For sure could be. They don’t leave their stingers, they hurt like hell, and they’re complete assholes.

When the stinger comes out, it’s basically the whole back end of the bee. It’s kind of fiendish: the venom sack and a little muscle are in the very end of their butt. The stinger has a barb, so when they stick it in you, and you brush them off, the whole assembly rips off the bee and the muscle keeps pumping the venom into you. The bee dies.

So it’s very obvious if the stinger came off.

Evolution (natural selection) doesn’t work that way though. That would only work if either people started only having kids with shorter people, or those stresses you’re taking about caused people to die before having kids, which I didn’t think is happening.

I don’t believe there’s a venom difference. They got called “killer bees” because they tend to swarm people much more often than European, not because an individual sting is worse.

With that reaction, and no stinger, are you sure it was a honey bee? They pretty much always leave a stinger.

If you’re getting them flying into your face or stinging you when you’re not messing with their nest, it’s very possible you’re dealing with Africanized Honey Bees (AFBs). They’re basically impossible to tell apart just by looking at them. Aside from genetic testing, you have to do it by behavior. Lots of little differences, but two more obvious ones are:

• They’ll pretty much make a nest in any kind of a hole, including in the ground, while European bees like larger cavities in walls or hollow trees.
• They defend their nests much more aggressively and at a greater distance. They’ll fly up to your face, and tend to sting much more liberally (European bees rarely sting unless you try to squash them or actively threaten their nest).

I have a friend whose parents came to the US from Holland, and I believe he’s 6’6" (201cm). He said it was really strange when he went to Holland to visit family because he’s so used to being a head taller than everyone else - looking out over a crowd - but in Holland there were tons of people as tall as he.

Very interesting that the article says the current Dutch generation is shorter than their parents.

People often find a lot of change in their thirties (I sure did). I don’t know if it’s metabolism slowing down or just life getting more crowded and sedentary for so many of us. I was super skinny all my life - in my teens I had to force myself to eat until I was uncomfortably full just to stay even - but in my thirties I got a little belly. I also lost most of my hair in my mid twenties, so I looked like a different person between 20 and 30.

For sure freezer, and never fridge. Frozen bread, especially sliced bread, thaws really fast. If you leave it on the counter, it stays soft okay, but goes moldy quickly. In the fridge, it lasts okay but gets kind of hard quickly. In the freezer, when you thaw it, it will be soft until it’s freezer burned, and lasts like months.

That’s great, at least as long as you’re truly letting go of it and not pushing it down someplace.

It’s pretty easy for me to feel sadness, but anger is just a very unnatural state for me. Probably to an unhealthy degree in that there are probably times when I should be mad, but instead just get despondent.

I was looking at that too. Hard to say for sure, I’m not a digital forensic, but it looks kind of that way. Which would explain how he had the full details of the man behind her.

You misunderstand: I love them so much that when I see any kind of dust or anything on them, I brush them off.

“Things;” I’m leaving that typo, but fixed two others. Proof reading for the win!

There really isn’t a norm. I don’t get mad very easily- I brush off thighs that upset other people - but if I get mad it takes a long time to get over it. I had a gf once who got mad at the slitest thing (often really mad), but would get over it really quickly. There’s a lot of variation. And, of course, it can depend on the issue, too. A guy leaving the toilet set up is different from a guy kissing his gf’s sister.

They did stuff like this - maybe not with AI - in the last two elections at least. The Mueller report made the Russian activity pretty clear. And 2016 was a really close election; they only have to shape the opinion of a small number of people.

It’s also curious that Republican lawmakers, who historically have been overtly anti-Russian and anti-Putin, have become pro Russian in recent years. What changed?

Yeah, of you can back it away from the garlic enough. Otherwise it’s too hot.

I’m leaving it

That is so completely insane. Do you know how many workplace injuries and deaths were eliminated because of things OSHA put in place?

I did roast them with a butane torch and thought that would make the flavor a little milder

That’s your problem. Rotating garlic needs a lower heat than a torch for a longer time.

I honestly didn’t get the joke and was trying to figure out what was wrong with the. Like, maybe if it was instead of raises or something I’d be pissed, but otherwise looks great.

Exactly right. They might consider it initially, but then they’d realize that they got an increase in support from the MAGA base and they’d lean into it.

Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.