skeleton, it needs a "bridge" of some sort to hold it in place. There would need to be some way to distinguish that bridge to make it clear that it's not a bone. Making it red would be one possible option.

This looks so good! I am currently building a grill, this looks like a good debu cook!

I'm pretty sure that's right. Trump was never loved or respected or even wanted by the Republican establishment. But I do think it's important that votes are made public. The politicians were put there by the public, they are paid for by the public, and voting is one of the most important things that they are paid to do. So the public should be able to scrutinise the votes of the people they are electing and paying. Even if there are times when it might seem better if they couldn't.

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In science, it is often very useful to be pendantic. Maybe one day. But this would require knowledge of some theory beyond quantum theory. Of course, if there is real contemporaneity, there is only one candidate in reality for it, defined by the CMBR frame. But without a more fundamental theory, this is not more than a guess.

What evidence do you have for the existence of these two "theoretical elements"? (You must have some direct evidence if you assert they are "real" with such confidence.) What evidence do you have that they are eternal? What properties do these two elements have? What does "dynamical simplicity" mean? How can it "choose" anything? What are the postulates? What does "continuum limitations" mean? What is the "continuum" in this context? What does "absolute" mean? What does "local" mean? What evidence do you have for these limitations? What evidence do you have for them being absolute? What evidence do you have for them being local? What does "background structure" mean? What does "minimal" mean? What does "continuous" mean? What evidence do you have that this structure is minimal? What evidence do you have that this structure is continuous? What are these "dimensionless parameters"? How many parameters are there? What values do they have? How do they guarantee the emergence of space time? What evidence do you have for the existence of these parameters and for their values? What evidence do you have for the emergence of spacetime? What does "probabalistically modified locally" mean? What characteristics of points in space are modified in this way? What evidence do you have that there is "atomic, discrete quantum spacetime"? (You might want to consider the existing evidence against this claim when answering this question.) How does "atomic, discrete quantum spacetime" correlate with "background structure is ... continuous"? What is a "proto- discernations"? What evidence do you have that these "proto- discernations" exist? What evidence do you have that time and space emerge from "proto- discernations"? What evidence do you have that gravity emerges from "compressive casimir effect"? (In your answer, you might want to consider the fact that the Casimir effect only occurs in very specific circumstance, in very small volumes of space; whereas gravity appears to be universal). What are "exclusion zones"? What are "lightning structures"? (Does this have anything to with weather?) What are "gradient structures"? What evidence do you have for "exclusion zones"? What evidence do you have for "lightning structures"? What evidence do you have for "gradient structures"? What is "spin symmetry" in this context? Can you provide a mathematical definition? What does "electrical dynamo" mean in this context? How does it relate to "spin symmetry"? What neutral particle properties are you referring to? How do these relate to "spin symmetry"? What do you mean by "orbitals" in this context? What are "pressure crystals"? What are "cracks of exclusion zones"? How do oribitals organise those things? What is a "propagational vector pulsewave"? What evidence do you have for this description of light? (You might want to consider all the evidence that light is s single phenomenon, and that what light is made up of a combination of colours, in your answer.) What does "expansion of spacetime" mean? How is it different from the well understood expansion of space? What does it mean for time to expand? What evidence do you have for the expansion of spacetime? What does it mean for this expansion to be "regional? What are "probabalistic forces"? What are "dynamo forces"? What evidence do you have for these two forces? Apart from that, it all seems pretty clear ... Please show the mathematical proof of this assertion.

How about a livefeed? I could put it in a screen and watch while pretending to listen to students!

In various threads we have (albeit briefly) touched on the fact that resistant bacteria are starting to overwhelm our ability to treat them. Now the CDC has issued a new antibiotic resistance threat report, Basically every 4 hours a new resistant strain is detected and about 35k people die every year due to resistant strains. Countermeasures that have started since the last report came out (2013) were less effective than hoped. Among the biggest threats currently are resistant Acinetobacter, Candida auris, Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium), carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. There are a lot of issues that have to solved outside the clinical environment, such as reducing or stopping the massive use of antibiotics in agriculture. There, antibiotics are routinely used to fatten animals which results in massive amounts of antibiotics released into the environment and enter the human food chain. Another aspects are procedures in health care (including elderly care) which are often not up to par to limit microbe spread. The challenge is that a single failure can lead to spread through the health care services. There are folks still hoping that we will find an alternative treatment that will be as useful as antibiotics (which we messed up badly) but so far not alternative golden bullet is really in sight (yes there are some developments which can be useful but for the most part they have potential and/or have not shown to be effective in vivo). As a result, it seems that we are indeed moving straight toward the projected post-antibiotic era. Personally (and of course biased by my own research), I think we need to accelerate our understanding of bacterial physiology in order to develop effective countermeasures from the bottom up, as in most cases we only have a very rough understanding how antimicrobial substances actually kill bacteria (which to some extent is also true for antifungals and fungi).

what do the unicorns do? I don't think this would work as a postulate. the problem with math is it has no locality, no starting point, other than arbitrary ones. things just don't add up unless you start somewhere. You can calculate the cannonball trajectory, but you have no cannon to fire it from. I don't think math works as a theory of the universe.