@taatm@mekkaokereke That's what I was thinking. They kind of get more of a chance to grow out of the ideas they form as teens, when they eventually form long term relationships with women. Which nerds can do too of course and which some jocks fail to do. It's that growing out of it thing that's key I think. So many misogynistic attitudes of adult men sound so juvenile. Sound like the ideas of boys who haven't learned better by experience of the real world.
I see the fire in LA is potentially threatening the Hollywood sign. Well, whatever, who cares about a stupid sign when people are losing their homes? But it would certainly make a compelling image if it burns, and we need images that make people wake up and demand something, anything, be done about climate change.
@RickiTarr Their relationship is such a great part of the show. Ben doesn't always get things right first time - because no parent ever does. But he's always trying his very best.
de Hevesy, who had Jewish grandparents, later had to flee Copenhagen, but after the war, he returned to his lab, to find the solution undisturbed on the shelf. He precipitated the gold out of the acid and sent the gold to Stockholm, where the Nobel Society then recast the medals using the recovered gold and returned them to the two laureates.
There are lots of ways to resist evil, including being intellectually kickass, like George de Hevesy, a Hungarian radiochemist, working in Denmark prior to WW2. German scientists and opponents of the Nazis, Max von Laue and James Franck sent their Nobel Prize medals to Denmark to keep them from being taken by the Nazis. When Denmark fell, de Hevesy dissolved the medals in acid and left the resulting solution on a shelf in his lab at the Nihls Bohr Institute. 1/2
I've said for years many people have this idea that absolutely anyone can open a bar, a restaurant or a coffee shop, despite zero experience or knowledge, and that they will make money hand over fist with barely any effort. Guess they've never wondered about the high turnover of those kinds of businesses.
It's the 1st day of Advent and Day 1 of #GoatWatch2024! The Gävle goat will be officially inaugurated later today with a concert and various other events in the day and evening.
Then GoatWatch is ON! Will he remain unburned? Will the local birds eat him to bits again? :julbock:
My own Julbock, Lumpy, who I crocheted last year, is out for #GoatWatch2024 . Free pattern here if you want to make one! Which will almost certainly look neater than mine. https://www.jarbo.se/gavlebocken-92269
@corbden@jrefior@mekkaokereke Oh I do love to do the last part. When someone makes a bigoted joke, just keep saying you don't get it and can they explain it please?
@persagen Christ on a bike. Imagine you're someone who's served your country for decades, worked your way to the very highest ranks of the military, and now you've got to deal with this absolute clown as Secretary of Defense.
@PabloMartini@ChrisMayLA6 It's so foolish to try to treat railways as a profit centre. It should be treated as a strategic asset for the country, moving people around efficiently for work, leisure, tourism and business. Why would any sensible country want to make it hard and expensive for people to go places where they will spend money and earn money?
You know, the way the motorway network is treated.
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