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Obviously, the fourth pic should be pronounced, "Twoth Street". Lots of dentists have offices there...

Pasted the IT one onto our Dev list...

"...your book reports are amazingly similar..."
That one opened my eyes wide and then I started laughing.

Happy Friday everyone.

My favorites were the Send bags to Mongolia, I cannot help - am a cookie, and, of course, the Dino scare spoof.

That last one should have the real asteroid in the sky behind the joker - but maybe that's too many levels.

I liked the first cartoon.

These are great. I passed on the "Jesus flipping over tables" to friends and work. (Bonus fact: Work has been working with AI.)
These are great. I passed "Jesus flipping over tables" on to friends and work. (Bonus fact - work has been working with AI.)

I am in agreement with mhub; I too have that experience in my background. I also do not intend to retire.

I am in medical software: sold a company I co-founded to a bigger guy during Covid. Work is not so fun any more.

Wm (ex-co-owner, also in Gulch) and I intend to start another company, with complexity added by the fact we now live 3K miles apart. Also by the fact that I intend to go back to school and get a PhD in Genetics (entry level quals) and seek work in that field.

I talked to a fellow Med Tech a couple of months ago and she is unable to get a job that is not management. She wants to go and do bench work part-time, but when they see her resume, they only offer her management positions. So that is happening in another field than engineering.

I am 71. The major input I can add to this conversation is that I reasonably expect to be able to work for another 20 years. (I can still do quasi-full-contact Medieval broadsword fighting against all types of opponents, which I did not expect I would be able to do at my current age, when I thought ahead, 40 years ago.)

I really like the feeling of 'stretching the universe' with the work that I do and do not want to consign myself to the rocking chair.

Jan

Nope. Using my loyal laptop, as per usual. I will reboot and try again. I just needed to know if the problem was "me" or "elsewhere".

Thanks.

I cannot link to any of the images this morning. Does anyone else have this problem?

Jan

The last one is actually true.

Jan

Good Dog! (NO Scream)

I have sent "Spaghetti will make you Dance" on to several other people.

Thank you for the fun!

These are all good! Many truths to laugh at.

The conspiracy theorists vs normal people flying saucer gave me a good Monday Morning Laugh.

There are a couple of really good ones there: neckpillow and burn a tire both got me laughing.

Jan

Love the T-road!

Drivers' licenses were not required - back in my father's time. When did they start being required?

On the other hand, there was a brief push in CA, back in the 1970s, to make people register their horses and get a 'rider license'. I recall pictures with a paper license plate tied to the top of a horse's tail. No one did it, and the attempt died quickly.

I think it is a rebuttable premise that there would be poorer driving and more accidents without licensing than there is with it. Does anyone have data on this?

Jan

The memes are the only interaction I have with the Gulch. Thank you for posting them - I often forget to Like, so my reading them is not part of your statistics. My apologies: your work is indeed appreciated.
The Gulch has gone from being a site dedicated to individualism, to being a pretty conventional, conservative venue that has little to do with Rand's philosophy but which is deep in conspiracy theories.
The memes are the element of lightness that gives me a reason to have not departed entirely.

Rand believed in the individual too, but most of the threads and comments thereon, for the last several years, have been anti-individual.

I too have been watching this happen.

Jan

Masks work. I have worn them intermittently in the hospital, either drawing blood from people who were contagious with 'stuff you really did not want to get' or when drawing blood from people who were very uncompromising and who would catch anything from you, were you not masked. Masks work. We have worn them in medical situations for a century, and they are effective. When you or a friend has surgery and it turns out well, one of the inanimate objects you should thank is the mask.

Jan

Actually, if a child dies of unknown causes up to 2 years after receiving a vaccination, the vaccination IS considered to be the default cause. There is not even any comparison to the death rate of similar age group in un-vaccinated populations. This has led to an inflation of the deaths attributed to vaccination.

Jan

My reply was a technical reply. I certainly do not have any problems with a man having a uterus implanted, but my point was that you do not need to have a uterus in order to carry a child to term. The blastocyst in the woman, who had had a hysterectomy, implanted on the outside of the colon (I think) and formed a placenta there. It had to be a c-section delivery in that case, because there was no uterus. So the simplest case of 'a man bearing a child' does not necessarily involve an implanted uterus.

I would assume that at least some individual trans-males would compete in male sports. The two women I can think of who I know who converted to being male definitely had an aversion to being macho and had no interest that I know of in sports.

When I talked with one of them, they said that they did not want to make all the mistakes that men did about being male. They liked the 'trans' part of being trans-male, not just the 'male' part.

Jan

But there is no reason a man has to even be permanently trans in order to do that. You might have to alter his hormones for the duration of the pregnancy, and the delivery would be by C-section, but there are reports of ectopic pregnancies where the blastocyst implanted itself on the peritoneal side of the gut (I think it was the colon) and formed a placenta. This occurred in about 2000 and it was a woman who had had a complete hysterectomy.

So you could theoretically have a man who had taken hormone shots for a year, deliver a baby, but otherwise be totally masculine.

Jan

This is the sort of question that we should consider. Our insights from this can inform how sports in general should work.

Another corner case is high altitude. Is it fair to hold competitions at high altitudes, where Andean and Himalayan athletes will have the advantage? Or hold them at lower altitudes, where they will not?

It all comes down to having a sport that is geared for one particular type of exertion, and having a genetic sub-population that is 'good at that'. Our concept of 'fair sports' is based on a village green, where people of the same genetic background are playing against each other.

Jan

It is possible to go down that path, but I would like to hear opinion on what to do if most/all of the contenders in a particular sport are black or even Kalinjin, as I think that might inform our perspective.

Is it fair for a white male to compete if he knows he can never win, but unfair for a woman to compete if she knows she can never win? Is it fair for a black woman or man to compete if there is a Kalinjin in the race and they know they will not win?

Jan