“Essentially, the Court of Criminal Appeals said that while Oklahoma’s forcible sodomy laws offered five definite examples of what constitutes force, it did not include incapacitation or unconsciousness.”

So, by the letter of the law, once a person is unconscious or incapacitated, one can then perform forcible sodomy…

I also would have thought there would be a bonus for walking or cycling. Those are 60 minutes of free exercise a day. Yet it ranked me very near the bottom and described that as an hour “lost” per day. When i lived in Boston and cycled to work every day, i was SO BUFF. My thighs were indestructable.

Not wasted time,…

Yup, exactly this. I relocated about 8 years ago and took a 50 % pay cut. Fortunately, i did a TON of retirement investing in the first 10 years of my career. I’m hoping that compensates for the last 10 years.

Also, i’d be retiring somewhere even cheaper than where i live now, further stretching the money. My current…

I actually “failed” the measurement, which thrilled me. I’d been trying to get Essure for years. Not being a candidate for an IUD meant i had ammunition to finally get fixed.

I’m still frustrated when i think of how many women are turned down for IUDs and sterilization. It took me 10 years to work up the courage to…

I wish. I had mint when i moved into my house. 2 winters ago it all died :(

Exactly. I would pony up for Technecium or Francium, Polonium, maybe a little Ytterbium. But Radon?

Not an element i want a bunch of stuff named after, oddly.

I haven’t read the book, but the movement of segmented or biphasic sleeping is pretty big in my circles. My family especially - Finns and Swedes, the lot of us - has more biphasic sleepers than not. When it’s dark outside >12 hours a day falling asleep at sunset and rising at dawn doesn’t make a ton of sense. Many of…

Yup, i came hoping to get a quick guide to distinguishing the alphabets of southeast Asia, or India.

I would like to have seen that friend’s expression had i taken them to Man Ray back in the day, before it was bulldozed. My first time there i used what i thought was the ladies’ room. Turns out all restrooms there were unisex, as i discovered when the urinal next to me got used by a 6 tall, burly bearded man in pink…

OMG yes. There is a scene in Equilibrium which i can barely watch for related reasons. (Yes, that was semi spoilery but is that movie old enough yet i can mention that non humans die? And that it’s fucking DEVASTATING.)

I would have responded with something related to the presentation, like, “You mean as test subjects? That’s highly unethical you know. Mice can’t give informed consent but for now they are the accepted standard for this cancer cell line” etc etc.

I willfully misunderstand most questions like the babies one, mostly…

I’m amused at my density today. I do squats while i brush my teeth, so i was all excited for this article. “What exercise could be better than squats?? Sign me up!”

;)

Interesting. Now, i wish i could fix my grocery store problem: I hate spending money so much i talk myself out of most of the items on my list. If i have a list of 10 things, i generally convince myself that 5 of them are luxury items i don’t need. If it weren’t for the salad bar at work and amazon subscribe and save,…

Oh, i went through this when i first took up a new sport. Every single Saturday morning practice, and most of the 3 h Monday practices, would result in me getting a visual migraine at the same spot in my 30 minute drive home. For me, it was a low blood sugar issue - i couldn’t force enough food in my stomach on a…

Wait. SO for those of us who strongly prefer iced or room temp coffee, this sounds like the PERFECT solution. I loathe the fact that most drip brewers won’t let you brew with the hotplate off, thus increasing the time it takes for the coffee to cool to my favored drinking temperature. I switched to a French Press for…

Wait. SO for those of us who strongly prefer iced or room temp coffee, this sounds like the PERFECT solution. I…

If i weren’t at work i’d be adding those to the netflix queue as we speak ;)

Looks very tasty.

I stopped after 2-3 episodes of the last season. It was not even remotely the same. :(

I miss the original Being Human so much right now :(

I mean, i miss watching it for the first time. I could re-watch it but....meh.

Exactly. I was going to say, i’ve never cheated because i’ve always had a few rules to cover those situations. I have, however, bent those rules RIGHT to the very edge of their interpretability.

I have since improved my communication skills, both with the SO and with myself.

When i clean, i take everything not in its proper place and put it somewhere incredibly inconvenient, like on the bed or couch. It means i really HAVE to finish cleaning once i start. The hallway system (if i had a hallway) would help keep the main rooms tidy in smaller doses. I think this system is a good one and…