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Sarg, I'd ram a ptarmigan snag. I'm rat, Pa Mardi Gras.

Wondering if they mean current theories are flawed? Dark energy discrepancy, Hubble tension, GR/QT compatibility issues?

Sounds interesting but also a "broccoli" book. I don't know as much about Sandberg, but Zucks is definitely one of the Reptilians. They are drawn to corporate culture, as part of their plan to alter Earth's environment and government in preparing for the invasion fleet's arrival. Heh. Read it about 5 years ago when it was first published. The book had a light hearted tone, and I liked the highly creative approach to alternate forms of life. Combined a good first contact story with a save the world story. I did find the astrophages a little hard to believe, but I think it makes the point that the forms life can take are potentially way beyond the terrestrial variations we know.

This is good to hear. We are native wild bee supporters, with various amenities in our yard to help bees - dead wood, sunny bare patches of permeable soil, a shallow water basin with pebbles (they like to have pebbles to land on), piles of old stems, native wildflowers, no chems. One thing I've noticed when nectar is scarce is bees sucking up juice from rotting fruit bits - this is actually not good for them, as fruit juices are not as nutritive for bees (wasps do better with that stuff). So you've got me wondering if this yeast supplement could be sprinkled on the fruit bits, when nothing is flowering - especially in drought years. It obviously wouldn't make up for a pollen shortfall, but it might help through lean times.

I picked up Red Mars at the library some years ago but somehow it didn't grab me. Sometimes I circle back to a book years later and end up liking it. I'll be interested in your comments, if you post any. I thought I did, but they turned out to be a tobacconist. I feel that the Poles, though mostly well-intentioned, deliberately put in unnecessary consonants to mess with foreigners. Had no effect on the Germans, of course.

"Mój poduszkowiec jest pełen węgorzy."

Emily writes her friend, worried about online Russian bot influencers. AIs sure rip media pseudonym, Amy. No dues paid Empire Russia.

Man passes basic sanity test. (Not wanting to admit how long I labored under the misapprehension that the great German physicist was inexplicably exiled to the Falklands before recalling there was a character of that name in BNW...)

You definitely have your symbolism mixed up there.

It's darkly funny that Republicans are painting themselves into a corner where they would basically have to promote full-bore socialism to actually unyoke the US from the global petro economy. And to implement it would have to get SCROTUS to reverse the landmark decision Youngstown v Sawyer, which said the POTUS simply cannot take over private corporations, even in war time. I remember Isaac Asimov called phosphorus "life's bottleneck." It had a hugely inefficient supply chain back then and still does now (something like 4/5 lost from mine to fork). The only saving grace for Asia and Africa is they have a long history of recycling from waste streams (which we're only starting to relearn in the West). Various groups in the USA including one I'm a member of are starting to promote "peecycling" with bringing agriculture and wastewater management together.

An actual POTUS would help inflation and suffering the whims of a global energy market by supporting wind power, instead of attacking it. The US has one of the largest wind supplies in the world and we don't have to haul the wind in on tankers. Onshore wind in particular has the lowest longterm generation costs of any energy source. We should be building out enhanced distribution grids AFAHP.

Some correlations are more a spur to forming hypotheses that can be feasibly tested. E.g. decrease in children walking to school and activities and rise in obesity and metabolic syndrome. It's facile to say cause and effect, but much harder to control other variables. Same with the oft-mentioned decrease in home-cooked meals. Or increased time per day with electronic media, and less time in the park. Or, or, or. Not my field, but is one challenge with longitudinal studies that people don't necessarily select just one healthy habit and make just one change? The families that, say, sign up for a Walk Your Kids to School program may also start putting more vegs on the plate, switching from frosted flakes to müsli at breakfast, supporting their kids in extracurricular sports, etc. Maybe one good approach is to study fairly homogenous communities where you have entrenched traditions and then some amenity is withdrawn in a clear-cut way so that you don't have a testing group that self-selected.

Maybe. You offering a fix may be a little too kind - sometimes I find a palindrome has an okay core but it just didn't build out well. I could salvage some of it, maybe. Rot an ill opal? I attack cattail, a pollinator. (Meh...) AI demolish silo, media.

Well, this certainly supports that: (AP) President Donald Trump invoked Pearl Harbor while defending the U.S. strike on Iran and his decision not to alert allies in advance, saying during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: “Who knows surprise better than Japan?” 🙄

Some breakfasts, Emily can't make much sense of what's in her Google feed.... Non-extra fast peruse: dine muesli, attack cat tails, Eumenides erupts a fart: xenon?