Fluorine.

He seems like a man who, having witnessed extreme violence, developed a philosophy of live and, particularly, violence. Like most philosophies, it was absolutely batshit in practice.

Even more than his writing, his contribution to the craft of writing is impossible to understate, for example the role he had in creating the modern MFA program. He is to writing as Jerry Lewis is to film.

Soak them in strangers’ essential fluids.

[the blood application per the directive was in the shape of a cross]

I think this is somewhat watering down the particular significance of the holiday for mass consumption. After all, what God says is “Let My people go that they may worship Me,” and we are further instructed to tell the ignorant child “With the strength of [His] hand did the Lord take us out from Egypt, from the house…

Since it says “stains” specifically, I’m not sure an idea that dander would be darker would lead to it. It could be anything from stereotypes about occupation to thinking grease wouldn’t be spotted on the skin as readily (and maybe that the teen students aren’t being thorough) to popular grooming products of some time…

The defense must have one hell of a medical expert testimony, as the only way its strategy makes sense is if they plan to prove that the mechanisms of death are totally inconsistent with how pressure to the neck could cause death. If they do, and the prosecution can’t find an expert that disagrees, Minneapolis is…

One annoying thing is that there’s basically no reporting on what the actual issue was. According to the BBC, the issue was that they included participants who were given a half dose for their first dose (who had 9-% efficacy) in the total reported calculation, even though that’s a different protocol. Given that they…

For another news item that you might want to cover, Pew released a report of black demographics yesterday, The Growing Diversity of Black America.

Basically, they had a subset that used a half dose for one of the injections near the beginning of the trial and showed 90% efficacy. Given that they’re not using that regimen right now, they clearly didn’t think the elevated efficacy was much more than noise.

He is a bit more used to high-stress situations, though, given the regularity that the D-line tries to break him.

It might even be verbatim, as it definitely sounds like the Soviet-written “Jimmy is a black boy” text they use in English textbooks.

Probably, but I thought the actual content mattered a bit more, such that full text made sense.

R/askhistorians, which is largely written by professional historians, had an assessment of the theory earlier this week, and the overall impression I got is that tipping is about as tied to racism and slavery as moveable type is to antisemitism:

O.K., there’s a process for that right in there, just pass an amendment. What’s that, you can’t get the support to pass one and so want to just ignore the law? So you’re a Sovereign Citizen nut.

If we don’t acknowledge that the Constitution was written in English, specifically Eighteenth Century legalese, interpreting it in Arabic and thus concluding that it’s nothing but a jumble of meaningless runes becomes no less valid than any other reading. If you think there aren’t any laws in effect in Canada that use…

Of course, these only work if you’re actually seeking help with treatment. Basically all of the “medical” crowd-funds, even the ones making the news, either aren’t actually going to pay for any treatment or (as you note one type of) are going to things that aren’t actually treatments.

The Constitution is the specific operating code of America. Going against it is like stealing the biggest chair in the PMO and claiming that sitting in it makes you the new Prime Minister or like the Sovereign Citizen people who like to go “I reject your laws and substitute my own.”

I don’t think authorial intent is ever going to be invalidated as an approach to constitutional law, as trying to read The Constitution without incorporating that the founding fathers were Anglophone and working in the Latin alphabetwould lead to concluding that it’s just a jumble of nonsense runes. This is…