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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.

Try cosying up to a chow chow, when you aren't in its family.

Too many variables to make a generalized prediction. Environmental conditions of storage are very important. In any sample, all the seeds don't die at once, their viability, expressed as %, diminishes over time. Warm-humid and changing conditions is the worst, dry-frigid, after preparing the internal average moisture, is best... probably centuries. A fridge will keep most viable for maybe 5-10 years. In a cool, dark place, place maybe a couple of years.

That mutual observational agreement is called 'intersubjective consensus'. That's as close as we can be to being objective.

I think when you get over 40, I don't think age makes that much difference to any more perceived maturity... you are what you are passed that age.

When sarcasm is part of ones MO, the humour angle never shines through.

Wow! Fucking Hell! A first, Russia actually hit a legitimate target for the first time in two months.

That's what it boils down to, any useful resources should be pointed at the problem to avoid that misery .

AFAIK, the evidence seems to suggest that trans-women are not as strong/fast as cis-men. The treatment reduces it. They are only allowed the same testosterone levels, amongst other things, as is normal for cis-women. I've only seen one trans-person win in a major event, so far. If trans-women were winning across the board, I think discussions would be had and steps would be taken.

But the question to ask is: "Are trans-women winning disproportionately?"

I agree, but I bet his meeting tables are twice as long now and everything is tasted by someone else first. It must be disconcerting to know the range of options a potential Russian assassin has available....

The point of that piece is that the Indians, by sharing, removed a problem, which was poverty. It doesn't solve all forms of crime but it sorts a big one. The other point was that materialism wasn't held to such a high regard, like other cultures do.