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Nanny Ogg (and all her witch colleagues of every age, really, they're better together) in the Discworld series

What Joseph said. 🙂

Alternative discussion starting point: are grades more useful as absolute quant based on material or relative quant based on each class?

PROPOSAL: stovetops with magnets to allow the option of stirbars in pots when making soup, or sauces, or really anything that will scorch or start spitting without constant stirring.

This is gorgeous.

Moist is one of my favorites. :)

I MEAN, DOES A CONSTANT SCREAM NOT ALIGN BETTER WITH OUR INTERNAL REALITY?

OUTLOOK GETS US.

Brains, so much fun to have sometimes.
Maybe counter it by yelling something like this at it?
"I do plenty of things correctly. Most of them, in fact! For instance, today I caught a mistake 11 months old. That's pretty impressive, better than most people in charge of the country right now could do!"

I don't know if you've read "The Living Mountain" by Nan Shepherd, but this reminds me of her view on places (specifically, the Scottish Cairngorms she loved) - that they're not there for one to conquer and leave behind, but to be known, deeply over time.
You might like it. :)

Fwiw, if you have reader mode on your browser, there is a moment while loading the page where the article has been fetched and the images/ads (including the paywall popup) haven't loaded yet, and if you switch to reader in that interval, you can bypass the paywall and get the whole article.

That said, it is a dumb ask and a really ill-advised thing to do.

In fairness, there were sign up sheets for the No Kings protest. I think local party organizers got that data. And they did basically nothing with it, which, given how much energy and interest that represents, seems like a colossal waste, but also totally tracks. 🙄

Well... at least one member was willing to walk away and leave him to his own devices.
Just nobody followed, was the problem. 😅

Chocolate Tofu Pie - Beryl Shereshewsky You'd never know this pie had tofu in it. This plant-based recipe is creamy, chocolatey, and a perfect dessert.

There is also this pie:
www.beryl.nyc/index.php/20...

Good caregivers get it. It's 100% okay to be having a bad day. If they're the right match, they'll be there for many bad days, and good ones too. They know.

(And they'll probably be glad to know that a bad day means tears, rather than abusive anger.)

(Looking up these questions as you ask, and a lot of this is new to me too; wild stuff)

Well, #notallorganisms have two genome copies. We do (mostly; our liver cells can have more). But some insects are actually haplodiploids, where sex determination is based on the number of genome copies (e.g. males have 1, females have 2). So 1 copy would still be a full set of DNA, for male ants.

That's difficult for me to answer, I'm not sure if we have a good way to define complexity. Total genome size is one way, but by that measure some plants are way more complex than literally anything else on earth.

The citations for those were referencing studies of ants, clams, and plants.

Yup, apparently you can have unfertilized eggs that just develop regardless, eggs with no nucleus so when the male fertilizes it supplies the only genome copy, or the maternal genome can be set aside and discarded entirely during cell division. (Not all examples from ants.)
Nature be wildin'.

Definitely not my area of expertise, but inbreeding isn't a guaranteed bad thing for all organisms, especially here where the males (clones) just have one nuclear copy of the same genome. Totally different context than the recessive gene issues that can occur in a population of inbreeding humans.

Two sketches: one is 4 boxes drawn in red, green, yellow, or blue, titled "Nature, by humans", and the other is unorganized squiggles in lots of colors, titled "Nature, by nature".

Not quite crayons, but maybe this helps?

Yeah, was gonna suggest tutoring. Very self-defined for effort/time/topic, usually not big expectations for long-term (school-year or semester based is reasonable), and potentially good pay.

Oh, 100% the capstone event. 😁

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Agreed. :)

Maybe need to reconsider which classes are required vs elective? I'd support swapping stats for calc in a basic BA.

Closing degrees in current climate feels awful, but otoh, asking for X students/time as justification for existing seems reasonable? If degrees get merged into something else (eg Spanish into Foreign Languages), the instruction is still available.
Curious why these classes are so low enrollment.

That is one jacked pitcher to lob a child across the plate without just rolling them, unless I missed the part where they trundled a trebuchet out to the mound.

Oooh, what is this one?