The t-rex wearing a Christmas jumper at the Natural History Museum is a wonderful thing pic.twitter.com/NFnObgSg7o
— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) November 21, 2022
Noooooo!…
The Bidens have a more than 40-year-old tradition of spending Thanksgiving on Nantucket.
This year, the family tradition became mostly about keeping the president's 2-year-old grandson from having a meltdown. https://t.co/QIHZFqqg7h
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 26, 2022
Things I will miss if Twitter goes away:
I love the difference between dog and cat rescue stories. dog owners will be like oh I prepped for months and applied and had a home check then did a foster to adopt trial period and then the rescue chose me! and cat owners are like .. I found him in the trash
— danielle weisberg (@danielleweisber) November 7, 2022
(And the replies are full of people sharing stories & pics of their own trash cats & rescue dogs!)
….actually exist, it symbolizes ideas of the supernatural. Found in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave. On display at Museum Ulm
2/2
— Nina Willburger @[email protected] (@DrNWillburger) November 18, 2022
Baud
Or maybe Lion Man existed 40,000 years ago.
different-church-lady
Hey, the previous cabinet spent four years doing something similar.
different-church-lady
“….and he keeps trying to go back.”
Baud
There will literally be 80 House hearings about this next year.
Ken
@Baud: There are lion men on Mongo. Maybe the statue represents a space traveler, from the last time that planet closely approached Earth.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Mr DAW’s family is having its usual holiday zoom this afternoon. It’s scheduled for three hours. I like these people (usually). But three hours???
dmsilev
Perhaps the White House should consider offering the press corps a baggie of goldfish crackers and then nap time. Might do them good.
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Oh, God, no. Zoom is one hour tops. Even that is a stretch.
NotMax
Some folks here enjoy house renovation programs. If you fall under that umbrella, a long-ish weekend watch. While worst is subjective, no one can argue it does not rank as challenging.
Ken
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Pro tip: Say “I’m having trouble with my connection, I’m muting the video to reduce bandwidth”. Then at least you can read a book while half-listening to the conversation, rather than pretending to pay attention for the full three hours.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
rikyrah
RIP, Irene Cara🙏🏾😪
Irene Cara (@Irene_Cara) tweeted at 0:38 AM on Sat, Nov 26, 2022:
This is the absolute worst part of being a publicist. I can’t believe I’ve had to write this, let alone release the news. Please share your thoughts and memories of Irene. I’ll be reading each and every one of them and know she’ll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her fans. – JM https://t.co/TsC5BwZ3fh
(https://twitter.com/Irene_Cara/status/1596392865948499968?s=02)
zhena gogolia
I just started watching See How They Run and enjoying it so far. Someone here didn’t like it.
JPL
@different-church-lady: Thank you and that wasn’t news.
MagdaInBlack
I kind of like the Bidens and the toddler meltdown story. Just another way they’re normal, especially after 4 years of the adult toddler meltdowns. (as different church lady mentions)
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah: Oh, that’s sad.
JPL
@rikyrah: So young! RIP
NotMax
Not yet Black Fridayed out? YMMV (personally hard pressed to find content sufficient to justify even the bargain basement rate); be it noted that the Peacock streaming service (with ads) is on special at 99 cents a month for up to a full year. Offer ends after this weekend.
sab
That is exactly why we have 5 cats and 1 weird dog.
dmsilev
@rikyrah:
RIP
Scout211
@zhena gogolia: We have a free HBO preview week and we tried to watch it last night. A big thumbs down for us. My daughter and her family of 5 are here for the holidays and the 7 of us tried to watch it and all said no to See How They Run. We switched to Freeguy, which was a winner, more so with the grandkids but mildly interesting with the olds.
TS
Right wing media is having another meltdown in Australia – another State election just went against them big time. They were attempting to convince themselves and others this would not happen
General consensus seems to be the country is moving left – not before time. Elections in NSW (largest state) next March. Hopefully another win for the Labor party – at which stage there should be 5/6 states rejecting RW politics.
rikyrah
Thread😳😳🤔🤔
Soon to be a Netflix limited series. Sure there is a writer working on the scripts now😒
Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) tweeted at 4:41 AM on Sat, Nov 26, 2022:
This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services. @christogrozev did some digging and made some interesting discoveries about their neighbours in Moscow. https://t.co/0VRnvHKlNt
(https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1596454164669906949?s=02)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@zhena gogolia: I know!
