Plus immune response after having a disease is not necessarily as robust as after a vaccination - mild cases of the disease may not produce the same lasting immune response as a vaccine.

That was the answer equivalent of a bellyflop on the dance floor. We aren’t worried about how drunk he is because that move makes it obvious. Get the bouncer.

Every once in a while it hits me that they don’t even have enough self respect to try to be believable or even plausible.

They don’t even have the protection that child actors have.

It’s hard to tell if those questions are explored in the book or just raised, all the examples seem to be about adults who run the business.

‘Opt them out of the gene pool’ is quite a phrase. 😳

I really don’t think the US anticipates how long the memories of other countries are. Insults aren’t forgotten in a few new cycles and leadership isn’t swapped out twice a decade.

Someone needs to ask him to count his fingers. I just need to know.

Why should math be the only part of the standard curriculum they leave alone? Modified history, mostly-banned literature, substitute geography, and WTF-is-this-even science classes …

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

I wonder if he was attached so that the wings would flap as the horse moved, they seem thinner than they would be if intended to be still. But then, I have no idea of the relative strength of reindeer felt, maybe it would tear.

This is the same guy who is trying to regulate facial hair.

It’s only freedom if you can harm someone else with it, right?

I miss the movie rap song that just rehashed the plot of the movie for the credits.

I was partial to the wolves howling myself. Do vaguely musical sound effects count as a genre?

Though I was also listening to the new age instrumental with sound effect stuff. I was a strange child.

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

Watch out for the bonus crying-too-much dehydration that can really prolong the agony.

Migraines are the worst.

Dark magenta/red bloom of a tree peony is opened just enough to reveal yellow stamen. The peony variety is Black Dragon Brocade.

The tree peonies are starting to bloom.

Teddy, Dolly, and Nana. I think the aim is to traumatize all the children as much as possible.

I don’t care who you are, if a toddler hands you a toy phone you answer it. I think that might be the defining feature of humanity.

There’s a whole trope of tough, single man is unexpectedly responsible for small child or children.

There’s no part of the cultural ideal for even fictional men to be indifferent to children. There certainly isn’t any biological backing. Where is this idea coming from?

My husband brings home free furniture the way other people bring home free kittens. I’d prefer the kittens, it’s much harder to find a home for a particle board filing cabinet that weighs eight tons and is spectacularly ugly.

Unlikely …. But! What if it was the excuse that allowed the ex-loyalists to change their minds on the 25th amendment. Like, that concussion clearly messed him up even though he seemed fine** until now.

**dangerously unhinged

::looks at non-science news::

Let’s hear the blob monster out. It might have some good ideas.

So Hegseth gets to declare that Jesus supports the US military, not told to stay out of religious doctrine.

The Pope says God dislikes war, gets told to stay out of politics.

My guess is she has a script or role she is working on and can’t name it for legal reasons.
Though it’s not the worst thing to learn something without changing your career to it. If it’s the newest rich-person-spiritual-trend then that’s different, but two actors isn’t a trend.

Most of the people saying ‘get educated’ aren’t, so they probably do t have any expertise on how to get there either.

That’s my way of thinking too. I understand gambling when it’s part of a social ritual - office pools or card games - because you still have the social interaction when you lose.

Gambling via app seems dysfunctional to me, I can get anxiety about outcomes of things I can’t effect for free.

I think when it’s an office pool you are buying the goodwill of your coworkers, which is hopefully a better bet than the chance to win money.

I feel this problem. Unfortunately Mom and I keep trading excess toys back and forth, on the theory that the other person will get around to donating.

I think we’ve discovered an extraterrestrial, whatever they are describing isn’t human.

Right up there with itching. Initiate the Tear At It With Sharp Objects protocol - surely that will solve the skin irritation issue.