Also, Arizona is just special. It denies certain forms of chemo and other life-saving medications to all women from 8 years old to nearly 70. Just because. That tends to kill some of the women which also kills their future babies, etc.
]]>But people can go lots of dark places, and Narnia has more than people think. For one thing, why do all the humans keep disappearing once they settle there?
]]>From my NATURE newsletter. Relevant because of the lovely 'bread recipes' in RULE 34.
]]>Item the second: Should I save out a head of lettuce for Braverman? Just in case?
Item the third: Just got through reading ORIGIN STORY by David Christian. Starting the Big Bang, finished right before covid. A nice, reasonably high literacy overview (I plan to recommend several books to him in my Amazon review, including HOT EARTH DREAMS. He likes the long view).
Item the last: Thank you for having such high-level conversations, it's fun to have my brain get hurty the way really good SF like BLINDSIGHT can do. Also, doing my microlevel best to keep democracy going where I live.
]]>Women will not be wearing crotchless underwear for roughly one-quarter of their lives plus time recently up from childbed. And it does take longer in the loo even with a relatively well-worn corset (Of course, I have shrunk over time in height which doesn't help much).
Since I had bad sinuses, I was the Designated Aide for the poor fellow dying of intestinal cancer (I openly vowed to dance for pennies to buy him heroin and I got the feeling the rest of the staff would contribute). He was really good-natured for all he was going through.
In a remuda, horses are supposed to be interchangeable. Horses are also perfectly capable of letting people know if they don't like you and who they do like, which will influence who rides them and who doesn't
As a 13 year old in the summer, I would rise a bit before dawn and then walk about a mile to where I would be picked up by a bus to be transported to a field to pick strawberries and then walk home again in the afternoon. I would rather had ridden my bike, but nobody was open that early in the morning. and it would have been stolen if I had.
I mainly live in T-shirts and blue jeans these days, but I do have 'painting shirts' and the jeans I use to go to the dump in. I did have a couple of lovely ball gowns, but my waistline won't let me wear them any more.
]]>But...thinking of what the Blight would look like in humans--makes Ebola look like Amateur Night.
]]>Texas is also considering the death penalty for women who have abortions (including 12 year old rape victims).
I suggest that if that isn't slavery, it sure looks like it from here.
]]>However, people have still noticed that the House of Saud is still subsidizing the clerics that the House of Saud is guarding the West from. And that the clerics notice this, too, and aren't afraid to use their leverage to keep Saudi Arabia a 10th century kingdom.
Whatever is wrong with Russia is doubly so with the Saudis, and MBS is working both sides against the middle. Unless he thinks really hard about a post-oil future, that sword dance is probably not going to turn out well for him. Just as Putin's mad dance is likely not going to end well for him either.
]]>You would think that the Saudis would prefer to keep both Europe and the States on their oil addiction, but they seem to prefer cashing out instead. Is that because they see the wave of EVs (which their policies appear to promote rather than otherwise), or because they are beginning to run out but want to give the appearance they aren't?
The Saudis seem to be enjoying this last run at the well, but I suggest their future is not especially sanguine either.
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