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Kefir does seem to be about the best. That and a high quality kombucha, and you've practically got a biome. And for one golden moment, the thread was not discussing groin odours. Wait...what? They are optimists.

So if one can't get probiotics from yoghurt due to lactose intolerance or veganism, then there's... Hmm. Maybe Trump was trying to treat himself for IBS.

The question is if the younger and busier people who don't take time to answer pollsters will bother to vote. We need Australia's compulsory voting system. If we did, I think Trump's actual loss of support would become starkly visible on 11/5.

Same question asked in 2016. He's a circus clown show that makes liberals cringe - i.e. that's all the base wants. What's really needed is for him to keep stating clearly that he will be a dictator on Jan. 20, 2025. As in his most recent statement that he will use the military to round up his enemies. Keep that up and his erosion among Independents and suburban moderates will continue. The Right Wing has done a good job of propaganda using false correlations between global trends and the Trump years in office.

Aluminum melts at 660 C. Would melt faster than a kid's ice cream cone at the Arizona state fair. PLEASE DELETE ACCIDENTALLY DUPLICATED POST ALREADY ANSWERED THIS

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?

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