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Finally figured out how to get hide button to work on tablet.

Thanks. That had completely escaped my attention. 😜

Something like a California bungalow or Chicago bungalow, then, but broader in its geographic designation? Say, for example, some house was called a Yankee Saltbox. As an architecture buff, I admit I'm stumped. That Woody Guthrie phrase just ran through my head, Little boxes made of ticky tacky...

Video unavailable in US. I found (on our golden coast) this unblocked version. (sighs)(wipes steam from spectacles)

I can think of American locations that are in architectural styles, like Prairie School or Cape Cod or California bungalow. (that last also called American Craftsman)

There are pharmaceuticals that can mimic brain death. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22292975/ As MigL said, those who are truly dead, where the brain has begun to decompose (usually about six minutes after the heart has stopped, though can be longer where the body was hypothermic), are permanently dead. The connectome, the synaptic connections that make a brain function, breaks apart quickly, and that decisively ends life as a sentient organism. Some tissues survive longer, but that is not tissue that makes you you.

Was it "Foursquare" by any chance? We used to live in one.

Again, post hoc fallacy. And ridiculous. Consider more ordinary causal explanations - e.g. cats often throw up. Overeating, chewing on plants, hairballs, the small child next door slipping them cake frosting, or whatever. In this case, you happened to notice it and decided to take a coincidence as supportive of your crackpot theory while ignoring all the times the cat eats and doesn't throw up, or throws up when no one has hummed at his food.

Heretic! It is the invention of chocolate which is the sacred apotheosis of snacks! I believe the correct forms are mentioned in Beetlejuice.

Facts are sometimes like neutrinos: they pass right through people with zero interaction. I agree that many equivalences that are drawn, most notably with artificial neural nets, are not warranted. I would also note that we can distinguish between simulations of a process and an actual process - e.g. when a computer simulates a thunderstorm, water doesn't gush from its hardware nor does it shoot deadly electrical discharges at us. That said, information is a little different from a bit of nasty weather. Machines can process information, they aren't simulating processing information. Information processing is a genuine causal power of computing devices. The same, we presume, is true of other people's brains. So I am drawn to Integrated Information Theory, in which a system's consciousness (what it is like subjectively) is conjectured to be identical to its causal properties (what it is like objectively). If we can fully uncover the causal properties of a brain, there would seem no obstacle in principle to designing a machine with the same causal properties. (and I agree that present digital computers do not have such causal properties) I append a relevant snatch from the wiki article.... IIT "starts with consciousness" (accepts the existence of our own consciousness as certain) and reasons about the properties that a postulated physical substrate would need to have in order to account for it. The ability to perform this jump from phenomenology to mechanism rests on IIT's assumption that if the formal properties of a conscious experience can be fully accounted for by an underlying physical system, then the properties of the physical system must be constrained by the properties of the experience. The limitations on the physical system for consciousness to exist are unknown and consciousness may exist on a spectrum, as implied by studies involving split brain patients[10] and conscious patients with large amounts of brain matter missing.[11] Specifically, IIT moves from phenomenology to mechanism by attempting to identify the essential properties of conscious experience (dubbed "axioms") and, from there, the essential properties of conscious physical systems (dubbed "postulates").

Not really. Your liver produces any ketones that you need, which are called endogenous ketones. Exogenous ketones (i.e. supplements) are a scam, and consuming large quantities could even impair your natural production of endogenous ketones. If you want to induce ketosis (high ketone production, when the liver breaks down fatty acids), then that happens naturally when you eat mostly protein and fatty acids and have very restricted carb intake. Also, approach ketosis diets with great caution. They are often low in important fiber and certain vitamin groups that are found in complex carbs. Such diets are an extreme approach, sometimes recommended for serious chronic conditions. For the rest of us: complex carbs are GOOD. And their fiber helps us feel full and have a healthy gut, as well as providing steady energy throughout our day.

