I've asked people, told them to be honest, really tried to coax, "Okay yes you smell sometimes" out of people around me. Everybody agrees I don't smell. Some people say it's a matter of diet, it could be related to immunology, water intake, who knows what. I know another person, less physically active than me, who also does not shower, and does not smell like anything. Go figure.
I never take showers any more. I do not use soap anywhere but for shaving and for my hands, which I thoroughly wash every time I go in a bathroom or prepare to handle food. I never wear any deodorant or scent of any kind. I am fairly physically active, often bicycling 10 miles a day, dancing, lifting weights, working, etc. I have no problems with the way I look or my body odor. I have pointedly asked people if I smell, to be honest, if I ever ever smell. Nope. Nobody around me ever thinks I smell. I don't have any trouble with my complexion, but I do get acne on my shoulders and back. I would really like to try this stuff, to see if it helps with acne.
The defining characteristic of the serf class was that people born serfs would live their entire lives as serfs and their children would too. There was no pathway to move up classes.
It's all about the rate of change. Upward mobility is falling in the USA like a rock from the sky. Compare the total public debt to the ever-growing income disparity: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/m... http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/file...
These things do not bode well for those not born into at least the upper middle class, and specific examples to the contrary only speak to the legal and socioeconomic possibility of moving upwards, not the difficulty.
I couldn't find tax exemptions that accounted for my bicycling 25 miles (round-trip) to full-time work. It was last year, and I can't recall exactly what it was, but I believe that there was an exemption that only applied to higher tax brackets than mine for bicycling to work. I mean it wasn't stated as such but that's what it amounted to for me. I don't feel like looking at tax codes right now for confirmation. So it's harder to help if you're low-income.
I'm kind of perplexed by this, because I know for a fact that astrology works on cloudy days, and I always heard that astrology involved the gravitational effects of the planets.
Nothing (that we know of) short of utilizing polarization (which is basically impossible) is going to much increase the data transmitted across a given spectrum. Can someone put this in information-theory-ese?
...I think the AC was just pointing out that holistic medicine has some utility. They did not say that it was the entire utility, or endorse it much at all, in my judgment. Just that it has a function that could arguably cause it to sustain itself.
PAY TEACHERS MORE, but require higher degrees and better grades from applicants. Yes, you need a bachelor's degree in math and a master's in education to teach third graders math.
FIRE REDUNDANT, loathsome, boring, corrupt ADMINISTRATORS. There are so many fucking administrators.
I remember when the administrators in my high school district were caught spending 100Ks of school funds on SUVs and fancy living. This is not very rare. Idle hands are the Devil's playthings.
With these two items in place, Common Core will (slowly) perish.
People should just get used to the idea that if they are dealing with cops, then they are being recorded. This reduces the potential for abuse from police officers, since they would have to account for times their camera was off (affirmative observance), rather than someone needing to discover or prove that they should have had it on. This seems plausible enough eventually anyhow, so why not cut to the chase?
I don't see the UCLA obstructionist reading. I see a vigilent legal entity doing their job, except that law lags behind technology in this instance.
I new Doom-like game could still be super-cool, if it were fuck-all hard and full of archviles and shit. It wouldn't sell, but I'd kick ass at it. The only problem would be AI. I think the best solution would be to keep them stupid, just like before. Crazy? Maybe. But I bet, if a 'clever' version with a 'plot' and 'advanced AI' came out, I'd be playing the new 'DOOM 2 ' mod in a week, and vice versa, except I wouldn't play the "HALF LIFE MOD" (I'd be too busy kicking ass!). In a month I'd be playing the team fortress mod though, once I'd beat the game in NM
There's a difference. In creationism, people assume an understanding or expectation of the thing outside of creation. Believers have an expectation of the afterlife, and they are notorious for using that as a justification for whatever they like. On the other hand, creating a framework for asking questions about the world as a simulation, coming from a questioning (rather than believing) mindset, might lead to some interesting results.
I looked over a few, and tried bits of them. One thing I noticed was egregious, amazing amounts of trans fat in a cookie. Like, would certainly cause heart disease if eaten x times, where x is not a giant number. I could see keeping these things for a hunting trip, but if you were surviving in a bunker, I think they might kill you before the thing you're hiding from.
http://www.slate.com/articles/... I think it's less straightforward. I think population will level out at some unnacceptably high point, and we will grind the biosphere down to waste until influenza or some coronavirus wipes a third of us out. And then repeat!
