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  1. It's been a while since I took an anthropology course, but there is pretty solid fossil evidence in multiple clades suggesting they cared for injured or aged individuals. Neanderthals (Shanidar Cave is a notable example), anatomically modern humans and others I can't recall off the top of my head. Evolution, by definition, responds only to selection pressures and lacks a a pre-determined trajectory, but this forced devolution of human decency has both a very obvious pre-determined trajectory and obvious instigators. It's a shame so many people refuse to see it.
  2. The asteroid that killed most of what you think of as dinosaurs was ~6-9 miles in diameter. It killed ~75% of life on earth, but a bunch of dinosaurs still made it through. There are currently twice as many bird species, as there are mammal species. This thing sounds like a baby at 100-300 feet across, but that puts the minimum estimate (100 foot diameter) as a Tunguska explosion sized blast, which would be cataclysmic regionally. For reference, Hiroshima was ~16 kilotons, Nagasaki was ~21 kilotons. The Tunguska explosion happened in 1908 in the middle of Siberia. Tunguska was 3-50 megatons, most common estimate is ~15 megatons, close to 1000X the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Tunguska may have been an asteroid, or maybe a comet, but whatever it was, likely airburst at an altitude of ~6 miles. It leveled ~800 sq. miles of trees and charred ~100 sq. miles of trees adjacent to the blast. People felt the explosion in London and were able to see the light from it on the east coast of the US. 15 megatons is the most common estimate for Tunguska, so here's a nuke map estimate of a 15 megaton explosion hitting Houston. 100% probability of 3rd degree burns all the way from Sugar Land to La Porte. Again, this is the minimum predicted size, the asteroid could be up to 3X bigger. If this asteroid does hit, it's going to obliterate anything it hits, so hope for the ocean. The track posted upthread goes right over Mumbai, Calcutta and everything in between them, then Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. All of those are ~20 million each. Also Lagos at >13 million, Bogota at >10 million among others. For even the minimum possible size estimate, if it hit one of them, the death toll would be in the millions. NASA made physical contact with a ~500 foot asteroid a couple of years ago, so hopefully no one working on that project has been purged. That institutional knowledge could wind up being pretty important.
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    Colonoscopy

    You know how you can flush a toilet by quickly dumping a bucket of water into it? Y'all, I just did that with my ass. Came out with so much force, it smashed back and hit 2/3 of the way up the lid. Not the seat. The lid. I did think it was pretty considerate of me to courtesy flush for myself.
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    Colonoscopy

    One of the not fun parts of field work is taking a shit in a port-a-potty with crazy strong winds shaking the shit out of you, and everything else. We refer to it as riding the rocket. I started Gavilyte a few hours ago and the taste isn't that bad with the lemon flavoring, but I'm riding the rocket tonight. Procedure is in 10 hours and I'm fucking starving. Chicken broth earlier, about to have green jello and a different brand of chicken broth for dinner for variety. If this is the worst of it, I'm really glad I'm finally doing this. It's not fun, but much better than I expected.
  5. I'm so sorry Brisket. Your dad sounds like he was an amazing human being. Y'all were lucky to have him and his legacy lives on in you and your kids. Loss of a loved one hits like a freight train when it first hits, but these things get easier with time. Never goes away, but it does get easier to bear. May memories of your father carry you until then.
  6. Please, that dude doesn't even know the right words.
  7. and that you hang out with polydactyl cats.
  8. What do you expect when you send a package through a vacation destination like Woodbridge, IL? You are competing against Cypress Grove Aquatic Park and Seven Bridges Ice Arena, dude. You'll be lucky if your jersey ever gets tired of Woodbridge. I'd order another one and this time, make sure it ships through Oklahoma.
  9. They showed a longer clip later. Bielema did the "substitution penalty" with arms extended as soon as he left his own sideline and continued it the entire way across the field.
  10. They don't have much depth, so Rocket Sanders sitting out killed their running game and they rely on RPOs pretty heavily.
  11. Illinois had been subbing late and Beamer was complaining to the refs about it. There was an injured Illinois player on the South Carolina side of the field. Bielema waddled across the field with arms extended in a "substitution penalty" taunting Beamer. Then continued to do so, rather than checking on his injured player. No flag. Beamer was pissed, went ape shit and was yelling at the refs "you saw that", and yelling at Bielema for being trash.
  12. Yup, he's still a freshman. I've watched pretty much all their games and he can be really good, but he makes freshman mistakes.
  13. I've got popcorn, let's take this strugglefest to overtime.
  14. Texas 37 ASU 13 TX rushing yards = 278
  15. CSB alert/ We set up Skittlebrau as a blind taste test at a grad school happy hour once. Results confirmed our expected hypotheses. Citrus ones with light beers were the "best". Anything with grape is horrible.
  16. They are the real UT.
  17. Apparently Bingo is a Bum Scooter too. Probably the Bum Worms.
  18. This episode of Bluey is called "Touchdown".
  19. Lots of PTSD still floating around this fanbase.
  20. There are 3:30 left in the first quarter and our D has dominated most of the game and almost all of the season. The D has this and if they don't, we weren't winning the next rounds anyway.
  21. Great pass block by Wisner.
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