i always take off from the ground in flying dreams. It’s like jump…jump… Whoah!

I read Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series around the same time I read ROTE and really enjoyed them both.

“Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population.”

“It” is Gaza itself? Hamas shouldn’t “use” Gaza “as a tool with the population?”

Usually don’t listen to anything. If I’m bored sometimes I play games like going increasing intervals of steps with my eyes closed. I also like to try pacing myself so I won’t break a sweat which requires adjusting for hills and weather.

Gross. I wonder how much more of this is happening behind closed doors. How can they be so heartless?

Used to purchase used old Schwinns for ~$60 but after having 3 stolen in my current city I’ve given up on cycling for now. I’ve learned to enjoy walking.

Lol the cato institute is backpedaling?

Also of the democratic party by a certain reading since Bernie is an independent and AOC is a Bernie plant hehe 72% would prefer more people outside the current party line.

Also killing journalists which used to be a big faux pas but now it’s apparently fine

In a movie someone would shoot a gas truck and the ring of gas trucks would ignite and the whole dealer would disintegrate.

Lizards actually don’t have biceps, that’s called a glusquai and Bezos’ is pretty standard for the species

That’s the kind of energy people need to be bringing!

and then ask someone with a big grant if you can pretty please co-PI something with them

I hope so. No such luck in Nazi germany

Idk I find it pretty barbaric we still use drills to cut out issues then stick metal or clay to it. Tooth regrowth is on the horizon though!

If I’m understanding right they lost physical papers? lol

I think there is this tension whenever a moral norm is changing in society. Vegans are telling people something is worthy of dignity and respect that currently isn’t being granted that status. The cohort of vegans is growing. People don’t like to be made out to be unethical for something they never even considered could be unethical.

this process is how ethics comes to be—a new ideal slowly permeates society as more people adopt it and eventually we decide “cannibalism is unethical” (or whatever) is a general rule and teach that to our children who hopefully perpetuate the rules that ring true for them.

They moved to a dept in another county :( The county (so the taxpayers) did pay the family like 1 mil but she needs a nurse pretty much permanently which costs a lot

A college friend of my sister and friend were walking on the sidewalk on a road like this in Buffalo NY and a cop car rammed into them paralyzing one of them from the neck down.

Postdocs get paid a lot though ours get like $11k a month for math