Yes. I remember seeing them advertised on a trip to Japan and not fully understanding how they even worked. It really seemed like the future. It was a few years before they were available here and prices came down enough to use it. My first trip was navigating home from Fry’s

I have always identified with Lawrence “Crash” Davis in Bull Durham.

Well it does …but the side effects are killer.

Eyes aspirin suspiciously…pain reduction, anti-inflammatory, blood thinner, fever reduction. All-in-one package?

I was entranced by the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. Sailing ships, adventure, and a little romance.

It may helpful to think of this in terms of human rights; some rights apply to individuals so even though there may a group of them we’d refer to them as persons e.g. displaced persons. Some rights are held collectively and we would refer to them as a people e.g. Indigenous People of the Amazon.

eta: “Those people” and “you people” are both seen as racist dogwhistles. Your sister was probably laughing because you didn’t intend or get the subtext of your phrasing.

I’m pretty sure it was a quail/dove shoot. It stood out for me because there aren’t many parts of the country where dove hunting is a thing. But Texas? You bet!

This is true for every regulated profession. It’s not exceptional.

I’m not a marksman by any means, but shouldn’t the buttstock be in the pocket of his shoulder? It looks like the recoil from the next shot will send that thing flying backwards

Dude. Seriously?

Are they any better off with it? I don’t the current rates but it used to be around a few pounds of rice. It’s desperation rates for desperate people.

Lol. Welcome to the underbelly of comparative anatomy.

Most places to do it with insects. Sometimes they just leave them out but any organization with volume will use beetles.

I used to teach anatomy 20+ years ago. Sadly many of the skulls are sourced from the poorest people in impoverished countries. Companies pay a death benefit to the families or to the individual and then “harvest” the skull after death. They used to be priced based on the number of teeth and the presence of mandibular/maxillary degeneration. The highest priced skulls would come from donors and would have all their teeth.

Here’s a link to the UCLA scandal if you want to get a feeling for how scummy the entire industry is

U2 at Massey Hall in 1983. It was the “War” tour. They weren’t well known at that point - we bought tickets the day of the show. They were also still professing Christianity and there was a big “John 3:16” banner across the balconies. But Holy shit the energy!

They began to blow up on “The Unforgettable Fire” tour the next year. They played Massey again at the beginning but by the end they were playing much larger venues.

I’d just ignore it and play by pulse. You learn to ignore that stuff - out of time clapping, background noises etc.

Lol.

This drives me nuts too, but most of them fall into one of two categories. They are either B2B so don’t care about individual consumers, or they are “lifestyle” businesses with basically one employee who doesn’t or can’t work excessive hours.

Ebbinghaus didn’t integrate areas under the acquisition curve. He wasn’t a mathematical psychologist.

Whatever that is, it’s not a learning curve. Ebbinghaus defined it in his classic work.