The comment below yours in my feed is “May she sparkle forever.” and holy hell, it’s so beautiful to see not just appreciation, but true admiration!

I’ve lived here for a decade and never got to see her, but I also learned about her late. Now I’m sad I missed out on such a legend.

Cheers to her and all she has done!

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Institute website just says they “can live 40 to 50 years,” so I don’t have answers to your questions, unfortunately.

And are you also a cat?

Yep! While reading about these ones, I saw that their lifespan in the wild is usually 40-50 years; Mr. & Mrs. Pickles have both not only exceeded that, but they’re still procreating!

I get the criticism of zoos, but it’s worth noting that they’re not all bad. In this instance, the tortoises are critically endangered due to the illegal pet trade, so putting them back out in the wild is most likely a death sentence for them, or they’ll end up in the pet trade where they won’t be able to be a part of reproduction/repopulation efforts.

There’s also this:

> A portion of each Zoo membership and admission goes toward helping the Zoo’s partners in Madagascar replant wildlife habitat to save animals in the wild.

From the zoo’s site.

Having animals in captivity purely for entertainment/profit is objectively bad. Having them in captivity because they’d otherwise be extinct (at the hands of people) is less bad.

Now it’s time for…

Bad Astronaut - San Francisco Serenade

It’s a nice sounding but fairly simple sounding song, and then… probably my favorite bridge/final verse of all time.

>But Severance is a hit. And Apple+ will want many seasons. Its safe.

It’s a hit because people have been watching it as it’s released. Do you see the flaw in your reasoning?

If you’re in the U.S., this might be helpful for you. You have to scroll down a bit (on mobile at least) before it shows you the projections for specific types of practitioners. If it doesn’t have what you’re looking for, maybe it has something that can point you in the right direction.

Edit: didn’t mean to include all that text in the link but too lazy to fix it.

I don’t think our minds are capable of knowing and/or understanding how the universe came to be… But I have to ask, why do religious people (I’m not calling you out, OP) think science needs to have an answer, but when asked where an omnipresent/omnipotent creator came from, they think it’s okay to say “He just has always been.”

Who knows how it all happened. I wish we could know, and maybe it was some inexplicable god, but we need to leave religions beind.

That’s one piece, and a piece that this episode expanded upon by showing how long they had been working together/friends (over a decade).

Then there’s Bill’s note, which made the loss of Tess even heavier, but reenforced the idea that he shouldn’t be helping Ellie just because of a potential cure, but because people like them (Bill and Joel) are their to protect others, something he will feel even more compelled to do given his “failure” protecting Tess.

All of that from one beautifully crafted episode. I haven’t played the game(s), and I think they’re doing a great job of building Joel’s character and allowing the viewer to not just see him change, but also why he’s changing.

Big isn’t a word I would use to describe them. If you were interested the skate punk scene, you were likely aware of them and may have enjoyed a song or two for a short period.

One of their members is also a member of a much, much better band called Bad Astronaut, though.

Everyone read your post correctly, and it’s asinine. Now you’re doubling down by essentially saying “female characters should behave the way I want them to.”

No, this is saying that there is an incredibly low risk of myocarditis following vaccination, but that a COVID infection is still significantly worse. OP knows that 90% people of Redditors will only read the headline and go “There, see… vaccine bad!”

That last part is the “misinformation, and it can be considered such because OP has a history of doing such things.

Buttons and Olivia will have their vengeance if he does.

NSAIDs do not target inflammation. They are delivered systemically and bind to certain molecules present in enzymes that are more abundant at the site of inflammation, inhibiting further production of prostaglandins and reducing inflammation.

In other words, it is more of a passive effect from systemic delivery, but it is not targeting. “Targeting” would imply that the medicine is taken and then goes to a specific location to create an effect; that is not what is happening here.

Even with localized delivery (e.g. steroidal anti-inflammatories), it’s more that a higher concentration is being delivered to the site and directly passing/binding whichever receptor it’s designed for, rather than wandering around until it finds what it needs, so to speak.

They didn’t agree with you at all. You also don’t need soups for hydration; you will get enough water from a healthy diet and normal water intake. Everything you’re saying is wrong… except that soup is delicious, that part is correct.

Hi, I see you’re new to space.com.

It feels almost sensationalist because it is… that’s what they do

I once had a Drill Sergeant who told us “If you have to push, you don’t have to go.”

This reminded me of him, nearly 15 years later.

No, you just have to pay attention. Mine has 3, this one has 4, this one has 3.

The two linked were both in the first few listed on Best Buy, and filtered to only show one brand (Samsung).

That’s it everyone. u/JohnnyAK907 hated pickleball in junior high, might as well pack it up and go home.

Or maybe it’s just people playing a different game, some of whom couldn’t care less about tennis. Jesus, what a sad, bitter comment.