Wow, I remember that book, loved it when it came out, generations ago. Who knew Enguerrand de Coucy was such a badass?

Bad news for those worrying about other variant pathogens in the jet age, I should think.

I'd like to see some doctors turn from a punitive and sometimes deadly approach with Vicodin.

I have chronic nerve damage pain, and I had to pressure my otherwise sympathetic doctor, to remove the acetaminophen from my daily dosage.

If they had not done that, I would surely have died by now of liver and kidney failure, over the past decade.

That little smile, I'm in love. Such a cute cat too.

Awwwww the squint, squeeeeeee!!

I see what you did there

Iirc from a book I read decades ago, amanita muscaria was used

Moon Towers in Austin maybe?

Ask a bus driver...

Hold my beer (and cheesecake)

Congratulations on being one of the very few people on Reddit who can spell 'buses' correctly.

And the solution: make it available to all income groups, eventually ending rental as a major component of housing.

I was thinking of the research that showed persistence of consciousness after clinical death (PET scans?), and wondering how resilient these molecules are. The Bardo Thos Gröl mentions speaking loudly into the ear of the recently deceased, to comfort them and guide them.

If you had read your own link, you would realize the Price-Anderson Act subsidizes insurance with tax money. There is no purely commercial insurance available without that subsidy. The risks are too great.

If reactors are so safe, why can't they get commercial insurance?

On the contrary, justice is essential to a good joke, as it releases the tension we feel with our oppressors. It reduces their power over us, and strengthens social ties; that's why (e.g.) making fun of Ivanka Trump's incompetency is funny. Just think of the blank look in her eyes when someone uses a word like "precarity" or "hegemony." Suddenly she looks like a cornered rabbit.

Punching down functions to release the tension of compassion instead--we feel uncomfortable with a group that needs relief from the oppression that we participate in and/or profit from. Such jokes fuel rage and violence.

That's why Dave Chappelle will soon be forgotten--he makes jokes that encourage hatred against Black transgender women. It's embarrassing, and should be. People who are laughing with him now will "forget" they ever did, within a decade.

Jokes at the expense of the homeless are cheap, punching down. I don't find them funny.

I just hacked your bank account and planted false stories about your reputation. Now you're homeless. Would you like to freeze in a stuffy can and work alone for a few years, to pay for your sins?

Of course, I have done no such thing. But the homeless have similar stories. The biggest story is that we have been tricked into letting a super-rich class suck our lifeblood forever. Capitalism is a curse.

Any corporation that tries this should be burned to the ground.