English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

CowperKettle

01:15

"Just by not moving for about two weeks, some college-age subjects' arteries responded as if they were 55 or 60 years old instead of 20 years old" - makes it all the more amazing that some limited-movement patients retain clarity of mind. Like Stephen Hawking.

tchrist

02:05

What a racket! Johnson and Johnson are breaking up with pharmaceuticals going to Johnson and Johnson getting the band-aids.

Cerberus

failure to parse

tchrist

Would you like to buy a comma? :)

Johnson and Johnson are breaking up, with pharmaceuticals going to Johnson, and Johnson getting the band-aids.

Either that or they decided to double their profits as soon as the FDA approved them for a two-shot regimen.

CowperKettle

> Would you like to buy a comma?
Would you like to buy a .com, ma?

tchrist

> Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest health products company, is splitting up. The company, which traces its roots back to 1886, will break into two: One company will focus on consumer health products customers can buy over the counter, including Benadryl, Band-Aids and Tylenol. The other business will sell prescription drugs and medical devices. Both will be publicly traded companies.

Cerberus

@tchrist Ahh.

tchrist

02:13

@Cerberus How's lockdown vN?

Cerberus

So Janssen will be with Johnson.

tchrist

Janssen and Johnson.

Cerberus

@tchrist What's v?

tchrist

"version"

Cerberus

Version Netherlands?

CowperKettle

02:14

Russia introduced QR codes throughout the country yesterday, in a suprise decision. Looks like the figures are bad.

tchrist

I guess you're in N+1. I haven't been keeping track of how many.

Cerberus

What is that number?

tchrist

How many waves are you at?

And how many lockdowns?

Cerberus

All ho-re-ca have been closing at midnight since last lockdown; from today, they will close at 20.00.

tchrist

I don't know the numbers.

Cerberus

02:15

And some other stuff that is minor to, like cancelling all large events.

tchrist

I have cousins who live in Horicon.

Cerberus

You should rally become acquainted with the term horeca, it's really handy!

CowperKettle

Looking at all the antivaxxers, I now understand what will happen if scientists detect an asteriod on a collision course with Earth.

Cerberus

Hotels/restaurants/cafés.

tchrist

Why is 20 > 00? What good does it do to close at 8? Should it be 7 instead? Or 9? What about 6?

Cerberus

02:17

Basically any place where you can eat or drink something on the premises.

CowperKettle

> The term is a syllabic abbreviation of the words Hotel/Restaurant/Café.

Cerberus

@tchrist It is a bit arbitrary, but the idea is that people get drunk and hug and shout at each other after supper.

tchrist

Is closing 4 hours early more effective than opening 4 hours later? Why does it even matter?

@Cerberus Oh! Well, I don't go to those restaurants. :)

CowperKettle

People breathe more actively in the evening, thus the transmission rate is higher.

Cerberus

It's mostly cafés where this will happen, of course.

tchrist

02:18

You would think that all they would have to is forbid the sale of alcohol to fix that problem. No need to close early.

Cerberus

Clubs have been closed since March 2020.

CowperKettle

The Bated Breath mandate is being dicussed that will ban active breathing.

Cerberus

@tchrist Well, that would be worse for the public, almost as bad as closing everything down altogether.

But shops will also close at 20.00, so you cannot buy alcohol anywhere after that hour.

tchrist

Why would you need to get drunk at a restaurant? That sounds like a bunch of frat-boy barbarians.

Cerberus

Maybe restaurants would keep some proportion of their clientèle.

But not the rest.

Restaurants make most of their money from drinks.

tchrist

02:21

Lots and lots and lots of restaurants are unlicensed, and nobody minds.

Cerberus

They will likely not open altogether if they may not serve alcohol.

Maybe some would stay open, I don't know.

tchrist

Then that's ok then, since it seems they've identified the source of the problem?

Cerberus

The problem is also that it is nearly impossible to check.

The government are hardly checking the horeca with current rules, like the QR codes.

They haven't the capacity.

tchrist

Cop walks in, orders a drink. They serve him, he arrests them. Seems simple.

CowperKettle

People should then just switch from alcohol to Pregabalin. Works the same way, does not ruin your liver, and overdose results in sedation, and in rare cases, seizures, but not death.

