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Good old baking soda, NaHCO3, is cheap and works better than anything else I've used. A long presoak in a solution with a generous cupful of baking soda - overnight, if possible. We had an incident with a tom cat, many years ago, involving a basket of laundry. Nahcothry to the rescue.

I also wondered if this could be something moving on an air current. I wasn't really convinced it was biological. Maybe some bits of material blown out of a HVAC register?

The specific causes of gender dysphoria remain unknown, and treatments targeting the etiology or pathogenesis of gender dysphoria do not exist.[30] Evidence from studies of twins suggests that genetic factors play a role in the development of gender dysphoria.[11][12] Gender identity is thought to likely reflect a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors.[13] Neurobiological basis of GD has been proven by the "distinct gray matter volume and brain activation and connectivity differences" in people with GD when compared to controls; and this "leads to the concept of brain gender".[31] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria The article as a whole is useful in getting a sense that trangender is more than just a form of personal expression, i.e. that early neurogenesis, in utero, plays a causal role.

Statistical analyses show that cultural and socioeconomic factors are what mainly drive STD rates. Also, generally, you are asking about a set of behaviors which are then culturally defined as homosexuality - these are notoriously difficult to link to specific genes or to selection in terms of reproductive fitness. It's a bit like asking why some people engage in stamp collecting when "it doesn't have an evolutionary purpose." In macroevolutionary framing of social animals, a whole vast range of behaviors which connect us as social animals are adaptive at the scale of species even if it's not so much at the individual level. And macroevolution, as Gould, Erwin et al have noted, is not just microevolution writ large.

Is Hinduism really polytheistic? I had heard all the deities were actually just aspects of Brahman. Anyway, good luck in your seeking of enlightenment and I am vishnu a great weekend! Yahweh has some anger issues. Not really friend material.

Ethel Kennedy, Social Activist And Widow Of Robert F. Kennedy, Has Died The body will apparently be dumped in Central Park.

Not really. The "both sides" gambit is intellectually dishonest. One side respects the findings of peer-reviewed science, the other respects kooks with zero scientific credentials and their own YT channel. The contrast couldn't be more stark.

When I'm tired, I like jokes that require less concentration.

Never been good at enlisting family into reno projects, but have fond memories of a son assisting for a couple months on an extensive remodel. As you noted in a later post, "construction" is a little more forgiving. I do ok so long as I make sure to cut slightly too long (easier to shave off a fraction of an inch, than add) - heck, sometimes you can get a slightly too long structural member in there by whacking it with a sledgehammer. And yes must have something good at days end even if it's just pizza. After a couple decades of that, I went on a binge and bought all the screws known to mankind. This has its downside also.

Nice! Is there insulation in the trusses? I see a gable wall vent (looks identical to the ones I put in our attic this spring), so guessing yes. Though any venting is a help in the loft, in a MO summer. Future reference, you could buy standard king post trusses, off the shelf, for those dimensions and load (assume S. Missouri has fairly light snow loads, and tin roofs are relatively light) - on 24 inch centers.

The July 1 decision convinced me the current SCt is the most corrupt in the nation's history. I think Jack Smith did a great job of getting around it and presenting a viable set of charges within the new restrictions imposed by Trump v US. (gift link) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/how-jack-smith-outsmarted-the-supreme-court/680149/?gift=43H6YzEv1tnFbOn4MRsWYoGNs31lm2iNN-I3QPFZ3EE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Glad you specified dead body parts! When I said "ensuing mess," jokes aside, was thinking more of protracted litigation, courts clogged with bogus suits. But, yeah, there's no way to rule out more dystopian outcomes. Like Taylor Swift needing heavy body armor at future arena gigs.

What's the Marx quote? History repeats itself, first as tragedy, secondly as farce. I predict the popular vote margin will be greater for Harris than it was for Hillary or Joe, that Harris will gain enough EVs in the swing states to win by a nose, and that the ensuing mess will be greater and more farcical than 2020. Also, the Gulf states will secede from the Union and start a nuclear arms and uranium enrichment program. This new republic will be called Flallamisstex.