@Ken: Good idea. I have to be careful because Mr DAW is on the call too, in his office while I’m in mine.
Cameron
@zhena gogolia: Long Zoom meetings are a bad idea. As Jeff Toobin observed, “idle hands are the devil’s playthings.” Or maybe that was Ben Franklin. Whatever.
Starfish
@rikyrah: This has happened in the US a few times too.
There was this couple in Hawaii just a few months ago.
This is probably the one that I actually remembered.
Scout211
@Dorothy A. Winsor: When we did the holiday zooms during the first year of the pandemic we had one hour for a zoom game of Uno so the grandkids wouldn’t get bored, then an hour for the adults to converse. But three hours? I don’t think so.
eclare
My neighbors have put up their huge inflatable T-rex bearing gifts lawn decoration.
NotMax
@eclare
Jurassic snark?
:)
rikyrah
Uh huh
Uh huh😒😒
POLITICO (@politico) tweeted at 7:20 AM on Fri, Nov 25, 2022:
The first election held under the new lines showed both succeeded — though Democrats had their most ruthless gerrymanders thrown out in the courts and the GOP did not, giving Republicans an edge that just might have carried them to a narrow House majority https://t.co/DCvJjc3njV
(https://twitter.com/politico/status/1596131644628520964?s=02)
eclare
@different-church-lady: You are in fine form today!
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That is way too long.
We once had an after hour happy hour zoom at work. Even with booze, it was a one hour zoom.
Layer8Problem
@Scout211: Free Guy was surprisingly ok. I spent a lot of it telling my partner “I drank there!” and “I worked across the street from there!” because the locations were mostly Boston Financial District.
Frankensteinbeck
Just removed a lengthy screed about historical memory holing, especially regarding sex. The important part is, furry art is ancient and worldwide. Most cultures thought people with animal features were cool and/or sexy. But society assumes everything is modern.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
rikyrah
@rikyrah:
Black Voter Suppression in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, taking away Black districts along with that bullshyt in NY😠
Baud
@TS:
That’s great news. Hopefully, we’re not far behind.
eclare
@NotMax: Hahaha…it’s pretty cute. And I am open to all forms of celebration.
Starfish
There is an “Ok, Doomer” substack, and I am in love. I know that folks here were tired of doomerism, but a substack that gives you a place to doom and chill. This rant on higher education filled with yoga photos was just the appropriate amount of doom.
Suzanne
@dmsilev:
To be fair, that sounds like heaven to me.
I was an 80s daycare kid. My favorite snack at my daycare was this mix they called “birdseed”…..nothing but Cheerios, raisins, and unsalted peanuts. (You can tell it was the 80s because they still gave out peanuts to kids.) Anyway, I still love it and make it and take it on car trips. There is a jar of it on the buffet behind me as I type.
Starfish
@Frankensteinbeck: I would subscribe to your newsletter about “Furries: A History” that covers everything before the 1976 novel “Bear” by Marian Engel.
delphinium
@TS: Great news on moving more left! May the right wing media continue to melt down.
UncleEbeneezer
@zhena gogolia: We absolutely LOVED the sets and costumes but were kinda meh on it until that last 30 minutes or so when it got much better. Turned out to be a pretty solid mystery presented in an interesting way. Probably wouldn’t make our Top-Faves list but certainly an enjoyable watch and all in all a good film and significantly better than Knives Out.
delphinium
@eclare: Nice! Several neighbors have put their lights up but no giant dinosaurs as of yet.
Frankensteinbeck
@Suzanne:
Another example of historical blindness. Not you. The people who complain that nobody used to have X health/safety problem. What did people with peanut allergies used to do? They died as children, and their deaths attributed to something else.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Scout211: Hm. If I propped my kindle up next to my laptop, I might look like I was paying attention.
@eclare: Booze! A glass of wine
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
File under crazy sore loser Rethuglicans sowing baseless election doubts:
dmsilev
@Suzanne:
Substitute chocolate chips for the Cheerios and you get my standard evening snack mix. Ok, usually lightly salted peanuts, but close enough.
Kay
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!):
The Republican election loonies are alienating even GOP election board members here.
It’s a huge, work intensive pain in the ass to deal with these people. It’s tens of wasted work hours where I live, probably hundreds in larger juridisctions. They contest even their own local primary results, elections where there are maybe 5000 votes total.