Cerberus

02:22

@tchrist Yes, but it would make very little difference.

@tchrist They would get a warning. But anyway, there is absolutely nowhere near the manpower available to check that.

They want measures that are as easy to check as possible.

tchrist

Here the state pulls their business licence when they don't comply. It's really quite effective, because now they cannot even open at all.

That specifically happened here, in a famous case. About masking.

Cerberus

Maybe they could have tried no alcohol, I don't know.

I'm sure they have thought about it.

The State Institute of Health and others have issued official advice.

tchrist

I had thought they did that in Africa or India or somewhere.

Cerberus

That's what the government base their new measures on.

Who did what?

tchrist

Banned alcohol sales because of the virus.

Cerberus

02:26

Yes, I think it was done in South Africa.

tchrist

bbc.com/worklife/article/…

Bingo!

Cerberus

Selling alcohol after 18.00 was forbidden here as well for a couple of months.

But banning it altogether? That is quite a drastic measure, invading in people's private lives.

I think 2G is imminent.

CowperKettle

Last spring, Belarusian ruler Lukashenko advised people to drink a cup of vodka and go to the sauna in order to prevent covid infection.

Cerberus

The Christen-Unie are against it, because they are a small, evangelical party with lots of anti-vaxxers.

tchrist

> It could be argued that South Africa didn’t have much of a choice: by early August, it had the fifth most Covid cases in the world, and the virus’s widespread penetration demanded more hospital beds.

Interesting line of reasoning, eh?

Cerberus

02:29

Meanwhile, I have made good progress with highlighting text in TEXTAREAs.

@tchrist It is one of many measures one could take.

CowperKettle

> The Christen-Unie still has ideological strong links with so-called pillarised organisations.

Cerberus

tchrist

This "interference in private lives" reasoning seems the same as the antimaskers and the antivaxers and the antitaxers.

CowperKettle

A new term. Pillarized organizations.

Cerberus

Yup!

CowperKettle

02:31

Probably the term derives from the album Jagged Little Pill

Cerberus

Society used to be divided into informal 'pillars': Catholic, traditional Protestant, Reformed (orthodox Calvinist), Liberal, and Socialist.

tchrist

I thought the fifth column was revolutionaries

Cerberus

The leaders of the pillars formed coalitions and talked to each other, but the common man mostly read newspapers from his own pillar, and possibly even shopped in its shops.

CowperKettle

Wow.

tchrist

Oh right, socialists.

CowperKettle

02:33

Live and learn. We have a rosy picture of the "West".

tchrist

What is "liberal"?

Cerberus

This is fairly common in various forms in various countries, but it was especially marked in mid-century Holland.

tchrist

@CowperKettle That's pretty alien in North America.

Cerberus

@tchrist Politically liberal, both socially and economically.

CowperKettle

@tchrist There is no pillarization in North America?

Cerberus

02:34

Although most liberals were traditional Protestants...I don't know too much about the system.

@CowperKettle It mostly disappeared after the fifties, so you wouldn't have noticed.

And it was not some formal or legal system, just an informal way for society to organise itself in.

tchrist

I don't know. It's not a word I know. It's hard to know whether one shop owner is circumcised and the next one is not. But the split for media consumption between the Democrats and the Trumpistas is beyond compare.

Cerberus

Yes, it was a bit like that, except much less hostile.

Catholics were just different: you didn't hate them, nor did not generally congregate with them.

tchrist

Sounds like an old fashioned Jewish ghetto.

Cerberus

They had Catholic newspapers, while you read your liberal newspaper.

Yes, you could say Jews were also a pillar.

tchrist

There were Catholic newspapers? Wow.

Cerberus

02:37

Certainly!

Didn't you have any Catholic newspapers?

CowperKettle

We have an Orthodox TV channel.

tchrist

Never heard of any. Most people here can't read Latin. :)

Cerberus

One of the oldest and most respected newspapers today, the Volkskrant, used to be the Catholic pillar's main newspaper.

CowperKettle

krant is probably related to current

Cerberus

Indeed.

tchrist

02:38

Church newsletters work differently than newspapers.