How many people would be left alive in your hypothetical fascist nation, if everyone with some kind of prejudice or character flaw or passing through a stage of involuntary celibacy or having some genetic flaw were handled as you so delicately put it... Perhaps the judgment would be also extended to people who propose mass murder of the "defective" in online forums. That would not be so great for you, would it? You put me in mind of Koko in The Mikado, who has "a little list" of people he finds undesirable and would gladly execute. The list includes lady novelists and people who breathe peppermints in your face. Most bigots suffer from ignorance and lack of social connection (especially to diverse segments of society) more than a depraved mind. It may feel satisfying to dismiss them as depraved, but I don't see the social science evidence to support that. Also, irony alert - you speak of viewing a group as less than human, while condemning others who view certain groups as less than human. This is a cognitive dissonance you might want to fix.

Become alert and garrulous? 😏 A bit off topic but we had a sign in a bike shop where I worked in college: It takes cranks to make revolutions.

It's not enough for the MAGAs that the electoral system already confers an advantage to red states. Leonard Leo and his minions like Opus Dei have been working furiously to skew the federal judiciary to the far Right so that continuing state plots to degrade voter access and gerrymander will stand up to court challenges. Targeted swing states, which can be remembered with the clunky mnemonic WINVAZ PAGAMINC (and don't forget Nebraska's "blue dot" in its Omaha district is a potential tiebreaker, since NE, like Maine, splits its electoral votes), are all facing an assault on unfettered access to the polls. And Sofa King* has spoken the quiet part aloud, in interviews: he admires monarchy as a system of government. * https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/jd-vances-mythical-couch-tryst-is-a-fact-checkers-nightmare-stephen-colbert-explains-why

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/plate-tectonics/ Various aspects of the theory deal with processes that happen in three dimensions, e.g. molten rock rising from the asthenosphere. 3D mechanisms are very much part of the theory.

So God tells Adam, I'm going to make you a wife, a helpmate, the most beautiful woman you can imagine. She will be tireless, enthusiastic, terrific in bed, and never complain or criticize. But it will cost you. How much, asks Adam. An eye, an elbow, a collarbone, and your left ball. Adam thinks this over for a couple minutes then asks: What can I get for a rib?

DISCLAIMER THE FACT THAT A GIVEN POST DOES NOT CONTAIN CONDEMNATIONS FOR EVERY INVOLVED PARTY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT DOES NOT MEAN IN ANY WAY THAT THE POSTER EXCUSES ANY SAID PARTY FROM CRITICISM OR CONDEMNATION. IT MEANS RATHER THAT THEY ARE MAKING A SPECIFIC POINT ABOUT A SPECIFIC GROUP AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO INSERT LEGAL BOILERPLATE TO COVER EVERY OTHER MORAL ISSUE THAT IS IN PLAY SO THAT MIGL DOESN'T GET HIS PANTIES IN A TWIST.

I'll admit I don't know enough about these nuclear facilities to know what bombing them would do exactly - my concern is that a powerful explosion where there are large quantities of somewhat enriched uranium could spread radioactive materials over a large area and possibly have radiological effects spread across national borders. If this is something that could happen, then Israel could give themselves some serious pariah status (above and beyond what they already have due to their extreme destruction and killing in Gaza and WB). But again, I don't know how these nuclear facilities are laid out or how fissile material stockpiles are shielded.

I predict that once this system catches on, he will be making money hand over fist.

This seems inconsistent with what Jesus himself taught. A core principle of his ministry was that past limiting factors in one's behavior would not prevent finding a path to redemption. One of his messages was that God forgives human limitations and errors, and that all humans can of their free will seek God and a moral path. Also, your comment that "true" Christians have to read the entire Bible seems at odds with Jesus' ministry, which was that faith and a few basic moral principles (focused on compassion and love) were all that was needed to enter the kingdom. Christ was deeply anti-elitist, AFAICT. I'm not religious, but my spiritual life resonates strongly with his moral precepts.

Some regions of China is far from a working model for extrapolation on 100 percent of dry land on the Earth. For every modeling of drier places, like the US West or parts of Asia, there are also modelings of a much wetter region elsewhere. Remember when moisture-laden air fails to precipitate one place, it can go somewhere else and meet a cool front and/or a zone rich with condensation nuclei and then rain like crazy.

From the article intro: Reading what you cite is helpful.