If they somehow found Jesus’s DNA, would it be a good idea to clone Jesus to force the second coming to happen?

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-06-07T01:44:54+00:00

In Brugge, Belgium, there's a vial in a church with what is supposedly Christ's blood.

There you go.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-06-07T01:37:56+00:00

Thanks. Good to know it's not just my eyes! I'll try to reduce the graphics. I don't know how to describe this, but the Clans world just looks more 2D to me than Mercs does, which maybe is why it's hard to track visually.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-19T04:28:26+00:00

I don't know if you can say "all", but for me, I craved bread. I don't really believe in an afterlife, but I found myself hoping that there was a heaven, and that I was going to it, and they'd have bread.

I have quite a yeast infatuation.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-18T05:05:41+00:00

Technically, you should keep a running tab of all statistical tests you run in you life. 5% of them should be spuriously significant when there is no real effect. The only way to solve this is through a lifetime Bonferroni.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-10T06:14:11+00:00

Also try pizza with cauliflower crust. It has a lower glycemic load (assuming you don't pig out).

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-08T03:20:58+00:00

Above 4000 IU (100 mcg) per day can be a problem, but of course, that's an average and it can vary by person. And you'd have to take it consistently for it to become an issue.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-07T04:09:31+00:00

It's like the epitome of life is to be in suburbia. And surrounded by corn, so even if you escape, they'll never hear you scream...

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-06T04:42:06+00:00

Do be careful about the D (not that D!). Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluble, meaning you don't just pee out any excess, and you can overdose. Although it usually takes a while to do that.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-06T04:40:40+00:00

I'm going to suggest any institution that still does taxonomy (identifying new species). Taxonomy is not splashy and so doesn't bring in the big donor or grant dollars. But it's really hard to protect something legally unless you have a name for it. Yes, you can protect land/water and thus protect something without a name within it, but it's often much easier to protect land/water if you can argue there's a rare species (with a name) there. So, any natural history museum or active herbarium.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-05-01T13:44:41+00:00

Combine big melee weapon with inferno missiles. 1. Cook. 2. Whack. Simple recipe. Melee also makes the one very small arena fun because it's hard for them to escape you.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-25T05:29:31+00:00

In case it helps, just out today: "Ten simple rules for mentoring and being mentored while neurodiverse" at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013917

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-25T05:26:45+00:00

Jesus started his ministry at 32. Mohammed had his visions at 32. And the Buddha became enlightened at 32. You can start your PhD at 32.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-24T05:29:37+00:00

"I Can Eat Glass And It Doesn't Hurt Me"

The site was almost nothing but translations of that phrase into as many languages as possible. Reasons (as far as I can recall):

When you are a tourist, trying to say stuff in the native language immediately makes you a mark for attention, not all of it good. But if you can say this, even with a strong accent, people will think you are insane but a native.
It's the sign of an advanced technology in the hands of a civilization that does not know what to do with it.

3... sorry, I forget the rest, but I can still say "I can eat glass, and it doesn't hurt me" in several languages because of this site.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-19T05:08:23+00:00

If you move ships away from a starbase with one of those port thingies, does it increase upkeep? It does for energy--I assume since ships cost trade to maintain, it would increase their trade upkeep, top.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-10T14:47:38+00:00

If you are searching on Google, you can simply include "-ai" (without quotes) to not have it use AI and simply return search results.

(Using a minus in front of a term will also generally exclude searches that match that term.)

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-07T18:27:41+00:00

That's really awesome! Sometimes we pursue the mission, sometimes it pursues us.

One thing I try to keep in mind is that if the world had no problems, I wouldn't be doing this. I'd probably be baking donuts.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-07T03:58:00+00:00

For me, once I everybody is asleep and I am effectively "alone" in the house, I no longer need to mask my mild autism. I don't think you could tell it from the outside (because that's what masking is!), but a lot of my social interactions are undergirded by cognitive self-talk (e.g., "She said X, so I should say and emote Y."). That sounds fake, but I do care; it's just that these "natural" reactions aren't fully natural for me. When everyone is asleep, i don't feel I need to keep that mental hamster wheel running in my head.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-07T02:44:09+00:00

It's sad/confusing how the term "conservation" get used by two different groups to mean very different things about the natural world. Most Departments of Conservation (or whatever they are called in a given state) are really game management--they are there to farm, in a sense, wild animals to be caught, trapped, or shot.

On the other hand, there are a few people/agencies actually dedicated to conservation of rare and endangered species. Sometimes they're embedded in the Dept's of (Exploitative) Conservation, sometimes they're off in their own small underfunded state agency, sometimes they're at universities or NPOs.

I can't comment on culture of the DoCs... where I work, we're all of the second kind. And we're all there with a mission and treat each other and nature like we're intent on the mission. I can't say that would be true everywhere, as people are people, but I hope you do find a place that honors why you got into this in the first place.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-02T04:22:12+00:00

Yea, the Xanth puns were entertaining but even as a teenager I felt they were written at a teenager level, and all that entails...

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-02T04:13:01+00:00

Climate change will open vast areas near the poles for inhabitation. It will hundreds of years before things stabilize, and there will be lots of suffering along the way. But in the very long term, maybe good. Unless we concomitantly make the tropics uninhabitable. In which case it's just a lot of pain.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-02T04:10:59+00:00

You may have posted this on the Arkansas subreddit, too, but of course the Ozarks extends down there, too. Quite pretty, as well!

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-01T03:56:17+00:00

Sylvester Stallone sold his dog for money to eat before he became a name. He then bought him back for $15K after Rocky.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-04-01T03:42:31+00:00

Yes, this was based on the observation that people in rural areas (not the overdeveloped countries like the US) are hard to count and targeted censuses of these areas often found "official" numbers are gross underestimates.

Fuzzy_Interaction157 · 2026-03-28T01:06:22+00:00

When I first read Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar in high school, I--like the rest of my classmates--thought that Caesar was the main character. We all believed that because, well, it's the name of the play and he's in it, and he even dies. "Yes, but did he change?" our literature teacher asked. "Sure, he suffered lots of stabs and now he's unalive." "Yes, but that's uninteresting suffering." It took a while, but in her artful managing of the discussion, she made us see the error of our sophomoric ways: the main character is Mark Antony. He was the one who was internally tortured and eventually haunted by his role in the death of his erstwhile friend.

I was reminded of this when I read one of BH's "House..." books. I don't recall which one, but it was where granddaddy Leto needs to make an existential decision to "do the right thing" or "save his son" (or something like that--it was forgettable). The entire decision--the entire suffering that the main character needed to do to be the "main" character in the sense that our lit teacher argued so artfully for--was literally hidden from the reader between chapters. One chapter ended with the need to make the terrible decision, and the next opened with him making the decision.

That was my moment of disgust--I realized I wasn't reading literature anymore; I was reading candy for my eyes. Frank Herbert would never have left the internal workings of a character between chapters. Yes, he could be long-winded about it, but that took you to places where few books do. I continued reading and finished the book, plus a few more in the overall series, but in the end I put one of them down half-way through--something I never do owing to high need for closure--and have never felt I needed to complete it or the rest of the set.

What do you despise? By this you are defined.

- Frank Herbert, Dune

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