Cerberus

The old-fashioned word is courant, from French.

tchrist

List of Catholic newspapers and magazines in the United States

This article is a list of Catholic newspapers and magazines in the United States. For the frequency listings, the terminology will be as follows Bimonthly: every two months, not two per month Biweekly: every two weeks, not two per week. == By state and diocese or eparchy == The following is a list containing the official newspaper, newsletter, magazine or other publication of the dioceses of the United States, organized alphabetically by state followed by diocese: == Non-diocesan newspapers and magazines == == References ==

But what the hell that is I have no effing clue!!!

Cerberus

Churches were not explicitly leading pillars.

CowperKettle

Catholic Church We've Made a Few Changes

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Cerberus

Each pillar had secular political leaders.

tchrist

02:41

Can you tell I didn't grow up in a Catholic world? Once we'd kicked out all the French and the Indians, Wisconsin was thereafter mainly settled by the English, Germans, and Scandinavians, none of which are hotbeds of Catholicism this side of Bavaria.

@Cerberus That's unsettling to me.

@CowperKettle Definitely gets them out of the child rearing business that way, doesn't it just?

I dunno. All this obsession with religion is...unseemly.

It's like having Microsoft users all living in one part of town with their own shops and restaurants and clubs and newspapers and rules, and Unix users all living in the other part with their own of the same.

At least then the shunning would be understandable. :)

Reminds me of medieval merchant guilds. And of company towns.

Cerberus

@tchrist Nor I!

Of course my grandparents wouldn't go to Catholic shops!

@tchrist What, secular leaders are unsettling?

tchrist

@Cerberus I don't understand why you would have sectarian polticians.

Cerberus

We still have several major parties left from that time, including the largest party, the liberal party (which is now centre right).

@tchrist Secular.

Labour is also still there.

And so is the fusion part of Catholica and traditional protestants.

tchrist

@Cerberus Again, how could you know? Because the crosses they hung at the shop doors had dead guys on them and the Protestant shop doors hung crosses unadorned by mortal flesh?

Cerberus

And so are two smaller, Calvinist parties, including the Christen-Unie.

@tchrist You just knew!

One of the largest chains, Vroom & Dreesman, for example, was widely known to be Catholic.

tchrist

02:53

You mean a Calvinist political party?

Cerberus

@tchrist Yes, political parties.

tchrist

That's disgusting.

Cerberus

What's disgusting?

tchrist

You should never have religion in politics.

Cerberus

We also have a Muslim party now.

tchrist

02:54

That's just wrong.

It's a violation of the separation of church and state.

Cerberus

We have had religious parties since the late 19th century (before that time, Catholics were oppressed, and everyone else were traditional protestants).

tchrist

It's difficult to describe the crazies here sixty years ago regarding JFK and the Roman Bishop.

Cerberus

Well, of course I do not like religious parties.

But they are just normal political parties, who just happen to represent certain groups in society.

The Christen-Unie, for example, while against abortion and euthanasia, otherwise behave decently and constructively. They have behaved that way for as long as I remember.

Even the most orthodox Calvinist party, the SGP, is called 'the conscience of Parliament'.

tchrist

Sounds like the Freemasons or the Elks Club or the Rotary Club or the Knights of Columbus or the Knights Templar, wait how did we land in the crusades again now? :)

Cerberus

You really do not want them to have more than a handful of seats, and they do block progressive laws when there is no majority, but otherwise they behave well.

We also have the Party for the Animals.

They are pretty orthodox in their own way.

I think many are against pets.

tchrist

02:59

You sound as splintered as the Italians, who are known to have as many "political" "parties" as they have flavors of gelato, but none so tasty.

@Cerberus There are no pet owners in Boulder. We only have pet guardians here, statutorily at least.

It's confusing to have more political parties than people.

Cerberus

We are very much splintered, but I think that is a good thing. It means less party discipline and more voting for what you actually believe in, I think. Or at least it can.

tchrist

Factions are fatal. And unavoidable, pace George Washington. It's just terrible.

Cerberus

Factions?

Why fatal?

It's working well enough.

tchrist

Political parties. He didn't want any.

Haha.

Cerberus

We're heading the Scandinavian way, minority coalitions.

Yes, our parliaments were never intended to have political parties.

tchrist

03:05

Here you get both choices: you can be ruled by the millionaires or you can be ruled by the billionaires. Complete freedom to choose.

