I have for sure experienced the explosive boiling over of superheated water, but like a couple times in my life and I’m an old guy. It’s crazy when it happens though. The water looks like it didn’t get to the boiling point, but when you disturb it, it starts insanely boiling over. Got boiling water on my hand, but not badly burned.

Heh, I guess that’s a risky abbreviation in a TIL thread.

They do just have the one plate that has all the spikey parts on it, but that’s not really the reason it bites round holes. It’s that it uses its mouth as a suction and then chomps through the part it’s attached to. Of course the shape of the tooth/teeth is related. That’s not the mystery they were looking to solve though, it was when and where they feed.

Or shoes, or maybe the carrying a fucking mirror on a motorcycle…

Pretty sure there are some safety violations happening here

Hips on B look wider, so I’ll go with that. Not sure what that separation below the rib cage is for.

My mom died of Alzheimer’s, but she also had bad rheumatoid arthritis and some other stuff. When she just didn’t know who we were, it was one thing, but when every day she woke up in pain, had to have her diapers changed by “strangers,” couldn’t swallow solid food, etc., I just didn’t understand why my siblings wanted to keep her on the medication that slowed the progress of the Alzheimer’s. I finally had my brother stay with her over a weekend, and afterwards he was like, “Oh, she’s having a miserable life, what are we doing?” We stopped the medication soon after, and she died a few months later.

I’m an old guy, and have had lots of pet over my life. so I’ve thought about this a lot.

Years ago I came to the position that the most compassionate thing to do for my pets was to try and assess if their days are more full of joy, or more full of pain and suffering. We can’t ask our pets that, we can only do our best to figure it out. If they’re spending more time suffering than enjoying their lives, then I think it’s a kindness to put them down.

We don’t usually have to make that decision for other humans, because they can decide for themselves. Note that we do make the decision sometimes to “pull the plug” on people rather than keep the alive.

Also note that animals do sometimes go off to die when they’re sick and miserable. In fact, when dogs and cats have illnesses that are miserable but treatable, we sometimes have to be careful that they don’t go off to die before treatment is done.

Good niiiiiiiiiiiiight

I always remember by flora=flowers and fauna=fawns.

No, because to be naturally immune, you have to get sick. A vaccine lets me become immune without getting sick.

Came here to mention that. From the article you linked:

Shomer, who called the incident a “cop overreach,” later claimed he wasn’t the only one responsible, telling reporters at the time, “I’m not the original. There’s a whole Penis Man army out there.”

Not an actual CNN article, and the image is from a Jessica Simpson movie.

I have no idea how to have an acceptable dialog with this person anymore. Help!

Thankfully, you don’t need to! She was completely out of line and showed she had zero class. You said it was your dream wedding and your husband was happy; nothing else really matters, it was your day.

I’d likely ignore her, but I’d be tempted to only respond by saying, “Since you’re so critical of other people’s photographs, we’ll make sure not to subject you to photos of any children we have.”

I hear you. I had the original doorbell cam, and early outdoor cam, well before google bought them. I was happy with them and knew I’d be selling the house.

My cameras are only outside. I have (had) speakers and lights inside. I’m against most of this kind of AI use. It’s a ridiculous energy waste for little benefit (I do think there are a number of good ML applications).

Okay, thanks (you and others).

I watched this video of Jack Antonoff showing how he created one of his songs - I think it was “I want to get better” - and it was fascinating. I copied the link so I could show my wife when I got home, but when I went to use it I got a 404. Searched like crazy and was never able to find it.

A “stok” or “stocc” was there lower part of a post or tree trunk in middle/old English. It became the name for any close-fitting garment that covered the foot and lower leg (stok of a person). So really it’s not that the name went from being one thing to being another, it’s that both the things you mention fit the definition.

The other part of the answer to your question is the development of knitting machines able to create stockings from fine cotton or silk thread made the second type of thing more attainable.

We laughed our asses off (which he couldn’t hear), but also tried to make the stern, scolding face when he was looking. He was such a good boy.