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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I didn't know there were crisis pregnancy centers that were OK? Huh. I just associate them with the whole "You are pregnant and if you abort you are going to HELL!" thing.
OTOH, those women need maternity clothes too, I suppose? But yeah, that's a little awkward, Jess.
Wait, Chase got hacked? I have a credit card with them and haven't gotten any notification.
Technically, a marketing company (Epsilon) that a number of corporations use got hacked, and email addresses were stolen. There was no account information taken.
I got the notification from Chase when I logged into my online account. Best Buy sent me an email.
Modified cannabinoid THC offers pain relief without the buzz
It appears that 5-desoxy-THC is a very specific painkiller. It blocks reflex responses to pain, but doesn't inhibit higher-level processing of painful sensations; on the plus side, it doesn't have the psychoactive side effects of the THC from which it was derived.
I think the Italians are hoarding their pine nuts, because the only ones I can find in the grocery store these days are from China.
If anybody was planning on a trip to Dallas, might I suggest Nov-Feb? [link]
Is that why costco used to have pine nuts for $15 a lb and then they didn't for awhile and now it's $25, sigh?
That post office story makes me laugh. I am sympathetic to how americans fail t see the value in other cultures if only because travel tends to help that and international travel to distinctly different cultures is prohibitively expensive here. We'd have way more passport holders if a bunch of countries were short train hops away.
Oh Tom, happy belated birthday to you!
That post office story makes me laugh. I am sympathetic to how americans fail t see the value in other cultures if only because travel tends to help that and international travel to distinctly different cultures is prohibitively expensive here.
Not just because of the cost of a plane ticket either. We don't have the kind of..I don't know...combo of safety net/job security/something else that makes selling all your stuff to travel Asia for a few months as my British friend is doing.
tommyrot,
I am sending that link to my class. We just had a class discussion about individualist vs. collective orientations.
thanks. quite timely.
We don't have the kind of..I don't know...combo of safety net/job security/something else that makes selling all your stuff to travel Asia for a few months as my British friend is doing.
Lots of countries don't have that. But they also don't have any conviction that they're the big dog in the yard.
I think that's a huge part of it--the luxury to not have to care, because you can probably get what you wanted anyway.