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Postby tifosi77 » Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:47 pm

Although, the disease name is giving me chuckles. Like, who was 'donovan'?

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:48 pm

I read about this one this morning:
It's the stuff of nightmares, or science fiction: a parasite that wants to get inside an animal's mouth, where it attacks — and replaces — the tongue. That's the incredibly specific, terribly icky job of the tongue-eating louse.

Luckily for humans, the isopod doesn't affect people. But the Atlantic croaker and other fish are less fortunate, as a recent Facebook posting by the Galveston Island State Park in Texas shows.

"This parasite detaches the fish's tongue, attaches itself to the fish's mouth, and becomes its tongue," the wildlife agency said, expounding on a photo showing the isopod curled inside a croaker's mouth. "The parasite then feeds on the fish's mucus. It also happens to be the only known case where a parasite functionally replaces a host's organ."
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/10487184 ... e-suggests

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Postby dodint » Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:53 pm

I will not be clicking that, sir.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:42 pm

How is an STD making waves online?

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Postby faftorial » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:05 pm

Although, the disease name is giving me chuckles. Like, who was 'donovan'?


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Postby dodint » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:20 pm

Scottish Bob Dylan

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Postby faftorial » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:22 pm

Scottish Bob Dylan
That's a really good album. I have an original copy I found somewhere for a few bucks.

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Postby faftorial » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:23 pm

Donovan was as big as the Beatles in that era.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:23 pm

Continuing the discussion from the fast food thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -brokovich
The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate around the globe. A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, finds that sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973. Following the trajectory we are on, Swan’s research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that sink in. That would mean no babies. No reproduction. No more humans. Forgive me for asking: why isn’t the UN calling an emergency meeting on this right now?

Environmental groups and leaders have said the US goal must be no lower than a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
US urged to cut 50% of emissions by 2030 to spur other countries to action
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The chemicals to blame for this crisis are found in everything from plastic containers and food wrapping, to waterproof clothes and fragrances in cleaning products, to soaps and shampoos, to electronics and carpeting. Some of them, called PFAS, are known as “forever chemicals”, because they don’t breakdown in the environment or the human body. They just accumulate and accumulate – doing more and more damage, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Now, it seems, humanity is reaching a breaking point.

Swan’s book is staggering in its findings. “In some parts of the world, the average twentysomething woman today is less fertile than her grandmother was at 35,” Swan writes. In addition to that, Swan finds that, on average, a man today will have half of the sperm his grandfather had. “The current state of reproductive affairs can’t continue much longer without threatening human survival,” writes Swan, adding: “It’s a global existential crisis.” That’s not hyperbole. That’s just science.

As if this wasn’t terrifying enough, Swan’s research finds that these chemicals aren’t just dramatically reducing semen quality, they are also shrinking penis size and volume of the testes. This is nothing short of a full-scale emergency for humanity.

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Postby Ad@m » Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:31 pm

The rapper Fetty Wap was charged on Friday with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City region.

The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was arrested Thursday at Citi Field, where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival is taking place. An indictment unsealed on Friday named Maxwell and five other defendants, including a New Jersey corrections officer.

“The fact that we arrested a chart-topping rap artist and a corrections officer as part of the conspiracy illustrates just how vile the drug trade has become,” Michael J. Driscoll, a top official with the FBI’s New York office, said in a statement.

The indictment charges Maxwell and his co-defendants with conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine between June 2019 and June 2020. The scheme involved using the U.S. Postal Service and cars with hidden compartments to move the narcotics from the West Coast to Long Island, where they were stored for distribution to dealers in Long Island and New Jersey, authorities said.

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Postby dodint » Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:19 pm

"Not even by the EPA" as if we expected them to provide value to the citizenry. :lol:

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:29 pm

Outstanding journalism.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:56 pm

I posted a few things about Zillow and others buying up the market a few months back. Zillow appears to have bitten off more than they can chew:


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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:13 pm

Oof.


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Postby mikey » Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:21 pm

This seems like basically nothing at a glance...

