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Anybody know of a good small animal exorcist? Asking for a friend.

All food in this house gets a cat scan.

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This is the best recipe/how to for red beans and rice on youtube. It takes a while to cook but it is well worth it. Recipe & directions on youtube link.

WinBlowzUpdate- if we don't dump your latest work, this bulls*** software you never use might not be secure if you ever decide to try it....

You guys beat me to it. Here's NPR's article link: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/23/580109007/ursula-le-guin-whose-novels-plucked-truth-from-high-fantasy-dies-at-88

As literate, creative people we should be able to say **** in all sorts of interesting ways. Romance and drama would be pretty boring if there was only one word for ****. Granted, **** is a multi-function, multipurpose Swiss Army Knife of words. It can, depending on usage, be a noun, verb, adjective and even an adverb. The problem with **** is that it gets overused and loses its potency. There is definitely a time and a place for ****. We shouldn't dilute it or wear it out with overuse. Words like **** are supposed to have sharp edges. It's supposed to make you blink, raise and eyebrow or wrinkle your nose. The reason it doesn't anymore is that it has been overused to the point where it's shape edges are dulled. It is a word that is actually improved by its rarity. Seeing **** in a sentence should elicit a reaction other than -meh- or you are using it wrong. If you are really good at it, you can say **** and no one will even notice at all. The craft of writing isn't about the power of ****, it's about the power of the other words and ideas in that sentence.

As literate, creative people we should be able to say **** in all sorts of ways. Romance and drama would be pretty boring if there was only one word for ****. Granted, **** is a multi-function, multipurpose Swiss Army Knife of words. It can, depending on usage, be a noun, verb, adjective and even an adverb. The problem with **** is that it gets overused and loses its potency. There is definitely a time and a place for ****. We shouldn't dilute it or wear it out with overuse. Words like **** are supposed to have sharp edges. It's supposed to make you blink, raise and eyebrow or wrinkle your nose. The reason it doesn't anymore is that it has been overused to the point where it's shape edges are dulled. It is a word that is actually improved by its rarity. Seeing **** in a sentence should elicit a reaction other than -meh- or you are using it wrong. If you are really good at it, you can say **** and no one will even notice at all. The craft isn't about the power of ****, it's about the power of the other words and ideas in that sentence.

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"You humans have an impressive amount of pornograpgy for a species that only has two sexes." From Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson

Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse Craig Alanson's Expeditionary Force https://www.goodreads.com/series/185650-expeditionary-force David Weber's Honorverse https://www.goodreads.com/series/40419-honor-harrington David Weber, John Ringo Empire of Man https://www.goodreads.com/series/40584-empire-of-man

So far I have not tried to do aliens. I'm not sure that humans actually can. Even some of the masters of sci-fi assign humano-centric motives and norms to them. Aliens have: spent billions of years evolving taken a completely different branch of the evolutionary tree have their own history may see other species as a deadly threat or completely irrelevant developed star faring tech Nobody has done a good job on them. Our Hollywood Aliens always arrive, kick the crap out of earths armed forces, *something happens* and, they go away. In a recent paper by a SETI guy theorizes that technic civilizations might have been common but most of them die out over the 15 billion years of the known universes. Maybe as we explore the galaxy, we find ruins of the civilizations that came before. I've read about some pretty dumb ideas for aliens. Actually I've seen a lot of them. Especially the butt-head aliens from the Trek mythos. What makes a good believable alien? It's both more and less an obvious question than you would think.

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Let's face it: humans are petty, vindictive and just plain mean. As we trundle towards extinction with enormous problems that we don't have the economy, science, technology or will to face, the best thing for us would be a beneficent alien takeover. No- not the nuke your planet to radioactive slag and drive on alien encounter. Cool aliens that show up, take over, get the trains running on time and then teach us some of that alien voodoo. Fat chance of course but we can wish for it. We are a remarkably stupid race. We know that fossil fuels are bad for the planet yet we drill baby drill. We're scared shitless of nuclear energy, the only technology that has a zero carbon footprint and actually has the wattage to power our grids. Our political processes are so mired in incompetence and blatant corruption that many people don't vote simply because it's often just a choice between a criminal and a religious nut. It would sure be nice if some benevolent aliens showed up to lend us a hand. Maybe show us how to make fusion work and not blow up a few countries. Help us transition from the arms race which everyone but the billionaires lose to a science and technology race that the species wins. Instead of politically appointed bureaucrats running important things like the Dept of Energy or the Bureau of Land Management we have artificial intelligence oversight that won't put up with corruption. Can you imagine getting a galactic level education? Could you imagine what we could do with it? I can and it would never be allowed. No sane alien would ever trust a bunch of dumb ass primates like us with any technology more sophisticated with a zippo. I think that we as a species have reached a point to where we simply must grow the fuck up or go extinct. It's really that simple folks. We face our problems and handle them or they will end us. There is coming a point when we will kick the can down the road one more time and it will explode.

Christmas trees beware!