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Date: Fri Sep 6 20:23:40 2024
User: TNmountainman
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It's often a decision whether to post the actual research article, vs. the more 'palatable' media-ized version.  I've found that Katie Hunt (author of the CNN version), 8+ times out of 10, does a good-to-excellent job of 'translating' the science - including this time.  Which is definitely *not* to say that we shouldn't prefer the original research.  It's a balance between specificity/completeness, and accessibility of consumption (FD&C #5 pun not intended). So props to redberet for upping the ante a bit. 

Delocalized electrons are amazing - or, well, their properties are.  A tiny word of caution.....     While we all want to get our daily/weekly/yearly/lifelong doses of FD&C Yellow #5..............there *are* some health effects at higher doses, which is why it is banned in some countries.  I won't belabor all those possibilities, but if you happen to be one of those rare individuals allergic to aspirin, then you may be allergic to this, too, so anaphylaxis is a possibility. 

An alternative method to seeing inside a living creature is of course this famous case:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/grisly-story-human-guinea-pig-alexis-st-martin-180963520/



Date: Fri Sep 6 20:32:16 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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The coming step forward will greatly utilize Tau neutrino, no?


Date: Sun Sep 8 02:50:01 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Deep into the bush: Daniel Boone National Forest.


Date: Sun Sep 8 08:22:08 2024
User: BuzzClik
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I was there once for a fall wedding. It was nice. Are you there now? Or just visiting inside your head?

Date: Sun Sep 8 14:22:11 2024
User: TNmountainman
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It *is* nice - especially the Red River/Red River Gorge - but the Pisgah, Nantahala, and Cherokee are all 'better', or at least more dramatic, wild, and, well, more encompassing.  IMO.


Date: Sun Sep 8 17:25:28 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
He's been identified, but yet at large.

Date: Sun Sep 8 17:26:57 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

"I-75 Sniper" seems like a catchy moniker.


Date: Sun Sep 8 17:29:53 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Interstate 75 Kentucky shooting


Date: Sun Sep 8 17:31:20 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Dudes need Feds, obvi.


Date: Sun Sep 8 19:16:15 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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I think the old Soviet Empire spanned eleven time zones.


Date: Mon Sep 9 20:35:12 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

That person can readily set or disarm booby-traps.


Date: Thu Sep 12 02:38:24 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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I'm perfectly sure all brazenly bombastic politicians have far superior ideations  than I could ever possibly concoct re: Utilitarianism.


(Hope is the answer.)


Date: Thu Sep 12 02:41:58 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

Utilitarianism...is there anything more amorphously impossible to define?


Date: Thu Sep 12 04:42:46 2024
User: TNmountainman
Message:

You know..........that *could* go in a lot of different directions..........but I think that wiki definition is pretty much on target.  Perhaps it's true that people *use* that word in such a wide variety of contexts that it *becomes* amorphous, but that doesn't change the actual definition.  Just my viewpoint. 


Date: Sun Sep 15 11:10:44 2024
User: outskirts
Message:

That crooked bamboo is called crookstem, not crookshank as I was guessing earlier in this thread. I have bamboo that the height boggles the mind. TB* have mind boggling circumferences on some of theirs. Brought from other countries, quarantined, then GIVEN away @ 10 varieties a shot, from a farm in Georgia. *The Brothers drove to Georgia several times to pick up those wonderful gifts, over 20 years ago. It took a flatbed trailer! They even tagged it all with metal tags with the names, but nothing like that survives the Florida elements! 


Date: Sun Sep 15 11:26:17 2024
User: outskirts
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GoAdopt, I'm not sure if you have ever revealed your gender, but someone thinks you're female. šŸ˜† and it makes a difference to them, IYKWIM. Please don't clarify.


Date: Sun Sep 15 13:42:18 2024
User: BuzzClik
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Excellent advice, Go! But the real threat is the person openly asking if you are a lizard. Nothing good can come of that. 

Date: Sun Sep 15 15:30:48 2024
User: redberet
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Since kindness and thoughtfulness are predominantly a female trait, I can see how some can prejudge.


Date: Sun Sep 15 15:47:05 2024
User: TNmountainman
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Yes, without Helen and/or Jeanne around (not that *she's* some sort of substitute!)................*she* has been a welcome addition.  


