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Interesting story:

Disposing of Embryos in Tennesee

When asked, Tennessee AG wrote that the state's trigger law makes it murder to dispose of fertilized embryos never implanted in a woman, because "human life begins at conception". It would also make removing extra embryos from a woman's uterus abortion as well, after IVF implantation. When somebody pointed out how stupid that was, he changed his mind. But why? If their current abortion law makes all ending of a one day old embryo illegal, why wouldn't these acts also be illegal?

This shows how ridiculous their abortion law is, when their fantasies meet reality head-on. I think somebody is bound to sue, on behalf of all those poor murdered babies! Then they either change the law, or just outlaw IVF in Tennessee. And perhaps for Tennessee residents going out of state for IVF.

They never punish the men who commit the sin of Onan, wasting their seed upon the ground.

Hard act to follow!

Can someone remind me how to change passwords, before my probationary password expires, or democracy ends?

Tat

Got it, I think!

Welcome back PuttyTAT

Another hurricane is hitting Florida tonight. This 'cane hasn't gotten much coverage due to the mid-term election. Media is starting to focus on it now.

What's Ron DeSantis' plan for dealing with climate change and its ever-more-powerful hurricanes? Stop being woke? Stop all drag shows in the state?

The majority of Florida voters don't seem to care because they keep electing politicians that deny reality like presidential election results and climate change.

Perhaps voting against relief bills for hurricane clean-up will bring that red state around to climate change reality.

Interesting paper discussed on TWEVO today: Some researchers figured out four immune system genes that had different allele frequencies in English and Danish populations around 1350 AD. One allele was present in about 40% of the population before the big Black Death pandemic, and then about 70% afterwards! This is yet another real life example of Natural Selection: People without that allele tended to die before reproduction. And yes, this was the gene allele responsible for plague and HIV immunity. But interestingly, it's not really specific to Yersinia pestis or HIV, since one is a bacteria and one a retrovirus. Instead this is a gene for an enzyme that snips fragments off a pathogen protein, so they can be presented to CD8 lymphocytes for antibody production. And guess what? It seems to work for SARS-COV2 as well! Which could help explain why some people seem to never get Covid-19 and never develop antibodies.

It actually "supercharges" the immune system, but in doing that may increase susceptibility to autoimmune problems like Crohn's Disease. Of course, evolution doesn't care what goes wrong when you get beyond reproduction age!

Hurricane Nicole has weakend to a tropical storm, less than 39 mph winds. Crisis averted.

Belarus is whining about Ukraine mining the Ukraine side of its border. It has long been thought that Russia will mount a second attempt to take Kiev in Spring 2023.

If Ukraine IS mining their side of the border with Belarus, it’s to prevent a northern invasion by Russia. Besides, Ukraine can do whatever they want - it’s their country.

>mining their side of the border with Belarus

Good idea, since Belarus has acted as a Russian proxy throughout the war. I don't think Ukraine needs anything from Belarus ever again, so they can cut roads, rail lines, and bridges as well.