Peterkin

A rocket is not a spaceship.

No. It's quite common. Some people have better recall than others, partly due to natural inclination, partly to practice. If, for example, you have a job where you need to learn a new set of data for each assignment and forget it for the next, you will have developed the medium-term memory more and the long term retrieval less than someone who needs to accumulate a permanent knowledge base. In that case, you will have greater success with grocery lists, while he remembers everyone's birthday. Different uses of the equipment, that's all. As for being outside, there are many kinds of 'outside'. Some of those places, indeed, all unfamiliar places, are full of potential hazards that require constant vigilance. For deep thought, you need a place where you feel secure enough to relax your guard. Wherever you could fall asleep, you can also think. I used to have some of my best ideas at symphony concerts - it's safe, comfortable, and only one faculty needs to engage with the external world.

Not all chronic ailments have yet been cured, but there is promising research in many of those areas, such as lifestyle and environmental factors https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.585744/full, cell based therapy https://research.uga.edu/news/medical-researcher-is-using-our-own-cells-to-cure-disease/ and microbiomes https://research.ucalgary.ca/research/research-plan/infections-inflammation-and-chronic-diseases ; so, no, they're not sitting idle, saying, "You'll just have to manage it." Not all diseases will ever be cured, because as we cure more of them and live longer, new viruses, toxins and malfunctions come after us. What've you got against bus drivers? I do agree, though; patients ought to have a voluntary emergency exit.

Not well, I imagine.

How sure are you that we're not?

Eh? I edit all the time. Three, four times for a single post* If there were a contest for most editings, being the klutziest typist with the crappiest keyboard, I would probably be the champion. *not, as I had in the original version, singlle piost. I've deleted a couple, too, upon discovering that somebody else had better and more up-to-date information on the topic. Life's a beach, baby! You can erase anything from the sand, so long as you beat the tide to it.

No. They would be have 'created' (recombined) a molecule. A big one. RNA-ish or maybe a little more; RNA with ambitions. It's not precisely a living entity, but it's more than just inanimate stuff. Well, that's not going to work in any solar system we could recognize. None of Genesis would. God forgot to make plankton and protozoa, so everything that's built on them - i.e. every kind of life - becomes impossible. No, there really isn't a lot of room for controversy.

Shouldn't that be TSG - the stable genius? He's very far from alone in wanting to change the constitution. But that's not funny.

I loved the dog. I tried reading the scene with the picnic basket aloud to friend once and could not get my voice under control. I just had the most vivid flashback to a German lesson that I did not attend. My mother was in elementary school and they had to translate from their reader. The chubby little girl stood up and declaimed "ich bin eine fette henne" instead of "ich haben eine fette henne". Guess what she was nicknamed the rest of her time in that school? Nope. The language mistress immediately put her foot down and told the class what terrible fate awaited them if she learned that they were teasing that child. There were pockets of civilization, even back in the 1930's.

T.C. Boyle The Women 50 pages in, I'm becoming alienated. Seems he was a right bastard, the great Frank Lloyd Wright. Might put aside and give it another chance when I'm in a benevolent mood.

Well, sure. But not many can carry that off. Especially when the wind shifts.

Hey! I have nothing against them; I wish them all possible luck living on whatever planet is left to live on. Just don't want to be on a panel of beauty contest judges with DJT. (Of course he'll be there: his name is next to God's on all the MAGAGA merchandise.)

Good luck trying to live on Earth by then! He'd been kept in a cool, dark place for only three days, so he didn't look that bad. But most of the "saved" have been underground quite a long time. Be warned: it's not going to be a pretty population. Of course not. I have very different nightmares. Do I have to give just one reason? I can't decide whether it's more horrific or silly.

Of course. Savonarola was ushered in without so much as be asked for ID. So were Torquemada and Cortez. Who wants to hang out for eternity with those guys?

Diagnosing some physical illnesses is much easier and more precise than mental ones. Diagnosing physical illnesses is much easier and more precise than some mental ones. Diagnosing physical illnesses is somewhat easier and more precise than mental ones. Diagnostic capability is increasing * but it's far from foolproof ; lots of physical illness is diagnosed at autopsy - so don't get too cocky! *which incidentally moves some mental illnesses over to the physical camp Like I said before: medicine is still growing.

What the Mayo Clinic has to say. You think so? For two months I was convinced I had an impacted salivary gland. An acquaintance (met while undergoing radiation) was convinced she was cancer-free following extensive treatments, only to die of an undiscovered liver metastasis a month later. Cancer can be pretty tricky, too. I and other people fear many kinds of threat, both imminent and remote, while failing to fear threats of which we should be aware and are not. Putin is still not relevant to mental illness or the soft science of psychology.

