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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • This is an interesting question but I don’t think it is restricted to green. Isn’t the same true of purple, blue and red? I’m not talking about just reddish like human hair or a red panda but truly bright red like a cardinal. I would imagine it has something to do with our evolutionary history. Complete speculation here but laced with a few facts I picked up. I hear the common ancestor of mammals emerged around the time the dinosaurs became extinct and was basically a tiny rodent like a shrew. I wonder if as a small animal that can’t fly or swim it had to hide a lot and basically just came in shades of brown. So maybe any genes for other colors were lost before that common mammalian ancestor emerged and although mammals have lots of patterns they don’t have many colors.












  • I don’t know much about politics but given the situation it sounds to me like he’s just hoping to get someone with a weaker hand into that already extremely tenuous position. Democrats shouldn’t be fooled thinking “but they’re more reasonable”. That person will automatically have a weaker position than McCarthy just because they are the second choice so it won’t matter much who the speaker is just the fact that they have zero room to maneuver. What might make it worthwhile despite this? I wonder whether Democrats can extract some binding commitments like non-reversible rule changes that survive at least for the session in order to secure their votes to oust McCarthy.






  • Here’s what I love best: pretend the positions of the characters also line up between the two photos as well. Some of them work pretty well, and some work too well:

    Zhaan/Crusher
    Chiana/Troi - Yeah, I know you thought Zhaan should be with Troi but the neckline and also there’s probably no one in TNG crew you could make chaotic good but if you had to pick, it’d be Troi.
    Crais/Riker - Facial hair, of course.
    D’Argo/Worf - No, you’re wrong! It is actually Sun/Worf. She is clearly chief of security.
    D’Argo/Data - Yes, good. I’m sure D’Argo loves cats.
    Scorpius/Geordi - Biohackers.
    Rygel/Picard - Most definitely in charge and acting like it. Don’t let anybody tell you different.
    Crichton/Yar - You… you can’t see Tasha Yar in the TNG photo? She’s right there in the… weird. I mean she was in the show from the first episode to the last one and she held the whole group together. She flies the shuttle. That’s like… that’s Crichton’s whole thing. I don’t see how you can’t… you really can’t see her?