Cerberus

They have seemed unavoidable for quite some time, but you could see many smaller parties as similar to each representative voting for her own cause.

@tchrist It's funny how he designed the system towards bipertisanry, which has very strong parties, even though he was against political parties...

We used to have a district system too, I think those were more common before 1900.

tchrist

We are come to a point where nothing the other team wants is anything you must ever let past. It's a complete breakdown of a working government.

@Cerberus Um what? Washington didn't design political parties.

Or even a system in which those were required.

He refused to have anything to do with them.

Cerberus

Perhaps, if the stalemate becomes too unworkable, people will at last vote for a third party.

@tchrist Unwittingly.

tchrist

@Cerberus You sweet summer child.

Cerberus

Winner-take-all tends towards few parties, and very strong ones.

Isn't that how he designed it?

tchrist

03:08

But that's just it. It wasn't supposed to be winner takes all.

That's a recent thing.

Cerberus

Wasn't supposed to.

That's what makes it 'funny', how his design turned out to be counter to his intentions.

If I understand the situation correctly.

tchrist

The electoral college is not a winner takes all system in the Constitution.

> What most interesting about our current system for selecting a president is that it’s an unintended quirk that isn’t even mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. States determine how they select their electors. In fact, for the first 13 presidential elections, states experimented with many different electoral systems.

> By 1832, every state except South Carolina awarded its electors by the popular vote, although not all states followed the winner-take-all custom that emerged later. Since 1868, every state has awarded its electors in a way related to that state’s popular vote tally.

Cerberus

Unintended, is what I meant.

@tchrist Ah, I see

@tchrist "Has awarded": I am confused?

tchrist

@Cerberus =now awards

Cerberus

It suggests that's still the way?

Yes.

tchrist

03:12

But that still doesn't have to be winner takes all!!

Cerberus

Or perhaps "by the popular vote" is unclear.

tchrist

And in Maine and Nebraska, it is not so.

Cerberus

I thought it meant proportionally.

tchrist

Oh it used to be that the states just did weird random things.

The way they did with Senators, which was not an elected position initially.

It was always an appointed position.

Maine and Nebraska award electors proportionate to the vote. The other states do not do so.

Cerberus

Winner-take-all electors make sense in a situation when the state level is supposed to be the most important level: then each state can speak with one vote.

Like governments of European member-states: they, too, speak with one voice when things need to be decided on the continental level.

tchrist

03:14

In that regard, each seat is itself winner takes all because each seat is one human speaking for it.

Cerberus

Yeah.

You cannot have millions of representatives.

tchrist

Suppose Boulder has to send exactly one representative to Congress. Which in fact is the case. It can send only one.

Cerberus

You always have to throw some votes away.

But the number you throw away can vary.

tchrist

Well, here we only throw away the Republican votes. :)

Cerberus

When 17 million people elect 1 King, you could have 16.4 million people who get no representation altogether.

tchrist

03:16

There aren't very many of them. Like 4 to 1. So they feel like their votes are discarded.

Cerberus

If they voted for the other candidate.

@tchrist Hmm that's quite a left-leaning state then.

tchrist

It's just my congressional district, the Colorado 2nd.

Cerberus

Ah, OK.

tchrist

The Colorado 1st is Denver.

Cerberus

My city is very left wing.

Then again, most cities are on the left side of the spectrum.

tchrist

03:18

They're the capital, we're the university. Everybody else came after us. And still do sometimes. :)

Yes.

It's why we have a split congressional delegation.

Cerberus

What does that mean?

tchrist

It has been 7 districts, so there was always a clear majority. You can't have a tie with 7. But then too many people moved here so we have to redraw everything to make an 8th.

Or maybe we just made extra babies, not sure.

Cerberus

Oh, you mean your town is now two districts instead of one?

City?

tchrist

I sure as hell hope not. But there have been crazier schemes.

That crap still happens in most states. It's terrible. Called gerrymandering. All done by computers now. Whichever party is in power every ten years cuts up the other party's districts so they can't ever manage to elect people.

Colorado doesn't do that. We passed some sort of constitutional amendment making it illegal. It has to never favor one side or another now. So it's been taking a while to see how it all shakes out. At one point they were indeed talking about cleaving off part of Boulder County.

