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I knew it! The French ARE a different species!

Wonder how many NK soldiers see this deployment as a possible way to get the hell out of NK and attempt to defect to the west.

Would humbly request our "bruh" consider dialing back the pseudo rapper talk, for purposes of reader comprehension.

Hmm. So...the boy is hiding where the house's landline is located, and that's in a place where trained personnel can't find you and no one hears the ring. I so want this joke to work, but...

Paging Abraham Wald! Note the OP article title: Religious Affiliation and Suicide Attempt. So statistically we have survivorship bias - just like with Wald's ww2 combat planes being the sample that made it back home. We have no reports from those who succeeded at offing themselves. For all we know, they did the job properly partly because they were filled with religious confidence that a better afterlife awaited them. Dead people tell no tales. Yet another skew. And this, Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children... Younger, yes, as religious affiliation rises with age. Yup, "horribly" skewed was about right.

Also depends on the kind of standing. If you aren't standing at parade rest (the formal military position, quite motionless), then you can flex the calves occasionally and keep blood from pooling. I recall a standing job where I'd rise up on tiptoes - flexing the soleus and gastrocnemius periodically. It reduced fatigue and made it much more comfortable to keep standing.

This not seeing beyond immediate effects is what the party out of the WH tries to encourage every election cycle. Our party system stinks.

That's sort of what I did. Informal consultation confirmed that leaving it open was their best option. They have to get one of those Elizabethan collars for a while, so she will leave the wounds alone and not lick off the hydrogel. Those, fortunately, are $10-15 at a pet supply store.

And there was the polymath Cardano (complex numbers pioneer, among other things) who published an astrological horoscope of Jesus (at a time when astrology was considered a science) and was imprisoned for several months and lost his professorship in Bologna. The Church could be hostile to both good science and bad. And Mercury was retrograde in Libra at the time.

Welcome to the USA. Much of the working class can no longer afford health care, veterinary care, or home ownership. The loveliest blossom of capitalism the world has ever seen! And the family wouldn't accept money from me. The cat is hanging in there. Cheers.

Is that Terry Pratchett? Sounds like him. On a different (lower) plane of humour: With the passing of Mitzi Gaynor, I am reminded of this knock knock joke... Knock knock. Who's there? Sam and Janet. Sam and Janet who? (sings): Sam and Janet Evening...

I've been asked to help save a mauled cat (stable ATM - I've cleaned and debrided the wound with saline, cleared back some pelt, and applied vetericyn as a hydrogel over the gaping wounds - she's now sleeping and doesn't seem febrile). The veterinary option doesn't work for the cat's owner, and I have enough basic medic skills that I offered (reluctantly) to do what I can. Two big openings which suggest canine upper and lower jaws coming in and ripping out some hunks. Looks like the visceral peritoneum is intact, with skin and fascia torn away. Emough missing that it would need either a very tensioned purse string suture or some kind of graft (clearly beyond me). There's a whiff of infection, so I want to leave it open for now. What is hard to tell is if there's any suture pattern that will really close things up and not rip when she moves. The alternative is "healing by secondary intention," where wound stays open and collagen fibers start to grow over and form scar tissue. This will leave bald spots prominent

If the mere fact is they are a deliberately lying sociopath who has openly stated they will begin a dictatorship and use the military to round up enemy Democrats, then the cliff option is an excellent one.

What he said! Amusing to hear that Trump, at a rally this past weekend, advised people to get out and vote on Jan. 5. In the social sciences, a result may be considered statistically significant if its confidence level is of the order of a two-sigma effect (95%), while in particle physics and astrophysics, there is a convention of requiring statistical significance of a five-sigma effect (99.99994% confidence) to qualify as a discovery.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule A thin reed I shall cling to the next three weeks, bobbing on an anxious ocean. On an unrelated topic, do any of you Canucks have a sofa-bed?

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.