“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

Thank you Mother Nature for giving us a hand.

and never looked back. I recently thought about rejoining, but won't after reading this.

I did Nazi that coming.

We get cancer cells all the time that is to say mutated cells that our immune system destroys. When it's no longer recognized as an abnormal cell and begins to grow into clusters and start to develop blood vessels, angiogenesis, then it becomes a problem. So, yes, it's a problem that prostate cancer is over-treated. When they aren't too concerned about it, it's called watchful waiting. No treatment is necessary because it grows slowly. If it picks up and starts to grow, they'll treat it. And mutations can manifest themselves in different ways. If your PSA (prostate specific antigen) level is below 4 that's supposed to be nothing to worry about, but men can have stage 4 prostate cancer that has metastasized and to other parts of the body and have a low or undetectable PSA and there are men who can have a high PSA an not have cancer. Those are outliers and PSA score is a good tool, but doctors need to be aware of it's limitations. The PSMA PET scan is a new tool to find out if the cancer has spread (prostate specific membrane antigen). It's a good target for treatment to. Andy Taylor of Duran Duran was treated with an injection of Lutetium-177 which targets only prostate cancer cells. It's not a cure but will buy him more time.

Speed limits are merely a suggestion. You have to speed to keep up with the flow of traffic, usually 10-15mph over. Unless of course, there's a traffic jam where you slow down to a crawl. Still not as bad as driving on Dallas area highways.

Let me turn it off so I can just write fuck.

The names Elon "Tankie" Musk and most especially Peter "anti-democratic pos" Thiel should have raised a huge red flag.

This is why I don't buy HP printers anymore. Brother doesn't seem to care if you use 3rd party toners for their laser printers. Anyway, the book Chokepoint Capitalism shows how big companies squeeze customers and suppliers. And how we can fight back, but it's going to take all of us.

Amazon will ultimately screw Stripe and either buy it or replace it. It's how they operate. See Chokepoint Capitalism.

We have a vaccine for it. If you've been vaccinated against smallpox, you should have some protection against it.

On the plus side, a new source of green energy.

I would suggest reading up on ultra marathon running. I have a friend who does it and he's nothing special. He's run easily 50-100 miles and ran several ultramarathon's a year (pre-pandemic). As for me, the longest I used to run on a regular basis was about 5 miles. Humans evolved to be runners and we did it for tens of thousands of years before we tamed the horse and even in the Americas where horses had gone extinct, empires were forged with runners to connect them. We can't run as fast as a gazelle, but our ancestors could keep chasing them until they got too tired to continue and then lunch for the humans.

The color of Smurf pee. That's always been the urban legend it would turn the water blue.

Sure. Why not?

that will turn the water blue when someone pees in a swimming pool.