Forgive my ignorance, but I want to make a part of this argument clear for myself. XX male syndrome is caused by SRY being erroneously included in assortment into an X chromosome, but I was told in lower bio classes that a Y was part of an X. Clearly the description of this condition contradicts my limited understanding of the contents of X and Y chromosomes. Then without further information I could conclude that neither femaleness nor maleness is 'normal'.
However, if a female does not suppress SOX9 they will develop male characteristics (this is why you can get an XX male)
This is called 'male', but that seems like more of a judgement call than anything. A person with this condition is sterile. A person with XY chromosomes (therefore lacking FOXL2), but defective SRY turns out more like a female actually: XY female.
I might agree with you, with the caveat that this raises serious issues with cultural assumptions. Like maybe an American woman who was born in Baghdad would complete a degree because she wanted that validation. Or a Chinese American might need to graduate because of family expectations. Also, I might strongly distrust someone who did this if they came from riches, depending on my perception of their character otherwise.
So? Females are the norm, and males the exception. Females carry young, raise young, and in general, are healthier, smarter, and live longer. And if you advocate change in any way, shape, or form, it is probably less important than the general recognition that gender needs to be irrelevant, or maybe slightly biased towards females.
Reasonable arguments based on mountains of evidence don't seem to be making any impression on a substantial and vocal segment of society. I for one get really pissed off about this because scientists are, by and large, ridiculously hard-working, honest, and relatively pleasant people. I think the kind of articles that appear in Junk Science are not just lame excuses for journalism, but really disrespectful to a lot of good people, and just generally un-civil. Ad hominem should never get on the table, but there you go.
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I've asked people, told them to be honest, really tried to coax, "Okay yes you smell sometimes" out of people around me. Everybody agrees I don't smell. Some people say it's a matter of diet, it could be related to immunology, water intake, who knows what. I know another person, less physically active than me, who also does not shower, and does not smell like anything. Go figure.
I never take showers any more. I do not use soap anywhere but for shaving and for my hands, which I thoroughly wash every time I go in a bathroom or prepare to handle food. I never wear any deodorant or scent of any kind. I am fairly physically active, often bicycling 10 miles a day, dancing, lifting weights, working, etc. I have no problems with the way I look or my body odor. I have pointedly asked people if I smell, to be honest, if I ever ever smell. Nope. Nobody around me ever thinks I smell. I don't have any trouble with my complexion, but I do get acne on my shoulders and back. I would really like to try this stuff, to see if it helps with acne.
The defining characteristic of the serf class was that people born serfs would live their entire lives as serfs and their children would too. There was no pathway to move up classes.
It's all about the rate of change. Upward mobility is falling in the USA like a rock from the sky. Compare the total public debt to the ever-growing income disparity:
http://www.deptofnumbers.com/m...
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/file...
These things do not bode well for those not born into at least the upper middle class, and specific examples to the contrary only speak to the legal and socioeconomic possibility of moving upwards, not the difficulty.
I don't think we ought to capitalize its human name. If arctic terns or geese have a name for this planet, that'd be good.
I couldn't find tax exemptions that accounted for my bicycling 25 miles (round-trip) to full-time work. It was last year, and I can't recall exactly what it was, but I believe that there was an exemption that only applied to higher tax brackets than mine for bicycling to work. I mean it wasn't stated as such but that's what it amounted to for me. I don't feel like looking at tax codes right now for confirmation. So it's harder to help if you're low-income.
I'm kind of perplexed by this, because I know for a fact that astrology works on cloudy days, and I always heard that astrology involved the gravitational effects of the planets.
Maybe, maybe not; I'm a math UG, and I immediately googled it.
Nothing (that we know of) short of utilizing polarization (which is basically impossible) is going to much increase the data transmitted across a given spectrum. Can someone put this in information-theory-ese?
in favor of your treatment
...I think the AC was just pointing out that holistic medicine has some utility. They did not say that it was the entire utility, or endorse it much at all, in my judgment. Just that it has a function that could arguably cause it to sustain itself.
