All of this does a decent job of confirming the group as angsty sophomoric teenagers.

I had a friend whose mom was prescribed Ambien. I think it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. She said she kept having experiences like waking up in bed with empty bags of flour and jars of mayonnaise, so she stopped taking it.

In the past, definitely. I’m not sure what the current system is.

Realistically, might as well read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager as it knows a lot more than I do. I had a pager for several years and have done network programming, that’s about it… i have an insulin pump that people often mistake for a pager though, ha. It makes me look pretty cool.

They’re sent like a phone call. Afaik there is no confirmation on the network whether the device received the message.

Yeah, reading it, I definitely mixed the two. The first one I was thinking of for sure had a lengthy very sci-fi set-and-setting exposition where it explained that people flew around in hovering vehicles and their legs had atrophied. I can’t remember the plot or anything that happened in the story, though, only that, so I think I just imagined that it had the plot of this Bradbury story. I’ve been wondering about it for a long time… I read it over 40 years ago and it was in a collection of stories probably published in the 60s.

What number of those people are of military age, though, fit, able, willing to upend their lives and would support whatever cause? A lot less than 330 million, I’d guess.

Thanks! I feel like I might have conflated two stories though. The Pedestrian is definitely the one in the second half of what I described. I’m not sure about the first part of what I recounted though, it could have been a different story. I’ll have to read it and check it out.

I’ve been trying to find this ridiculous sci-fi story I read in elementary school. I thought it was Ray Bradbury but then I recalled it was, I believe, from a collection edited by and/or with a foreword by Bradbury.

The scenario was that people in the future had become so dependent on mechanized transportation that their legs atrophied. Walking around normally was seen as very strange as everyone used these hovering personal transport devices. I think the story basically just described the protagonist walking around town and taking strolls at night and how odd everyone else thought it was.

I think I was banned from some communities there but I don’t remember which ones and haven’t missed them. I’m probably better off.

Well, check it out: https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/taurine-in-cats

Taurine is an amino acid that’s an esssential nutrient for cats.

Proteins are just amino acids. You can find the same proteins in plant foods as meat. There are other details about what different types of basic foods contain, of course, but it’s theoretically possible to create something that contains all the same nutrients as meat out of plants.

I had a Jack Russell who was crazy about eating out of the litterbox. Just horrifying, obviously. Maybe it tastes like meat, idk, who knows what it smells like to a dog.

I recall seeing in a special card at a Chinese restaurant “Pigs Blood with Mixed Vegetable”. Sounds awful to me but some people must like it.

It sure is odd how hexbear loves the absolute fuck out of Russia and China.

we can assume it’s bullshit since it was posted on 4chan. Otherwise, someone thinks something stupid. Ok

I’ve never been able to figure out the basic ideas behind their opinions. It’s something like US conservatives, where it’s something stupider than you can even guess at, but less predictable.

Or just leave it in, easy fix.

I tried more fiber when I had undiagnosed celiac disease and yeah, it isn’t a fix.

Let’s see… do adults eat sour cream, yogurt or Alfredo?