Natureboy

Starving students: need to overcome your social inhibitions about attending all those miscellaneous wine & cheese receptions or tea & cookies after the seminar. Why? Because there's food!

Had a weird, long dream this morning. It eventually took a rather creepy turn, involving temptation and personal restraint. I felt good for doing the right thing and trying to protect that girl, but other ways it made me feel were yuck. Now as penance, I'm reading Kyou no Asuka Show on mangadex.  DD:

"Hay is for horses."  Oh.  DP must be trying to attract Ponies.

Lewd

From 2014, Helena Bonham Carter posing for the campaign to end overfishing.  https://fishlove.co.uk/

(The Lily Loveless poster evokes the famous Japanese painting of The Fishman's Wife, which is sometimes claimed as the first recorded instance of tentacle hentai. )

I'm too lazy anyway

Working on my potbelly instead

You have much to learn my padawan.  First are you seeking a true beer belly that can be made hard as a rock, should the circumstances warrant, or a softer jelly belly that bounces when you wiggle? The paths to embelliment diverge.

This is great lol

Spoiler

Cash, gas, or ass

No one rides for free

As a long-distance hitchhiker, I used to hate that sh*t.  It's like: "We might give you ride if u not ugly, but be ready for some epic sexual harassment." 

Didn't mind helping out with gas money.  Knew better than to carry grass while doing something the cops might use as a excuse to search me. Would rather ride the smelly old bus with the winos than the kind of immature exploitative troll who'd put that bumper sticker on their van.

So . . . wimps and weaklings should take their military service early. It'll hurt a lot, but they'll have a chance of building up enough strength and stamina during basic training. 

Guys working in construction/logging/farming, gym rats and athletes could put it off until it's more 'convenient', like during a down-turn in construction work or when an athlete gets traded to a crappy team.

Your body recovers a lot faster at 18 than it does at 30 was my point

Obviously you're not 60 but it's still worse at 30. Depends on individual fitness/health too of course

Brute strength in males often continues to increase to about 40.  Recovery times and the rate you respond to conditioning drops off during your 20s and 30s.  Baseline stamina may peak in your late 20s or early 30s, but if you've been sedentary it'll take longer for you to train up to the same level as a younger guy. One advantage for military basic training, guys in their 30s usually have higher pain thresholds than teenagers or men in their 20s. (Women usually have higher pain thresholds in their early childbearing years, but guys tend to tolerate more pain later on.) Quickness and reflexes slow during your 30s as well. Fortunately for older guys, the rate at which you get out-of-shape also slows--at least until testosterone levels drop later in life. Thus you can maintain similar levels of strength and stamina with less frequent training. In sports like basketball, veteran players over 30 tend to rely on strength instead of quickness, and guile (knowing the game better) rather than pure speed or playing above the rim.

remove eyebrows, apply coloured sharpie

The actress and sometime psychic, Shirley MacLaine, had to shave her eyebrows for a role. Then they never fully grew back!  Was kind of awkward to have pencil drawn eyebrows during later times when full eyebrows were in fashion.

Thx but why would I be trolling my only friend who accepts me with my natural hair color

I forget what your natural hair color is.  I'm sure it just fine.  XXXOOO

so there's this pesticide that Monsanto introduced in 1966 to increase yield of corn and soybeans called "Roundup Ready" , the primary ingredient is glyphosate which the world health organization reviewed and said its a "probable carcinogen."

not surprisingly a congressman from Texas wants to cut funding to the WHO

No. 

Two issues here:  Whether Roundup (glyphosate) is a carcinogen, and secondly the introduction of soybeans with genetically engineered resistance to glyphosphate, the "Roundup Ready" kind.

The surfactant used in the name-brand Roundup is well-known to be damaging to wetland animals, for example degrading the mucus layer that allows frogs to leave the water to feed.  A surfactant (soap-like substance) is used to increase herbicide penetration of waxy leaves and speed drying times. It shortens the interval when unexpected rain will just wash it off the plants. Evidence about health effects Roundup ingredients in mammals is more ambiguous. There's another glyphosate product without the surfactant (brand name Rodeo) that's approved for control of unwanted plants in or near streams and wetlands.

There are a variety of more-or-less safe alternatives to glyphosate for control of broad leaved weeds in grass-like (monocot) crops. Not so much for soybeans and alfalfa.  Hence the farmer interest in, and market for, "Roundup Ready" engineered legumes (soybeans, peas, alfalfa, etc.). The introduction of those GMO varieties greatly increased the market for glyphosate and the potential environmental damage from that herbicide.

For example, a niece of mind had been getting horse manure for her large garden for several years.  Then one year everything she planted died almost immediately.  Tracing back the cause, it was alfalfa in the horse food that had been genetically engineered to tolerate glyphosate and thus had large residues of the herbicide when converted to horse silage. Also, apparently, despite glyphosate degrading fairly rapidly in soil, it goes through the gut of a horse completely intact!

So yeah. Monsanto had a extra economic motive for developing those genetically engineered crops, and that has led to more environmental damage from glyphosate and more glyphosate residues on a much wider variety of crops in the human diet. Hence renewed interest in it as a potential carcinogen as people are exposed to much more of it.

As to whether that Texas congressman is in Monsanto's pocket, I don't know. Cutting funding for WHO in an era of higher risks of things like ebola outbreaks is, of course, very short-sighted.

There's something jarring about Yoda discussing kpop.

Finally start reading on MangaDex, just to be greeted by a bad gateway message.

Tfw you're trying to sleep and your cat walks on your balls

Tfw a cat uses your crotch as a spot to push off of to turn while chasing their sibling.  

With the many worlds interpretation (of QM) and history-preserving processes (that tend to be favored for the entropy production), once you go back in time it would seem impossible to re-find the timeline where you started.  For SciFi plot amour you have to invent some unknown physics that return you to the original timeline by default.  So many important physical processes in complex systems exhibit the butteryfly effect (exponential divergence based on small differences in initial conditions) that the argument that only "significant' quantum events can generate multiple worlds just doesn't hold water.  Very large numbers of new worlds should be branching off all the time.