Like every other mental illness, the problem begins with a normal emotion or idea applied in excess or inappropriately. Fear is normal and healthy in cases where an animal is aware of a imminent danger or probable threat. It becomes unhealthy when extended to situation where there is no danger. For example, fear of falling off a high place is appropriate when one is standing on a clifftop and the possibility of falling over the edge is real. When standing on an high observation platform, surrounded by steel and glass, with no possibility of falling off, it's inappropriate, but still normal, because the fear is triggered by visual association. When standing on a chair, it's neurotic: a phobia, but still manageable. When standing on solid ground, afraid to step out the door, it's a serious problem. I do not see the relevance of Putin.

We have both. Up to a point. Sometimes not till it's ready to kill you. Not as obvious as a broken bone, and comes in more flavours. Lots of things cause people pain and distress. Some are obvious and easy to identify; some kill you faster than others; some are subtle and elusive; some come in clusters. To ignore any just because they're not simple is a cop-out.

I'm leery of words like 'claim'; it's pejorative by association, but too general to answer. Doctors and nurses working in that area have their own vocabulary, like every other professional community. Recently, the trend has been more toward naming in English, rather than Latin or German, so that it's easier to communicate with caregivers, relatives and the patient himself. Mental illness is difficult to classify and codify, yes; lots of grey areas. Cancer hasn't been cured yet, either, and nobody's picking on surgeons or radiologists. It's just harder to troubleshoot software; always will be: brains are more fragile and complicated than bones. Have you tried turning it off and on again? Sometimes that actually works. Psychology and neuroscience are still quite young, growing and adapting - but at least we no longer execute soldiers who suffer from PTSD.

Actually, that is the branch of which I'm most skeptical. I have never been particularly well versed in clinical psychology; my only experience is in counselling college students. The heavy stuff, I only know at second hand, from the patient's side: two close friends with long-standing mental issues who have tried a number of approaches over the years. Approaches, rather than treatments; it's really not like mainstream medicine. I understand hardware pretty well; I'm comfortable in most hospital departments. The psych ward, though, behind the closed doors with heavy wire mesh panels... that's another country - which, I suppose, is why so many people are reluctant to acknowledge it. The more interesting condition to me is chronic depression. It's a bitch of an illness: it turns bright, talented, interesting people into morbid slugs. And I'm glad somebody's willing to help them - I don't care if it's a priest, a psychiatrist or a voodoo mambo! Not every approach works - not by a long chalk! And what works for one person might be no use to somebody else. There are some constants, but successful therapies are usually arrived-at through trial and error. The other friend has ADHD, well controlled now, with a combination drug and personal routine regimen. As a child in the late 50's, he was called hyperkinetic and there was very little anyone could do for him, except the exercise I mentioned earlier. He should have become a great soccer player - except that he literally could not keep his eyes on the ball. Since the medical and educational establishments have been taking the problem seriously, he's had considerable coaching in how to manage the symptoms himself, so that he can live a normal life.

Insects can't choose a different way to act; we can. But also, some of the animals are horrible to one another because we've forced them into untenable situations and they're going crazy.

waste control arms control birth control self control IOW, maturity: GTFU

Yes, I understand that. I meant, only the [microfibre] cloth itself; it is not treated or infused with any chemical cleaning agent. Before microfibre, for 3000 years, people were cleaning items made of glass (but not coated with anti-scratch or anti-glare film) with ordinary cloth and some chemical cleaning agent, mostly commonly soap and vinegar. So people used to glass surfaces might be forgiven for mistakenly using the same method they employed with old-fashioned television screens on their non-glass computer screens, as the first reviewer did. He was comparing the Apple microfibre facecloth thingie to the very similar microfibre product amazon sells as a pack of 24 for the same price as a single two-layer one from Apple. I did not link review, because of the alcohol.

Apparently the Apple cloth is just a cloth: in use, people apply some kind of cleaning fluid. So, how clean and streak-free your screen is depends more on the fluid than the fabric it's applied with. In one test I read about, they used 70% alcohol, which may have been a mistake. Alcohol, vinegar and glass cleaner work fine on my eyeglasses (with either silk or cotton cloth), but I've been advised by my computer repair guy not use any solvents on the screen; he recommends distilled water and a mild detergent, applied with a soft, lint-free cloth. Here's a review https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-polishing-cloth

I like pieces of old cotton teeshirt. Not jockey shorts: too many seams.