Pigs in Space? I'm all for that. If we could just send a few select terrestrial porkers on a one-way trip there, the world would be a better place.
But sadly, after bellying up to the news trough a little while ago, I discovered the latest "product" from an as yet earth-bound swine who's been using the current "Epstein files" conspiracy re-birth to garner attention by using the issue of them - whatever they may or may not contain - to throw shade at his former partner-in-slime, who's now wallowing in the White House for a second time.
I'd say that I find this latest offering from Musk beyond disgusting and a lot more than problematic as it relates to *children*, but that wouldn't even begin to cover the new-found level of cosmic loathing I now have for Anything For A Buck Elon...
< XAI launches pornographic AI 'companions' >
"On the same day that xAI bagged its Pentagon contract, Musk announced the release of pornographic AI "companions" on Grok 4. Ani, one of the companions, is a voluptuous anime character who will strip down to lingerie after users engage with her enough. There's even a progress bar to indicate how close users are to watching the chatbot undress. The male companion, named Valentine, was programmed to have a personality "inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades," according to Musk."
"Despite the overt sexual nature of Grok's companions, they are available to users *as young as 12 years old* and come with a "Kid Mode" that can be activated. They also have an NSFW mode." (emphasis mine)
"XAI is offering up to $440,000 to hire an engineer who can develop what will essentially be AI girlfriends."
Placido Domingo, everyone. My husband and I both defeated Thor and Vlad at Wingspan last night. Thor made an apple crumble, and he says we're out of brown sugar and butter now, so I guess I'll need to go to Walmart. No camp today. I hear the Drama Queen family is coming over later.
Just a thought on Europe v USA and digital privacy. Over here, every time I go to a new web page I have to accept all sorts of conditions. But I am offered the choice of a dozen individual choices or not. So I generally reject accepting them. But I have accepted a few.
I've noticed that in the MS Edge web browser that I get stories related to what I have clicked on before, that's fine. But I noticed that after posting my CSLF posts that my stories are related to it. I never looked up Bologna's leaning towers, but I get articles about them. 🤔
"I think it is okay just to be sad when tragedy occurs; I think it is crucial we recognize others may be grieving, and to give them time and space to do so, with our support, even if we don't feel it ourselves. I don't grieve nationally, I grieve personally."
Thank you for writing this, Jay. This and the rest of your post lift (from everyone) the specter of needing to over-emote about literally freepin everything. It's hard enough to deal with your own immediate-life stuff without the obligation to summon deep emotion over every person who dies in a disaster (why just in a natural disaster, why not every car accident or fall?) let alone "grieving" over the 2008 financial panic. GAAAH.
I'm really not a sociopath, although I play one on the interwebs (and in real life), but puh-leeze.
Thank you for your kind words. I've never seen you as a sociopath! In reading comments I see your concern with others grieving impersonal events. My GAAAH moment was our minister announcing a grief group for the results of the 2024 election. 🤦♂️
At a depth of **20,000 feet** (about **6,096 meters**) in seawater, the pressure is immense due to the weight of the water above.
- 🌊 **Pressure in psi (pounds per square inch):** Approximately **2,650 psi**
- 🌬️ **Pressure in atmospheres (atm):** Roughly **175 atm**
At 20,000 feet below sea level—roughly 6,000 meters—you’re in the abyssal zone, where pressure exceeds 2,650 psi or 175 atmospheres. Only a handful of sea creatures can survive here, and even fewer can traverse the full vertical range from surface to abyss. But there are some remarkable contenders:
🐙 Deep-Diving Sea Animals
Animal Depth Range Adaptations
Bigfin Squid Up to 20,300 ft Gelatinous body, no swim bladder, long elastic arms
Dumbo Octopus 1,000–23,000 ft No ink sac, soft body, strand-like suction cups
Cusk Eel Up to 27,000 ft Flexible skeleton, sensory barbels, slow metabolism
Mariana Snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) 20,000–26,000+ ft High TMAO levels, no gas-filled organs, pressure-adapted proteins
These animals don’t necessarily migrate from surface to abyss regularly, but they can survive at those depths and have evolved to handle the crushing pressure.
⚙️ Structural Mechanisms That Enable Survival
Here’s how they pull off this deep-sea feat:
• No Gas-Filled Spaces: Unlike surface fish, deep-sea species lack lungs or swim bladders, which would collapse under pressure.
