I liked the bit in the 3001 space Odyssey (the one where they unfreeze Frank and his lack of a foreskin gets him ghosted)

"Nowadays everyone's either a deist or a theist. The theists believe there's at least one god and the deists believe there's less than or exactly one god."

OK it was what I expected.

TLDR; the "horse" part of this wasn't really the problem other than that it's easier to purchase an unhinged quantity at a veterinary supply store. If he was reconstituting to the proper strength (being sober would have helped with that) the electrolytes themselves wouldn't have been an issue (and honestly are actually beneficial when imbibing).

I figured it had to be, iirc from reading veterinary metabolic panel normal ranges most of us placental mammals have roughly the same electrolyte balances. Afaik it goes back to whether you have a common ancestor only before or also after leaving the ocean and that your balance is reflective of the ocean's balance at that time.

It sounds like there were a few trace minerals that might have built up if he'd kept drinking it in it's intended strength chronically but the core issue was him drinking essentially a straight salt slurry.

I feel like they probably knew. Almost gives a christological / martyr narrative, which I hope at least MLK would appreciate given his background. Certainly took balls on all of their parts.

Yeah I was gonna mention the menstrual cup thing. The fact that they perceive the vagina as a purely receptive sleeve also suggests that they've rarely if ever had a woman orgasm on their dick. Hubs reports varying perceptibility between different episodes but that the muscular contraction is often robust.

idk how to respond to this other than yeah it's probably gonna suck. Tbh I wouldn't WANT them to go big budget and especially not cinematic; a big draw of Stargate was that people who have worked or lived in similar institutional settings are like,"yup that's the vibe!" and Amazon will probably drag things out they shouldn't just for the extra draaama.

They're mostly trick taking games similar to spades or hearts and there's very few apps to get into them that aren't in Italian or French let alone any local groups to learn that aren't in France or Italy.

I've been trying to develop a solitaire game that uses the star chart of a chosen date-time/location as the board but I'm having difficulty working out the core mechanic of the 12 point solitaire game let alone the sign/house/planet modifiers.

~~And before you mention clock solitaire there's basically no actual choice in that game all of the moves are purely determined by the state dealt at the beginning.~~

Actually now I'm wondering if that's the best uncomplicated base mechanic and the other items will just modify it such that the game is consistently winnable.

If anyone has any good thoughts on game design my other thoughts were:

clock solitaire assigns piles by number, kings in the middle. A tarot deck also has a full set of trumps. So I'm thinking split the clock into signs and assign piles by the element of their sign. So for instance the cardinal sign's pile will build pips down from the five, the fixed's pile will build pips down from the ten and the mutable's pile will build courts down from the king. Trumps can go in the middle (and as a bonus your deck is sorted when you're done).

(Actually I haven't decided whether sign or house is the part that determines pile I'm leaning towards sign right now but I've flip flopped like three times in this comment so)

Other misc thoughts:

• as mentioned, pure clock solitaire is not consistently winnable due to the deterministic nature of it's play. All moves from beginning to end are purely a result of the original deal. It's the arrangement of the houses and planets in your chosen date -time/location that will add extra powers top make it winnable. This is similar to a Minecraft seed. The board arrangement will always be the same if you pick your birthday, the card locations will just change.

• what sign and planet show up in each house should affect gameplay. Haven't decided on what yet.

• I would also really like choosing a court or face trump as a signifier card for the player or players to mean something.

ooc how normal is it to allow a child / younger sibling to win a game? My parents always said you shouldn't do that because that's not how the real world works then my siblings told me I was dumb for not being able to win and that this is why no one wanted to play with me (I was the youngest). When I grew up and heard stories of people letting their kid or little sibling win a game I thought that was wild but I don't actually know what the true incidence is. It's one of those things where I wonder if I'm oversensitive or if that was truly abnormal. My older sister also used to tell me I was a psychopath a lot while growing up but I'm starting to think she might have been projecting.

Tell you what. These are my hyperfixations by decade of life:

1. Stargate SG1
2. Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Sociology of Sex
3. Violence Prevention and Management in Psychiatry (actually became enough of an expert in this to teach)
4. Esoteric Spiritual Practices including Tarot, Astrology, and Tea Leaf reading.

AMA, LOL

And oh sweet Jesus is a severe mental health episode during pregnancy an absolute bitch to manage even inpatient. You take the stress of rapidly discontinuing a long term med then throw in pregnancy hormones and shit gets completely out of hand so fucking fast.

THEN I can't even give a gotdamn antihistamine for anxiety let alone a benzo! Keep her at home on her perfectly fine and normal Prozac! idw no peripartum anything up in my face. Give me the normal crazy I actually have meds for jfc. I'm on like five different actual hard hitters myself like the ones you ACTUALLY can't take during pregnancy (one of the reasons I'm forgoing pregnancy entirely).

If it's a choice between keeping them stable on an SSRI vs the risk of peripartum crisis I pick the SSRI any day. If anybody is this worried about SSRIs they need to look more into better women's health overall so they're less likely to need the SSRIs to begin with. Offer a better support BEFORE ripping out the currently functioning one.

And even within that, T4T is a common preference categorization as well, whether it's for inherent attraction or just practical reasons. There are terms that prefer solely to the target gender so for instance I'm androphilic (vs gynophilic) mostly in my romantic aspect. I don't mind both sexually, I've just found women's personalities to be difficult to deal with / have difficulty dealing with me romantically (practical preference). Now, gender wise I'm roughly here:

♀️<----------|×--------->♂️

And my visual preference for a partner is about

♀️<------|---|------|---->♂️

And my personality preference is about

♀️<---------||---|------>♂️

so really CAN I be gay? Especially if I was right on the line there. I will say hubs seems to prefer roughly (in both aspects):

♀️<--|-------|-----|---->♂️

which is pretty neatly bisexual.

Cleaning you is waaay easier than disimpaction. If it's bad enough I have to call someone who doesn't work holidays, weekends, or any other hour a bank isn't open. If it's NOT bad enough to call that person, that's actually way worse because it's gonna be you, me, and these phalanges, and neither of us is gonna be having a good time. Now that I work in a tiny community hospital I don't even have residents I can sucker into it anymore!

In nursing school they taught us anything from 2x daily to 1x weekly is normal due mostly to variations in diet but with some influence from activity level, hydration, and genetics. Now I'm in practice that seems too long; I start getting nervous when my patients say it's been 3-4 days. Personally I poop between 4x daily and once every 3 days depending on how angry my IBS is. I do HAVE to know what part of the world you're in now though.