Starfish
@Scout211: Free Guy was pretty good. I see that HBO has Moonfall. Do not watch it. It was terrible.
rikyrah
Flashdance, what a feeling
https://youtu.be/ILWSp0m9G2U
Suzanne
@Frankensteinbeck: Food allergies have always existed, of course, but they do indeed seem to be on the rise, and there isn’t a clear cause identified.
From what I understand, environmental allergies are also on the rise. Could also be just that we are better at diagnosing. Anyway, it’s a big thing with scary implications.
Suzanne
@dmsilev: Chocolate chips? You must have gone to the fancy daycare.
Nicole
I love that tweet about cat adoption vs dog adoption. It reminded me when my best friend adopted her last cats; she went in to adopt one, filled out the paperwork, but when the rescue lady arrived at her place in the evening, she brought two cats, insisting that they were “bonded” and “could not be separated.” My friend said okay. I’ll never forget her phone call to me a couple days later: “Nicole! These cats aren’t ‘bonded!’ They barely tolerate each other!” But that rescue lady knew a good-hearted mark when she saw one; my friend took excellent care of these two cats that really didn’t like each other much for the rest of both their feline lives.
MomSense
We may not find our rescue dogs in the trash but once we bring them home we do spend the rest of our lives together trying to keep them out of our trash.
eclare
@Scout211: I don’t know if that includes HBO Max, but that has all the Studio Ghibli films. Absolute magic, and I am not an animation fan.
For the adults, Mare of Easttown was one of the best things I have seen in a while. And Hacks, with Jean Smart. Brilliant.
Starfish
@Frankensteinbeck: A lot of us lived. We had a hard time, but some people did the best they could.
My first or second allergic reactions to peanuts in the ’80s was at one of those McDonald birthday parties. Remember, they used to give you little sundaes and sprinkle peanuts on top.
I was sick from plain M&Ms before food allergy labeling laws went into effect and we learned that regular M&Ms may contain peanuts.
Even though there were only a couple of us with food allergies in the school, the lunch ladies were great about sending me with cheese sandwiches on field trips instead of peanut butter ones.
The school cookies. I had a hard time telling the peanut butter and the sugar cookies apart and got sick from that several times.
I survived the time before the epi-pens and tend to be reluctant to use mine.
Since we lived, some of us have children who are more allergic than we are. 🤦🏻♀️
dmsilev
@Suzanne: I’m not nearly the chocoholic that my niece is, but I’m working on it. I’m pretty sure she got that from her mother, not from daycare though.
Frankensteinbeck
@Starfish:
People seem to think Egyptian gods don’t count. A 5000 year culture was obsessed with people with animal features, making art and telling stories about them. Stories with a lot of sex, no less. Animal feature people are in cave art. Greek myths have gorgons, sirens, Scylla, Circe’s transformations… The trick is every culture has a different idea of what combination of traits is interesting. Usually it’s semi-formally stylized in art, no less. Hell, people were hardcore into animated anthropomorphs in our culture decades before a specific social group coined the term ‘furry.’ Disney and Warner Brothers made bank.
My favorite is the Nazca, who had no writing system and we have to decide their culture from pottery covered in anthropomorphic animal art. Damn is THAT stylized.
Note that the modern ‘furry fandom’ social group got its start with Albedo Anthropomorphics, but the movie Animalympics is the furriest friggin’ movie you’ll find, and predates it by 3 years.
narya
I am determined to get the rowing machine reassembled today. It has been . . . A Process. This all started because I was replacing the old monitor with a new one that could be synched with various devices (phone, for now). It was supposed to take 45 minutes–this is going to be my third go at it, and I’ve already spent 3-5 hours on it. I need to spend more time tracking down drawings so I can see how to put the pieces together.
eclare
@MomSense: So true! I saw my newly adopted dog eying my new auto battery operated kitchen garbage can yesterday.
Yes I know my new garbage can is ridiculous. I love it.
rikyrah
Is Long COVID part of the reason for the tight labor market?
Ya think?
Along with the COVID DEAD??
YA THINK???
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/long-covid-workforce-economy-labor
raven
I’m vacuum packing the fish and browning the turkey bones for gumbo! The GO DAWGS, squat those pesky Jackets. Who says there is nothing to play for, we can keep them from a bowl!
UncleEbeneezer
@Scout211: While you have HBOMax, also consider:
White Lotus– Season one is really fantastic. Very funny skewering of wealthy white people with really excellent Hawaiian score and super-neat animated opening credits.
