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Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep
MattSparkes writes "New Scientist is running an article on lifestyle drugs that claim to help you function on little or no sleep. I'm dubious, but the interviewee in the article claims they work well. 'Yves (not his real name), a 31-year-old software developer from Seattle, often doesn't have time for a full night's sleep. So he swallows something to make sure he doesn't need one.'" But, sleep is where I'm a Viking!
The need for what?
Go Go Gadget Go Pill!
"I'm not much interested in interoperability. I want substitutability. I want to be able to throw your software out."
Both men and women are responsible for a great deal of self-destructive behavior. For example women who insist that taking out the trash is the man's chore. Great, assign me a gender role, then wonder why it happens to you every day in society. Not that it's any different from men still generally expecting women to be the cooks and cleaners. Of course that's going to end one way or another with generations X and Y because girls in these generations are less likely to know how to cook than any former ones, and the men more likely. Out of the various women I've known intimately, I'm a better cook than 2/3 of them and I'm frankly not all that talented.
I'm 29 years old and they're scattered all around my age, from seven years my junior to thirteen years my senior. In general, anyone younger than I am couldn't cook worth a damn (with one exception.) The older the women are in comparison to me, the more likely they are to cook well, or at least competently.
Now I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I'm not the only one. There is a preponderance of evidence that this is true.
But anyway, we're in for some cultural shake-ups. Or a whole lot more consumption of frozen pizzas and TV dinners.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What I'm about to say doesn't have anything to do with sleep, so mod me down if you want to. So, here goes : unlike what most people believe, we creationists do not reject "natural selection", which has been proven. We only reject evolution by means of natural selection, which is an entirely different thing. So, instead of ridiculing something you don't know anything about, maybe you should try to go to a few GOOD creationist websites and learn what we really teach.