Both parties were consenting to get involved this, maybe a couple of girls thought it went a little too far and they have some regrets or they want to try to get some cash...

Not to tell tales out of school, but I have an idea about how some of this type of stuff goes and, yeah, sometimes it gets a little too far...that's what safewords and all that kind of stuff are about...if your safe word is "harder", well, that's just poor planning...

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Postby nocera » Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:30 pm

8 months!?

Also, Portnoy is a ******. Anything negative that comes out about him does not surprise me at all.

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Postby Troy Loney » Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:16 pm

This seems like basically nothing at a glance...

Both parties were consenting to get involved this, maybe a couple of girls thought it went a little too far and they have some regrets or they want to try to get some cash...

Not to tell tales out of school, but I have an idea about how some of this type of stuff goes and, yeah, sometimes it gets a little too far...that's what safewords and all that kind of stuff are about...if your safe word is "harder", well, that's just poor planning...
I am slightly conflicted on this, one I think it's a bit more than having gone a little too far. But at the same time, Portnoy is not shy about essentially advertising himself as a sexual deviant, so if you've accepted his advances, it's hard to argue anything in private was nonconsensual / unexpected. But also, if these are true that he's pursuing teenagers just out of high school, then we're dealing with women that aren't in a position to really grasp the implications of a Portnoy bedding.

In the end, he's the dadhole's dadhole, so this probably just makes the dadholes love him and his dumb company more.

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Postby CBear3 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:26 pm

This seems like basically nothing at a glance...

Both parties were consenting to get involved this, maybe a couple of girls thought it went a little too far and they have some regrets or they want to try to get some cash...

Not to tell tales out of school, but I have an idea about how some of this type of stuff goes and, yeah, sometimes it gets a little too far...that's what safewords and all that kind of stuff are about...if your safe word is "harder", well, that's just poor planning...
I am slightly conflicted on this, one I think it's a bit more than having gone a little too far. But at the same time, Portnoy is not shy about essentially advertising himself as a sexual deviant, so if you've accepted his advances, it's hard to argue anything in private was nonconsensual / unexpected. But also, if these are true that he's pursuing teenagers just out of high school, then we're dealing with women that aren't in a position to really grasp the implications of a Portnoy bedding.

In the end, he's the dadhole's dadhole, so this probably just makes the dadholes love him and his dumb company more.
This. But I also think trying to run away from a dude during sex and him forcing you to continue is rape (if you believe that's what really happened). It's a two edged sword, because he advertises himself this way its both easy to believe her account and say that she should have had a good idea what to expect.

In the end, like Troy said, those that see him as a dadhole will continue to, and those who are dadholes will continue to worship him.

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Postby dodint » Thu Nov 04, 2021 4:37 pm

This seems like basically nothing at a glance...

Both parties were consenting to get involved this, maybe a couple of girls thought it went a little too far and they have some regrets or they want to try to get some cash...

Not to tell tales out of school, but I have an idea about how some of this type of stuff goes and, yeah, sometimes it gets a little too far...that's what safewords and all that kind of stuff are about...if your safe word is "harder", well, that's just poor planning...
I am slightly conflicted on this, one I think it's a bit more than having gone a little too far. But at the same time, Portnoy is not shy about essentially advertising himself as a sexual deviant, so if you've accepted his advances, it's hard to argue anything in private was nonconsensual / unexpected. But also, if these are true that he's pursuing teenagers just out of high school, then we're dealing with women that aren't in a position to really grasp the implications of a Portnoy bedding.

In the end, he's the dadhole's dadhole, so this probably just makes the dadholes love him and his dumb company more.
'he's pursuing [adults]' is the phrase you were looking for.

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Postby Troy Loney » Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:01 pm

Teenager, those whose age ends in “teen”.

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Postby dodint » Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:04 pm

Yes. Much of the pornography industry exists due to their very existence.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:19 pm

Portnoy is a turd, but this is a mountain of nothing imo. I feel like they've been gunning for him for a while and this is a stretch.

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Postby nocera » Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:33 am

For everybody who was dying to know what Ryan Whitney thinks about all this…


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Postby faftorial » Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:36 am

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