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To my ear, pawned and pond sound the same, in American English. FWIW, your line "Who knows what's out there, Is it dangerous, is it blonde?" struck me as pretty funny. Ha! I've noticed that, despite the French origin, Americans often fail to properly gender their usage and just attach the e to everyone. We Yanks toss suffixes into a blender, And often ignore the uses of gender, When to such neutering we dumbly surrender, We can't tell a girdle from a suspender.

Gosh it's almost like the government says one thing while doing just the opposite. AP NewsBorder Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining thos...The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Abscond respond frond pawned dawned bond pond spawned batoned conned....if any of that's of use? While I'm here, this is from a 1956 New Yorker, so may be familiar to older members... Well up beyond the tropostrata There is a region stark and stellar Where, on a streak of anti-matter, Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller. Remote from Fusion’s origin, He lived unguessed and unawares With all his anti-kith and kin, And kept macassars on his chairs. One morning, idling by the sea, He spied a tin of monstrous girth That bore three letters: A.E.C. Out stepped a visitor from Earth. Then, shouting gladly o’er the sands, Met two who in their alien ways Were like as lentils. Their right hands Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

Did I swap God for a jalapeno, Nepal, a jar of dog paws? I did.

I wonder if early ragweed exposure is much guarantor of avoiding that allergy. My early life was in Kansas, which is just swimming in ragweed pollen and I had some allergy to it, off and on. Like yours, it abated in later life. (Goldenrod is the state flower of Nebraska, btw, and there's an amusing story about a governor's event manager who organized some gathering in which she thought it would be a nice touch to have vases of goldenrod set out everywhere at this banquet. About 30% of the population is allergic to the ragweed family, so there were all these people sneezing and wiping their eyes before someone figured out what was going on...) I saw that, too. With foods it does seem that desensitization protocols are pretty useful. I worked for a while with a nutritionist who advanced the theory that exposure to certain foods with pesticide/herbicide residues could trigger allergy formation. The idea being that the body would start to associate the food with toxicity. She fed her young children all organic foods, hoping to diminish such an effect. I think I've had some Indonesian cuisine. There was a peanut sauce, anyway. Fortunately my dinner partner and I were both PB junkies.

Haha! I'm proud of my work on the sulking in the Happy Vertical People Transporter.

I'd say let's not fix the alpha-gal, though. Too much red meat eating going on in the world. Any assist from ticks appreciated! Seriously, yes, I think hygiene hypothesis could be modified. I wouldn't entirely discard the hygiene aspect where some douse household surfaces with antibacterials and generally try to create a clean-room ambience. I also am unsure that putting HEPA filters on HVAC systems is good. As a lifelong benefactor of the vag/boob/poo/dander/turf/no antibiotics regimen (kids! ask me for my pro tips on faking washed hands!), I am very nearly a Filth Evangelist. We did go kind of overboard on the animal contact, though. These are the species I had live contact with ages 1-10: cats, dogs, horses, cattle, goats, chickens, pigs, rabbits, possums (don't ask), toads, lizards, hamsters, rats, parrots, and elephants (riding an elephant is surprisingly comfortable), to name some of them. If someone doesn't have relatives who farm or employed by a zoo, "petting zoos" are also a possible option for conditioning an immune system.

That was my first thought on seeing this thread. Second was the expense and energy consumption of moving fairly diffuse heat somewhere useful - the net gain seemed possibly tiny. Paging Maxwell's demon...

Your deep and incisive analysis has provided a fresh and illuminating perspective on this longstanding mystery!

Hoping the unintentionally humorous aspect of this article is obvious to our members... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/house-representative-vote-on-epstein-files-release ICYMI... I mean, there was one No vote. What was the point of the mile-long chart? Just write, "All House members voted Yes, except Clay Higgins, LA Dist.3." Any reader with an IQ higher than that of a cement block will immediately have complete information on their district from that sentence. I suspect the era of AI generated content is going to bring more such absurdity.

Makes sense, given they're basically cylindrical. And cylindrical coordinates being a 3D extension of polar coordinates.

The only thing I ever knew about k-space was its use in MRI, where there's a Fourier transform of image measurements. And why the 2π factor. (glad the AI gave such a straightforward answer to that) The rest of it may as well be spaniels howling in Urdu. (though I dimly grasped the use of Fourier analysis when I volunteered my PC years ago for a SETI crowd computing project that analyzed signals from...somewhere)

I blame Jim Carrey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_23 And my condolences to anyone who watched the US series "Lost" and wandered into a morass of 108.

In humans I wonder if caffeine has served, among other things, to counteract the sluggish feeling that can follow breakfast. When I greatly reduced caffeine ( due to an inner ear issue ), I really noticed post-BF sluggishness. I eventually joined those who skip breakfast, not eating until after 10am. This created a microfast each day, around 16-18 hours, and improved several health markers for me. But really, I think Dostoevsky had it right: "Man is the animal who can get used to anything."