Arterial plaque formation is a slow process of decades, and one reason it can be ultimately deadly is precisely because you don't "feel it" over any short-term period. If you ate something and felt sluggish or "huffing and puffing," that has more to do with short-term factors which may or may not be from your food. Sleep habits, blood sugar, moods, social interactions, hydration, hormone levels, sugar or simple carb intakes, overall recent meal size, and many others factors can influence performance on a given day. Do not be deceived by the power of suggestion. If some popular source on the Web tells you a certain food will make you tired, the human mind can easily talk itself into experiencing it that way. Stick with peer-reviewed science and remember that infamous logical fallacy which can fool even the smartest people: post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Or, put another way, correlation is not causation.

Don't have link atm, but David Brooks has a great essay in The Atlantic on the conflicts between our individual freedom and autonomy, and our obligations to community and the common good. I recommend it. If the mag gives you any paywall crap, LMK and I'll send you a screenshot later.

Atherosclerotic plaque is not an event that you observe in some short-term cause/effect way. That is sort of like saying you notice your bones are thinner after you skip milk for breakfast. (this is a "drive by" post so please excuse any duplication if others have already pointed this out)

IIRC, Stockard Channing was the Grease tramp.

Do you have one that traps the excess grease from Spam? It just runs everywhere and we are nearly helpless!!!

Yep. POSSIBLE SPOILER MY TABLET CAN'T ACCESS THE HIDDEN EYE BUTTON SORRY One has to see there are two kinds of revolving, one with respect to circle B and one with respect to us, looking down on the page. It's a nice frame of reference puzzle. END SPOILER

@Commander Could you please post an answer to the linen grid puzzle? In the hidden format, of course. I will look at the more recent puzzles, but it's nice to have closure on past ones. I am usually good at crosswords and anagrams, so maybe that was a puzzle form I'm just unfamiliar with? Seemed easy. I'm on a tablet so the hidden button doesn't seem to appear. It can be figured without recourse to formulae.

Names aren't important. Properly sized tumbrels are.

Exactly - hence my irony quotes around the word moral. Profit is not a moral valuation.

Or maybe not. 😀 The letters do not seem to correspond to chess piece symbols (KQRBNP), the grid is the wrong number of squares, and I find no anagrams that spell words like stalemate, checkmate, gambit, zugzwang, fork, pin, promotion, Sicilian, black, white, or other chess terms. So one guess is the clue is to how to move through a group of letters, e.g. if you start on an outside square and move like a knight, you will get words like dine, girl, line, grid. If you move like a bishop, you get gin, lol. Nope, I don't see any inspiration yet. Probably overthinking, which almost never works.

Once fixed a cranky butterfly valve on a Dodge Colt with a paperclip slipped on it. Maybe not applicable to this, though. I switched to electric about 1985, and life was so much better. People hate the corded ones, but they are so much better than mucking around with the crappy batteries on the cordless ones that the mfr. claims will take 2000 charges and you are lucky to get 200 before they fail completely. And the cutting power is weak. And the batteries are the most expensive part of a cordless mower, so every four-five years you have to spend a ton of money to replace them. Corded mowers, however, last for eternity. My dad had a Black and Decker corded mower for forty years, from around early 70s, and it was in fine condition when I donated it to a Habitat store after his death. It is not difficult to develop a mowing pattern that keeps you from running over the cord. Really.

OP answer imho is No. Because without labor unions, collective bargaining, regulations and laws, you have people working long days at hard job for peanuts while management pushes paper around, barks at secretaries, and takes off at 2pm for golf, and they get millions. That's the natural trend in capitalism, so you need a lot of structured restrictions to counteract that. Otherwise the only "moral" imperative is shareholder profits.

I have lived mostly in handshake country (northern plains USA), so I sympathize. Hugging seemed to me reserved for family and very close friends. When I was on the West Coast, which is more huggy, I sometimes said, "I'm not really a hugger," and most people were ok with that, maybe because they knew where I came from. I don't like the subterfuge approach, because people often see through that and then they will think maybe you don't like them. Honesty remains the best policy. (though as George Carlin pointed out, by process of elimination dishonesty is then the second-best policy)

I mentioned being curious in another thread somewhere. Weren't his last posts expressing some dissatisfaction with a heated discussion he was in? (sorry, don't recall topic, maybe politics or sports/gender?) ETA: His last few posts in Transgender Athletes were sprinkled with down votes. But none indicated he was leaving SFN as a result of that.