The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXIV: Like Books & Black Lives, Albums Still Matter

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I was underwhelemed..I mean it was a good movie...but I felt it finally answered a Star Wars question that I never was interested in asking

You mean the question, "how did they get the Death Star plans?"

Yeeeeaaaaah, true, nobody asked that in so many direct words, but...I think that the not asking that gave the intent of the film its strongest backbone, even better than the obvious new-gen retread story of Force Awakens. Which I liked, don't get me wrong.

I think that after the first three prequels, which were ostensibly good for visuals and universe expansion over the writing, this is the only joint that delivers on all cylinders, outside of the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars animation series. As a stand alone, it works. As a direct bridge into New Hope, it feels satisfying, never cheap. We got to see new planets in new systems just spoken about in the previous canon and a seemingly final sendoff of a relic of the Old Republic of the Jedi. Which I would really like to see on the screen or series and not in video games. Lucas never should've blown his capital on more unneeded Clone Wars shit, IMO.
 
Dear, sweet Laurel,

I have forgotten my Lit. password and can now only access the site via my phone, which appears to be holding said password hostage in its memory banks. Would you have a chat with it (my phone) to effect my password's unconditional release?

Many thanks,


Brian


Dear Brian;

Why did you steal imans phone?

Lance
 



More "settled science."

I. (c. 2000 ) Don't feed your infant peanut products !!!
II. ( 2017) Give your infant peanut products.




(NPR)
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: The guidance on peanuts has come full circle over the past two decades. Back in 2000, as the prevalence of peanut allergies seemed to be on the rise, parents of infants were told to hold off on introducing peanuts sometimes until the toddler years, especially if there was a family history of allergies.

The new guidelines from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are based on the findings of more recent studies. Allergist Matthew Greenhawt of Children's Hospital Colorado helped develop them.

MATTHEW GREENHAWT: Now we're saying introduce peanut to your child as early as 4 to 6 months of life. And by doing so, it's associated with a reduced likelihood of developing peanut allergy.

AUBREY: This is in stark contrast to the old thinking that early exposure to peanuts increased the risk of developing an allergy. But over the last few years, several large studies have found that babies at high risk of becoming allergic to peanuts are much less likely to develop an allergy if they are regularly fed peanut-containing foods in the first year of life...​






"We wouldn't change these guidelines if we didn't feel that this was safe. So parents should rest assured that it's based on very, very cutting-edge science."



 
I haven't looked outside yet to see if we had any accumulation. Schrodinger's snowfall.
 
i don't have to look outside. i know there's fucking snow out there. i also know it's cold as fuck. seeing is not needed.
 
I just remembered snippets of my dream(s?) from last night. I walked naked through the grocery store multiple times, and finally on the last traipse, right before I woke up, I said, "I could have just waited in the car."

I've never had a nude grocery store dream before.
 
I just remembered snippets of my dream(s?) from last night. I walked naked through the grocery store multiple times, and finally on the last traipse, right before I woke up, I said, "I could have just waited in the car."

I've never had a nude grocery store dream before.

Odd... you are usually naked in my grocery store dreams.
 
Little did I know that when I dressed as Miss marple in my granny chic today I would be living it after my lunch.

I need a nice peppermint tea now after all the excitement. I have always wondered what times those shoes and I would have. Mild sleuthy ones of crimefigjtinv it seems. It would be better if I could not go 'click click clunk' when I tottered on them though.

And to think I planned a quiet afternoon of stretch and meditation.

Have you been solving a murder, Elle? :)
 
What really happened during the supposed climate change 'hiatus'?

JANUARY 4, 2017Nope, climate change didn't pause for about 15 years, scientists say – again. But just how did that misunderstanding happen?

From around 1998 to 2012, the rise in global temperatures seemed to plateau, according to NOAA's Extended Reconstruction Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) dataset.

To most climate scientists, this so-called hiatus was another puzzle of our complex climate system for them to work out. But to people who were already skeptical of global warming, this data was evidence for the idea that human-induced climate change is a hoax.

But the data itself was unsound, scientists now say. There is no evidence of a hiatus.

Climate scientists use sea surface temperature data in their calculations of global warming trends. But "a fair bit of the apparent hiatus seems to be due to problems in our ocean measurements, and not a real thing," as study lead author Zeke Hausfather, an energy systems analyst and data scientist at the University of California Berkeley and Berkeley Earth, tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview.
 
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