I May Destroy You– Great, though pretty uncomfortable comedy/drama about the gray area of sexual assault/consent in the “influencer” age.
We Own This City– David Simon’s excellent series about the Baltimore Police corruption scandal. Similar to The Wire but only one season.
The Rehearsal– I loved it. Many hate it. The guy who did Nathan For You creates a “reality show” where people rehearse to prepare for difficult conversations/situations in their personal lives, so he builds detailed sets, hires actors to play friends/family etc. and chaos ensues. Very, very meta. Sometimes quite “cringe” but I thought a very interesting concept/experiment.
Captain C
@Baud:
I’m sure he did to the people who had just eaten those funny-looking purple mushrooms.
Miss Bianca
@Ken:
Hey, you’ve discovered my dirty little secret for getting through our county commissioner meetings! (OK, I’m usually reading Balloon Juice instead of a book, but the principle stands.)
Frankensteinbeck
@Starfish:
And a whole Hell of a lot of you died, generally unrecorded because high childhood mortality rates were normal before the 20th century. Sincerely, no snark, congratulations on being a survivor pre-regulations, and I wish so many people were saved through the millennia by medicine and awareness we have now. I’d be dead several times over if I was born 100 years before my time. Dysentery and benign vertigo stand out.
EDIT – Benign vertigo REALLY stands out. Fixed in 5 minutes and no medicine with the Epley Maneuver. Without it, I’d have vomited myself to dehydrated death and be unable to even sit up for the rest of my short life.
Ella in New Mexico
Our 27-month-old granddaughter was so well behaved at our 18 person Thanksgiving dinner at my brother’s house for the first three hours. Particulary considering she’s been in what I call the “Push Me-Pull You” stage of being two for a couple of months now and very prone to meltdowns over the very thing she asked for.
Angel Mode lasted until about 7:30 when she finally got so overstimulated by all the activity she had to strip off her shirt and pants and run squealing at the top of her lungs throughout the house until her Mom and Grandma corraled her at which point it was “Kick and Scream NO” mode.
So she managed to have SOME fun.
Chat Noir
@eclare:
I am on my second watch of Hacks because I love it so much. Barry is also great.
Suzanne
@Ella in New Mexico:
Sounds like Thanksgiving at Baud’s.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@rikyrah: Speaking of Covid and the labor market…
Starfish
@Frankensteinbeck: Look, the 1980s were pretty late in the twentieth century, so we survived. I am telling you this as a highly allergic person with a highly allergic child.
Being highly allergic, we are limited and not home free.
My son has more food allergies than I do, and he almost died on a field trip last year because he ate a cookie that people assured him was safe.
“Vacations” are stressful because we have to plan for “how not to starve on this vacation” for every trip.
I am also ready to cuss out everyone marketing their “gluten-free” nonsense.
When I ask someone about allergens, they should not go into a “gluten-free” marketing spiel for me. They should for sure not offer to give me the gluten-free bun, since I have just told you the person in my party with the most food allergens is likely allergic to it.
frosty
@Starfish: Higher Education was a fun read but the rest of OK Doomer? Well written and accurate from what I know but I think I’ll just go put my head back in the sand.
“Here’s the problem and nothing you can do will fix it. BTW wear a mask.”
Starfish
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is interesting. Jerome Adams is really smart. He occasionally said stupid party line things that he had to say, but generally he was doing the right thing, so I feel bad for him.
zhena gogolia
@Scout211: I’ve watched the opening sequence, and for a person of a certain age who loves murder mysteries, it was amusing. I can see it wouldn’t appeal to youngsters.
WaterGirl
PSA:
zhena gogolia
@Layer8Problem: Okay, I read a one-sentence summary and I can tell that one’s not for me.
zhena gogolia
@UncleEbeneezer: Thanks. I thought Adrien Brody was hilarious in the opening sequence.
Jackie
@eclare: We have one, too. To keep the doggos out. The kitten-cat accidentally opened it swatting at a fly. New game!
ian
@Cameron: If Ben Franklin lived in today’s age, he would absolutely get busted spanking it on zoom.
He was the Anthony Weiner of the Founding Fathers.
Scout211
@Starfish: @eclare: @UncleEbeneezer:
Thanks all for the suggestions of what not to watch and what to watch on HBO and HBO Max.