Date: Sun Sep 15 15:58:30 2024
User: outskirts
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Lol @ Red that's sexist šŸ˜†


Date: Mon Sep 16 07:20:15 2024
User: TNmountainman
Message:

I find this very, very, moving:

In Margraten, Dutch families care for the gravesites of US soldiers from WWII | CNN


Date: Mon Sep 16 19:34:14 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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It makes me ponder how much courage I'd have had in helping the mistreated Dutch Hebrews, had I myself been a Dutchman back in occupied Netherlands...


Date: Tue Sep 24 14:34:36 2024
User: redberet
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If he could talk without his lips moving, then maybe more people would believe him.


Date: Tue Sep 24 15:03:16 2024
User: BuzzClik
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Is that a paraphrasing of, "I can tell you are lying because your lips are moving."?


Date: Tue Sep 24 15:53:03 2024
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
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This thread seems to have suddenly become confusing.  Apparently multiple posts have been "disappeared"?


Date: Tue Sep 24 16:37:41 2024
User: BuzzClik
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Hm. I'm assuming preceeding redberet's posting of 14:34:36 today? I didn't see anything in this thread today prior to that. 


Date: Tue Sep 24 17:18:28 2024
User: redberet
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Previous thread was about the Dutch, nothing was in between. My thought was about being in lying season and how there is no escaping it. I wish there were better filters in my feed.

Date: Tue Sep 24 17:24:05 2024
User: outskirts
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If you know they lie then no problem. The problem is when the lies are believed.


Date: Tue Sep 24 17:31:54 2024
User: redberet
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Oh, I know they're lying, I'd just like to filter them out of my feed.

Date: Tue Sep 24 17:54:35 2024
User: outskirts
Message:

Of which feed do you speak? I would like to do that at youtube because of all the hate baiting. 


Date: Tue Sep 24 18:05:39 2024
User: redberet
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My Bing feed. Not much you can do to winnow the relevant. I know the Tv app of youtube allows you remove videos off their recommended list.


Date: Wed Sep 25 07:26:29 2024
User: outskirts
Message:

Use your inner ignore button. Build up that resistance! 

There is so much that I completely ignore. 

Ignore

Ignore 

Ignore 

You watch one drunk dui stop and they show you a zillion. Feh 


Date: Wed Sep 25 07:27:59 2024
User: outskirts
Message:

Lol. Now it's bui's in thongs 

Drunk girls having accidents on jet skis then trying to flirt with the cops 


Date: Wed Sep 25 10:56:25 2024
User: redberet
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After taking street strolls through Mogadishu and downtown New Delhi you come to appreciate the cleanliness of Hong Kong. Thanks to youtube, I now know what the average nomadic Mongolian prepares for breakfast.

Date: Wed Sep 25 12:19:20 2024
User: outskirts
Message:

Funny geezer humor 

https://youtu.be/DbbKaM8_LUc?si=tTVvhMyGnhY9JvUE 

Near the end is a solution to the problem of men dying first 







Date: Wed Sep 25 16:42:45 2024
User: MikeC
Message:

  I thought this might go better here .  Jim Carol Band .  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4d7VxcQ30 


Date: Wed Sep 25 17:06:30 2024
User: BuzzClik
Message:

Good pick, MikeC. 

It was fun seeing that in Suicide Squad II. (Thumbs up for Fat Possum records)


Date: Wed Sep 25 22:16:50 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:

Primes.


Date: Thu Sep 26 00:07:48 2024
User: GoAdoptADog!
Message:

Buzz, you mentioned FP. Not trying to give personal deets online, but you an Ox guy? ’Sippi boy? Or just a fan of the label?


Date: Thu Sep 26 00:26:28 2024
User: GoAdoptADog!
Message:

Ps- Buzz, just because I’m inquiring doesn’t mean I’ve forgiven that  ā€œweaveā€ comment you hit me with the very same week he-who-shall-not-be-named made up that, um,.. expression(?Āæ) .. or whatever it was- in odd attempt to detail his own ā€œconversationalā€ (sure, why not?) stylings. ā€˜Twas a liiiitle too close to a comparison.

Like if I were to say, hey Buzz, if Mussolini and Gary Busey had a baby, I bet he’d talk like you. (That example was given out of laziness to think of who to compare him to but actually, ya know,.. it kinda works, lol)  Anyway-not sure ā€œjust teasinā€ healed that wound. Think you’re gonna need to cut me a check.