• Water-Filled Bodies: Their tissues are mostly water, which is incompressible and balances internal and external pressure.
• Flexible Skeletons: Bones are reduced or cartilaginous, allowing compression without damage.
• Pressure-Stable Proteins: Molecules like TMAO (trimethylamine N-oxide) stabilize enzymes and proteins under extreme pressure.
• Gelatinous Tissues: Soft, jelly-like bodies deform without breaking—think blobfish or deep-sea jellyfish.
• Slow Metabolism: Conserves energy in low-oxygen, low-food environments.
• Specialized Cell Membranes: Stay fluid under pressure thanks to unsaturated fats
With a statistically unusual proportion of our CSLF readers and authors, hailing from or having hailed from, Ohio, PA, WV, VA, NC -- the JD Vance Memorial Appalaicha momma and poppa mountains - :)
I hope you are all safe - and I'm sure folks know that staying away from getting home is the right thing to do when confronted with a swift moving wash across a road. Be safe
A Level 3 of 4 flooding rain threat was in place for parts of northern and southeast Virginia and northeastern West Virginia, with Level 2 of 4 risks covering portions of the mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Midwest, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
The mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley have been hit by round after round of soaking rain this summer, leaving the soil less able to absorb additional rain and area waterways swollen. And a stalled storm front draped across more than half a dozen states dumped multiple rounds of rain in the Midwest throughout the day.
Portions of western Virginia were already seeing significant effects. Two people were recovered and taken to the hospital after being swept away by floodwaters in Dickenson County, after heavy rain hit the area, according to Sheriff Jeremy Fleming.
I'm 11 miles from the border of Ohio/Heaven, errr, Indiana. But we're a 30 minute drive from Middletown, which is probably 15-20 minutes from the edge of Appalachia.
Our house sits on a hill--3/4ths of Eaton Ohio will be under water before it reaches us.
My bed has been delayed till Oct 1st, supply chain issues, I was told...Sigh, I am not happy. I have to sleep on my decrepit bed for two extra months, though the other furniture is still being delivered next Saturday, so I can start moving things out of my living room and deciding where I am going to put what.
Ha, if I had a comfortable couch, I would be sleeping there...But, I have a weird couch, my side is just a slightly expanded seat, then there is a console separating the couch, and the other half is Ricks, which is basically a recliner...lol
Cool, if unusual-looking creature. I marvel all the time about the variety of animal life that exists and how they all evolved with specific attributes to help them survive.
Whoa! It's not a pig. Nor a vegetable. It's a critter that cleans up the yuck. Very obliging of them.
Regarding the title, I have a "Pigs in Space" lunchbox. It's not in tip-top condition, but it's a cool thing to have. Might still be worth something, who knows?
I want to get organized to sell some collectibles. Not everything, but there is stuff (a lot of which I got at antique stores and flea markets over the years) that I'm not especially attached to, and that I've been holding on to with this idea in mind.
Yeah, it is worth checking out. I just got rid of some of mine that were part of the collection, but weren't special, or I was not attached to them anymore.
I donated some, and will sell others that have a bigger value.
I have a lot of stuff from the same places, plus, we have a couple of collectible toy stores here that I got some stuff from, too. And some straight off of eBay.
I've never sold or shopped on eBay. But I would like to find out more about 1) How to get stuff I have appraised; 2) How to sell it without having to do things I prefer not to do, like get a smartphone or be on social media or compromise my online privacy. But I'm not in a huge rush yet.
PS: You can also get a feel for what it would sell at by looking for it on there...collectors are the best at knowing what something is worth and what the market is willing to buy.
Well, I don't have a smartphone; I use my computer. E-Bay is a marketplace, not a social media, and your privacy is very well protected; you can even use avatars or make up a name.
I'm still marveling at the fact those things can live >20,000 feet below the surface...well, 19,500+ feet anyway. The Titanic is "only" at 12,500-ish feet. How do these things equalize pressure? Fascinating....
Good morning. 67 here and some fog, with a high in the 80s and chance of rain.
This Saturday, commemorating the new Superman movie, the mothership features an essay on “Superman and the American Way”. The FP features an article by Madeline Kearns: “What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter”.
I read Madeleine Kearns's article. I have strong opinions on how the medical industry treats women's reproductive health. Consider that both "reproductive health" and "women's health" are used to mean "contraception and abortion," which are literally anti-health: breaking what was working.
"I have strong opinions on how the medical industry treats women's reproductive health."