Steeplejack
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
My teacher BIL told me that during the pandemic some kids figured out that on their classroom Zoom calls they could turn off their camera and put “Loading . . .” in the name spot. You could try that if you need a break.
delphinium
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): LOL at part below. Idiots!
TS
@delphinium:
A joy to see. They were so convinced the electorate hated the Premier (Governor equivalent) and they were so wrong.
eclare
@UncleEbeneezer: I really tried to get into The White Lotus, so much talent. It just didn’t work for me, same for one of my best friends.
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Has he tried applying to the Florida university system?
Geminid
@raven: “I’m a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech…and we’re gonna get wrecked!”
Mike in NC
Went out to do a few errands yesterday and it was impossible to not have to listen to godawful Christmas music on the car radio…
eclare
@Frankensteinbeck: I don’t know what kind of vertigo my aunt has, but she does eye exercises with a chart on the wall. She says it has helped a lot.
Ken
I thought that was an MCU/X-Men thing?
Layer8Problem
@zhena gogolia: I’ll amend my review to “surprisingly ok for what it is.” :-)
eclare
@Chat Noir: Barry is great, but I can see the violence and weird vibe as off-putting to people.
But how can you not love Noho Hank? “We want tables to display heroin?”
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@delphinium: I know right! Id like some of these idiots to get charged with lying under oath. At least the counties get to keep their $50. Though, I wonder how many of these fools will try to get a refund after the courts throw their petitions in the circular file.
Kathleen
@Baud: Were the media invited to the meltdown?
Baud
@Kathleen:
Just Vogue.
Steeplejack
@narya:
Could there be a helpful YouTube video? There usually is for everything.
eclare
@Steeplejack: The kids are all right.
Kathleen
@MagdaInBlack: Toddler meltdown redolent of some other meltdowns the Bidens have been experiencing lately.
Cameron
@delphinium: Shouldn’t they be facing prosecution for (according to their own statements) falsely certifying the election?
Miss Bianca
OK, speaking of dog rescue, I have started filling out applications…I must be nuts. Has anyone had any luck contacting people through Petfinder? I have had exactly ONE rescue operation get back to me in response to an inquiry on my part, ONE.
And as a result, I am now seriously contemplating driving 2 hours each way to visit…a large male Malamute with a history…when I was looking for a small-to-medium female dog.
OK, never mind answering my question. I *am* nuts.
J R in WV
I haven’t read comments yet, but wanted to first remark on our currently solo cat, Punkin. So named because after Wife found her trapped in a culvert behind a brier patch, the size of a chipmunk at 6 months, she became quite the sphere, and we have fought her understandable unending hunger every since. She’s a mostly black tortie, and very affectionate and outgoing, esp for a tortie. The Vets are always amazed at how friendly she is.
Anyway, she was shaped like an oblate spheroid by the time we noticed she was overeating. Now she gets food in tiny doses — we feel so lucky she doesn’t want DF kibble. We fed her cat fud mixed with no-cal pumpkin pulp for years so she would feel full but still not get too many calories. She just went outside to attempt to pounce on a tiny rodent, haha, good luck Punkin. We love her so much, she’s pushing 17 and in pretty good shape for an old cat — we thought she was newly weaned when Wife found her, so tiny, small for a chipmunk, but already 6 months old and tiny because of malnutrition according to the very experienced Vet, who did her spay immediately.
sab
@Miss Bianca: My 7 year old pitmix and I say go for it.
Kathleen
@Scout211: I know the thread is probably dead by now but I highly recommend Avenue 5. It’s a satire based on an Elon Muskish character who owns a chartered space ship for vacationers. He’s a complete idiot so his exasperated assistant in the UK has to try to literally keep the ship afloat in space because nothing works right including the toilet. I don’t want to give too much away but much hilarity ensues when the passengers view their excrement floating by them in space.
I’ve laughed so hard my stomach hurt. The humor is very dark so I’m sure it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but if you like no holds barred satire it’s well worth the view.
zhena gogolia
@Miss Bianca: Did you see the malamute at the dog show? He was such a cutie!!!
Kathleen
@Baud: Oh, the humanity.
Steeplejack
@Kathleen:
It’s on HBO Max and DirecTV, for those interested.
Miss Bianca
@zhena gogolia: No, I haven’t been watching the dog show, friends of mine have been, tho. I’ll have to look for some photos!
sab
@eclare: My german shepherd learned how to operate the pedal on my garbage can. She would step on the pedal and look inside for edibles. I finally had to hotglue a dog leash to keep it shut.
zhena gogolia
@Miss Bianca: The one I’m talking about was on Thanksgiving.