Cerberus

I have heard of that.

tchrist

03:24

> The Colorado Independent Congressional and Legislative Redistricting Commissions, established by Amendments Y and Z in 2018, are drawing Colorado's congressional and state legislative districts in 2021.

Cerberus

It is good that you have a laws against it.

tchrist

It's better than a law.

It's an amendment to the constitution itself. Two of them, apparently.

That quote was from redistricting.colorado.gov

Oh it's been approved by the supreme court just a few days ago.

Oh my.

So yes, the new district has grabbed up most of Boulder County. I have no idea what this means for us.

Duh no.

My computer is on drugs.

District 2 is the blue one in the top middle. District 8 is the new little one. I don't even know what district I'm in anymore.

Cerberus

Is Boulder near Denver on this map?

tchrist

Yes and no.

Yes.

It's about 30 miles away or so.

cpr.org/2021/11/01/…

Cerberus

Ok that's probably nearby to your standards.

tchrist

03:30

Nope, I'm still in 2.

The colors are different on that locator map.

It kind of matters. We'll be ok.

I think they managed to keep the two big colleges together.

The other is up in Ft Collins to the north, in Larimer County.

Cerberus

Is that important?

tchrist

One of the proposed maps, not this one, had coupled us up with a bunch of Republican counties.

Ask me again after next year's election, if I'm still around.

Cerberus

Hmm.

tchrist

It's pretty difficult to cut up everybody into equal-sized districts.

Which is what the U.S. Constitution requires.

Because size means number of residents.

So anywhere that there are a lot of people, you get small districts and vice versa.

That's the Denver-Boulder metroplex.

Look at how there are all kinds of colors, each a different U.S. Congressional District.

Cerberus

And for what type of districts was it that even non-citizens counted?

tchrist

03:37

But out around the edges of the state where it's just prairie or desert, it's different.

Cerberus

Electoral votes?

tchrist

That's this.

Cerberus

So seats in the lower house?

tchrist

You count humans, not voters.

Yes.

Cerberus

There is a difference between voters, citizens, and humans each.

tchrist

03:38

Otherwise you rig the system to create crimes against humanity.

Cerberus

We have no districts.

tchrist

You're tiny.

Cerberus

We used to have 100 districts, one for each member of the lower house.

I think in the 19th century.

But the district system was abolished.

tchrist

You can't award money from like the federal education budget or the federal health care budget proportionate to the number of people who voted for you, or even people who vote. You have to award it based on humans.

Cerberus

Uhh...

tchrist

03:40

I don't know that those are real things. I'm just inventing examples.

I do know that that is why it matters, though.

It's like allocating transportation money based on cars on the road instead of cars driven by people who are allowed to vote.

An incredible number of people are not allowed to vote in the American South due to felony records, an overwhelming proportion of whom are black.

It's just one of the ways that the old slavers still retain power there.

Cerberus

I rather meant immigrants who are not citizens.

tchrist

They still require support from the state.

We rearrange the lines so that each vote in the lower chamber is equal.

It's kind of weird, I know.

Cerberus

@tchrist But they cannot vote.

tchrist

Neither could slaves.

Cerberus

No, indeed.

tchrist

03:52

But the slavers still wanted them to count for congressional power.

Cerberus

So the vote of a voter in a slave state counts for more?

tchrist

Yes.

Cerberus

Hmm is that the original reason behind this?

I wonder how other countries with districts do this.

England?

tchrist

So the "three-fifths compromise" that was the only way the slave states would vote for the new constitution became one the founding original sins that we are still suffering from.

Cerberus

Without districts, this issue does not exist.

What is this compromise?

tchrist

03:54

That a slave counts as three-fifths of a person for congressional representation even though they could not vote and were not citizens.

And were not subject to the laws that protect human beings. They could be murdered by a slave owner at his whim. Many lesser crimes were taken for granted.

Rape is not a crime if it's a slave, etc.

It was not legally possible to steal from a slave because a slave could not legally own anything.

Cerberus

Ahh.

A fascination proportion.

Slaves often had few rights.

I believe they had some rights under Roman law.

tchrist

They did.

Not here.

Cerberus

There were some things you could not do.

