My younger kid was not reading in kindergarten and his teacher was very worked up about it. We were adamant that it was not a problem and that he would read when he was ready to read. By the end of first grade he was reading well beyond his peers. By third grade he was getting in trouble for reading in class after he had done his classwork. Sometimes teachers can be stupid just like everyone else. In any case, letting the rascal sneak in extra reading is not really a problem.

Man, you got rolled. Your only out is to go to the Police.

The one vaccine you mentioned. This vaccine (or the versions that work) uses the approach of live attenuated fungus which may face regulatory hurdles in humans.

The live attenuated approach is being used in this not-yet-approved one:

https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2023-1/lessons-from-horticulture-pioneering-the-first-antifungal-vaccine/

I believe, though, that at least in the U.S. there is not a single approved anti-fungal vaccine for humans.

A vaccination can be for anything for which you want to "prime" the immune system. Priming means exposing the immune system to something which will produce a condition where the immune system can respond more quickly when it encounters that something again. In theory, we could get vaccinated against fungi as well but given that they are evolutionary far closer to animals than are bacteria or viruses requiring the vaccine efforts to focus on specific differences (e.g. cell wall sugars in fungi). Even so, there may be problems with, for instance, creating food allergies (we eat a lot fo fungi and fungi are close to plants evolutionarily).

Well, that's relieving. I didn't know we were planning on harvesting human blood to make bricks, though.

Well, I make that mistake all the time. In fact, when you wrote "mauve" I thought "green".

Computers don't "need" GPUs. It's just that if you have the CPU doing all of the processing for images then there is a whole lot less CPU "time" available to do all the general-purpose stuff a computer does and everything would be slower - including the graphics. GPUs are designed to mathematical processing very quickly and can do graphics processing while the CPU is doing other general-purpose stuff. There are lots of chips on a motherboard doing special purpose stuff so that the CPU doesn't have to do it (that's why phones now have SoC - they put a bunch of special purpose shit on the same die as the CPU).

Just rock the look. It was intentional.

The politics are entirely the point. Ayn Rand set out to write political polemic in fiction. Her goal was to sell her political philosophy to young people. She never tried to hide her intent.

"no real standout performance per se"??? Gary Oldman was and is brilliant in this.

Interesting that you like S2 more than S1. S1 was very, very close to the book while S2 has tweaked the story a bit more for television.

That's really on Sweden. Don't be lending 1000 Volvos to anyone. Certainly not North Korea.

Interesting - there are a lot of "greek style" pizza places in MA as well. I detest Greek style pizza. Luckily, there are plenty of real pizza places as well.

The Dutch - always making it out of the Group Stage.

I unabashedly like this brand of petty shit. It makes me laugh.

This is so weird. I always thought that Time Warner bought AOL.

There really isn't. Since there is an extra 30 minutes in scoreless games it makes it extra hard to win without scoring a non pk goal.

Professional soccer in the U.S. probably also trails college football and college basketball...

This is how I feel and I just started them again.

Someone's got a sweet ride and diabetes in their future.

The "fancy" part is not nearly as important as the "food" part. You likely could go to a restaurant with more interesting food for less money than you spent at Ruth's Chris Steak House.

It's a euphemism. You have it precisely backwards, The joke is that people use the euphemism to take the sting of death away, It doesn't matter if you die peacefully or die from a shark. You are dead.

That's the other problem: having a room in your house big enough to have a full size snooker table.

Why use the euphemism "passed away". He died.

Love snooker but tables to play on are a lot harder to find.

Except that's not what's happening. The Glazers purchase was HIGHLY leveraged (the debt was twice the cash invested). Their return on THEIR investment is far, far greater than 7% ARR. Their roughly $500M investment has an ARR much closer to 15% - far better than any stock index. I'd also add, as a marque EPL team, there was essentially zero downside risk, I defy you to find a better investment.