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Tuesday, June 16. 2020Tuesday Is Just Monday's Ugly Sister
Well, it's Tuesday. There's no "fresh week" feeling to Tuesday. You don't unwrap a Tuesday. The package is already broken open, and inexpertly taped back up, like most of the tools at Harbor Freight. In geologic terms, it's really not any closer to Friday than Monday was, so you can't even lie to yourself about being one day closer to the weekend with any gusto. Tuesday just is. Let's get on with it. Hacker Dosed With LSD While Restoring Historical Synth
My car mechanic took LSD once. He said he had an auto body experience. AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine enters phase 2/3 clinical trial
And just like all flu vaccines, there will be cardboard signs outside of every pharmacy and supermarket offering free flu shots, which no one will get. Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Natick Couple
It sounds like everyone involved works part time at Hardbodies
Once upon a time and a very good time it was H.G. Wells was coming down along the road and this Wells that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby Joyce and told him he was a jerk. The biggest myth of modern nutrition: healthy plant-based diets
Want to go vegan? Cut out the middleman and become a Seventh-Day Adventist India says three soldiers killed in 'violent faceoff' on border with China
Both sides have nuclear weapons, but they're bashing each other's heads in with sticks and stones. A parable for our times. Why abandoned domain names are so dangerous
Domain names are like herpes. If you don't want to have it forever, don't get it in the first place. New Research: There Could Be 36 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy
And according to new research I just finished, Blake Lively could be trying to phone me right now.
Cameo now lets people pay up to $15K to have a Zoom call with a celebrity
That's funny. I would pay five bucks to avoid a Zoom call with Tony Hawk or Brett Favre. We Shouldn’t Sit in the Stands Anymore
Everyone already refuses to sit in the stands at their kids' Little League games. They're all on the field having fistfights with the umpires and the other parents. Have a milquetoast, non-denominational, vibe-less, nondescript, average Tuesday everyone. It's the best you can hope for.
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Hey! I'm a second-order vegetarian; I eat things that eat vegetables. Sometimes accompanied by actual vegetables (what's liver without onions?) Think of it as processed food. We shouldn't sit in the stands any more or have a Zoom call with a celebrity. Talk about useless luxury activities. Sam Goldwyn said it best "The public stayed away in droves." I suspect lockdowns and social distancing tactical dispersion are the first symptoms of the 21st Century's Death of Big. I just finished reading “Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople” by Geoffrey de Villehardouin. You aren’t a relative are you, the French nobility being all related by blood or marriage.
It's sad that ApJ is now publishing science fiction. And pretty dull science fiction at that.
Alien civilizations? That's racist! You must mean undocumented civilizations.
> That's funny. I would pay five bucks to avoid a Zoom call with Tony Hawk or Brett Favre.
In solidarity with you, both have opened Patreon sites where millions can contribute $5 each to guarantee no Zoom calls. "What a Country!" Sam also said: "If people don't want to go to the movies there ain't nothing we can do to stop them".
Works for the NFL, too - in my humble opinion. QUOTE: the EU Commission just released its “Farm to Fork” strategy, which is the agricultural portion of the European Green Deal. It announces a series of unrealistic goals: In the next decade, farmers like me are supposed to slash our use of crop-protection products by half, cut our application of fertilizer by 20 percent, and transform a quarter of total farmland into organic production. None of this, of course, is supposed to disrupt anybody’s dinner. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eu-farmers-fear-european-green-new-deal One wonders when similar measures will be proposed here? QUOTE: the EU Commission just released its “Farm to Fork” strategy, which is the agricultural portion of the European Green Deal. It announces a series of unrealistic goals: In the next decade, farmers like me are supposed to slash our use of crop-protection products by half, cut our application of fertilizer by 20 percent, and transform a quarter of total farmland into organic production. None of this, of course, is supposed to disrupt anybody’s dinner. The Experts have taught me to roll my eyes in disdain, whenever I see the words expert say.
My car mechanic took LSD once. He said he had an auto body experience.
Was he moving, or the auto, or both? Were either hurt? ( yes, I know it's a pun ) Re: 36 alien civilizations in our galaxy
Let me know when immigration opens, I'm interested in being a humanity expat. re The biggest myth of modern nutrition: healthy plant-based diets
A long read but very interesting. Thanks for posting. With few exceptions, such as occur in studies of populations subjected to wildly restrictive diets on the level of seamen on long voyages without vitamin C, nutritional research publications are the rankest superstition.
Can MF create an email distro list to send a notification when Bird Dog is back? Not liking the replacement's style...
This is the problem with all studies and all reports/statements by all organizations; that is agendized people/groups actively seek positions where they can push their agenda and make it believable/authoritative. You can't believe anything from any group, organization, government source, etc.
Keep checking back. I’m sure someone will tell you when it’s safe to come out of the cupboard.
And what about the bias of all those meat and dairy consuming researchers? Seems “to be biased” is human?
Has anyone touting these new "healthier" "plant-based" foods looked at how they are produced, let alone the source of some of the "proteins" (hint - think China)? I espouse the natural way of producing "plant-based" foods: animals eat the grass and grains: i eat the animals. Much simpler, tastier, and healthier.
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