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I suppose all we can do is get the popcorn out and see how it pans out. It seems to me that the idea of 'settled law' is up the Swanee. I think until politics is removed from such decisions, this mess is going to go on on forever. There seems to be no respect for medical expertise, everything seems subject to political whims in the US. I find it gross tbh.

I think the medical line is not necessarily when personhood begins, but when a foetus can exist independently of it's mother, as a general guidline. Currently, I think they are in a potentially survivable state around 6 months gestation.

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Thyroid. As someone said, I just read: "I hope it's not too fatal".

I'm seeing speculation that Russia may declare war on May 9th, so it can mobilize its reserves. That will go down like a lead balloon with the Russian public

A link to a copy of the draft: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf

Ahh, gotcha.

I read earlier that SC Court numbers is a Congress decision, does it still have to go through the Senate?

Might this restore the idea of packing the Court as a potential option?

OK. I'd just rather try to be positive, where possible, than pessimistic.... saps too much energy before one has even started.

The ultra-religious cousin, yeah, but the others, that's imagining obstacles that probably have no basis in reality. Why are you stating truisms? What am I missing?

How are they to know?

If the USA was just 'America', one country instead of states, and the US SC word prevailed, being Conservative-biased, abortion would be illegal all over the country. At least such prohibitive judgements can be circumvented somewhere in the country, although maybe not easily for some. Like I said earlier, probably the internet, for remote online consultation with a qualified provider and mailed medication, it might not be so destructive to women that need the assistance as pre-internet. There are also proactive sympathetic states that will and can professionally do it properly either in-person or remotely. The days of gin and knitting needles aren't likely to be returned to, so the fears women had in the 70's aren't likely to manifest now to the same degree. Maybe the outlook isn't as bleak as one might think as at first glance.

Clandestine mifepristone/misoprostol distribution is about to become a thing, methinks . With the advent of such medication, it may not have such far reaching effects as in the past that the GOP/religious wingnuts hope.

Amazon is setting up a fund for its women employees that are more than 100 miles away from those services, so they can get there and California is setting itself up to be sanctuary for women outside the state. Mitigation strategies are already being worked on, it appears. Will it have a tangible effect on swing voters in the mid-terms which way they vote?

Yes, a piece of art is an abstraction.

Something is called 'Art' when some noted collector pays a large sum for it.

Is it down to the degree of incline of the landmass edge that dictates tide height i.e steeper inclines causes higher tide heights?

I would say so.

I think art is a means to abstract elements of ones subjective experiences and observations in a novel way. It distinguishes from literal and accurate descriptions or works that attempt to convey the world as might be agreed by multiple observers.

Yes, until superluminal travel is a thing, even if only on paper, visiting aliens are pie in the sky for me. I am pretty confident life exists alsewhere, but just not in travelling distance. I have had what I think was a schizophrenia-like vocal hallucination telling me to "Have courage", which was just the strangest experience, but I'd been mostly awake for a week or so and was coming down off stimulants. I couldn't moan anyway, the voice was benevolent. My rationale eventually told me it was 'subconcious me' telling myself something, but somebody less insightful and self aware could well think a spirit was speaking to them.

Auditory pareidolia. Being pretty deaf, I experience it several times a day, it's just my brain trying to deal with a poor signal in my case.

Yeah, they aren't aggressive in the sense that they'll bite you on sight but the two I know will politely put their teeth on your hand if you try and stroke them. As long as you ignore them they'll even lie down near you. They aren't instinctively sociable like, say, a Staffordshire. That is a dog that's made/nurtured to be fierce by their owner, aggression towards people is not part of their usual behaviour. I think there are general behavioural trends with breeds.