Does this Cloth smell like chloroform to you?

To much of anything can kill you, not just alcohol...

A cardiologist once talked about moderate consumption of tequila being beneficial.

I have social anxiety. It's too late for me.

"Declawing traditionally involves the amputation of the last bone of each toe. If performed on a human being, it would be like cutting off each finger at the last knuckle."
My cats are all quite good when it comes to nail clipping time. There may be moments of complaints but gentle persistence and positive reinforcement work wonders. Treats and praise are the rewards.
If you've thought about starting to clip your cats nails I highly recommend it. It is actually a lot easier than you think, and I find it cuts down on their need to claw immensely!

Charity shops and ebay £5 max

Smoking severely damages your wealth lol

Ninja Kawasaki or Hayabusa?

We are mostly all familiar with the concept of the Big Bang.
That the Universe started out very small, exploded and has been expanding ever since.

It occurred to me this evening that the Universe might have started out very small and "imploded".
The more I think about it the more sense it makes.

Consider that no matter which direction you look, the Universe dates to 13.7 billion years. That is because what we understand about light and time dictates it as fact.
The idea is that we can't see beyond 13.7 billion years because light did not exist. It puts a limit to the size of the Universe as the limit of its current expansion. We can't see past it because the Universe hasn't explosed that far yet.

But...
Lets say the Universe imploded. Lets say it is still imploding.
Now, the limit of our ability to detect is 13.7 billion years but that limit will never change because it it the outer shell of the singularity in which we reside.
The expansion is not an explosion but an implosion.
An implosion at quantum levels.
This would explain quite a few things that can't currently be recitified.
Like Vacuum Energy, strings and the constant limit of the edge of the known Universe.

Sadly, to prove any of it any way we need a perspective measurement from a location a significant distance from Earth, like a billion light years away.
Out of our reach.

We would also need a perspective from below quantum to determine if the Vacuum energy is exanding or contracting space.
Again, out of our reach.

All I'm saying is to consider for a moment that the big bang didn't result in an explosion of space but an implosion of space and everything we see is distorted from our relative perspective.

I read or saw somewhere drive to break new ground to expand our habitat hold a hazard of digging up (unEarthing) a long dormant pathogen which we have no natural defense against because it has been buried for so long.

Humans are constantly digging places where digging hasn't taken place.
We churn up the biosphere, both land based and submerged.
Its reasonable to imagine we might dig up a pathogen, virus or bacterium that we have never seen.
Its like playing Russian Roulette.

Gotta remember, 50 years is not really that far from now.
Could there be a catastrophic change for the worst, certainly.
Is it likely, eventually but I don't believe within 50 years.

One thing most people don't consider is the fact that as time progress our species gets smarter at beating natural barriers.
Our species is smart, people are dumb but our species finds a way to continue.

One threat people seem to have a problem acknowledging is over-population.
I see a few recent movies that address it but mainstream thinking is not focused on and in 50 years, we might have 15 billion people instead of 7.7 billion right now.

Our near future will be dictated by our population growth.
We will see worse and worse effects from it as time trucks along.
I foresee the next 20 years to be a focus on the over-population problem.
Focus but not a solution.
Perhaps in 50 years, with the right measures, we might be starting to get a handle on it but nobody alive right now would embrace the solution.
Its not in yer face enough.
In 20 years, its probably gunna be in everyone's faces.

More people are being born than dying.
More people are living longer.
Its already past the point of safe fix.
The longer we wait to do anything about it the more extreme the solution needed.

The man is an idiot indeed. They should never have put a pensioner in power. Old people usually don't give a chit about our planet and nature and environmental issues.
They're like "Oh well, I've had my time. Nothing I do will change it anymore."
Ridiculous, and extremely selfish, only thinking about themselves and having lost perspective.

I was talking to an older guy a few days ago on getting rid of weeds. He uses RoundUp, glyfosates, one of the worst around. He knew that, but yeah, nothing he did would help anymore.
Maybe old people can't sort it out in their time left, but they sure as hell can make it a lot worse by that attitude!

I'm a realist, & I say your glass is to damn big!