Pickled beets are an essential of civilized life, agree. I'll be interested to learn how the fermented form compares. Lactobacillus casei is one that naturally appears and works well. It's used with ginseng, too. And congratulations to you and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on being primates.

Seems like we are, in evolutionary terms where hundreds or thousands of generations are sometimes needed to implement systemic physiological changes, only starting to shift from Homo nomadicus (with shifting and sometimes sporadic nutrient supply) to Homo urbanus (with complex networks of mass food production and a steady grain-dominant diet). Lactose tolerance was managed in relatively few generations thanks to the LP mutation, which was a SNP, and its great adaptive value for pastoralism (herder agriculture). But a system retooling, where we would all manage a very non-HG diet well, e.g. lots of grain without the woes of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, would be much harder given that these woes don't much block reproductive success and are amenable to cultural management (shifting to higher fiber, pharma intervention in developed nations, Paleo diets, etc.) And meal frequency is another highly adjustable cultural factor and some such adjustments are being shown to ameliorate metabolic syndrome, e.g. the sixteen hours between dinner and breakfast regimen that's becoming more popular. Pretty much all the research I've seen points to small-scale fasting as something we are built for and benefit from. OldChem has really taken that short-fast ball and run with it. Like Ramadan, year-round! 😄

Could you tell my cats that? But seriously, that probably underscores the effect of domestication and a steady food supply. HG bands sometimes had to gorge, to eat a food before something else did. Not because it was optimal digestively. Moving into temperate zones might have been one change that brought the need to store foods for winter, and then ration that out as meals.

True, though I'm still a bit puzzled, given that milk used in infant formulae has to be pasteurized. So I wouldn't think there would be much of a starter colony going into the dehydrator, let alone afterward. It could slip in from somewhere else, maybe with an additive. Will be disturbing if this does turn out to be the source of the botulism. Infant food companies usually don't feck around when it comes to sterilization. Given the rudimentary immune system, the liability issues are massive.

IIRC Loeb has atacked Gizmodo as a front for the hydroxyl radical Left. They have a propaganda broadcast, which you can find at 1.665 and 1.667 GHz. Derek Muller is also good, with an emphasis on fixing popular misconceptions about science, as well as explaining the difficult concepts. One of the few YouTube channels I will click on, or recommend, is his Veritasium channel. Haven't checked to see if he's done anything on Loeb's claims, but I expect he will.

The legacy papers, including WaPo, have been attacking Mamdani and as the Columbia Journalism Review put it, generally acting like scared suburbanites.... "purses clutched tight to their sides, their hands grasping pepper spray as they descend into the threatening depths of the Times Square subway station, vigilant to the possibility of an attack from a homeless person. These types of visitors, their view of the city shaped by too many urban crime dramas, are common. We welcome them. We do our best to soothe their fears. We even try to gently persuade them to go to Jackson Heights and try some Indian food. But we do not let them tell us how to run our city. " https://www.cjr.org/analysis/legacy-papers-have-been-weird-and-hostile-toward-zohran-mamdani.php The Post resorted to childish epithets in their Saturday attack on the mayor-elect, and I realized it was finally time to pull the plug on my subscription. As the writer notes, the Post is "a paper that has been the victim of an explicit ideological purge this year, in which owner Jeff Bezos made clear that the paper’s editorial stance will now reflect his own business interests."

Indeed. And doesn't botulinum require moisture? Last I checked, baby formulae like ByHeart's are dry powders.

Great critique. I hadn't known about his "9° from the Wow signal" claim, but that alone should unmask him and show the tinfoil. Invoking an instrument glitch from the seventies is almost desperate in its crackpottery. I liked the planetary science adage: “Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want." And as Wright repeatedly stresses, comets are weird - also like cats. I do wonder why the awkward units, as when determining the comet's acceleration. "the actual precision is more like 10-7 AU/day2..." I would think km/day2 wouid serve, BHWDIK.

The correlation certainly needs a little more probing. Most of the reported cases were in infants not using ByHeart. And I can't find any record of powdered formulas ever containing botulinum. I'd be more concerned about the organic feed the cows are getting. Ever since Robert Bilott broke the PFAS story around the turn of the century, I've heard some horror stories about organic farms using sewage sludge that was contaminated heavily with some kind of PFAS. I hope that this has gotten rarer since all the big penalties and settlements with DuPont, 3M, Saint Gobain, et al. and attendant phaseouts, but there are still shorter chain PFAS out there that haven't gotten regulated or banned. Even TFA, the ultrashort chain stuff, has several kinds of nasty going.

Sounds like thumbnail GIFs that emit sounds. Or maybe not. Please give a plain language description of what you're talking about. Who are you talking to? This doesn't match anyone's profile that is participating in this thread so far.