Bluebottles are a kind of housefly in the US or UK aren’t they?

Like 20 years ago the RAVE Act said venues can be charged if anyone is in possession of illegal drugs inside of them during an event. Similar in some ways

Probably the same lawmakers who will take Musk’s money now that he’s playing the field

The post reminded me of the Apple Cabin Foods images by LiartownUSA : https://liartownusa.com/?s=Apple

The whole site is pretty hilarious imo, used to be a tumblr blog a decade+ ago. Kind of reminds me of old-school somethingawful. I read the book they published too, funny stuff but kind of a vulgar, niche sense of humor that’s not everybody’s cup of tea.

Maine is the least religious state but for some reason is gray on the chart. I’m curious about how the question was asked in the study

Haven’t heard much from the binaural beats theta wave people for a while, good on them for sticking to it I guess. Love a good drone

Agree in spirit but if you look close there’s a pixel or two of drop shadow

The style reminds me of Perry Bible Fellowship in a good way

Thanks, that’s a load off my mind. It doesn’t really sound true but the bubbling action of peroxide always seemed a little ominous. Easy to see how this rumor started, it could be generations old.

Not sure if this is true but someone once told me that using hydrogen peroxide on wounds of a certain size might lead to a bubble of gas appearing in the bloodstream, which would be undesirable. I dunno, I rinse my mouth with diluted h2o2 occasionally and might put it on a small scrape but I’m a little leery after hearing that. Also the “cauterizing” effect seems like it might slow healing or cause a more notable scar.

People eat them don’t they? If they raise some for meat they won’t be endangered, seems like a lucrative endeavor if they’re so in demand. I’ve seen other people say raising tiger for meat would prevent their extinction too but pangolins look easier to raise and, frankly, more edible.

Honestly I bet they’re delicious, those plates would soften up if boiled and then you could deep fry the rinds, yum. Fairly chonky critters too, so definitely some good cuts of well-marbled meat. All those ants and grubs they eat would probably give the meat an unforgettable, delectable, craveable flavor. Between goose and turkey size so you could have one on Thanksgiving. Could pangolin break into the top 5 most eaten meats? Easily the top 10.

I will let you know when I eat my first pangolin, hopefully one raised in America.

Those look like the kind of bone a cartoon dog would he chewing on. Something might be written on each of them?

Alf. What a cliffhanger!

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That is not good news, I’ve eaten off the upper left ones for decades.

I was hoping for a hexagon or something, maybe with a more end-on view?

this pandemic could be far worse than COVID, even if we had the vaccine research they just defunded.

The (up to) 90% fatality rate in cats that have caught the current strain of bird flu was enough for me to know this could get damn serious

Someone figured out the trick I’ve been using for a decade and a half, bravo!

The full quote didn’t fit on the tailgate:

“While the general population is commonly exposed to animal viruses and bacteria, many of which are known to cause cancer in animals, the etiologic role of these exposures in human cancer remains speculative. For example, animal oncoviruses generally are species specific and do not infect or replicate easily in humans. Nevertheless, animal viruses conceivably may cause cancer in humans analogous to human and simian polyomaviruses causing tumors in non-permissive rodents. Epidemiologic studies to date have provided little evidence that animal viruses and bacteria cause human cancer. Future studies will need to address the complex nature of cancer taking into account multiple interacting risk factors, and perhaps a non-stationary stochastic risk that contradicts conventional research design. The latter may be especially true given the waxing and waning behavior of viruses and bacteria. The same infectious agent may present and react differently depending on a host of factors including geography, seasonal variation and climate, population density, and herd immunity. Travel, hygiene, and cultural variation in food consumption and preparation among individuals further complicate the epidemiologic study in this field.”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3923154/#%3A~%3Atext=Conclusion%2Cepidemiologic+study+in+this+field

Bill Burr said he enjoyed going on the show recently

I’ve got a friend who became Orthodox a few years before Russia even invaded Crimea in 2014, he does the fasts. They are hardcore. He’s a good guy and to see how politicized Orthodoxy has become the past decade or so makes me sad, he just believes it’s the correct church, as opposed to Catholicism or Protestants. I can’t say I agree with him but at least some of those Orthodox people are cool. Not all though, I’ve met some who were real tools, and any flavor of Christianity leaves a bad taste in my mouth.