captainlezbian

Exactly. Maybe the agencies should be joint legislative executive or something but we do need them, because I don't want Jim fucking Jordan deciding how much lead is safe for baby food, but even worse would be for nobody to decide

Not all Christians are biblical literalists. It's not uncommon to treat early Genesis as metaphors containing a general truth but given to people who wouldn't really have the understanding or language to really get the whole "you share a common ancestor with those trees" thing

The catholic church's official position is divinely guided evolution. If you ever see a catholic denying evolution you can tell them that their position goes against official church doctrine.

Mind you my catholic school "taught the controversy" with the biology teacher doing her damned best to pretend both sides were worthy of consideration, but that's because the family that donated our building was denying official church doctrine.

It's more like a variant game of chicken. The longer everyone stays in the higher the value goes, but once people start bailing you better hope you sold enough for it to be worthwhile. The big investors set the game but they're also the most constrained because if they pull out entirely or quickly they can pop the bubble and they may not be able to sell their shares fast enough to get all their money before shares plummet.

I subscr to the theory that Tesla is valued not as an automotive stock but as a tech stock. Companies like Toyota and VW are valued wildly different from companies like Google and Amazon and tesla has long pushed for everyone to think of it as far more like apple than like Honda, with quite a bit of success. That's why Elon does his whole Tony stark/Steve jobs routine and swears full self driving and other revolutionary tech. Because otherwise you have to look at his vehicles as the gilded Yugos they are that do have some really great aspects, but ones that are now being done by companies like Hyundai that can actually assemble a car well

The problem is that restaurants usually have similar load patterns. The orders for the Mexican place aren't coming in while the pizza restaurant are slow, they're all getting a decent surge at lunch time and a bigger surge at dinner timr

Yeah the cold and soggy is my main criticism. At that point I'd rather cook

Maybe it's what I eat but I find the food is always worse after delivery. It's usually gotten a bit cold and steamed a bit. Some stuff like pizza and Asian food handles it well, but falafel and anything fried is best served immediately

Oh absolutely. And yeah I think a lot of people see us and get a little stuck on the gender presentation bit. Hell, I did as a teenager.

In fact, for a long time (and still in some places) in order to medically transition you had to do something called "real life experience", which was living as your preferred gender for however long the therapist wanted. Now theoretically that could be a frustrating roadblock that has notmal issues, but basically be come out, change your name, use your pronouns, etc. However this also caused problems of essentially forcing overcompliance to gendered expectations. In college a friend of mine was told by a therapist that she wouldn't get approval to start hormones if she didn't start wearing makeup and dresses to her sessions. It used to be a joke in trans communities that we'd basically ham it up for doctors then go home and put on jeans and a t-shirt like everyone else wears.

It's a bit outdated but the book Whipping Girl by Julia Serrano deals with quite a bit around transness and feminism.

It's somewhat uncommon for a graduating class to all survive education my experience as an American. And that's despite not knowing any school shootings. It's usually suicide or reckless driving.

Yeah and second is a 60th of a 60th of a 24th of a day. We just found the number of times cesium vibrates in that amount of time. 60 and 24 seem arbitrary to us now, but in addition to giving nice and useful chunks of time, they're numbers that wouldn't feel as arbitrary to ancient folks

Why just solstices? I maintain that secular society would probably enjoy the cardinal (solstices and equinoxes) and ordinal (halfway points) holidays that modern pagans tend to celebrate far better than the Christian ones. They're evenly spaced out and correspond to changes in light and temperature