Say it! Say it!

Are those the white noodles with zero carbs? If so I've had them. I prefer spaghetti squash noodles as a wheat noodle sub, but it probably depends on the sauce.

Merlin is the best! It will also help you narrow down the options based on a few characteristics such as color, size, location and activity. This definitely sounds like mocking bird behavior!

Well the only edible form I've heard of is kudzu jelly. There's some at a small local shop in my town, though it's dusty and I don't know and never heard of anyone actually trying it. It's draped over all the trees and bushes for miles and miles and miles in summer. In the 1800s Victorian era, people thought it looked fancy and planted it in their gardens. But alas. It's a botanical terrorist and soon took over the world.

I loved this book! Such a fun read. Plus living in the South with kudzu EVERYWHERE, I was delighted it finally found a purpose besides choking all other plant life to death.

Yes! This experience has made me question a lot about what I think I 'know' and to really have an open mind towards new (to me) information.

All context, or lack of it, aside, the writing in Heart of Darkness is phenomenal. It's prose poetically dense and I find myself lingering on each sentence to experience it fully.

I need to give Finnegan's Wake a try! Years ago one of my friends composed a 'sonic micro opera' of Finnegan's Wake. It was experimental theater in the extreme and made me curious to give it a read. Thanks for reminding me of this novel.

Yeah I had to look it up and now recall learning about the theory! Funny what a brain forgets. My brain at least.

This article says these particular gravitational waves have a frequency of perhaps a decade? Am I reading this right?

Well, I get your general point though tipping at a restaurant doesn't quite work like that. You don't get crappy service as a result of not tipping; you tip at the end of the service.

I tip 20% no matter how dismal the service, which is not the norm here. People have bad days and I don't want to financially penalize them on top of it. It just feels shitty.

Yes, I completely agree. I feel it encouraged overcoming our base nature by leaning into science and empirical evidence as opposed to religion and superstition. The gods in TOS weren't the mystical magical sky fairies people worship (and do terrible things in the name of) on earth, they were just mostly bad behaving aliens with advanced tech or skills.

Sad as it is, I've given up even attempting discourse with them. I always believed that people could come to a mutual understanding given enough honest communication and fact based information. That's before I move to the rural South. Logic holds no power here. Everything always defaults to their own personal interpretation of their religious texts where god is clearly telling them joe biden is in league with satan trying to usher in the antichrist and the rest of the pedo grooming marxist democrats are coming for their children, and then the world, to enslave the human race with global warming taxes and the mark of the beast.... unless they vote trump. I am just... I can't.

That's nothing less than epic.