That would make for an interesting essay...with the emphasis on the "how" part. The opinions on treatment will always be all over the place. Since I'm not a medical professional or a woman, I stay out of opining.
What are the means and methods for HOW the industry addresses the issue?
As Kearnes notes in her article, the flip side of that "how" is recommending IVF to women for any infertility problem, rather than trying to correct it.
As I'm sure you know, IVF has serious moral problems (like leaving "extra" human embryos in its wake, in freezers or just tossed out) and pracitcal problems (high cost -- IVF is a very lucrative business).
Stacy Trasancos, a Catholic scientist and philosopher (and mother of 7) has published a book "IVF Is Not The Way" which you can read about and order on her Substack. I've read it, and it lays out all the objections and problems with IVF.
There's so much money in IVF, when interventions as simple as better nutrition and cycle awareness can be sufficient for many women to conceive naturally. In other cases, as with Ms. Kearns, surgery to cure an illness is necessary. Others need hormone supplements or management of an incompetent cervix.
I was never prescribed birth control pills, but I did take them on my own for the obvious reasons. The upside was that he pills made my periods less painful , and shorter, which was a relief.
Yes, the hormones in birth control pills can ease some symptoms. However, if you have endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, or many other conditions, it doesn't improve them.
The consensus is that since I had to have an emergency hysterectomy later on, that all the trouble I was having ( also very heavy periods) was due to the fibroid tumor growing in my uterus that got as big as an orange and had to be removed immediately at that point ( not to be gross, but blood was running down my legs at this point.)
I tried telling the family doctor for years that I had all these symptoms and lots of pain, but he dismissed it as hysteria and normal, and I was just being a baby.
Yes. I'm interested in "the machinery" for how these messages are developed and distributed. The emphasis on prescription drugs for any and all concerns is a big problem. When those drugs disrupt body functions, it creates entirely new problems, and not just physical. There's a mental and emotional component that gets whacked out of shape.
Traditionally, the academic medical profession was not very interested in low women's bodies work, when they're working well, or what causes pain, dysfunction, or illness. It's as if women start out wrong, because they're not men, so there's no point in trying to get things back to how they should function.
I was struggling to come up with something humorously disgusting regarding breathing/anal openings/humanity....but came up short. I'm going with your contribution for now.
Pigs in Space? I'm all for that. If we could just send a few select terrestrial porkers on a one-way trip there, the world would be a better place.
But sadly, after bellying up to the news trough a little while ago, I discovered the latest "product" from an as yet earth-bound swine who's been using the current "Epstein files" conspiracy re-birth to garner attention by using the issue of them - whatever they may or may not contain - to throw shade at his former partner-in-slime, who's now wallowing in the White House for a second time.
I'd say that I find this latest offering from Musk beyond disgusting and a lot more than problematic as it relates to *children*, but that wouldn't even begin to cover the new-found level of cosmic loathing I now have for Anything For A Buck Elon...
< XAI launches pornographic AI 'companions' >
"On the same day that xAI bagged its Pentagon contract, Musk announced the release of pornographic AI "companions" on Grok 4. Ani, one of the companions, is a voluptuous anime character who will strip down to lingerie after users engage with her enough. There's even a progress bar to indicate how close users are to watching the chatbot undress. The male companion, named Valentine, was programmed to have a personality "inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades," according to Musk."
"Despite the overt sexual nature of Grok's companions, they are available to users *as young as 12 years old* and come with a "Kid Mode" that can be activated. They also have an NSFW mode." (emphasis mine)
"XAI is offering up to $440,000 to hire an engineer who can develop what will essentially be AI girlfriends."
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/grok-ditches-hitler-launches-anime
I remember back in the day when there was a brief and very on-point PSA regularly aired on TV:
"It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?"
I suppose if there were a the 21st century digital age equivalent it should read:
"It's later than you think. Do you know who's trying to exploit your children?"
Good Sunday Morning. 77 here and cloudy with a high in the 80s and chance of rain later.
The mothership has a Sunday "Faith" article on national grief, which Cynthia may have referenced in one of her posts this morning.
Placido Domingo, everyone. My husband and I both defeated Thor and Vlad at Wingspan last night. Thor made an apple crumble, and he says we're out of brown sugar and butter now, so I guess I'll need to go to Walmart. No camp today. I hear the Drama Queen family is coming over later.
Desserts are good. Especially when someone else does the work of making them.
