If this is a whole genome thing, and not just looking at a small group of alleles, it is incredibly unlikely that two of the great-grandchildren would have no contribution from the white great-grandparent. It’s so unlikely that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it’s unlikely to have ever happened throughout all of human history.

I’m not a meme guy. I’ve never posted nor stolen a meme. I’m tempted to make this my first.

I don’t even understand the words. I’m trying to figure out if he thinks it’s bad that they put something special in a generic carafe, or good that they used something “modern”?

I’m leaning toward the latter (and disagree, seems like it would detract from the experience, but in the end, who the fuck cares?), but I’m not sure.

It sounds like your asking the question from the perspective of someone with a parliamentary system where the prime minister is chosen by the majority party or coalition. That is not the case in the U.S., the president is elected completely independently from our legislators.

While there is a provision to remove the president due to incapacitation, and there has been talk of applying that to Trump’s mental decline, the bar is high. The vice president and a majority of the cabinet (which were chosen by, and serve at the pleasure of, the president) have to petition Congress and if the president says no disability exists both houses of Congress have to agree by a 2/3 vote to remove him for disability.

The more likely route is impeachment, but this is also a high bar. A simple majority in the House of Representatives impeaches the president, but that just means sending him to the Senate for trial where a 2/3 majority is required to convict and remove him.

Don’t hold your breath for it.

That sounds like a Pishtaco from Andean folklore.

Totally off the point of the thread but I only know about pishtacos because I just read a couple books by Richard K. Morgan (the Altered Carbon guy), Thirteen and Thin Air, which are sci-fi with a bunch of Andean culture and folklore which I had never run across before. The reason for all the Andean stuff is the first space elevator was built down there (needs to be at the equator) and because of this many of the workers, including Mars colonists without special skills, are from the Altiplano. So on Mars, even hundreds of years later, that culture is very prevalent, including having Quechua as a major language. And because of all the money flowing through the region local Quechua speaking organized crime families get very powerful. Lots of fun (made-up, I assume) local expressions in the books like “Pachamama’s tits!” and “Fucked by Supay’s cock”.

Russia has been one big slow societal collapse since forever. In The Big Book of Russian History every chapter starts with “and then somehow things got even worse.”

He had to talk about it terms of the universe, as opposed to the world or the nation, because that’s how far you have to pull back to smooth out the bumps and discern the slightest of arcs.

Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.

You ain’t wrong, but this is shit done within the settler communities to other Jews, not the Palestinians.

I’m not agreeing with the other guy, or that I don’t, I’m just saying your comment doesn’t follow from his unless the FSM guy claims to be a new prophet of the same God.

Does he claim his teachings are a new revelation from the god of Abraham?

In college I didn’t hang out with my classmates much, I mostly hung out with townies. Obviously not all townies were dumb, but some were very dumb, nice though.

I think Tony being Rogan’s cabin boy was the subject of a few jokes aimed his way by the other performers.

40 years, it can’t be that long, I’m only…fuck

Shit, he’s 80? I guess I haven’t seen him in a while. Back when the cable stations with educational names actually had educational programming, and not just reality trash, he was pretty dope.

It’s not that strong, vibration and a little force in the other direction that is easily overcome, especially when you’re turning hard to move quickly.

You have to oversignal in modern BMWs or the wheel vibrates and tries to correct the other direction. Forced merges, lane splitting, any deviation from straight down the middle even when it’s obvious that you have to do that thing, the car bitches at you if you don’t signal.

Yeah, I have zero in my house now. I have over 1k on my ereader, in my pocket, and on my tablet. Even when I read physical books I never had this many, every time I got to a couple hundred I’d take them to Goodwill for others to enjoy. My reading list is so long, it’s not like I’m likely to reread anything. Every book I reread is one other book I won’t get to read before I die.

I see bookshelves like this these days it’s like someone with a lot of vinyl. They’re either old (old to me and I’m almost 50), or just into an old format for some reason. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to.

You can do that, won’t even hurt. A car battery is capable of providing a lot of amps, but you can’t push current, you can only pull it, and a car battery is only around 14 volts.

I wouldn’t do it across your chest though, unless you’re sure your heart is healthy, and maybe not even then. Even low current can fuck with your heart.

Check out Mr. Confidently Incorrect over here. An eclipse is exactly the definition you posted, I’m not sure how you could read it so wrong.