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What about Big Bird. Did he survive?

Unless you just ate a salad.

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Are you speculating this, or are you some kind of specialist?

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Did you know you can buy a queen bee off ebay and have it delivered overnight?

You mean fowl play.

It's 4. I guess more dinosaurs would have survived if they were more flexible about diet. Bird flexibility is probably a result of the bigger brain. Y...

I wouldn't call that low. That means for every 100 surgeries, one person regretted doing it. I would tend to avoid any research that announces a polit...

Birds survived where other dinosaurs died out because: 1. They have bigger brains 2. They have a more varied diet. 3. They can fly. 4. All of the abov...

I see. It's just all really strange.

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Me too.

Boethius and Tzeentch haven't made much sense to the rest of us since the war began. We're not really expecting that to change.

I don't understand why their military was pitted against itself to begin with. Was that on purpose to keep the military from taking over? Or what?

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:up: See if they have an anthology of Hugo winners. That's good stuff.

Same as a skeleton, right? It's the structure that gives all the details a place to be. :grin:

There's a lot of variability there because it depends on the product and the culture. Apple, for instance, makes high quality products, but it's partl...

It's cool to compare the American version to the Russian one. There's a very different tone in each. The American one pays closer attention to making ...

Philosophy is still largely made up of opposing positions, though. My thoughts are structured in patterns. I have to have a pattern (when I was a chil...

Interesting. :up:

I was thinking more about the 1960s I guess? Like Jack Vance, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, etc Maybe his short stories were just a way to make money...

Really? That's weird that they'd diverge significantly from his short stories. How would you characterize them?

I haven't read that, but I've read pretty much all of Philip K. Dick's short stories. He's old school science fiction. The vibe was always like you're...

Plans within plans, man. It's like Dune over there.

Powell seems pretty confident that raising rates with "break the back" of inflation again. He wants it down to 2%.

That was some crazy shit, though, right?

They say he struck some sort of deal with Putin. Moscow was close to defenseless, so Prigozhin appears to be in charge now.

I don't think the liberal response to rate hikes is ageism. It's just an impotent gesture.

I guess he was just blowing smoke

Reddit says part of the Russian national guard sent to defend Moscow defected to Prigozhin

Holy shit! Is this good or bad?

Do you mean Prigozhin is going to make it all the way to Moscow and take over?

Well I think the point was that there's a difference between a biological woman and a trans woman. If a community decides to use that distinction for ...

I think there may have been an impression that Ukraine wouldn't fight back, and that the US might ignore the event as Obama ignored their seizure of t...

What the heck?

I think it sowed a smackdown. :razz:

Yes. Even if we don't understand why they want to transition, we understand that we need to help them.

"Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among t...

Is it really a huge deal for a trans woman to use the men's room? Why?

Imagine if everyone on the planet but you had Alzheimer's? Constantly telling you people were trying to kill them and such. It would drive you insane.

Salmon? Noooooooo!

That's true. The ideals are still beautiful though, don't you think?

You can make really good popsicles with applesauce. Just pour the applesauce into the little popsicle mold and put the holders in. Then freeze it. If ...

I haven't seen that, but I'm not doubting what you say. It's always been true that gays and lesbians have to be psychologically robust to navigate the...

Yes. It's an unfortunate fact that few transwomen go undetected. It's usually pretty obvious.

Really? But abolitionists made up about 3-5% of the white American population. The rest were either pro-slavery, or pretty apathetic about it. When Li...

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I didn't say gender identity comes down to molecular biology. Bodily functions do. They all line up pretty rigidly. You can use "XX" to describe typic...