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  • I was thinking romaine, but yeah I see bok choy also.

    • There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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  • You're not alone in your confusion there, friend. Reading Speaker for the Dead and finding out about who the author was as a person blows my mind as to how such a bigot could even conceive of the ideas in that book.

    • What have you created that you really want to show off?

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    • ‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

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  • Consistently observed behavior in a population subset is not an abnormality.

    • Trump, the 'America First' candidate, has a new preoccupation: Imperialism

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  • That is very succinctly accurate.

    Unfortunately the USA has been fed a steady diet of nationalism branded as Patriot Juice with extra Freedom for a long time and too many people have been drinking at the trough.

    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • Oh, it was. They had us watch the movie after reading the book.

    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • I know I didn't do it justice but Salvatore really did give Chewie a glorious hero's death, honoring his life debt to the end.

    • Can Software Piracy Be Justified?

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  • That's what I was referring to. Thank you for elucidating it, though, for others that may not have known.

    • Why do we cry when we are sad?

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  • Both, but verifyng an emotional response in an animal is probably difficult to prove scientifically.

    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • I was spared but my wife was damaged by this also. I watched it with her as an adult and couldn't believe people let their kids watch it.

    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • The 80s were so brutal. We had a kids movie that starts with the main character's horse dying from sadness.

    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." are some damn fine final words.

    You can't take the sky from me.

    • Which fictional character's death affected you most?

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  • I can't believe they had us watch that in gradeschool.

    • The Broligarchs Have Arrived: Revisited

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  • Yes

    • Those who live outside of the US, what's something Americans aren't ready to hear?

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  • Just trying to help where I can through pedantry. Had someone this morning use "all intensive purposes" and he was amazed at how much more sense the actual phrase makes. Recontextualized things for him a bit.

    • Can Software Piracy Be Justified?

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  • Hey wow! A headline that isn"t answered with "no".

    • Why do we cry when we are sad?

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  • A cursory search reveals that many other animals shed tears.

    • Why do we cry when we are sad?

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  • Humans are not the only animal that sheds tears. Note they specify emotional tearing is considered uniquely human but do not specify tearing as uniquely human. Plus they studied tears in mice as stated in the beginning of the abstract.

    Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1198331

    Abstract

    Emotional tearing is a poorly understood behavior that is considered uniquely human. In mice, tears serve as a chemosignal. We therefore hypothesized that human tears may similarly serve a chemosignaling function. We found that merely sniffing negative-emotion–related odorless tears obtained from women donors induced reductions in sexual appeal attributed by men to pictures of women’s faces. Moreover, after sniffing such tears, men experienced reduced self-rated sexual arousal, reduced physiological measures of arousal, and reduced levels of testosterone. Finally, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that sniffing women’s tears selectively reduced activity in brain substrates of sexual arousal in men.