But you could rape them, and kill them under certain circumstances.

Still, I think it was better than in Greece.

tchrist

The North wanted them to count for nothing, saying to free them if you want them to count.

Cerberus

Of course.

tchrist

03:59

The South wanted them to count just like a normal person, but would not free them.

The 3/5th compromise was how the North got the South to join. It was terrible.

Cerberus

So do all those ineligible to vote in a state still count for 3/5?

tchrist

No.

Nonslave women counted as full humans.

So did nonslave Indians of either sex.

I don't know that the Romans had birthright slavery.

Cerberus

Ah, I see.

And now?

@tchrist What is that?

tchrist

@Cerberus Children of slaves were automatically slaves.

It was inheritable.

Cerberus

Hardly a "right"...

I think it was the same way with the Romans.

tchrist

04:03

So you had generation after generation after generation of humans completely trapped in slavery. They could have no hope for their children.

Cerberus

It was fairly normal for slaves in Rome to be freed eventually by their owners.

tchrist

There is nothing they could do to be freed.

Cerberus

And they could save up money.

tchrist

Yes, well, not these ones.

You can't let them do that, or they might buy themselves.

Cerberus

Sounds more like Spartan slaves.

tchrist

04:04

Then they would be free. That cannot be allowed.

Cerberus

Do you think the North should have forced its will upon the South?

As soon as it could?

tchrist

Only if they had weapons of mass destruction. Then it's ok. :)

The whole American Revolution was forged on a lie that pretended slaves were not people.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Nope.

That's a lie.

They did not believe that.

Not those in the South at least.

Cerberus

Didn't the North still have slaves in that time, too?

And I think they truly did mean only men. Why should women not be equal?

tchrist

04:23

@Cerberus No no no no.

It was illegal.

> Slavery itself was never widespread in the North, though many of the region's businessmen grew rich on the slave trade and investments in southern plantations. Between 1774 and 1804, all of the northern states abolished slavery, but the institution of slavery remained absolutely vital to the South.

Cerberus

Isn't that mostly after the revolution?

tchrist

YEs.

It was not illegal in 1619, say.

The Constitution wasn't until 1787.

Cerberus

Ah.

tchrist

It's easy to slip into thinking that 1776 was the foundation of the Republic, but really, it wasn't. Not in the way people think of it. Just in spirit.

It was the start of the armed rebellion.

Cerberus

Fair enough.

tchrist

04:28

The 1787 Constitution was ratified in 1788. It was first operative in 1789.

Cerberus

04:58

I wonder how many slaves there still were by that time in the North.

CowperKettle

05:13

Current weather. Minus 5°C

Cerberus

That building looks nice, is it old?

CowperKettle

The sign on the boy's jacket says волонтер (volontyor), "volunteer"

@Cerberus I like it.

It dates back to 1863

Дом Севастьянова

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Sevastyanov's House

In the 19th century eclectic style with elements of Mauretanian, Gothic, and Neobarocco

Mullioned windows are pleasant to look at

Mullion

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Cerberus

Nice and very Russian.

Xanne

That is one gorgeous building.

CowperKettle

05:29

We were running back from ParkRun, and talked with a woman runner. She said her old mother is not getting the vaccine, because she has "counter-indications", that is, she is diabetic and has high blood pressure.

Surely covid will be more sparing to an old hypertensive diabetic.

Cerberus

05:42

Indeed.

CowperKettle

KFConsole

The KFConsole is a home video game console developed by KFC Gaming and Cooler Master. After its initial announcement in June 2020, it was widely believed to be a hoax, until its official reveal in December. The console boasts various features, including ray tracing, up to 4K resolution, and 240Hz output. The signature feature of the device is a proprietary "Chicken Chamber" that can store and warm chicken. == Design == The KFConsole's design is inspired by KFC's Bargain Bucket. The console itself is an all-black cylinder with a backlit red power button on the front below the Chicken Chamber, which...

Comes with a chicken chamber where you can warm chicken.

CowperKettle

06:32

Word of the day: earthgrazer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-grazing_fireball

CowperKettle

06:50

Art produced by Russian antivaxxers

A kind of cave art, only on Facebook

CowperKettle

08:10

Forty-one percent of children claimed that bacon came from a plant. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494421001584

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