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You need to understand that science doesn't attempt to *prove* anything. The only thing we can do is offer explanations, based on observation and testing, supported with evidence, to explain various phenomena. Empathic ability of the kind you mention has been tested and lacks any evidence to suggest there is more there than a normal statistical range of sensitivity. If evidence had been found, studies and experiments to suggest a hypothesis regarding empaths could be put forward. Without some kind of testable, repeatable evidence, you can't have any kind of hypothesis or theory. Science really has no stance on empaths. What you describe as an empath is supernatural, and outside what science is focused on.

Here's a good current study put out by the European Science Foundation. I believe Yellowstone is only mentioned twice, and all the popsci fearmongering is absent.

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It's the combo of Guiness and cheese maybe, or wine and cheese. Something about the savory and tart together perhaps overloads sensors activating saliva at a painful rate. I've always associated it with something tart after acclimating the palate to a different type of taste. I can't say for sure, but it does seem to happen more often when I'm sipping a drink together with a mouthful of food. Could it be an overdrive reaction because you're signalling that your mouth is too dry by sipping? I can see an evolutionary advantage if it prevents you from choking on a mouthful of dry food. As for the cheese and sweaty cheeks, Tyramine might be a suspect: It's in most cheeses except the softest, like cottage and cream cheeses. But still, that doesn't explain the chicken.* * My Staff Challenge this week was to successfully use the phrase, "But still, that doesn't explain the chicken" in a coherent post. I'd like to thank trickrick for this marvelous opportunity.

I'm pretty sure the pain you're feeling is your salivary glands suddenly increasing the flow in reaction to certain combos of foods. I've had this before and looked it up. I don't know if this is associated with the mild sweats from eating cheese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-in-the-box I thought I remembered a name for the devil involving Jack, but I can't find the reference. I might be thinking of Old Scratch.

You can't prove they don't exist. You can only gather evidence to support an explanation that there's something more than normal heightened empathy going on. And there is none.

There have been enough studies to determine there is no "them".

The brain often interprets input based on "most likely", such as in the case of illusions where identical colored circles are surrounded by different sized black circles, making one of the colored circles appear bigger in comparison. Perhaps, in the case of someone with poor critical thinking skills and strong religious beliefs, the brain's interpretations are simply using what they know, and making it seem like goddidit is a "most likely" scenario. That critical filter one learns to use in science is almost like another sense. If you've ever spent time with someone with bad hearing, you know the wealth of information that person misses out on. They have to maneuver in an environment where they didn't hear many of the directions. They often don't get the input of others, and so most problems are theirs to solve alone. Perhaps this is one of the best arguments for good reasoning skills. It's like having extra sets of eyes and ears.

It behaves like an attempt to make sense of a pattern, connecting the dots, fitting the pieces of a puzzle together. Except you're missing pieces, so you extrapolate based on what you think makes sense (or you hear an explanation and force it to fit). Probably some sort of cognitive bias.

Given away in subsidies how? Or are you just objecting to assistance in the form of money to pay rent and buy groceries?

No problems. Perhaps it's not age, but just the refraction produced as you weep for the country.

No, Alexander Acosta is the nominee, Epstein is the pedophile Acosta helped get off the hook. Headline of the article:

We need to make sure investments like this are used with the same wisdom that makes them possible. Bravo NY!

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So you want to keep the state level system that ensures we can't have a single, nationally funded basic education? I suggest it wouldn't fly because you're keeping it's wings clipped. And I think the only way to make it fly is if it has a national support, and one of the best ways to get that is to make it an American thing to do. Competition is a huge motivator for many, and while the program can easily be tailored for custom solutions to rural and urban, wealthy and poor problems, I think the concept of our schools supporting the best students is something we could be extremely proud of as a nation.

I don't think the "bootstrap pull-up" is a sound argument until you do as much as you can to remove circumstance of birth from the equation. A publicly funded core curriculum supported by all goes a long way to leveling the playing field. And I never said people couldn't use their wealth to give their children more education. I'm mainly interested in a common starting place for all with regard to preparing their own potential. Another good reason for a national core. The efficiency of administering such a system would free up funds needed elsewhere in the system. What they're effectively doing is diluting the system. Their resources go towards the private schools, which have to show a profit (indeed, whose primary aim is to show a profit). They now want vouchers to remove yet more funding from the public system. They're missing the whole point of education in their efforts to make money. This should be about educating our children, nothing more, and for that you need a solution that isn't profit based. And I've just suggested how to fix it. Put all our resources into a single education system designed to produce the world's greatest students. Kennedy encouraged us to go to the moon, this new education system could encourage us to... be very smart?

I like the concept of a well-developed national core curriculum that everyone (administrators, legislators, parents, teachers, students) is responsible for making successful, and is paid for by public support alone. I like what France does as well, making it illegal to charge for teaching this core to remove support for private schooling, so the wealthy are forced to support the schools everyone attends. Sometimes choice is not the point, and never has been.

So we can know which kind of help to offer, do you think this is a real world, or is it a story you're writing?

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Is that why so many places like McD's and BK switched to milkshake-adjacent solutions, because more folks are becoming intolerant?

I completely agree, and I was just thinking about this the other day. Jordanian and Lebanese immigrants to Mexico blended shawarma style techniques with local ingredients and spices to form a trombo (pork roast and bacon blended and triple chili-spiced, topped with a mound of pineapple rings) and cooked in an upright broiler. Slice off some of the meat and pineapple into a small tortilla, add some finely chopped cilantro, salsa, and raw onion and you have Tacos al Pastor. I would tear down a wall to get these done right by Mexicans from the Middle East.

The butchers have had their fingers on the scale since Nixon.

I understand, and I wonder also if that too-high percentage might be used on earnings that also might be considered too high? Perhaps only earnings above $50M are taxed at 90%, with multiple lesser rates to encourage investment. That's probably less than 200 people, but might be worth a few hundred $M. Median wages for the 99% haven't yet made it into the 21st century, I heard on the radio the other day. Still stuck at 1999, while the number of gazillionaires has steadily been rising since that time. If the middle and lower class earn less so tax revenue declines, the money to keep things running HAS to come from the 1%, and not in the form of a loan or a handout.