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Guy in a thread about automation: "I'm safe for a long time, no robot can be a carpenter."
Husband, who had been in the furniture industry for quite a while, goes "Should I tell him?"
Come to donate plasma, wearing the most comfortab le, light clothing possible, because it's Tucson, it's summer, and there's been no rain. I get up to check in, they're like, "Those are pajama pants, you can't donate." FFS they're just pants I'm so fucking pissed right now. This is some bullshit.
Consumer attitudes are being put to the test at Adelaide Central Market with an offering of roasted crickets and ants, mealworm cookies and cricket energy bars.
"We want to further investigate consumers' attitudes towards edible insects, evaluate taste preferences and consumers' willingness to buy such products," says Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Anna Crump, who's working on the project with project leader Associate Professor Kerry Wilkinson and other researchers from the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine and the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide.
"We will also be asking consumers questions relating to food neophobia -- reluctance to eat novel or new foods. We'll be interested to see if a consumer's ethnicity influences their acceptance of edible insects."
In a preliminary online survey of 820 Australian consumers, the researchers found that 20% had tried edible insects. Of those surveyed, 46% said they would be willing to try a cookie made from insect flour.
"In the earlier survey, consumers said they were most likely to try flavored or roasted insects and least likely to want to try cockroaches or spiders," Dr Crump says.
"In this taste test, we've chosen products that consumers are most likely to react positively towards -- apologies to anyone keen to try a cockroach or spider. The samples we'll be offering consumers provide a good spread of the available insect products in Australia's marketplace, some of which may be more acceptable than others."
Dr Crump says the research will help guide the development of an edible insect industry.
Interim results from a FDA-approved clinical trial testing the generic vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes are being presented at the 75th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association. The data demonstrate a potential new mechanism by which the BCG vaccine may restore the proper immune response to the insulin-secreting islet cells of the pancreas. Presented by Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Immunobiology Laboratory and principal investigator of the trial, the findings suggest that BCG may induce a permanent increase in expression of genes that restore the beneficial regulatory T cells (Tregs) that prevent the immune system from attacking the body's own tissue. The results are being presented on Saturday, June 10.
Yeah stories, in general, are pretty fucking awesome when you think about it.
Here's the thing... once idiot is out, whether it is in a standard manner or impeachment, we are NEVER GOING TO HEAR THE END of how unfair it all was, and how no president in history had it as hard as him. For as long as he lives. Just non fucking stop.
Even if he goes to prison, he'll probably write a book called something like "FRAMED: The Most Persecuted Man in America Speaks".
"If I Did It I Would Have Sold America Out Bigly: Confessions of the largest handed President."
Impressive monkeybrain hacking
My sister's husband thinks people are "planting bunnies" in the yard to mess with their dog.
Thinks?
Convince him.
Their dachshund caught one and that's the conclusion that he came to.
If it were me, I would start planting evidence that people indeed planting bunnies.
Mind you, I'm a horrible bastard.
It would only make you a horrible bastard if he was actually showing early signs of Schizophrenia.
At this point I'm not sure. I think it's the only reason my sister stays, he may be ill and she'd feel guilt in leaving.
Told her to document this stuff.
That was probably a good idea. For those who want to see.