(To save time just send it straight to the therapist. Write ā€œweave PTSDā€ in memo line- he’ll know who it’s for) 


Date: Thu Sep 26 05:14:22 2024
User: TNmountainman
Message:

Not sure what I'm stepping into here, and I *hope* that somehow I'm not "he-who-shall-not-be-named" (not sure why I would be)...................but Go, you may have missed my post back on Aug. 19 in the "old music" thread, about the documentary "You See Me Laughin':  The Last of the Hill Country Bluesmen".  You may want to go back and check that out (Fat Possum reekage) -- or...........you may be so totally familiar with it that there's no need.  And as I think is clear.........I ain't no 'Sippi boy, and I haven't actually ever set foot in Oxford.  But I have always been a big fan of the North Mississippi Blues style, and love me some (original line-up, especially) North Mississippi All-Stars, as well as R.L. Burnside, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and their ilk. As well as Junior Kimbrough.  I'm friends with a guy who used to play a lot with the Dickinsons' father, Jim, in Memphis, and I've talked to R.L.'s son Dwayne a time or two when he was with the All-Stars.  Back in their early years, they were a true force of nature.  

(And yes, this should probably be put in that thread, and I will do so if thought appropriate.)


Date: Thu Sep 26 06:46:51 2024
User: BuzzClik
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GoAdoptADog!: My apologies for the slight. I am in contact with your shrink, and the check is in the mail. (TN: you can still be named)

Fat Possum: I spent one summer in Vicksburg, but that's my only Mississippi connection. Fat Possum has released a lot of Indie music that is top notch. Some of their artists that I have seen live: Al Green, Andrew Bird, Buffalo Nichols, DEHD, Dinosaur Jr., Jay Reatard, Smith Westerns, Soccer Mommy, Sonny and the Sunsets, Sunflower Bean, Tennis, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wavves. 

A lot of Chicago acts in that list; Fat Possum has quite the reach!


Date: Thu Sep 26 07:06:59 2024
User: TNmountainman
Message:

Treading even *more* lightly.............I personally thought your "weave" comment was perfect.  I see that as a compliment, because she actually does 'weave' a wide variety of sometimes-arcane-but-relevant things together into a quite cohesive statement.  Further, if I may...............it's as if she has several multiple 'channels' going on in her brainbone at once, but is fully capable of keeping them all going at the same time, until the time to coalesce them arrives - and then there they are.  It's really mental multi-tasking - except with panache - at a very high level.  Impressive, actually. 

[OK, *now* I guess I can be named?]


Date: Thu Sep 26 07:13:16 2024
User: BuzzClik
Message:

Yeah, you'll be named. Get your checkbook ready. 


Date: Fri Sep 27 16:18:21 2024
User: redberet
Message:

I didn't realize this was a family vacation. Those kids are amazing, nary a life jacket in sight. Only part I didn't like was taking potshots at the sharks.


Date: Tue Oct 1 13:07:31 2024
User: redberet
Message:

This is a terrible day. I don't remember much of the '67 war but everything after, I do. This tit for tat is different. Direct confrontation between these two is the last thing this world needs.


Date: Wed Oct 2 05:01:11 2024
User: TNmountainman
Message:

Altho y'all got 3 years, you might wanna start planning your Doritos (etc.) survival stockpiles:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/30/health/california-food-dye-ban-schools-wellness/index.html

Go back to Sept. 6th in this thread for context, if needed.


Date: Wed Oct 2 08:13:24 2024
User: BuzzClik
Message:
As I read that, California schools will no longer be able to provide those foods. Assuming that California allows kids to bring their lunch, they could be fully laced with food dyes. 

Date: Wed Oct 2 09:02:48 2024
User: TNmountainman
Message:

True that (apparently).  But you know how that works........   If a company can't sell its product(s) as they are in CA, they will change their products so that they don't have to make separate versions just for CA.  But yes, as it stands for now............the sale of good ol' FD&C yellow #5 will still be legal in CA.  But if enough other states follow their lead (I know, perhaps a tough slog), that could change.

A loophole might be that schools can buy Doritos, and other dyed products for "science experiments" on mice, etc.


Date: Wed Oct 2 09:13:24 2024
User: BuzzClik
Message:

... or science experiments on children. (Californians tend to put a high value on their furry friends.)

My only concern is a possible color change for Cheetos. My wardrobe consists exclusively of fabrics that do not show the orange smudges that accompany foraging on Cheetos. 




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