@jlliagre trust me man I know things about the future that happened in the past

I'm feeling like my brain is working somewhat better on 225 mg venlafaxine.

Previously it did not - I just slept more on venlafaxine. Maybe this time it has worked because I'm also injecting leucovorine.

The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm

@CowperKettle I'm in California. The incidence of tattoos among young(ish) people went way up in the last few years. I wonder if it's purely cultural, or tattoos became chaper, or?..

@misk94555 I'm noticing tattoos everywhere here in Yekaterinburg on young people.

I dunno why they do it. Let culturologists decide :)

@misk94555 It is here too.

Tattoos will go out of vogue eventually, after which they will be no longer be tramp stamps but old stamps.

These are Trump stamps.

Does Liberia really have those?

I wonder if any woman has a tramp stamp tattoo composed of Trump stamps

I'm sure there are women with Trump tattoos.

> A Donald Trump supporter who caught the world's attention after having the former President's surname tattooed across her forehead is now seeking funds to have it removed.

I doubt whether this is real, but anyway.

It's easy to fake a tattoo for photos.

And such people will do anything for attention, because attention = sellings ads = money.

@Cerberus What a waste of forehead.

@Vikas I think there isn't much inside it.

@CowperKettle Best of luck; hope that helps! Antidepressants are, as I'm sure you know, kind of hit or miss.

@CowperKettle All the others had scheduling conflicts? /s

@Cerberus Related: I've heard some tattoo removal services will offer to remove white supremacist and/or gang and/or Nazi tattoos for free.

@Cerberus Imagine having to carefully make sure every time you brush your hair that your bangs don't only cover the "T".

@CowperKettle The best way to attract the worst kind of guys.

@alphabet How kind.

@alphabet Perhaps she wouldn't mind.

But, yeah, his portrait would have been better.

@Cerberus Sie hat aber Stirn, nicht wahr?

That's what the Germans I worked with (way back when) would say when someone was displaying some form of shameless effrontery.

Ah, I didn't know that expression.

I hadn't occasion to use it until now. I'm surprised I remember it.

It does make sense, Stirn/effrontery.

Frons is Latin for forehead.

@Cerberus Yeah, the Brits would call it "cheek".

Hmm isn't cheek a bit more...playful?

Effrontery sounds so grave?

@Cerberus I guess it depends on the degree.

Hmm.

Maybe I am influenced by cheeky, that could be it.

I think "cheek" can describe something egregious.

Association.

Yeah, could be.

The mind.

No two people probably assign exactly the same degree of seriousness to any expression.

There is that.

"You cheeky bastard!" could be said in jest of a friend, or seriously to someone who had stolen from the collection plate at church.

Hmm.

But how about if he had called you a parvenu at a party?

Depends on the party and the situation.

Or laid a hand on your wife's breast?

OK, now that is beyond the scope of language.

Somehow, effrontery comes up for me.

This just in:

How saddening.

I guess I can let all those monkeys out of my basement now.

That's what Trump said.

@Robusto Technically, if you believe that crackpot theory that says that Shakespeare didn't actually write the works attributed to him, the chimps wouldn't have to type anything.

Local news today. A 32 yo man from a local village was sentenced to 18 years last year for murder of two persons, but got into the Special Operation and got a home stay after being wounded in battle. Another 32 yo local invited him for a couple of drinks, and then said something wrong, and the convalescing warrior stabbed him, and then split his head with a splitting maul.

e1.ru/text/criminal/2024/11/30/74393558

@CowperKettle At least he knows how to handle a weapon!

@alphabet I wonder what proportion of the total potential energy in the USA is actually held in nuclear weapons.

It's wrong, somehow, that so much effort is locked into maintaining WMDs, while hydroelectric plants are still running with equipment made in the mid-1900s.

Or before. My bad.

@Cerberus Too soon.

@alphabet That only arose because all the good dissertation subjects had already been mined out.

I have lived without "content clauses" all my life. Are we sure they're necessary? I have no idea… Good morning. Happy Holidays.

@HippoSawrUs I take it your not content with content.

