ArtieShaw @ ArtieShaw @kbin.social

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Yikes.

Team America: Space Police. As a Canadian, I really fuckin hate that.

As an American (in the US sense), so do I. It's why I didn't like SG1 but could sort of tolerate Atlantis.

Oddly, the biggest SG1 fan I knew was Canadian. He was a bit of an odd duck, though. He's the sort of guy who knew off the top of his head that the awkward woman on Breakfast Television was the daughter of Canada's military chief. I would have traded citizenships with him if that were an option. He could have his paranoia and guns and I could have some healthcare.

So - I swear I tried to google this yesterday and came up empty. I have a weird question.

Was there a third Sci-fi series that aired around the same time as Babylon 5 and DS9? It may have had a plot thread that involved genetically engineered space spies? Like telepathic central intelligence officers? Or am I thinking of B5?

I was in college at the time (mid 90s) and didn't have the free time to watch much TV. I caught an episode here or there and would occasionally talk about shows with my friend Spencer. I'm definitely not thinking about DS9 because I've seen that in its entirety fairly recently.

Just for context, this store is in one of the "nice" suburbs of Dayton. The police-involved shooting at the same store a few years back wasn't a huge surprise, but this one sort of is.

Not that these things have any rhyme or reason, but a nicer neighborhood does give you an illusion of safety.

The thing about Canada geese for me is the weird little poos. I don't mind the aggression, the flocking behavior, or any of the other antisocial nonsense that they've adopted from their namesake country.

It's the poos. They linger around for weeks.

I could do without those hammerhead fuckers. They're invasive in our area, eat the regular earthworms, and really hard to kill.

I also immediately thought of hedgehogs.

My husband (vaccinated) caught it hard in early October. Lost his voice completely for three days and could barely eat due to his sore throat. He hasn't stopped coughing since.

He's middle aged (mid-40s) and otherwise healthy.

My mom (80) caught it last week after a trip to the east coast.

That's awful! I've heard that tinnitus is an absolute misery.

Soundcore Q30.

This is the answer. Being "white" in the US didn't have much to do with your skin tone. It was more closely linked to ancestry, religion, and class.

The Irish or Polish weren't "white" but that didn't mean that anyone thought they were Black. My understanding of the Indian caste system is incomplete, but it seems like a closer model to the racist hierarchy in the US than anything else I've seen.

1. WASP and have the receipts (DAR membership, for example)
2. WASP and no one can say otherwise (named Smith or Jones)
3. WASP adjacent (Protestants from Germany, Scandinavia, etc.)
4. Catholics and Orthodox Christians
5. Jews
6. POC. Depending on location, your mileage will vary but you're still at the bottom

Well, Y2K was a big disappointment for them. Also a bit of a waste. I never got to use that Tribulation Survival Kit the in-laws sent that x-mas.

Noise cancelling headphones. My work requires a lot of air travel and I have trouble with loud noises in general. I bought a pair a year or so ago for just under $70 and it's as good or better than the more expensive one ($150 refurbished) I got in 2017. It also has a mode to let the external sound through if someone is trying to talk to you.

It really does eliminate some of the annoyance of air travel.

I believed he was smart and innovative when I first heard of him.

Same here.

Dude is named Elon Musk and that is his actual head. The world is not a kind place to people with those attributes and absolutely none of that is his fault. I was predisposed to like him until I realized he was that guy.

The guy who talks out his ass while trying to make science jokes. Fractals. Dark matter. Mitochondria. Dihydrogen monoxide. Borg nanoprobes. He's simply educated just barely enough to know some terms to throw around.

He's the guy who slaps his pencil down onto his desk 10 minutes into the exam because it was so easy, he's done, and everyone else in the class needs to know it. \ Of course there was a long form question on the back of the paper that he didn't solve because he didn't listen to or read the instructions, or even think to flip over the paper. That's actually hilarious when you realize that this is that guy's MO. He never learns from mistakes like this. He can't. The test was unfair. He solved those first two answers so fast he should get extra credit. The professor is a vampire who is against him because he solves her exams too quickly. Dihydrogen monoxide!

I'm so sick of that guy.

The cave incident finally made most people realize that a) this guy has no idea of what a cave is, b) in a situation where children's' lives are in danger he needs to make it all about himself (and let the children die while they wait for a sub that won't work), and c) where someone in a capacity to actually help in the rescue points out that the Sub Idea is incredibly stupid and that they shouldn't wait for the sub that will immediately jam up the best route into the cave, he'll lose his shit.

But mainly - dude has no idea of what a cave is. Narcissists are a dime a dozen, but most "visionaries" should have some inkling of how caves work.

Sometimes called a double boiler. It's a small pot that sits over a larger pot of boiling water. The idea is to avoid scalding your food by giving a more gentle heat.

There were rumors he was into field hockey players. He was gone the next day.

My understanding is that Junior is only applied to the son if the first, middle and last names are identical. So if you're Steve Albert Allen and your son is Steve Abraham Allen, the son isn't technically Steve Allen Jr.

My father and brother share first and last names, but not middle. They get really freaking weird if you call my brother Steve Allen Jr.

I don't know what's going one with the Sams Haskell, but that's my best guess.

I love this.

It could be from a modern collector because as you mentioned, there are only a few states where it's illegal to buy skeletal parts. My guess is that someone inherited it from an old family collection and didn't want to deal with it.

A few generations ago it wasn't completely unusual for a doctor to have a human skull in his office or study. Eventually Gramps dies, his kids or grandkids inherit his stuff, and now they have a skull that they might remember fondly but don't exactly want to display in their front parlor. So they hide it away in a closet. Maybe in its carrying case, but who knows where Old Doc picked it up.

The primary concern in the article seems to be that it was from a looted native grave. That is possible, even probable, given the suspected age. Article about a prolific grave robber from Indiana.

The modern trade in legal skulls comes mostly from Asia (China and India, last time I checked). They're also quite expensive ($2-3k), so it's not likely a modern collector lost track of it among the contents of a storage shed.

Well said.