How do you go a week without cleaning the litter box?!?

Having said that, my cats do do a fair amount of damage to the carpet and some doors with their claws, so an extra fee makes sense.

They also do a fair amount of damage to furniture; but that generally isn’t the landlords.

Electrical utilities are a highly regulated monopoly. They are about as close to being a part of the government that any non governmental agency could be.

From the proposed law:

A portable solar generation device is exempt from all interconnection requirements imposed by state law, the commission, electrical corporation rules, or local publicly owned electric utility rules, including, but not limited to, any requirement to enter into an interconnection agreement.

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb868

There is nothing in the bill that would prevent a landlord from prohibiting balcony solar. I have also never heard of a landlord banning balcony solar; and do not see why they would.

There is also nothing in the bill about banning HOAs from banning balcony solar; and I could absolutely imagine them doing so.

My Hebrew school had a class trip to Israel.

The reference levels of estrodial for males is 10-50 pg/mL.

4mg daily of oral estrodial got me from (presumably) that range to around 95 pg/mL. Let’s round this to an estimate of a 50 pg/mL, or an increase of 12.5 pg/mL per mg of oral estrodial.

A gallon of milk, would have 0.000492mg of estrodial, which would translate to a 0.00615 pg/mL increase. That is about 0.0015% the reference range for cis men.

Interestingly, high testosterone levels actually increase men’s estrogen levels, as testosterone gets metabolized into estrogen.

https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2089003-overview?form=fpf#a1

People complain when we increase the number of orphans; then they complain when we decrease the number of orphans! What do y’all want us to do???

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8vQorhAE0&pp=ygUUemFwcCBicmFubmlnYW4gdHJ1bXA%3D

The resemblance is uncanny!

Programmer here. AI tools are neat, but not taking our jobs. What is taking our jobs is the normal business cycle and non-0 interest rates.

Leto sent an advanced team to do some basic recon ahead of their arrival. When they did arrive, they got a report (I believe from Gurney) stating that there were far more Fremen than previously believed.

I don’t see Iran taking that deal. The US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, and all the other signatories went along with that decision. The US started a war with them twice in the past year during active negotiations. The regional hegemon that has been calling for the regime’s destruction for decades has been bombing whoever they feel like with impunity.

At this point, Iran would need to either feel completely cornered; or receive sufficient concessions that cannot be easily walked back.

North and South America are joined by a thin strip of land that serves as the continent border. Africa and Eurasia are joined by a thin strip that serves as a continent barrier. Europe and Asia have no natural border between them.

Back in the 50s-70s, both the US and Soviet Union were experimenting with peaceful uses for nuclear bombs. Between the two of us, around 150 nuclear bombs were detonated in the effort.

The consumable on the US side is interceptors, not missiles. Iran’s ability to land hits goes up dramatically once we are out of them.

I’m pretty sure the window is already closed. This is our second war with Iran in under a year. Both of which were started by the US/Israel; while we were actively negotiating with Iran. After the first war, we bragged about how the negotiation was a genius move by us to catch Iran with a surprise attack. The last time we had a major treaty with Iran, we unilaterally tore it up; and none of the other signatories stepped up to try and make Iran whole.

The 12 day war ended when we decided to end it. Iran agreed because no one likes getting bombed, and they assumed we had done all we had the stomach to do. However, this type of stop-and-go conflict massively favors the US. Iran’s strength lies in a sustained war of attrition. Deplete our air defense systems faster than we can resupply them. Disrupt the oil market long enough to cause global shortages. Draw us into a war against an insurgency. None of this is effective if they let us decide when the conflict pauses.

Their actions show this. Mining the straight of Hormuz and bombing oil fields are not the type of action you take for a conflict you don’t plan on lasting. Appoint the son of the leader we assisinated as your new leader. Those are decisions that will take months to reverse.

Also, I should mention that the current leader of Iran just had his family killed by us. And Iran was just in the middle of an internal political crisis that conveniently goes away in the face of an external one.

I don’t see how we get Iran to agree to end the war without us offering some major concessions.

You are thinking about the Red Sea/Suez Canal.

The Straight of Hormuz is the only way into and out off the Persian Gulf. Unless a ship has business in the Persian Gulf, it has no reason to cross the straight.

Irrelevant for us. The loss of a major shipping route is always going to be a blow to the regional economy.

I imagine lawyers are the biggest issue. Anti discrimination laws vary greatly by jurisdiction. This type of de jure discrimination against a privileged group to counter de facto discrimination against a marginalized one is the type of situation that is going to be thorny pretty much everywhere, with differing results everywhere.

We spent a solid week talking about fucking infixation in morphology class back in undergrad.

I can assure you that the rule on the slide is absofuckinglutly wrong. English speakers are remarkably consistent about how they do fucking infixation. Somehow, they all understand prosodic feet better than a room full of linguistics majors that just spent a week learning about it.

You want 2026 to fuck me?!?

TBF, that’s only 2 trans women, but still.

European Jews make up the Israeli elite. There were Jews already living in the land that is now Israel, who were very much not part of any colonization movement, but we’re well integrated into the local economy. When the Europeans cames, there was a lot of aminus between them and the native Jews as well as the native Muslims.

As the conflict developed and identities hardened, the native Jews became increasingly accepted within the Zionist camp, and less so within the Arab camps. Relatedly, this led to a bunch of Arab countries doing their own ethnic cleansing of Jews, who would then go to Israel. Again, these Jews were overwhelming native to where they were expelled from, not European.

A massive amount of the original conflict started not as a racial dispute, but as a property dispute. Britain brought over its own notion of land ownership that did much match the local notion. The immigrant Jews bought land under the British system, which led to a bunch of dueling claims, both sides of which were legally valid.

The amazing thing about reading the history on this, is that everyone knew this was going to happen. There were contemporary Zionists who warned about it. Contemporary Arabs warned about it. Even the fucking Nazis warned about it (which is why they were much more interested in forming a Jewish colony in Madagascar).

At this point, I’m not convinced any of this history actually matters. We have Israellis and Palestinians now. Both of which are modern identities that were created as part of this conflict. And those are the identity groups that need to reconcile in order to solve it. The original land disputes are so far in the past that there is no way to unwind them. The new land disputes can still be unwound, but those are illegal under every system, including Israeli law (although, I’m not so sure about now, as they recently passed laws authorizing it, so the very new ones might be legal under Israeli law).