Ok ok. Bonus fact:

There is some speculation that, in addition to domesticating themselves, cats have also domesticated some humans.

The parasite toxoplasma gondii, which is carried by cats and can be contracted from dealing with their waste, causes a disease called toxoplasmosis, even in immunocompetent individuals. While not confirmed in any study, some researchers have suggested that the disease causes mental and social effects which incline the sufferer toward mild antisocial behavior, increasing their likelihood of adopting more cats, which increases their likelihood of being reinfected with toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma gondii can also be passed from (human) mother to child at birth, meaning that the feline-domesticated human is likely to give birth to a likewise domesticated child.

This speculation has led to some news outlets breathlessly reporting that toxoplasmosis “causes” people to get more cats (or even to like cats more), and led to the association of toxoplasma gondii with so-called “crazy cat lady syndrome.”

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While dogs were domesticated by humans, there’s a growing body of evidence that cats were actually domesticated…by cats. The lack of any archaeological evidence that they were ever subject to any intentional or large-scale selective breeding, the seeming change in feline vocalizations to more closely match those of human young, alongside cats’ current “partially-domesticated” status and the rapid reemergence of wild behaviors in feral populations, all point to a one-sided decision by ancient felines to settle down around humans.

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Jefflon Zuckerthiel can only afford (1) yacht.

That’s almost literally what the rest of the sentence says.

I have an Indiana Jones hat that I got for Christmas a few years ago. It’s literally branded “Indiana Jones,” but if you didn’t know that it honestly just looks like a cool felt hat. I guess it’s technically a fedora, but not that kind of fedora. It rolls up and lays back out well again, too.

Anyway, I moved to New Zealand at the beginning of the year, and if you don’t know, a hat to block the sun is like a survival requirement here. That’s what I had, so that’s what I started wearing. I think it looks pretty good. I haven’t had anyone roll their eyes at me or anything, at least.

Literally old man yells at cloud.

I think I heard that the showrunners were upset that he left them so suddenly, so they wrote him off in the most ignominious way possible.

Maybe it’s unusual for any sort of authorities to advance a digital investigation to such a point where the would be able to definitively identify an IP address and a VPN provider.

I would say that Kumail Nanjiani might also be well-known these days for being the guy who had a role in the Marvel flop “Eternals,” and a subsequently hilarious press junket and social media tour.

And Kal Penn was also Dr. Kutner in “House MD,” which was mostly notable because his character was suddenly and unceremoniously killed off so that Penn could go work for Obama.

Actual meaning? Being “awakened” to the incompleteness of civil rights, aware of the long and difficult social justice work that needs to happen to make oppressed peoples equal, and willing to learn and act in response to that knowledge; particularly as it pertains to the position of Black people in the United States, but generalized more broadly to oppressed peoples outside that group.

But today? It’s been co-opted by the Worst People You Know to mean “anything not regressively conservative,” and synonymous with “socialist” (the actual definition of which they also don’t care about). It is often a red flag that the person you’re talking to holds an extremely propagandized view of modern life; and at best thinks that civil rights is done, and at worst thinks that people of color are subhuman.

Nor the clouds!

This is probably a Russian bot trying to cause some more division in the US. They saw that Graham’s death was polarizing and they pounced.

concerning

How do you quantify that word, personally? For me it’d be anything over 0, though I suppose medical death isn’t that unusual…

Big improvement, unfortunately.

Yuck, definitely.

I don’t, but that seems like a pretty easy thing to calculate. timeanddate.com (or your local weather service, probably) will give you times for sunrise and sunset on any given day; just:

• subtract an hour from the sunrise and sunset times on June 21 to find out the earliest sunrise and latest sunset to convert to permanent standard time, or
• add an hour to the sunrise and sunset times on December 21 to find out the latest sunrise and earliest sunset to convert to permanent DST.

Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere, then flip those two.

So if you’re in New York:

• On permanent DST, the sun rises around 8:15 AM and sets around 5:30 PM on the shortest day of the year. (Longest day would be the same as it is now)
• On permanent standard time, the sun rises around 4:30 AM and sets around 7:30 PM on the longest day of the year. (Shortest day would be the same as it is now)

Add an hour per time zone going west to figure out what the times for each time zone would be. Also, New York is pretty near the center of what the UTC-5 time zone would be if it were just a straight longitudinal band, so if you’re near the eastern edge of your time zone it’ll be about a half hour earlier than that, and if you’re near the western edge of your time zone it’ll be about a half hour later than that.

Personally, that 4:30 summer sunrise sounds brutal. Almost as brutal as the 4:30 sunset that they currently have in the winter. But I dunno, I feel like I could adapt to anything given enough time.

I’m originally from Indianapolis, which is in Eastern but practically on the border with Central, so the winter solstice would be 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM in permanent DST and the summer solstice would be 5:15 AM - 8:15 PM in permanent standard. But I’m in Auckland currently, so worldwide permanent DST would actually line me up pretty nicely with my friends back home, which could be cool.

Former Hoosier here (Indy). I miss the people we left behind in Indiana, but I do not by any means miss the government. Braun is a wannabe Trump whose only saving grace is that he’s really bad at it.

I also have no idea if it’s accurate, I was just granting that premise. As the other person noted, with the definition of percentage being what it is, it necessarily has to be a different number of beers for people with different volumes of blood.

Sort of, but I believe someone found that the actual risk isn’t so much in the low reaction time or impulse control, it’s in the change between the inebriated person’s usual faculties and what they’re experiencing under the influence of alcohol. Drivers who are used to having a 1-second reaction time are likely to continue driving as if they have a 1-second reaction time even if their actual speed is more like 1.75-second due to alcohol.

You’re not going to get any argument from me that it’s insane we allow anyone to pilot a four-thousand-pound vehicle after only a single one-hour test, and retain that permission indefinitely, though.

I assume so. Remarkable coincidence otherwise.