What’re some examples of governments trying to preempt a revolution by conceding some demands and a different population rising in rebellion in response?
The aerobic energy issues have been gradually resolving all along; they got stronger with new Covid cases but diminishingly so and that seems tapped out now.
In a year and a half I expect them to be totally cleared up, in the interim I need to burn less fat to compensate every day.
Based on past progression I expect by then I’ll be a bit muscle-twinky but not like, gaunt. If I want to retain more fat, I can just stop the creatine entirely at 3’ or even 4’ scoops and I’ll manage until the aerobic fully recovers, especially if I’m not doing physical labor.
Remember: as intelligent creatures, horses avoid trying to occupy the same space as others, and must be specifically trained to trample.
For obvious reasons, modern police horses are not trained to trample, so when they charge a crowd it’s a morale check; if the crowd stands its ground the horses will pull up before them.
(A crowd not specifically trained for this morale check will reliably fail it.)
There was some random car key fob sitting by an Amazon package on my porch this morning and deuced if I can figure out how to get word to the guy that delivered it. (I mean, how would he drive off without it, tho?)
One of the most clear examples of animal suicide would most likely be the suicidal behavior of tarsiers that are kept in captivity. Tarsiers are nervous and shy by nature, and they don’t do well in captivity. Many activities associated with captivity, such as camera flashes, being touched, and being kept in an enclosure, can stress the tarsiers. This stress can lead to sore eyes, which is an indication of a poor diet, and the lighting usually used in captivity can cause long-lasting damage to the eyes. When they feel too stressed out, they start beating their heads against hard surface, which leads to death.
Aristotle described an unverified story involving one of the King of Scythia’s horses dying by suicide after having been made to unwittingly impregnate its mother in his History of Animals.
Carpenter ants and some species of termite will rupture glands and expel a sticky toxic substance thought to be an aliphatic compound in a process called autothysis. Termites will use autothysis to defend their colony, as the ruptured gland produces a sticky harmful secretion that leads to a tar baby effect in defense. When threatened by a ladybug, the pea aphid will explode itself, protecting other aphids and sometimes killing the ladybug. Another example is the Camponotus saundersi, or Malaysian worker ant, which is capable of dying by suicide by exploding.
imagine if humans could do this so people who were really depressed just one day exploded into goo.
Ah, okay, a while ago when after weight loss I was growing less skin all the stretch marks close to the centerline of my torso had disappeared, now it seems we’re doing the more distal ones from top down, I’m not used to feeling it like this.
I remember when those first showed up in college – after what in retrospect was the depression side of manic depression first showed up – I was bummed cause I had thought I could always lose weight later but I felt with that I had ruined my body forever by being fat.
I know I’ve posted about this before, but seriously: what is it about Matt Yglesias? The dude mostly just posts mundane, obviously-correct center-left takes all day long, but there’s this segment of the Pundit Class who is convinced that he’s Satan von SuperHitler.
He takes the Clinton ‘90s as the refoundation of the Democratic Party seriously.
Not just any paper maps, they had textbook sized atlases of the entire delivery area with each street meticulously mapped out.
These were insanely handy and a new edition came out just about every year to stay up to date on construction and road changes. I remember stocking my car with these for any of the cities I tended to travel to because they were the only way to actually get anywhere unless you wanted to call a friend and get very in depth instructions on how to get there.
AAA is now mostly known for roadside assistance, but at one time their primary business was MAPS.
For a few bucks a month you could become a Triple-A member and yeah, roadside assistance was one of the perks. BUT ALSO you could pick up the phone, call their 1-800 number, and tell the human operator who answered that you were planning a road trip.
They’d get your starting and destination address. Ask a few questions: what kinds of hotels you liked, preferred gas stations, any interest in touristy things?
Then in 7 to 10 days you’d get a thick package in the mail of carefully customized maps. Each map was the size of a paperback book cover, perfect for holding in the passenger’s or driver’s lap. Each was enumerated starting at #1 and ending at #whatever number of minimaps the trip required, with a hand-drawn highlighter pathdrawn on the map marking the route from one edge to another; entrance & exit points for that section of the route.
Motels, gas stations, and (if requested) tourist traps were indicated in color coded ink – again, by hand. Sometimes detours were drawn in red marker, overriding the printed map because AAA kept up to date on road closures & regional disasters.
These maps were customized for your particular trip, and were invaluable since GPS did not exist. Unless you were familiar with the local region, the alternative was buying a map at the next gas station and guessing.
GPS is amazing and I wouldn’t want to give up the ease & simplicity of Google Maps, but my god the old tech was miraculous too in its own way.
