I donate blood regularly (literally just got home from donating) and have never been asked about caffeine. They recommend not drinking a bunch right after donation because your HR&BP are already gonna swing. But have never been told to hold off for any specific pre-draw time. Go donate, don't worry.
My exact argument on this was "well you know I have extra in there, better let it out".
Hadn't heard this, but first guess - Whiskey Pete's fault.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
A cartoon of an anthropomorphic pig who is the butcher in an old-fashioned butcher’s shop. He is surrounded by bacon, sausages, and various cuts of meat. The caption reads: I have many questions about the pig running the butcher shop, but I don’t think I want any of the answers
I was going to point out that it's actually quite common practice, as then you get milk from the cows and can sell the calves for meat because they bulk up faster than dairy calves... and then remembered that means dire things for Elsie's babies and we're right back to heartache.
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
All the way into the second semester College of Veterinary Medicine, at which point I started flailing and had to go find a prof and ask them how do I study? Because all the way through Bachelor's, I either read the book, or went to the lecture, but not both and definitely didn't REread the text.
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
dot the opossum yukkin' it up with the bemused badger herbalist
Brother Mort liked the peace and solitude of his herb garden but even so a visit from Sister Dot and her latest tranche of dirty jokes rarely went unappreciated
I read Catwings every night for months to my nephews when they were small. At least that's a good book and not torture to read over and over, but even le Guin got a little old after the first couple weeks!
Something people often don't realize when thinking about numbers like "one in 500" is the multiplicity problem.
Basically, when there's a low chance of something happening *multiple times*, the chance that it happens *at all* goes up a lot faster than we intuitively feel it should. /1
Moral and ethical werewolves, though, with a lot more restraint and logic than Attorney Facist Pam Bondi shows.
Here’s what they found:
Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars.
Those interruptions are more likely to:
- Cut women off mid-sentence
- Come from men
- Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature
I don't think I'm familiar with whatever your saying was.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
We got channels 2, 4, sometimes 6, and sound but no visual on 8. Definitely outdoor antenna.
Hell yeah!
Balls? 2 balls!
It's the kind of word that should have lost its charm even for name-calling once one aged out of middle school *in the 1980s* and there is no excuse for it now. To use it as an adult is to put a flashing sign reading "I Am An Asshole With The Mentality Of A 12-Year-Old" on one's back.
Gee, thanks. I live in a "republican stronghold" and definitely feel like I and all my queer friends who are trying to eke it out should definitely be subject to door to door searches and 100% unemployment at the hands of our supposed allies, yeah. Go, team! Fucking think about what you are saying.
They really are dropping any pretense that ICE is about immigration.
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
Legitimately, welcome to THE RUNNING MAN.
Sadly, "your puppy/kitten can't get autism, but it can die of parvo/panleuk" was a conversation I had more than once as a clinical veterinarian. It's a real problem.
It's official. The US has left the World Health Organization as of today. I don't know when or how or where, but I can guarantee that mathematically the infectious diseases of the world will not stop at national borders and they will cause millions more deaths when the world does not cooperate.
This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.
Oh no :( I hope you can get it fixed promptly, that's miserable.
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
This is the song i was expecting, having entirely forgotten the existence of Battle of new Orleans.
