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heavy drinking – a term defined as five or more drinks for males, or over four for females, on one occasion at least once per month in the past year.

What the article calls heavy drinking, would have been nothing to me when I was an active alcoholic. Towards the end I'd be drinking anywhere from a pint to a fifth of bourbon a day. I was an active alcoholic for over a decade, running from age 23-33. I'm thankful that I was able to sober up, celebrated 5 years sobriety (from alcohol) a few months ago. Saved my life.

Thank goodness we increased police budgets, that'll solve the problem for sure!

"Regio Gigantum?" So below the Cannibals and Ze German Belt, lies the land of giants?

Yes, the article just flew right past that. This child had a child, and then for some reason decided she needed an un-registered gun to protect herself and her child from... ? Guesses? COUGHrapistinthefamilyCOUGH I dunno!

I'm from there so I can say this, Columbus is a shit-hole.

the article you didn't read goes into that, and ultra marathons show parity between the sexes.

They knew exactly what they were doing. They're "victims" only now they've been caught.

By your logic, ultra-marathons are an even greater test of endurance. And women compete at parity with men (if not better) in those events.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-49284389

Of course, this match against the academy team was very informal and should not be a major cause for alarm. The U.S. surely wasn’t going all out, with the main goal being to get some minutes on the pitch, build chemistry when it comes to moving the ball around, improve defensive shape and get ready for Russia.

Your anecdotal evidence is countered in the very article you posted

I've seen this image a number of times, and it always reinforces just how dangerous electricity can be. It's like those signs that warn "Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time!"

I do a lot of DIY, but I do not mess with electricity. The idea of Alternating current is something I cannot grok, and so I choose not to try.

U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson’s ruling declared that the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.

That's the quote. I didn't lie, I shortened it.

That is interesting but I reject the alternate theories of the Big Rip and the Silent Extinction because they are scary and I don't like them.

Not telling the prisoners their date of execution seems unreasonably cruel, especially considering that some inmates have been subsequently released/exonerated. Their reasoning of "not causing the inmate undue stress" is just incorrect, while the idea that "their victims didn't have prior warning" is steeped in a thirst for revenge and retribution, rather than justice. That's some Code of Hammurabi level thinking that only retards social progress.

AP News is basically the only media source I really trust. Their reporting is always factual and with as little bias/editorializing as possible.

I noticed this too, The Expanse does that so well, really fleshing out what life would be like living as a grunt in The Belt. They had their own culture, their own sayings, their own food. Like any colony, it gave host to any number of establishments meant to provide a bit of comfort out in the inky black nothing. The shared suffering also gave them a sense of community, which is a powerful motivator when the far off motherland starts imposing increasingly burdensome levies... Makes you want to grab the closest thing and hurl it at them! 😉

WATCH THE EXPANSE

It's amazing.

The Universe is expanding, rapidly from the big bang still. At some point, it will slow down, and then stop. Then begins a catastrophic cycle of collapse with massive black holes coalescing into one universe eating black hole that compresses every bit of matter into a single point of almost infinite density. At this point the black hole destabilizes, and all of the stored energy is released in one colossal explosion. A Big Bang of sorts.

The Universe is an Ouroboros.

Maybe it had something to do with the "justice" system finding that Breonna Taylor was "actually killed by her boyfriend."

I know that made me really angry, I can only imagine how others might have felt.

“But right now, your normal allies on the Republican side are giving you just as much grief as anybody else, and it’s entirely self-inflicted. You step on a rake and boom, the handle comes up and hits you right on the nose.”

The stupidity of that decision still amazes me to this day. "Railroad safety and efficacy during the shipping crisis? No! Let the monopolistic railroads regulate themselves, fuck their workers!"