And also to keep it from spreading among kids who would then give it to their parents, grandparents, & disabled neighbors.
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And also to keep it from spreading among kids who would then give it to their parents, grandparents, & disabled neighbors.
When I grasp desperately at relief from the sting of life I usually have a 2nd drink & watch anime with my cats. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
"Faces" could be a reference to flat affect. Some autistic people do have movement patterns that are different from most neurotypical children. And "lack of social connection" is basically (wrongly) in the definition of ASD. I really think this quote is all code for eugenics for autistic people.
I really think this is another statement about how he hates autistic people. Studies have found a correlation between autism & differences in mitochondrial function. The full quote also mentions inflammation, which is another theory about the cause of autism...
He said this, so no spelling was even required!
I saw NIN a couple of times in the late 90s or early 2000s. I'd love to see them again. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks to this post for making me think of all the amazing concerts I've seen & reminding me how much I love live music. I need to start going again. Last one was Tool a few months before COVID started. Incredible show.
Excellent list. My first thought was to go catch a bunch of the early Lollapalooza shows & go to HFStival (a DC area one that brought in great bands). I don't know why I skipped them back then.
While not totally made up, I drive down Beaverwood Dr to get into my neighborhood and mentally giggle every time. All the streets in my neighborhood have names that start with B like someone just opened a dictionary and started throwing darts.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
WTF is wrong with people? Children don't owe their parents grandchildren. And why is being gay the only reason someone would care about for why they don't get grandkids? Daughter could also not want kids, have infertility, go no contact with parents, etc. Plus gay people can have children.
Big Don is Watching
We could have housed the homeless, but instead we threw out their stuff and called it good enough.
YES! Same!
I can't wait to listen!
1st message is only that Trump is doing this as a distraction from tariffs with more focus on harm from tarriffs. 2nd one says what Dems were already doing to keep people safe & says takeover is Trump's distraction from tarriffs AND the Epstein files. Not the same.
Whether or not this is a good way to test messaging, Stancil's statement is straight up wrong. There are several fundamental differences between these two messages. They're not nearly identical.
I haaaaate this about Duo's app icon. I frequently remind myself that Duo's emotional regulation is his responsibility, not mine. It's only 1:30pm and he's already starting to look distressed. Come on!
Because it's well known that artificial food dyes cause car accidents & gun violence. They also make kids break their arms when they fall off their bikes.
At this point I'm wondering if Kilmar Albrego Garcia & his family could apply for asylum in another country from the US.
"Doctors Recimmend Preventing Disease" is not a headline I ever expected would need to be written. Can we start calling the Trump Admin "pro-disease" yet?
Reminder that Trump unleashing federal troops across D.C. isn't meant to address any actual concerns about crime. It's a show of force. Itβs important to see this and L.A. as trial runs for a possible military occupation elsewhere in the United States.
π€‘π€‘π€‘ "That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer" - Kristi Noem "U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks... said the paint would also help deter rust." www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-sec...
Trump only cares about making MAGA staffers & MAGA tourists feel safer & about exerting power over a city that hates him. Of course he doesn't give a shit about poor Black people.
Did you find that relatable? I thought it was pretty fucked up even for white supremicists.
Focus Friend is often the only reason I get things done sometimes these days. My dishwasher is running right bow thanks to Eclair, my kitt-ney bean.
Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion. The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds. We must not become numb to this.
School hasn't even started yet in DC. Their 1st day is August 26.
And to distract from the Epstein Files.
But that's still science. Also doctors used to go straight from dissecting corpses to delivering babies & working on live patients, causing infections & more death. Then Ignaz Semmelweis invented hand washing (& eventually docs started doing it). Washing hands isn't medicine, but it is science.
Also, cage pedophiles, not homeless people.
Also, someone who has a blank expression while while feeling emotions is described as having a "flat affect." This trait is often ascribed to autistic people. People may also have flat affect after a traumatic event--others expect them to be crying & wailing, but they seem calm & even.
For those wondering, it's used as a clinical way to describe observable signs of emotion without ascribing an emotion, which is an internal state. For example, it's inaccurate to say, "She was happy during the activity" unless she told me that. But I can say, "She had a positive affect."
