+1 for Threshold

Someone mentioned in a different article’s comments that the family might be wondering where those bankruptcy papers are at, so that they can start selling off assets and move into the next phase of their standard business plans...

http://gazette.com/scandal-filled-air-force-academy-sexual-assault-office-derelict-in-care-for-victims-report-says/article/1616005

Someone else noted in the comments of another recent thread that the mental gymnastics for those last steps aren’t that hard, it’s the initial leap to accepting some wild idea as absolute truth without proof that’s the hard part. Making the rest of their perception of the world fit that one idea becomes a developed…

Hopefully that girl (president of Students For Life) might get some additional information at some point... it’s certainly not impossible, as some of her organization’s former members have found for themselves. https://ourbodies.hercampus.com/16-college-women-on-why-they-changed-their-minds-about-abortion/

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I can’t find links to any online articles for said theories, but remember reading some references to Chinese methods for numbers and the abacus, where four <orders of magnitude> is the largest thing before going to the next size up. This related to fingers—>hand. Sizing down didn’t see the same fractioning, for…

Without knowing much of anything about you specifically, muscle is a fair bit heavier per cc than fat, so it’s certainly possible for someone to have Bruce Lee’s weight/height and look like a soft blob (5'7", up to 165lbs).

Ah, Mumbles...

It’s been awhile since I last watched Airplane... I wonder how well that one holds up.

Even assuming forgiveness by God, that doesn’t imply that one gets to keep privileges. “You won’t have your hands chopped off” is what you get, not “you get to keep doing what you did wrong”.

And French. But that’s not so bad.

He’s a professor at NYU

Indeed...

1:10000 chance of death... and I can spend $0-10 to reduce that even more... better than a lottery ticket, for sure.

It isn’t just that, there’s also “this service is working great, we have an opportunity to cash some surplus out of it and into a service that isn’t working great”... see the USPS, cuts in funding by forcing its pension fund to buy US bonds (under Bush) to prop up the federal financial picture instead of leaving it…

Becky 2 is a surrogate for Becky 1, something like that...

Was using a Martin Freeman image intentional?

This year, yeah, probably fresh water. A few years ago, sea spray certainly did its own thing...

Private business competing with public services, sure... UPS, FedEx vs. USPS. Privatization, not so much (FedEx being the sole vendor for shipping for the US military for years...)