An NIH official told the Globe that administrators who oversee grants were given barely an hour’s notice of the terminations late last Friday before the notifications were sent out.

So who is actually sending the notifications out? It always is reported as if the people who should actually be doing stuff are somehow being circumvented by some actor that has access to higher levels than them, and can act as they would act, but isn't known to anybody. This seems like the 'deep state' 'shadow government' bullshit that the republicans always screamed about. Every accusation is an admission, right?

Did I Mumble?

And all of your data that they've collected over the years.

In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like.... what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?

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Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose...

\ >.> Would you rather it be called after dough?

I mean, I agree with you, personally, but I would make a bet that the amount of people trading sex toys is both bigger than you think, but still so small that you'd never meet one in your dating life.

I sort of want the stats on who trades toys now, just to compare to the amount of people buying dragon-like objects in the first place.

Lol, the community over in reddit basically had as many people buying/selling as they did posts of people using the products. I think they had it in the forums for the bd site as well.

His spouse might have a problem with that, or I'd already have the leash ready.

See, if I liked the c more than the d, I would be using a cat as an example. You know... typing? My fingers like the d, which is on the home keys, more than the c, which is a downwards reach.

Ah, so it wasn't that they voted more for trump, just that there was a shift towards him from a solidly democrat lean before... and a huge one in terms of males (41% to 56%, looking at that article), like I said?

So, interesting and maybe-not-so-fun fact? Most parasites that kill their hosts do so without caring because they can survive elsewhere. We call it a reservoir of infection.

REALLY fun fact, there's some cool life cycles involved. You remember our old friend anthrax? One of its favorite tricks is killing its host, the zebra. When it dies, the anthrax bacteria go down into the soil beneath the corpse, and put on a fresh new coat of paint and open up shop again. Only, this time, they act as a super friendly bacteria that participates in the nitrogen cycle and ensure that the plants in the soil can get everything they'd ever want out of that oh-so-convenient zebra corpse rotting away up above. Why do they do this? Because in their 'friendly' infection of the plants growing (oh, did I forget to mention what plants they infect/cooperate with? It's grass), they get offered right up to the hungry mouths of the next zebra to come along and see an exceptionally vibrant area of green grass.

Some are mandated, like auto insurance. Some are because your relative loss from buying insurance is waaaaaaaay less than your loss from an actual disaster. I for one don't mind paying (and this is an example, lol, like I can afford a home in my area) $200k over 40 years when the cost to rebuild my home after a fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or godzilla would be >$400k.

Health insurance is the real head scratcher. It's almost a guarantee that you'll need it at some point. Pet insurance falls under this as well. A friend was telling me that it was a no brainer unless you're the type to shoot the dog as soon as it gets mildly sick. It's something along the lines of $40 a month, which means you're paying $480 a year, or maybe $4,800-$9,600 over the 10-20 year lifespan of the dog (it's a dog in this example because my fingers like the d more than the c). You know how much a single emergency with a dog can cost? Probably the entire amount you'd pay over a 10 year life span. If it is a longer problem, it balloons even more. And, importantly, right now pet insurance is where health insurance was at years ago, where they didn't scratch out your eyeballs over every payment. It may take that turn here soon, once the industry is more established. That's what my buddy actually wants to do, is review cases for pet insurance companies. I might have to toss him out of the car one day if it gets to the point of our human health insurance.

I've got a pringle!

You read the message, and it starts bleeding before your eyes. Suddenly, the blood forms a crevice in the cake through which a hand pushes its way upwards, as if a corpse crawled from its grave...

Always tourniquet the neck, I say. Fastest way to stop the screaming. Bleeding stops pretty quick afterwards, but it's a shoehorn for the screaming.

Yup. It's why the scams by phone are so irritating to most of us, as another example. It's just obvious and a time waster, but by making the scam easily visible to people who have the characteristics to not be vulnerable to them, it weeds out all the false positives the scammers would then have to deal with. They don't want you, mr. bright eyed and bushy tailed, who is ready to catch them out only after hours of trying to get you to give them the code to your gift cards. That's a lot of wasted time. They just want granny who will follow every direction.

Hmmm, for something that very few other people on lemmy have? ::: spoiler no spoiler Made a post on lemmy and remembered to answer my own question in a reply rather than the post. ::: spoiler really joking here, folks

:::Asked out my crush. :P :::

For the general world?

I tried to talk someone out of suicide and failed. Can't think of something less cool or envy-inducing.

Is that an 'interesting' area? I drove by once and thought the namesake was neat.

Well, yeah. The only way to get it is from contact with an infected monkey, or something that has recently contacted them, like a needle.

As a matter of fact, yes. I was talking to a vet at a friend's wedding, and he casually mentioned that working with simians is a dangerous field for many reasons that you wouldn't think of, like their herpesvirus strains killing us.

You... really don't get it, do you? The person being tormented is the one who isn't doing anything. That's the joke. Look around him. You've got bubbles being blown, which creates the sound of a person blowing right near your ear and the sound of the bubbles popping. Then you've got the hand organ down the bench, and across from him you have the paddle ball on string, and someone knitting. All are repetitive, eventually-going-to-drive-you-crazy sounds, much like the slow dripping of water is not terrible in anyway, but comprises the chinese water torture.

They might all be little demons in disguise, or merely figments created by the devil, but who cares? We know they're not persons being punished, because they could stop at any time if the action was a torment.