I use the noun "affect" frequently at work. The meaning is so different I never thought that it could be mixed up in this effect/affect noun/verb nonsense. It's even usually pronounced differently. What's the origin of it? Do noun & verb affect come from the same origin or have different roots?
And your verb is blocked, ignorant troll.
There's a difference between being "not publicly pro-gay" & being loudly anti-LGBTQ. "I will survive" also means a lot to many women who survived abuse &/or escaped bad relationships. It's also a slap in the face to them to accept an award from a serial sexual assaulter & probable pedophile.
While the nation has plenty of real problems to deal with, Trump is ignoring them to manufacture fake emergencies. Why? He wants more power β and he wants to distract from his unpopular agenda. It should be clear that Americaβs actual national emergency is Donald J. Trump.
2/2 In those eps maybe there's a smaller or more gentle way to still include some factual info about the benefits of publicly funded science or the damage the Trump admin is doing e.g. if a fed science grant funded research or in further research was canceled
I think the big Ologies fans are right there with you. Then I'd guess you also get some listeners who tune in on a specific topic of interest (e.g. Pain, cats or another favorite animal (but hopefully not otter or dolphin lovers...)). 1/2
I'm a pretty entrenched MD suburbanite now, but I lived in DC for many years and worked downtown for about 20. I'm LIVID about Trump's takeover of my city.
Not homeless, but I'd be shrieking at every Republican asshat I saw if I still worked downtown. This supposedly-homeless guy's reaction to seeing him is entirely rational.
Trumo said he's planning to round up the homeless and send them "far away." I bet he'll use this as an opportunity to see if he can get away with sending them to his concentration camps in other countries.
Republicans in Congress also prevented the DC government from spending $1 billion from locally-raised taxpayers. Trump & his goons are doing their best to destroy the region's economy & then they're annoyed they have to see the consequences of their actions. Poor babies. π
They also fired thousands of government workers, shut down whole buildings in DC, & canceled government contracts. That has a ripple effect throughout the city & region--all the places those people spend money near work & home are impacted.
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
This explains the MAGA crowd.
Oops, sorry. I see it now. Should have zoomed in on my phone.
Mark storm drains, but I have bo idea what that means. Also if you're posting this on the internet, maybe put the state on. I live in MD near the Potomac River and a town called Kensington with a Kensington Library.
This is definitely the cutest response.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid. I always thought Sesame Street was set somewhere really nearby b/c it looked just like my neighborhood (other than the muppets). Same houses & stoops, same types of people. Occurred to me much later that most kids DIDN'T feel like SS was around the corner.
Unfortunately he was probably vaccinated for a lot when he was a child, so the measles outbreak he's contributing to likely won't get him. But I hear shingles is excruciating...
2/2 An atheist would probably say, "I don't have one. I'm an atheist." If we started with the question, "Are you an atheist?" would a Buddhist be more likely to say, "Yes and I'm a Buddhist" or just answer, "I'm a Buddhist"? Now I really am curious.
Fair point, I guess that is true. Is that a label they'd give themselves? I wonder. We usually ask, "What's your religion?" to which a Buddhist would say they were a Buddhist. A spiritual person might say, "I don't have one, but I believe in a universal higher power." 1/2
I agree
Thanks to Trump's cuts, seasonal employees at Yosemite worked for as long as six weeks without pay. The National Park Service is one of our most popular government agencies. It's being gutted to fund enormously unpopular tax cuts for the super-rich.
While this is technically true, I've yet to meet someone who labels themselves "spiritual" who would also call themselves an atheist. Maybe I haven't met a representative sample of spiritual people though. π€·
Here's the link if you want more info. Party affiliation of US voters by religious group | Pew Research Center share.google/D2TTlRaOU7GU...
Here's a study from Pew Research Cented that found non-religious people skew heavily toward voting for Democrats, the party that's more closely associated with those views. It's also worth noting that several religious voting blocks also skew that way.
Um, I'm not sure who told you atheists don't believe in all of that, but it's not true. The first 2 are strongly backed by science. The others are opinions, but I'd argue that anyone ethical would hold them. I certainly do.
