You know, I just realized how dumb it is that I grew up on TNG and yet have never written a bald dude into my sci-fi.

I need to stop sucking and do that.

Excuse me, low balls simply happen when you get older. It’s a natural facet of aging!

Pterosaur is a good one to look up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur

This is my suspicion too.

Me: The bowl’s empty, isn’t it?

Cataclysm DDA.

I was kind of musing in a corner of my mind that Jesus acting as a sacrifice to god…really only makes sense in a cultural context where basically everyone around you is already sacrificing goats and chickens and bulls and whatever to their gods.

When that cultural context is removed (as in our culture where generally nobody slaughters animals as a sacrifice to any god) the whole crucifixion thing comes off as…weirdly pagan.

Like, HAVING to have a human/god sacrificed to god to…remove sin I guess…it only really makes sense if you have the cultural expectation that sacrificing things to some god is…just what you DO to get rid of sin or stuff that’s harmful like curses or whatever?

I’m not a bible scholar, and I know there’s tons of theology that’s already argued about Jesus “dying for our sins” into infinity.

I’m more vaguely looking at this from a layperson secular standpoint, where I’m thinking about the cultural context of “sacrifice” as it pertains to 2000 years ago, and how it pertains to now in our current culture. Like…wow, the culture and how we see things has totally shifted and the Jesus died thing is a really weird boondogle/relic of those ancient mindsets, isn’t it?

I read somewhere that for some people they also get better with age.

And for me that was true. My intrusive thoughts were worse as a teen and twenty something than now.

Then as I matured I relaxed, and also got proof from my own past behavior that I don’t act on any of it, which made me relax more.

Sloth is another word for neglect.

And sustained neglect can do terrible things.

Think a parent watching TV or playing with their phone and their child suffering from their inaction.

“I’ll do it tomorrow” can have huge repercussions when the thing needing tending is important.

There’s another treatment on the horizon though that grows entirely new teeth. There’s an article with a pic of a ferret showing an entirely new tooth that was grown. I think it’s a research group in Japan that managed it?

These techs together mean some pretty exciting things coming in a decade or two for shitty teeth when the technologies mature.

And they’re all grey.

My friend had a grey SUV that for the life of me I could not find in a parking lot. So many gray SUVs that all look the same…

I hate the vehicle color trend of Depression Grey. And blue. And mold green.

I admit I only know what a Stigmata is because the commercial with the guy with the bleeding hands was cool. Killer ad campaign to release them on Halloween too!

It’s actually really fun to do interior design and architecture with it.

I’m half convinced the folks who mod in new furniture and decor are already architects…