Kitathalla

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[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 15 points 3 days ago

An NIH official told the Globe that administrators who oversee grants were given barely an hour’s notice of the terminations late last Friday before the notifications were sent out.

So who is actually sending the notifications out? It always is reported as if the people who should actually be doing stuff are somehow being circumvented by some actor that has access to higher levels than them, and can act as they would act, but isn't known to anybody. This seems like the 'deep state' 'shadow government' bullshit that the republicans always screamed about. Every accusation is an admission, right?

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 68 points 3 days ago

Por que no los dos?

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago
[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 9 points 4 days ago (7 children)

And all of your data that they've collected over the years.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like.... what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?

...

Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose...

\ >.> Would you rather it be called after dough?

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 4 days ago

I mean, I agree with you, personally, but I would make a bet that the amount of people trading sex toys is both bigger than you think, but still so small that you'd never meet one in your dating life.

I sort of want the stats on who trades toys now, just to compare to the amount of people buying dragon-like objects in the first place.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Lol, the community over in reddit basically had as many people buying/selling as they did posts of people using the products. I think they had it in the forums for the bd site as well.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 3 points 5 days ago

His spouse might have a problem with that, or I'd already have the leash ready.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

See, if I liked the c more than the d, I would be using a cat as an example. You know... typing? My fingers like the d, which is on the home keys, more than the c, which is a downwards reach.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 0 points 5 days ago

Ah, so it wasn't that they voted more for trump, just that there was a shift towards him from a solidly democrat lean before... and a huge one in terms of males (41% to 56%, looking at that article), like I said?

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So, interesting and maybe-not-so-fun fact? Most parasites that kill their hosts do so without caring because they can survive elsewhere. We call it a reservoir of infection.

REALLY fun fact, there's some cool life cycles involved. You remember our old friend anthrax? One of its favorite tricks is killing its host, the zebra. When it dies, the anthrax bacteria go down into the soil beneath the corpse, and put on a fresh new coat of paint and open up shop again. Only, this time, they act as a super friendly bacteria that participates in the nitrogen cycle and ensure that the plants in the soil can get everything they'd ever want out of that oh-so-convenient zebra corpse rotting away up above. Why do they do this? Because in their 'friendly' infection of the plants growing (oh, did I forget to mention what plants they infect/cooperate with? It's grass), they get offered right up to the hungry mouths of the next zebra to come along and see an exceptionally vibrant area of green grass.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 13 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Some are mandated, like auto insurance. Some are because your relative loss from buying insurance is waaaaaaaay less than your loss from an actual disaster. I for one don't mind paying (and this is an example, lol, like I can afford a home in my area) $200k over 40 years when the cost to rebuild my home after a fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or godzilla would be >$400k.

Health insurance is the real head scratcher. It's almost a guarantee that you'll need it at some point. Pet insurance falls under this as well. A friend was telling me that it was a no brainer unless you're the type to shoot the dog as soon as it gets mildly sick. It's something along the lines of $40 a month, which means you're paying $480 a year, or maybe $4,800-$9,600 over the 10-20 year lifespan of the dog (it's a dog in this example because my fingers like the d more than the c). You know how much a single emergency with a dog can cost? Probably the entire amount you'd pay over a 10 year life span. If it is a longer problem, it balloons even more. And, importantly, right now pet insurance is where health insurance was at years ago, where they didn't scratch out your eyeballs over every payment. It may take that turn here soon, once the industry is more established. That's what my buddy actually wants to do, is review cases for pet insurance companies. I might have to toss him out of the car one day if it gets to the point of our human health insurance.

 

I've been on a 'retro' kick recently, and big-mech time has rolled in.

There's a game that I cannot remember the name of, but played at a friend's house like one time and I still remember how insane it was (at the time). The premise that I can remember is either 'big mechs fighting kaiju' or 'big mechs fighting other mechs in a war,' but the twist was that it wasn't from the perspective of the cockpit or third person over the shoulder. I remember you had to run around the city (I remember something like an elevated train platform) with your human character to get a visual of the fight, and then you controlled your mech while looking at it from your little human perspective. The mech fighting felt slower paced, almost like controlling a really giant construction wrecking machine. I think it was mid 00s, and maybe the xbox?

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