Probably? There’s a lot of information about them if you read a textbook. Their place in the steroid pathways is always a good place to start.

Yellowstone caldera… thing

Not a thing, apparently. All the blowing about yellowstone blowing is done by people with a single line or two from the scientists’ work, and never by the scientists themselves.

Uh, I think you meant to reply to pixel man, but for me it’s showing from the little minimize button on the left, to under the ‘english’ label that’s just to the right of the permalink colored star button. That’s bigger than the original, which went from the same location on the left, to near the end of the lemmy.world in your name.

$200 a month? Man, he got off easy in this round of ‘fuck the plebes’ this year.

Minimum? No, I think fines should bankrupt the executives and board members, leaving them homeless at a minimum. If they don’t want to have being homeless as a bad thing, maybe they should start donating to political candidates who would change society for the better and make homelessness either a thing of the past or a very well tended to position.

They have tried before (and are still trying) to make contraception illegal. The hobby lobby lawsuit about their insurance paying for birth control was a big part of that.

Maybe the next step is cutting out some more dairy somehow

The only things stopping me are cheese and various chocolates. I’m so sorry, you fucking asshole twits, but no matter how lovely watery oat porridge or thin almond paste can be (and their cute tensiony surfaces can be so delighting) in all sorts of intriguing and cute recipes that dance on your tongue as they nearly force (with kindness) your mouth into a smile with soft harp music in the background, hot chocolate that doesn’t suck your stomach out your asshole with those horrible oil adjacent bitch baths isn’t possible. Oh! But to softly stir the oat syrup into the flour and delicately knead it with fingers… what joy!

Yeah, I think when I had a mole that turned out to be cancer, it was still a 6 months wait to see a dermatologist because there are so many people wanting to see them (and many of those are for cosmetic shit, grumble grumble). Luckily it didn’t metastasize while I was waiting. Fucking us healthcare is a joke.

This was specifically a rule in my house. If you ask while your friend is there, the answer is no. It had to be prearranged.

And is expensive as fuck. As is the downgrade, .40 cal.

Maybe it’s changed since I last had to purchase any, but it was twice as expensive as .45 bullets, and the guns always seemed subpar to other calibers anyway.

It’s not so bad. There are several new songs that are easy to remember to 100 beats per minute.

Just to echo dozzi, I’ve investigated quite a few deaths and had people die and we did cpr… I think I can only remember one that voided the bowels after death, and a few right before (old people die on the toilet surprisingly often).

Different folks, different policies and procedures. Ours are similar, barring the shoes. We need socks off or hope remains.

I think there’s a community here (classic gamers? retro gamers? patient gamers?) that is similar. I keep meaning to go in and say hello, but my massive ‘want to stay away from discord’ paranoia keeps me from it.

Yet another reason I won’t eat mushrooms. Thanks for the added explanation I can give!

Okay, so that was a wild story, but… ‘not having a head’ doesn’t really make me think of ‘has most of the brain stem and an ear.’ It’s not much different than humans that have no higher brain functions and are on feeding tubes.

Ha! We all have moments in our old age like that. ;)

Also, we should all complain (or point out) the implications of monopoly, because it’s biggest sin is just being so boring.

I know… and I also know that we currently depend on truck rigs for shipping in everything, so the taxes would ultimately focus on them MUCH MORE than even the assholes in their coal rollers. That would mean the ‘punishing’ factor of the taxation would be diluted for them, even if we used GCWR of a vehicle as the standard for taxing.

The no arguing thing is key. Everyone eventually finds a topic that they don’t agree on, because politics, in the greek philosophy (aristotle based) sense of the word (I actually loved nicomachean ethics), is about the pursuit of the good life writ large. The chances of two people believing in the exact same life goals is almost zero, so there will be a fundamental disagreement at some point that, because we are talking about using governmental authority as a cudgel (in the modern sense of the word politics) to bring about a ‘good life’ for society, will cause a lot of friction.

In environments where we can’t control who we interact with, and that are semi-public with an ‘audience,’ such as work and family dinners, it’s just easier to say no politics and focus on the agreed areas of shared interests. Otherwise those little frictions can build into socially driven, highly charged arguments.

Keep political discussions to where everyone can easily walk away, where it’s one-on-one, or where everybody comes wanting to talk politics, and things are fine.

On the flip side, I’ve seen people blow up at one another over a political divide - even a purely rhetorical one (arguing whether Dark Elves or Orcs are a racist trope, complaining about the implications of Monopoly or Catan, getting on a high horse about a popular movie or song). The debate over whether “Let It Snow” condones date rape is a popular college age struggle session.

Oh my god! Yes, you can look at orcs and goblins as racist tropes and stand ins, and those can be fun campaigns to run and explore alternative takes and deep reflective moments, but sometimes it’s just easier to say the group wants a kick-in-the-door style dungeon crawl and the enemies are evil.

Also, wasn’t the debate over ‘baby, it’s cold outside,’ not ‘let it snow?’