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Ohhhh ok, my bad. I must've misread some of that after being grossed out by the whole religious bullshit being a part of it.

Only the egg. And that egg went in a different mother, and was inseminated by a different father. I'm not a biologist but I feel like the mother who bore the baby also contributed some amount of DNA. It's like when someone gets a heart or liver transplant, they often change their personality a bit. I read about a guy who got a heart transplant from a guy who died rock climbing, and suddenly got big into fitness, art and his taste in music changed.

Id appreciate that just so I wouldn't have to stick around and wait for the check, then come back for my card, then come back with the slip. I hate that part. I've already been sitting there for 30-45 mins, let me go.

There's a lot of heavy lifting by a lot of words in there. Saying the baby has a "biological sister" is at best a half truth and more like a total falsehood. I have a half sister out there somewhere that was adopted away that I've never met. And that's far more close than this scenario.

Austin powers

I've pulled things from drains more appealing.

Is it for cravings or withdrawal symptoms or what, from your perspective does it help?

Edit: you already answered it was for withdrawals. Derp.

Meh, we wouldn't be the first species to be so successful that we kill ourselves off.

And stem professionals are also violence professionals (i.e. military and cops)? STEM tends to be very specific in their knowledge base these days. Yeah, they know how to make solar panels, but do they know where to get those materials, how to mine them? Even 80 years ago, it took several teams of hundreds of scientists to figure out nuclear energy. Lose half that team of specified individuals working together and you just have an idea. And those smart individuals gained their knowledge from smart individuals before them, and same for those individuals.

Look at Greek fire or the pyramids for examples of lost technology that 2000 years later, we still can't figure out. Losing a scientist here or there is generally not that big of a deal, but when you can't control how many or who goes, you lose control of the knowledge.

Well then I suspect you don't see much of anything. It's happening before your eyes and you don't see it? Do you see genocide in Palestine? Do you see fascism in America? Do you see plastic trash in waterways? Do you see homelessness? Do you see the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? How do you not see the obvious outcome? The only reason we're still making enough food, is because of petroleum based fertilizer. Without that, we'd have lost billions of people already, or they never would have been born in the first place. That's unsustainable. And as society breaks down, so does the economy that allowed those fertilizers to exist. Billions die, any way you look at it, billions die and civilization crumbles. Which happens first doesn't really matter.

Bud, it's just getting started. Wait till the Mississippi is inundated with salt water and flows north depending on the time of day.

My wittiness just comes out as almost like a tic. Usually a sharp one-liner barb that presents itself in conversation. It's very circumstantial, and often mean. Alcohol basically takes the sharpness and meanness out, and spreads the humor out more evenly. So I'm not silent for 20 minutes and throw in a hardcore jab, I'm just far more sociable, and generally likeable.