@Robusto No, I think I just ignored it for half a century or more. Haha, IDK. How do I not know? I assume it's a clause with content… That's my essay answer. See? No idea.

Works for me.

I notice I also fat-brained (not -fingered) your for you're. I plead insufficient caffeine. Still working on that.

Me too.

@Robusto @HippoSawrUs Is not going to let it affect her affect.

@Robusto also called a thinko

@Mitch I just call it an excuse for more coffee.

Except if it were me I'd blame it on a typo and autosuggest

@Robusto any excuse to excuse you from blame.

Any excuse for a party

Any excuse for a tyrant

Speaking tyrants...

Are cats tyrants like toddlers tyrants can be can be, or like how tyrants.can be?

They're not particularly benevolent.

But they're cuddly.

It's kind of a dilemma.

A cuddly dilemma.

@Mitch I already admitted fault. That's not a dodge for blame.

@Robusto you're just giving me an excuse tothink of more words that change meaning when you change stress

@Mitch That took you only a minute minute.

But not southerners who just change stress.

@Robusto I blame not being able to come up with any without difficulty.

Poe-leese

IN- surance

We've gone through this before

@Mitch More like IN-sharnce.

@Robusto and monophthongization too

Huh

That word is not in the spell checker dictionary.

Of course, it depends on what part of the south.

Not too far south

Then you hit Florida and all bets are off

Except at the dog races

And then

Well all bets are off once the bell rings.

@Robusto I noticed that, but I'm trying not to be an insufferable ass in my old age.

From now on, we don't have to correct your or any to/too hiccups. That would just make us old. We know what we know.

What they don't really know is too deep to fathom

If we leave it alone, they will develop telekinesis or something.

Let's just wait for mutants

I'm tired, d@mn

@HippoSawrUs Works for me.

I'm great at wordle if you get to take all day

Or a long, long time

I've ruined it for myself

Like all things

@HippoSawrUs It takes as long as it takes. Sometimes you put it down and come back half an hour later and the solution just appears.

Mastermind was my favorite game as a child

I work it more like that, pieces, than words

I bought a Playstation on Black Friday

I almost felt like a stupid young person

But I'm old, so of course I get 24 mos. interest-free

No gifts for the twins for 24 mos

I'm going to practice…

Granny's still paying on y'all's Play box station thing, Huunny.

I think that's going to work for 7 months, at least, or until death

Somewhere in there

The local comic store is selling all back copies under $5 for .50. Hey, they teach Dungeons and Dragons and crap in there.

All the dorky girls are there. My daughter-in-law is a dorky babe. It's hard to tell sometimes...

You have to be in the comic store to be sure

Hahaha

Anyway, I got my husband Batman and Santa Claus, and some werewolf thing…

Hey, it's a gag gift for .50 in a plain red bag

Love that

The acid-free card and sleeve probably costs more…

I could be a dorky gal

It's never too late

To buy lots of paper and plastic

Happy Holidays

Oh, Play box station thang…

Thnx, you too

I stand corrected

Hate always destroys the hater.

anonymous

Now that we have revised reasons to close questions and many fewer questions to deal with, how about reducing the daily limit on reviews, especially votes to close? This would give others an opportunity to acquire skills in this area and earn such points and badges as may be available. I think two a day, max three, would be good.

@Xanne Currently those max out at twenty.

@Vikas MAGA, take note.

@tchrist Yes, I know.

@Xanne You could propose that in a new ELU.meta post. I would not be surprised if SE's Community Management team came back with something of an "X/Y Problem" challenge and asked whether this would really be a good way to achieve the underlying issue you're trying to address.

Done.

@CowperKettle Блатные татуировки, или современные с западным веянием?

@Cerberus I wonder what cause culturologists will find. It could be something unexpected for us non-tattoo types. What if somebody had recently developed a better method for removing tattoos?

@misk94555 Hmm if someone developed a much better method, that would change things, indeed.

I, too, wonder what makes people do it.

I just cannot understand that basic aspect to it.

@misk94555 Modern tattoos