Why this is important:

Given what we see in the cosmic microwave background, the first light we can detect after the inflation of the universe, structures can only grow so large within our current models. Yet this, and other similar discoveries, appear to be larger than our current models predict.

To add on to this, noise reducing earplugs are also a thing - search for "concert earplugs" or something like that.

Using them I was able to watch Godzilla in a movie theater without constantly wincing as well as go to a concert at a bar and actually have a decent time. Highly recommend for general use, I carry them everywhere now.

Time of day is addressed in the study and

was not a reliable predictor of expression of alignment

They also mention that the presence of the sun is possibly likely to affect dogs less than humans - meaning that dogs might have less aversion to facing the sun.

Study is here: https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80

This is so cool, look at how the head and body are a single stroke! Starts at the bottom of the head then ends at the top of the body - they must have done that to preserve ink or something?

Interesting how the tools we have access to affect the art we make.

which is not even remotely true or accurate, but that's another story

Why do you say that? My understanding is that "only two choices" is true and accurate because of how the electoral college works.

Consider a Magic Bullet! Or something similar - there are a bunch of small blenders out there designed for single-portion smoothies that fall in the $20-$40 range.

I had a similar reaction!

Spending a couple extra hours wrapping up quests and collecting conches (on the recommendation of a friend) wound up being well worth it for me, the true ending felt much more satisfying.

For what it's worth, all the quests take somewhere around 20-40 minutes each, if I remember correctly. Even the collection quest wasn't too bad, thanks to the treasure finding parrot.

...kinda.

The interviewer goes on to ask: "Does that risk add up, or does each roll of the dice stand alone?", referring to whether subsequent COVID infections increase the risk of long covid. To which Ziyad Al-Aly replies: "That's really hard to answer."

He goes on to speculate (his word, not mine) that there can be two outcomes of COVID infections:

• One, that each infection causes some sort of subclinical damage that increases the odds of bad outcomes during new infections OR
• Two, that the immune system may "learn" the disease and lead to milder outcomes in the future.

So in a broad sense, the above TLDR is true because your lifetime odds of getting long covid go up in a way that is vaguely proportional to your number of infections.

But it is NOT proven to be true that number of infections correlates to your odds of getting long covid during any one particular infection.

I mean, most idioms are silly if you take them at face value.

To me, "easier said than done" is a response to an unrealistic idea that carries the meaning of "I don't think that'll work"/"that's too much"/"etc.

If I told a friend "hey let's make spaghetti for dinner" and they replied "easier said than done" I'd be like "...okay, you're technically correct, but I want spaghetti so I'm gonna do that anyways"

But if I told a friend "hey let's solve world hunger today" and they replied "easier said than done" I'd be like "yeah, I know...maybe we can go help out at a soup kitchen?"

I actually had a similar experience that I can speak to: I reached a point of saturation, I guess you could call it. I needed time to process and integrate everything I'd already read, smooshing more ideas into my brain wouldn't have done any good.

So I set it down and haven't gotten back around to finishing.