Just a thought on Europe v USA and digital privacy. Over here, every time I go to a new web page I have to accept all sorts of conditions. But I am offered the choice of a dozen individual choices or not. So I generally reject accepting them. But I have accepted a few.
I've noticed that in the MS Edge web browser that I get stories related to what I have clicked on before, that's fine. But I noticed that after posting my CSLF posts that my stories are related to it. I never looked up Bologna's leaning towers, but I get articles about them. 🤔
Maybe just a coincidence.
"I think it is okay just to be sad when tragedy occurs; I think it is crucial we recognize others may be grieving, and to give them time and space to do so, with our support, even if we don't feel it ourselves. I don't grieve nationally, I grieve personally."
Thank you for writing this, Jay. This and the rest of your post lift (from everyone) the specter of needing to over-emote about literally freepin everything. It's hard enough to deal with your own immediate-life stuff without the obligation to summon deep emotion over every person who dies in a disaster (why just in a natural disaster, why not every car accident or fall?) let alone "grieving" over the 2008 financial panic. GAAAH.
I'm really not a sociopath, although I play one on the interwebs (and in real life), but puh-leeze.
We are confusing grief and sympathy.
Mr W could not be reached for comment. 🙂
He went to English Mass with Vlad.
Thank you for your kind words. I've never seen you as a sociopath! In reading comments I see your concern with others grieving impersonal events. My GAAAH moment was our minister announcing a grief group for the results of the 2024 election. 🤦♂️
Oy.
Maybe in some subcultures, "grief" has social cachet, while "being really annoyed that things didn't go my way" doesn't.
Yeah, a bunch of people here don't know the difference between meeting for worship and an NEA convention.
At a depth of **20,000 feet** (about **6,096 meters**) in seawater, the pressure is immense due to the weight of the water above.
- 🌊 **Pressure in psi (pounds per square inch):** Approximately **2,650 psi**
- 🌬️ **Pressure in atmospheres (atm):** Roughly **175 atm**
At 20,000 feet below sea level—roughly 6,000 meters—you’re in the abyssal zone, where pressure exceeds 2,650 psi or 175 atmospheres. Only a handful of sea creatures can survive here, and even fewer can traverse the full vertical range from surface to abyss. But there are some remarkable contenders:
🐙 Deep-Diving Sea Animals
Animal Depth Range Adaptations
Bigfin Squid Up to 20,300 ft Gelatinous body, no swim bladder, long elastic arms
Dumbo Octopus 1,000–23,000 ft No ink sac, soft body, strand-like suction cups
Cusk Eel Up to 27,000 ft Flexible skeleton, sensory barbels, slow metabolism
Mariana Snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) 20,000–26,000+ ft High TMAO levels, no gas-filled organs, pressure-adapted proteins
These animals don’t necessarily migrate from surface to abyss regularly, but they can survive at those depths and have evolved to handle the crushing pressure.
⚙️ Structural Mechanisms That Enable Survival
Here’s how they pull off this deep-sea feat:
• No Gas-Filled Spaces: Unlike surface fish, deep-sea species lack lungs or swim bladders, which would collapse under pressure.
• Water-Filled Bodies: Their tissues are mostly water, which is incompressible and balances internal and external pressure.
• Flexible Skeletons: Bones are reduced or cartilaginous, allowing compression without damage.
• Pressure-Stable Proteins: Molecules like TMAO (trimethylamine N-oxide) stabilize enzymes and proteins under extreme pressure.
• Gelatinous Tissues: Soft, jelly-like bodies deform without breaking—think blobfish or deep-sea jellyfish.
• Slow Metabolism: Conserves energy in low-oxygen, low-food environments.
• Specialized Cell Membranes: Stay fluid under pressure thanks to unsaturated fats
With a statistically unusual proportion of our CSLF readers and authors, hailing from or having hailed from, Ohio, PA, WV, VA, NC -- the JD Vance Memorial Appalaicha momma and poppa mountains - :)
I hope you are all safe - and I'm sure folks know that staying away from getting home is the right thing to do when confronted with a swift moving wash across a road. Be safe
A Level 3 of 4 flooding rain threat was in place for parts of northern and southeast Virginia and northeastern West Virginia, with Level 2 of 4 risks covering portions of the mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Midwest, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
The mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley have been hit by round after round of soaking rain this summer, leaving the soil less able to absorb additional rain and area waterways swollen. And a stalled storm front draped across more than half a dozen states dumped multiple rounds of rain in the Midwest throughout the day.
