Well this is interesting

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Some linkrot on the site, and more of a shallow survey than I’d like, in some cases.

Well that’s my 2025 gift lists sorted, especially for the young’uns whose parents are ok with this kind of material, and who have a certain amount of maturity and non-fragility to get the most out of this kind of material.

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I’ve actually heard Inge Ginsberg sing! She is bad ass! (Not really into death metal so much, but come on, you gotta give it up for this woman!)

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intersex traits could be found among as many as 2% of live births, seemingly making them as common as red hair globally.

I’ve used this statistic in conversation with patients at times. Not a one of them believed me. The schools here do not mention intersex, and precious few have any experience. My in-laws had a couple in their church years ago with an intersex baby, and it was treated as something scandalous and shameful. I tried educating them, and got “not how God designed it.” My response, “And you’ve talked to him about this?” was probably not my wisest move…

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Were they able to explain how a baby is born that way but God wasn’t part of the design process? I mean, then who was, according to them?

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That would require a level of insight into the real world that most of them are incapable of. Nothing is simple, binary and easily understandable. Nothing. But that falls on deaf ears most of the time. So they insist that the world bend to their lazy ignorance instead of accepting how it actually is. And yeah, I’m a little bitter about that mindset.

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You are not alone in that.

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Wow… in :us: prices that’s what, about a half million dollar heist?

Police are scrambling. They can’t crack the case. It’s a Grade A mystery. But hopefully they catch whoever poached the eggs.

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Eggs are about $6/dozen right now, so only $50k USD. Not worth it.

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$8/dozen up here. But considering black market prices, and that you can’t pull off a heist without breaking a few eggs, I’d still say probably in the $40K to 50K range. :person_shrugging:

Whether it’s worth it or not depends on the person, I guess. At least it makes for a good “what are you in for” story if they get caught.

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Heard about this on the radio on my way home. International news from Pennsylvania!

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How much is that in tyre money?

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Canadian Tire money? image

That depends on the exchange rate and whether you’re valuing the eggs at the considerably lower cost we have in our supply-quota constrained, low-bird-flu market.

It used to trade at par with the :canada: dollar at a few watering holes in Northern Ontario but, sadly, has been withdrawn from circulation and replaced by a stupid points card.

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Was it poachers?

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Nah. That only happens in hardboiled detective novels.

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For free range store brand, ours is about $5.00 a dozen…

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Dunno, but I doubt the heist went over easy.

And stealing from a local farmer? Eggs? Benedict Arnold types at work.

The sunny side? Up to now the case is devilled in the details…

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I expect the oeufs will be cocotte.

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That’s too many eggs to heist! One egg is an oeuf.

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