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Humans, in addition to eating almost anything organic, can process many inorganic minerals in their digestive system. These include sodium, copper, iron, and zinc.

SWEET BABY JESUS!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/britain-forced-guardian-destroy-copy-snowden-material-222933670.html

After further talks with the government, Rusbridger said, two "security experts" from Government Communications Headquarters, the British equivalent of the ultra-secretive U.S. National Security Agency, visited the Guardian's London offices.

In the building's basement, Rusbridger wrote, government officials watched as computers which contained material provided by Snowden were physically pulverized. "We can call off the black helicopters," Rusbridger says one of the officials joked.

It's like there's an office pool for spys and whoever can do the most overt act of shitting on the law and human rights without causing a riot wins.

"Well, we could just walk through the guardian's front doors and start smashing their computers with hammers."

"The people would never stand for that."

"Wanna bet......."  He pulls out a roll of bills and they both start laughing maniacially as they run to grab their hammers.

This is a grenade. It is a small hand held device. When activated it is thrown at aggressors. This 'grenade' device will then explode in a chemical reaction sending shards of metal in all directions which will burn and or lacerate all organic beings in the immediate area. Humans invented this... ON PURPOSE!

Please put on some pants
before someone asks us to
leave the museum.

YES!!!

Despite their size and strength, the two frontal appendages of the human end in articulated tentacles. These tentacles are dextrous enough to operate all known control units. These tentacles are also tipped with a clawlike bone structure and can cause great bodily harm.

Humans can survive extremes of temperature without an environment suit.

They first went into space in a tin can tied to a giant chemical rocket.

Human infants can breathe on their own within seconds of birth.

They eyes of humans have what is called a 'focusing' ability. This allows them to see both near and far with great clarity.

YES!!!

Despite their size and strength, the two frontal appendages of the human end in articulated tentacles. These tentacles are dextrous enough to operate all known control units. These tentacles are also tipped with a clawlike bone structure and can cause great bodily harm.

and on a day like today, I'll take the small victories and "well at least the bottom line and my ass is covered money wise."

I would count that as a large victory or at least a regular size one.

Also whenever you call your housemate feedtube I still think of this:

Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The Bartender asks "Do you want a drink?"
Descartes says "I think not," and poof. He's gone.

Juggalos. I would bring lots of Purell.

I just want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them and say "You poor dear! You poor dear, don't you get it? It doesn't matter if you're a D-Cell Energizer stuck in a human body! You're still not special. It does not make you special. You're just like everybody else that you hate and that you can't wait to set yourself apart from, that you so desperately wish to be recognized as anything else that you'll just make things up. Make things up, even, that have already been made up by other people! You don't have to be special. You're a bag of meat with chemicals toiling around inside of it making you think that you're a rare wheel of cheese or some shit. Don't you see how delightfully weird that is already? How the very same carbon that was the scale of a Utah raptor a few million years ago is now a hairless ape talking to other hairless apes on what amounts a light emitting box made out of information about how it doesn't feel so much like an ape as it does a firefly? DON'T YOU GET THAT?"

Nail. Head.

It strikes me that their driving force is to divide themselves from humanity. Rather than the specialness originating in themselves, they want others to recognize and respect their specialness from the outside. Seems like a backwards way of doing things.

I wonder whether the otherkin phenomenon extends further back in time than just the past 30 years. Were there medieval otherkin? Paleolithic otherkin? If so, what was their role? Were they mocked or did they become their villages shaman?

Or is this just a product of children with too much time, money, and entitlement on their hands.

People with the souls of animals is a concept that has been around for a long time, not so much people with the souls of fictional characters.

That's true. I find it interesting that my gut reaction is to assign more validity to someone stating that they have the soul of an animal than someone claiming that a FFVII character resides within them. Likewise if someone claims a bond to something from mythology versus something on television. Not that I give much validity to either of them.

It occurs to me that this really makes no sense and that both are equally strange claims to make. As though having the proper pedigree for your identity mattered.

It's like the difference between someone stating "I can do magickal things. I learned this art from an ancient sumerian tome." versus "I can do magickal things. I learned this art from the L-M volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica."  Both claims will be mocked, but one seems likely to be more widely mocked than the other. Strange.

It's amazing how a full paragraph can convey so little. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what will happen on thursday and friday, other than that it will be both exciting and important.

No, science explains why marijuana addiction is a problem.

But no documentation is available.

Sure it is.  I provide it everytime we talk about it.  You won't even consider it.

Too far. No one on the planet is this obtuse. The scale of troll vs guy who doesn't actually understand what documentation is keeps tipping.

Here is some (cited) science for you.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/marijuana-abuse/marijuana-addictive
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Still reading. Probably won't be caught up for a little while but one thing struck me at the beginning of the NIH info on marijuana:

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug (17.4 million past-month users) according to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)1. That year, marijuana was used by 76.8 percent of current illicit drug users (defined as having used the drug at some time in the 30 days before the survey) and was the only drug used by 60.1 percent of them.1

17.4 million illicit drug users.  Of those 60.1 percent of them only use marijuana. Doesn't this mean that marijuana prohibition is the difference between 17.4 million criminals and having 6.96 million criminals? That's over 10 million people who are criminals for something less dangerous than alcohol.

Also, and I'm still reading, but I would be curious as to the definition they are using for addiction. Either way, 9 percent strikes me as rather low.

It is my understanding that the psychosis-marijuana connection is a debateable topic. They are correlated but whether they cause each other experts disagree on.

The NIH also has this to say about studies showing correlation with poor grades and school drop outs.

However, a causal relationship is not yet proven between cannabis use by young people and psychosocial harm

Also, couldn't getting a permanent black mark on your record or getting thrown in jail result in lower graduation rates and school grades?

I'm still reading this as well as the studies that are cited in it. Thank you for providing some data.

No, science explains why marijuana addiction is a problem.

But no documentation is available.

Sure it is.  I provide it everytime we talk about it.  You won't even consider it.

Too far. No one on the planet is this obtuse. The scale of troll vs guy who doesn't actually understand what documentation is keeps tipping.

http://evelynart.com/2010/07/01/birds-on-the-trees/