A French bulldog won, but a Malamute was in the finals.
Miss Bianca
@zhena gogolia: Oh, I just found some video footage. He is a handsome boy!
And Winston, the Best-in-Show Frenchie, is totally adorable!
zhena gogolia
@Miss Bianca: Yes, totally cute.
James E Powell
@eclare:
I didn’t hate White Lotus, but didn’t like it either. I would listen to podcasts praising it & wonder what they were talking about, what show they were watching. Seemed like the actors were better than the script.
A Man for All Seaonings (formerly Geeno)
@Ken:
You’re just out to wreck the dude aren’t you.
Having Trump AND DeSantis on his resume.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@James E Powell: yeah, I just got bored waiting for it to get good
I found the recent Sandman plodding and dull, too, and I had high hopes
de gustibus non est yada yada yada
Kay
Good article on this giant scam:
The only part I would argue with is “crypto was meant to democratize finance”. I don’t think there’s a shred of evididence that crypto was ever anything but a scam and a rip off – intended to be.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
That is a good article. Saw it somewhere else recently. I think Diehl has gotten some pushback, but it’s hard to tell how much is substantive and how much is just crypto-bro whining.
Kay
@Steeplejack:
“An unregulated finance industry! What a great idea!”
OMFG
Steeplejack
@Kay:
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? Hey, pick up some tulip bulbs in the gift shop on your way out.
UncleEbeneezer
@eclare: Everybody’s taste is different. That’s how we felt about Schitts Creek, The Good Place, Mandelorian and The Bear. Never understood why everyone we knew raves about them. I mean I get why but they just weren’t for us.
UncleEbeneezer
@Kathleen: we loved first season of Ave 5 but haven’t started the second yet. A very fun, ridiculous show.
Kathleen
Soprano2
Had to come to this thread to say my sister’s first rescue cat was one she found somewhere when we were trick-or-treating. I think she was 3 years old. My mom didn’t see the cat until we got home. We named her Freckles. Most of my cats have been foundlings including Gary, our current cat.
Soprano2
@Frankensteinbeck: I’m not so sure about that, when I was a kid in the ’60’s and ’70’s there weren’t a huge amount of kids dying after they ate peanuts only to have it blamed on other things. I truly believe the peanut allergy thing has developed recently for some reason.
Central Planning
@narya: if you have a concept2, call them if you run into problems. They are very helpful on the phone.
source: me replacing a cable, also my 92yo father in law after “cleaning” his erg.
Eunicecycle
@Soprano2: all of our cats have been foundlings, except one we got from a friend whose cat had kittens. We live in the country and people like to dump unwanted cats out here, because I guess they think the cats can take care of themselves. It infuriates me but we have gotten loving furbabies this way.
StringOnAStick
@Soprano2: I’ve read that the rise in peanut allergies correlates with changes in agribusiness that results in peanuts being stored in much, much larger quantities and for longer times. The allergy is caused by aflotoxin, which is a substance created by a fungal growth on the peanuts. The storage facilities are now all infected with this fungus and not being cleaned enough between storage volumes to get rid of it, so it is now endemic in the peanut storage systems of the US; don’t know about elsewhere but one thing agribusiness has done in the last few decades is store greater volumes of everything it can and for longer times.
Lady WereBear
@Miss Bianca: Connection is the most important part.
Bill Arnold
@StringOnAStick:
A lot of peanut alergies in the past few decades were caused by pediatricians in some countries (e.g. US, UK) providing guidance to parents to avoid peanuts in infancy without a shred of scientific evidence. The first widely noticed paper was this one, which has over 900 citations. A risk ration of 10 is enormous.
Early consumption of peanuts in infancy is associated with a low prevalence of peanut allergy (2008 Nov)
The scholarly arc continued:
Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy (February 26, 2015)
Now it is consensus:
A Consensus Approach to the Primary Prevention of Food Allergy Through Nutrition: Guidance from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology; American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology; and the Canadian Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (January 2021)
Sandia Blanca
Speaking of cat rescues/adoptions, isn’t Cole supposed to be getting a new cat soon?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So, the South Lawn Wedding, AKA the worst thing since Hitler Bombed the World Trade Center during Watergate is so last week, this week’s scandal will be First Family Dinnergate?