PAY TEACHERS MORE, but require higher degrees and better grades from applicants. Yes, you need a bachelor's degree in math and a master's in education to teach third graders math.
FIRE REDUNDANT, loathsome, boring, corrupt ADMINISTRATORS. There are so many fucking administrators.
I remember when the administrators in my high school district were caught spending 100Ks of school funds on SUVs and fancy living. This is not very rare. Idle hands are the Devil's playthings.
With these two items in place, Common Core will (slowly) perish.
take off your coat" => I take it off and put it on the floor
Totally done that before
People should just get used to the idea that if they are dealing with cops, then they are being recorded. This reduces the potential for abuse from police officers, since they would have to account for times their camera was off (affirmative observance), rather than someone needing to discover or prove that they should have had it on. This seems plausible enough eventually anyhow, so why not cut to the chase?
I don't see the UCLA obstructionist reading. I see a vigilent legal entity doing their job, except that law lags behind technology in this instance.
but unfortunately that's how you have to deal with stupid people
not the only way!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
My grandpa was 50 miles from Hiroshima, in the navy. He died of thyroid cancer in 2008.
More to say. Doom 3 sucked b/c it was easy. Monster closets blow, but not as much as crackhead imps
I new Doom-like game could still be super-cool, if it were fuck-all hard and full of archviles and shit. It wouldn't sell, but I'd kick ass at it. The only problem would be AI. I think the best solution would be to keep them stupid, just like before. Crazy? Maybe. But I bet, if a 'clever' version with a 'plot' and 'advanced AI' came out, I'd be playing the new 'DOOM 2 ' mod in a week, and vice versa, except I wouldn't play the "HALF LIFE MOD" (I'd be too busy kicking ass!). In a month I'd be playing the team fortress mod though, once I'd beat the game in NM
There's a difference. In creationism, people assume an understanding or expectation of the thing outside of creation. Believers have an expectation of the afterlife, and they are notorious for using that as a justification for whatever they like. On the other hand, creating a framework for asking questions about the world as a simulation, coming from a questioning (rather than believing) mindset, might lead to some interesting results.
I looked over a few, and tried bits of them. One thing I noticed was egregious, amazing amounts of trans fat in a cookie. Like, would certainly cause heart disease if eaten x times, where x is not a giant number. I could see keeping these things for a hunting trip, but if you were surviving in a bunker, I think they might kill you before the thing you're hiding from.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
I think it's less straightforward. I think population will level out at some unnacceptably high point, and we will grind the biosphere down to waste until influenza or some coronavirus wipes a third of us out. And then repeat!
However, if a female does not suppress SOX9 they will develop male characteristics (this is why you can get an XX male)
This is called 'male', but that seems like more of a judgement call than anything. A person with this condition is sterile. A person with XY chromosomes (therefore lacking FOXL2), but defective SRY turns out more like a female actually: XY female.
Someone who goes to college just to party still has to pay room and board, food costs, school fees, etc.
Hadn't thought of that yet. This could really suck for poor kids, if loans and grants became scarce due to tuition tax.
I might agree with you, with the caveat that this raises serious issues with cultural assumptions. Like maybe an American woman who was born in Baghdad would complete a degree because she wanted that validation. Or a Chinese American might need to graduate because of family expectations. Also, I might strongly distrust someone who did this if they came from riches, depending on my perception of their character otherwise.
So? Females are the norm, and males the exception. Females carry young, raise young, and in general, are healthier, smarter, and live longer. And if you advocate change in any way, shape, or form, it is probably less important than the general recognition that gender needs to be irrelevant, or maybe slightly biased towards females.
"Most delicious mushroom they've ever eaten." Maybe I should tank up on sylimarin and go mushy hunting.
Reasonable arguments based on mountains of evidence don't seem to be making any impression on a substantial and vocal segment of society. I for one get really pissed off about this because scientists are, by and large, ridiculously hard-working, honest, and relatively pleasant people. I think the kind of articles that appear in Junk Science are not just lame excuses for journalism, but really disrespectful to a lot of good people, and just generally un-civil. Ad hominem should never get on the table, but there you go.