Portions of western Virginia were already seeing significant effects. Two people were recovered and taken to the hospital after being swept away by floodwaters in Dickenson County, after heavy rain hit the area, according to Sheriff Jeremy Fleming.
I got rained on in Arizona and saw a rainbow over I-40 near Winslow.
The temperature and humidity are delightful right now!
That's awesome! Are you visiting the Petrified Forest east of you? Gallup is cool Original Navajo hand woven rugs as well
The Petrified Forest is on tomorrow's agenda, Grand Canyon on Monday.
Nice!!
some areas near us had flash floods but nothienr serious. I'm well away from the Appachians.
..buuutttt... don't ya live East of the Indiana-Ohio border? 😀
That's Vancallapicia
I'm 11 miles from the border of Ohio/Heaven, errr, Indiana. But we're a 30 minute drive from Middletown, which is probably 15-20 minutes from the edge of Appalachia.
Our house sits on a hill--3/4ths of Eaton Ohio will be under water before it reaches us.
I never voted for him. 🙂
ah.. my comment was not about voting.
It was satire on the faux man Vance and his mythology of Appalachia.
https://open.substack.com/pub/colingorrie/p/how-to-write-poetry-like-tolkien
Something for the literary mind
My bed has been delayed till Oct 1st, supply chain issues, I was told...Sigh, I am not happy. I have to sleep on my decrepit bed for two extra months, though the other furniture is still being delivered next Saturday, so I can start moving things out of my living room and deciding where I am going to put what.
I hate when that happens, but at least you're not sleeping on the couch until then!
Ha, if I had a comfortable couch, I would be sleeping there...But, I have a weird couch, my side is just a slightly expanded seat, then there is a console separating the couch, and the other half is Ricks, which is basically a recliner...lol
Off topic.... Having discovered Arnold Kling in the recent past, I've been reading his stuff. He doesn't seem to have a sense of humor.
Cool, if unusual-looking creature. I marvel all the time about the variety of animal life that exists and how they all evolved with specific attributes to help them survive.
Whoa! It's not a pig. Nor a vegetable. It's a critter that cleans up the yuck. Very obliging of them.
Regarding the title, I have a "Pigs in Space" lunchbox. It's not in tip-top condition, but it's a cool thing to have. Might still be worth something, who knows?
It is worth something, anything Muppet, especially older stuff has a value. You can always check eBay and find out just out of curiosity.
I have a Pigs in Space enclosed scene with the characters made of cloth that is also cool
And I have a Jungle Book lunch box...lol
I want to get organized to sell some collectibles. Not everything, but there is stuff (a lot of which I got at antique stores and flea markets over the years) that I'm not especially attached to, and that I've been holding on to with this idea in mind.
Yeah, it is worth checking out. I just got rid of some of mine that were part of the collection, but weren't special, or I was not attached to them anymore.
I donated some, and will sell others that have a bigger value.
I have a lot of stuff from the same places, plus, we have a couple of collectible toy stores here that I got some stuff from, too. And some straight off of eBay.
I've never sold or shopped on eBay. But I would like to find out more about 1) How to get stuff I have appraised; 2) How to sell it without having to do things I prefer not to do, like get a smartphone or be on social media or compromise my online privacy. But I'm not in a huge rush yet.
PS: You can also get a feel for what it would sell at by looking for it on there...collectors are the best at knowing what something is worth and what the market is willing to buy.
Well, I don't have a smartphone; I use my computer. E-Bay is a marketplace, not a social media, and your privacy is very well protected; you can even use avatars or make up a name.
I have used it for years and never had an issue.
I would suggest two things -
a. Look at comparables on eBay and Etsy - put in your item, and look to buy it.
b. Ask CoPilot - it can give decent estimates - and its also free !
I don't use AI. But I will take your advice to look at comparables.
I'm still marveling at the fact those things can live >20,000 feet below the surface...well, 19,500+ feet anyway. The Titanic is "only" at 12,500-ish feet. How do these things equalize pressure? Fascinating....
due to the depth, I suspect the rent is cheaper there. That and the free food which falls like manna from heaven...
Some deep sea animals have pressure resistant fluids in their bodies, and others have a cellular structure that resists pressure.
“Pressure resistant fluids".... I wonder if they have similar properties as hydraulic fluids.
I couldn't say. Blobfish are a species that can't survive surface pressure: they turn to mush.
