TheEncogitationer wrote:
1812 Governor Elbridge Gerry and a Boston district shaped like a mythological salamander

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That was two years ago.

Yaeh, about 2-1/2 years ago was Pepsi Center, which was iconic. But you made me think, and I think my perspective’s different because about 95% of my TW experience is in watching reactors, especially first-time reactors. So I’m getting extra mileage on re-hearing their older stuff and seeing how amazed…[Read more]

Each tribe has its own “marae” which is their sacred community building where they attain a sense of ‘belonging’. It is prohibited for non-tribe members.  I was adopted as sister, and embraced into the shared flow of…[Read more]

Stories about all of them, that changed my perceptions of almost…[Read more]

Short:

”We Homo Sapiens just surround our wars with ideology and religion” is quite a profound statement.

This fits in with the behaviours of some of the far flung tribal groups I’ve lived with. For them, religion is a comfort, not a cause. They still have aggression, but the dividers between ‘them’ and ‘us’ are more commonly tribal root orientat…[Read more]

1) Call me naive, I only learned about mogging today. Here’s a 1 minute intro:

2) Here it is in a Hegsethian context, within the Trumpian context. I like the whole episode but jump into it where it serves comedic effect wrt mogging, leaving 9 minutes to…[Read more]

A religion is by definition a faith based construct, for which belief  is required, not reason.

A Venn diagram of Religion and Rationality would barely touch at their potential meeting point.
I suppose Religion could be…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And since no one knows where these dildos have been, protesters could be spreading a biohazard, and could be prosecuted for such.

Good point. But I’ll bet ICE dicks are worse.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Trump may have accidentally done something right!

That would be nice. Hopefully he won’t set her up for fall when he needs another diversion.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
benefits of getting the Shingles vaccine

Ditto for higher dose flu vaccine.

A podcast about that from Microbe.TV, This Week In Virology (TWIV) Episode #1313: Audio; Video.

I’ve listened to most TWIV audio episodes since Covid hit in 2020. Most of it goes deep and is over my head, so I listen to help me fall asleep…[Read more]

I’ll take as a win, the fact that we agree about Musk.

AI says a setting for normally limits the list to 50 entries. Two of its suggested mods:

In Settings
Go…

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And here’s a realible source of data, recent research on human diseases and their prevention, which CDC was better known for relia…[Read more]

And thank you very much, Jake!!

Useful (especially for me, found accidentally), visible when one clicks on “Forums” at the top of an AZ page: You’ll see not only a list of all…[Read more]

We are referring to the site owner, @Rebel when we need to consult.  He doesn’t moderate.

so right now, we are all moderated purely by our own sense of decorum…

Jake, got a rap for that?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Trump Merch Store Closes After Low Sales Amid Iran War

That’s so tiny in comparison to his and his family’s grift and middle east partnerships capturing billions of dollars. While other, Epstein-broker-like connections (outside of pedophilia) are kept hidden, perhaps even classified as matters of “national security”? (I…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
PopeBeanie: Patrick Warburton is a fantastically funny character actor. And The Tick was a great feet-of-clay character who always won in spite of his feet-of-clay.

It’s the only series or two I like to watch more than once!

https://www.404media.co/scientists-create-plant-that-produces-ayahuasca-shrooms-and-toad-psychedelics-all-at-once/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter

Source link in science.org:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034?ref=404media.co

(it’s always good to be invited back, even if I need to grow up a bit more)

I know you mean well, and I also appreciate other speakers you offer, especially the women because their experiences are so often more first-hand than the men’s.

Don’t get…[Read more]

My mellow’s been jaded by overdoses of hate in social media, with…[Read more]