A shout out to @milliefink for starting this topic. Thank you. Letâs indeed celebrate the good stuff, in addition to the traditional news cycle⊠
That is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
I donât have a lot of ironclad commandments, but âNever get a tattoo in a language you canât readâ is high on the short list.
Mazel tov?
Agreed on all points. If we are talking about a screening test, Cologuard works really well, is truly painless and convenient, as long as you can poop. For diagnostic or follow-up procedures, the scope is currently the only game in town. This coming from 4 years of (exceedingly) frequent scopes following colorectal cancer. Itâs a pain in the ass (quite literally) prepping and traveling for them. The procedure itself? Nada.
Jello is liquid. Itâs included in âclear liquid dietâ orders. It does give the illusion of food, but it is not. Alas.
the last time i went through this process it gave a list of liquid and jello colors which were verboten.
hereâs an article that gives me a tiny bit of hopeâ
Red. And things that might look red. Most purple dyes can do that. If you are looking for bleeding and inflammation, that can get very confusing.
Certain colored childrenâs breakfast cereals can cause alarm for parents.
Recently used the Buy Nothing Project on Fb when we were clearing out my momâs condo.
I have friends who swear by this project. Itâs true that Austin has a pretty good pool of gift-economy culture already.
https://buynothingproject.org/academy
(Onebox ainât doing its thing, so here:)
The Buy Nothing Academy
A self-paced online course to help you become a Community Builder!
I personally am not on Fb (some of my fam is). It is or was Fb, as I understand it, that the Buy Nothing Project first started on. The project now has its own native app, which I also have not downloaded, but am now considering downloading.
I used to be on Freecycle before it got co-opted. I had found it useful.
Very cool, thank you!
Yes, please!
Glad to see more support for the movement and resisting efforts to distract from the point:
The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in the RhĂŽne Valley in southern France, along with hundreds of stone tools dating back about 54,000 years ago, suggests that early humans lived in Europe about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists had previously thought.
Whatâs more, the Homo sapiens tooth was sandwiched between layers of Neanderthal remains, showing that the two groups of humans coexisted in the region. These findings challenge the narrative that the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe triggered the extinction of Neanderthals, who lived in Europe and parts of Asia for about 300,000 years before disappearing.
âWeâve often thought that the arrival of modern humans in Europe led to the pretty rapid demise of Neanderthals, but this new evidence suggests that both the appearance of modern humans in Europe and disappearance of Neanderthals is much more complex than that,â
