Back in the dim mists of time, I think some med schools would take you with three years of college. But that was many moons ago...

Very interesting. OTOH, look at how different GOP supporters have been treated by Justice and by Congress and compare that to how Dems are treated. Seen any Dems visited by SWAT or perp-walked in cuffs lately?

Question: Will a banana be an appropriate substitute for a cucumber for those moments when you desire a little artificial intimacy? I'll defer to @Axtremus to do the research. He's done well so far, hasn't he?

@Jolly said in And here's where I disagree with AL...: @Aqua-Letifer said in And here's where I disagree with AL...: @Horace said in And here's where I disagree with AL...: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/ fact checked, into the boards. The spirit of the quote still holds true. It's not like kids and older generations lived in perfect harmony, with parents thinking their kids were model citizens and certified Upstanding Young People for centuries prior to boomers. Yep, but they didn't usually walk into the classroom and kill a dozen kids. See jon's post about social contagion.

Filling pullers.

@jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia: I’m home since yesterday. Good news, indeed.

Been through there many times on my way to Kingsport and back, although I'd head up 25E from Bean Station. Never knew about the tomatoes or I'd definitely have picked some up.

@Axtremus said in June 2022 employment report: Chart on “working remotely” by Axios based on BLS data: [image: 2022-06-01-1734-share-of-u-fallback.png] https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-closer-615ca79a-bcb5-4286-b1b7-6549dbf594ce.html Musk needs to worry about the job market for his target employees. Not this massive statistical amalgamation.

@Horace said in Almost two score: Congratulations Brenda and Hubby on the long and fruitful marriage! #5 coming up for me in a couple weeks. Now you're the young'un! Congrats!

Yes.

Stella has made my leather chair a little rough to the touch in places but it’s not visible, so… She only scratches on that chair to get my attention when she wants to play red dot.

Depends on what you plant. COVID did create a seed shortage, so maybe a food crisis would create a problem with seeds. But most of what I plant is open pollinated, so if needed, I could save most of my seeds, except for sweet corn and another one or two.

@Horace said in A Stupid Question About Monitors: Samsung CH890 Typed it into Google. Stumbled upon this on the Samsung website: [image: 1654250384863-c95f4c8a-acf5-43cb-be67-83cfd5b5663b-image.png] Pixel density of Full HD??? How about we let the engineers take a look at the ads before publishing them to the world and embarrassing a whole company?

I have an elegant analytic solution: click to show Suppose you know that your coin has probability heads equal to either p or 1-p. You flip the coin n times and get h heads and t tails, with h+t=n and a difference d=h-t. Using the standard Bayesian formula and simplifying, you can show (setting tail probability as q=1-p): P(coin bias is p given observing h heads in n coin tosses) = (p^d)/((p^d) + (q^d)) This is a function of the difference in the observed numbers of heads and tails, not the overall number of coin tosses n. So in the example the probabilities must be equal, since 10-0=55-45. Done.

@LuFins-Dad said in How are cases where you are?: @Mik said in How are cases where you are?: There you go with the feelz again. You can't go with the reported numbers since just about everybody is self-testing at home with no reporting mechanism. So anecdotal is really all that you have to go on. And anecdotally, the numbers look to be as high or even higher than January in these parts... Heck, our 4 year old (and 1 year old) both had coughing/colds the last week. We didn't test them.

Or as the old golf/joke goes, maybe he was faking it? One time I played with an older gentleman for a full round of golf. At the end we were walking in the parking lot when his wife pulls up. He whispers to me, "Pretend I'm deaf. My wife has thought I've been deaf for years, so I don't have to listen to her."

@Renauda said in It can decapitate an adult.: My old .444 Marlin would decapitate, if not vaporise. I neck shot a bull moose once. The exit wound was like a soft ball. Moose just stood there in shock and bled out on the spot. Used to load a 165g Speer Grand Slam in a 30-06 that would scare the sugar out of 2900fps. Within 50 yards, it would blow an exit wound you could drop a 12oz beer can in. That still wouldn't decapitate someone.

I say Turkey McTurkFace