Well, sure, we are all human. I didn't say atheists were perfect (or even that perfection means being unbiased). I didn't even say that atheists are superior to religious/spiritual people. Just that you don't need religion or spirituality to have ethics or morals, to strive to do good in the world.
An ethical atheist or agnostic person will also do what's right no matter what they're told. You don't need belief in a higher power of any kind to be a good person.
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That's exactly what I thought of.
Me every time I need to scrub the shower or change the sheets (not *actually* seven months, but far too long considering they're very short tasks)
BIPOC, women, queer people, & disabled folks would like a word about the 50s & 60s being a "Golden Age."
And high union membership
What. The. Fuck.
I live in MoCo & felt like I had fewer lightning bugs this year than in the past even though I did leave the leaves in my backyard. Wonder if it's the weird weather we've had this spring and summer.
Angelina. Fight Club. Divorced.
Exactly Thisβ¦
I used Focus Friend for the 1st time this afternoon. Instantly bought the cat skin. This is Eclair and she has been very productive this afternoon. I was pleased that my podcast app still played in normal focus mode on Android. I hope this is a feature, not a bug.
But they are also generally very happy when foreigners try to speak Japanese. I taught English there for 2 years. Everyone complemented my Japanese even when it was far worse than their English, which they'd say was terrible (it was fine).
English is a required class in Japanese middle and high schools. English-language music and movies are also popular. So most Japanese people understand at least some English, but they're often embarrassed to speak it if they don't feel they can do so very competently.
This is a recipe for disaster for the spread of the flu, COVID, measles, etc. This disregards the health of the entire community as disease will spread more freely to teachers & between students & then to their families. share.google/XXuv3AfvJLIK...
π The one in the middle is clearly a very young child. Bottom left & top left corner look like teenagers. Get your eyes examined, bro.
I just downloaded the Android version. My phone distracts ME from knitting, too! Though mostly from cleaning.
Meanwhile FEMA just denied Maryland funds after recent flooding.
Given that he cheats and lies about everything else, this isn't surprising.
The 1st time I heard a heron I was floored. I didn't doubt that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but this sealed it for me.
Rahm Emanuel has always been kind of an ass. I'm not saying that this isn't a problem at all, but Rahm isn't the best representative of "what Democrats think now."
Good morningβοΈπ
Hell yeah! I'm there!
Hard working people are easy to find & unlikely to respond with violence. Violent criminals are, by nature, violent & hard to track down. ICE has quotas. It was inevitable this is how things would turn out.
Or work in one of his warehouses for a month & live off that pay
Once again: What the fuck???
Am I the only one who's surprised there wasn't already a database of all citizens? Between having SSNs, the census, & IRS records I assumed someone had a complete list. Has some of that data been kept in the states? Do they just need to mash the lists together and dedupe it?
The Trump children have citizenship by way of having one parent (papa Trump) who's a US citizen. Doesnβt matter if their moms were here legally or US citizens. Alas.
My favorite t-shirt I got in Japan had a picture of a woman in a bathtub holding a steak. She had a speech bubble with "Like a pork" and there was text elsewhere that said "Free liver!" I loved that it was still so weird even if you didn't understand the English words.
I agree, aster yellows. I've never had it (knock on wood) but people are always posting photos & asking about it in gardening groups I'm in. I didn't know it was transmitted by leaf hoppers, though!
So the files don't exist, but they were reviewed by anonymous trusted people & it was decided not to release them for unstated reasons? That's not fishy at all...
When I 1st saw the logo my brain said it like "hill-ee-tay" for some reason, but then I read the URL like "hilly tea" apartments.
I always think it's funny when emoji that have a specific meaning in Japan get misused by Americans. For example β¨οΈ is a common Japanese symbol for a hot spring public bath (onsen). The other day I got an email about a sale that used β¨οΈ instead of π₯ in the subject line.
(I hadn't seen emoji written out in kanji until I looked it up after seeing this post.)
Huh. In Japanese, "kanji" is the word for borrowed Chinese characters with ji (ε) meaning character. I had assumed "emo" was borrowed from English as being short for emotion. I wondered if this seeming meaning contributed to the easy adoption of the word emoji in English.
The Justice Department is recommending just one day in prison for a Louisville police officer convicted in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.