Blobfish. Another good band name.
Under surface pressure, a lot of people turn to mush too.
I am somewhat resistant to pressure, and I am less than 600 feet above sea level. But then I'm not talking about air or water pressure.
Tiny little Oxygen tanks
That's ridiculous. It's obviously tiny little digital pressure regulators tied to their onboard computer system.
Wow! They are more high tech than I realized!
Wait until you see their version of AI.
Giggle
Good morning. 67 here and some fog, with a high in the 80s and chance of rain.
This Saturday, commemorating the new Superman movie, the mothership features an essay on “Superman and the American Way”. The FP features an article by Madeline Kearns: “What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter”.
I read Madeleine Kearns's article. I have strong opinions on how the medical industry treats women's reproductive health. Consider that both "reproductive health" and "women's health" are used to mean "contraception and abortion," which are literally anti-health: breaking what was working.
So many women have endometriosis, I had no idea doctors do not routinely try to remedy the disease but rather just push IVF. Gross.
"I have strong opinions on how the medical industry treats women's reproductive health."
That would make for an interesting essay...with the emphasis on the "how" part. The opinions on treatment will always be all over the place. Since I'm not a medical professional or a woman, I stay out of opining.
What are the means and methods for HOW the industry addresses the issue?
The most common "how" is to prescribe birth control pills for any symptom, without even attempting to identify the symptom's cause.
As Kearnes notes in her article, the flip side of that "how" is recommending IVF to women for any infertility problem, rather than trying to correct it.
As I'm sure you know, IVF has serious moral problems (like leaving "extra" human embryos in its wake, in freezers or just tossed out) and pracitcal problems (high cost -- IVF is a very lucrative business).
Stacy Trasancos, a Catholic scientist and philosopher (and mother of 7) has published a book "IVF Is Not The Way" which you can read about and order on her Substack. I've read it, and it lays out all the objections and problems with IVF.
https://stacytrasancos.substack.com/p/out-now-ivf-is-not-the-way
There's so much money in IVF, when interventions as simple as better nutrition and cycle awareness can be sufficient for many women to conceive naturally. In other cases, as with Ms. Kearns, surgery to cure an illness is necessary. Others need hormone supplements or management of an incompetent cervix.
All these practices provide better odds than IVF.
From that article:
"The most important thing, she said, was that Veritas focused on restoring her health, whereas IVF felt like bullying her body into submission."
I was never prescribed birth control pills, but I did take them on my own for the obvious reasons. The upside was that he pills made my periods less painful , and shorter, which was a relief.
Yes, the hormones in birth control pills can ease some symptoms. However, if you have endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, or many other conditions, it doesn't improve them.
The consensus is that since I had to have an emergency hysterectomy later on, that all the trouble I was having ( also very heavy periods) was due to the fibroid tumor growing in my uterus that got as big as an orange and had to be removed immediately at that point ( not to be gross, but blood was running down my legs at this point.)
I tried telling the family doctor for years that I had all these symptoms and lots of pain, but he dismissed it as hysteria and normal, and I was just being a baby.
I wish he had listened.
Yes. I'm interested in "the machinery" for how these messages are developed and distributed. The emphasis on prescription drugs for any and all concerns is a big problem. When those drugs disrupt body functions, it creates entirely new problems, and not just physical. There's a mental and emotional component that gets whacked out of shape.
Traditionally, the academic medical profession was not very interested in low women's bodies work, when they're working well, or what causes pain, dysfunction, or illness. It's as if women start out wrong, because they're not men, so there's no point in trying to get things back to how they should function.
Right. It was 1850-ish before any women were licensed to practice medicine in the modern era. It hasn't even been a couple hundred years.
Oh sure Marine biologists don't think they need protection, but what if it was their kid? I bet they'd change their mind then! 😡
Although, as a camp counselor at times I thought my campers breathed through their anal opening. Blessed be the inventor of Fabreeze!
I was struggling to come up with something humorously disgusting regarding breathing/anal openings/humanity....but came up short. I'm going with your contribution for now.
Since they’ve been in brine so long, wouldn’t it make more sense to call them “sea pickles”?
Pickled sea pigs' feet?
My dad loved pickled pig's feet, but I thought they were gross, though I like pork generally.
And so it begins — 🚪
I bet you relish being the first to do that pun!
Monkey Jay see — Monkey Jay do — 🚪
Weird. Weird. Weird.