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From her husband’s wiki page:

In 1889 he remarried, this time to a woman of typical stature, Annette LaVonne Weatherby,[7] and lived a mostly peaceful life until his death in 1919 of nephritis.[8][9] He was buried beside his first wife and their son in Seville.[10] He is one of the tallest known people to live to at least 80 years.

I’m always curious about how those conversations go, mostly because my dad kept my mom’s name when he married my stepmom and that’s gotta be weird.

Is Rhode Island 34 or 14? Ct looks to be the 108, so what’s the extra number there for?

This is how my house gets cleaned

On the backdrop you mean? That would be from light refracting off of other places in the background and converging behind the gadget, partially illuminating the shadow.

Larry David introduced RFK Jr and his wife (Cheryl Hines, also from cye)

This looks like a normal SUV to me. What’s so weird about it?

Is “spring and fall” actually a set phrase or not? My actual nit to pick was that “fall” only refers to the early part of the season, I just wanted to get a little more of the quote.

There’s also something to be said for the strength required to constantly operate a heavy body. I used to do a lot of community dance, and it’s so, so much easier to do that at a low weight.

Immediately post COVID, I danced for the first time in ~18 months after having gained probably 10-15 kg, and I was fucking wrecked. Since then, I’ve lost the weight, but I’m now a smoker. It’s still so much easier to dance now, and I don’t have a way to test it, but I would be surprised if I’m in better cardiovascular health now than I was then. I’m just lifting less weight with every movement.

I love this guy. From a different interview with him:

The part of this I am fine with is these poor regions are getting tourist money.”

He’s also quick to add that he has nothing against the super-centenarians – as people who are 110 or older are known – themselves.

“I think they're the best part of this! They’re having a grand old time. What have you got to lose if you're 96 and you can pretend you're 119 and the whole world just goes along with it? What are they going to do – put you in jail?

…

“If someone's selling you something to get the power of longevity, ignore them,” he concludes.

We already know what to do to increase our chances of a long, healthy life, anyway: “Don’t smoke or do drugs. Don't drink. Do some exercise. That's all you need to do. Maybe see your GP once a year.”

“There's no other secret. I think everyone knows that deep down. The blueberry is not going to save you.”

Well said.

Your source doesn’t say that at all.

Autumn and fall are used interchangeably as words for the season between summer and winter. Both are used in American and British English, but fall occurs more often in American English.

Yeah, I was raised Catholic, which is basically polytheism, imo (I was taught to pray to St. Christopher for lost things and to St. Jude for cancer patients, asking them to talk to Yahweh for me, but I was also taught to pray directly to Mary, which nudges it over the line for me- that’s not even addressing the trinity issue), and that’s definitely Christian. I’ve heard some Baptists say it isn’t, but they’re just wrong and spreading antipapist propaganda, even if unintentionally.

I was also taught that there are three extant sects of Christianity: Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and Protestantism (edit: not sure where Coptic Christians fell, but I suspect Orthodox). Jehovah’s Witness and Mormons are technically a type of Protestant (at least according to the Catholic Church), though I get how they could feel separate (and separate from each other). Quakers, Shakers, and Unitarians are also Protestants and also feel like their own thing, but in a very different way.

Lutheran, Episcopalian, and Catholic church services/masses all feel basically the same to me, except for transubstantiation of the Eucharist, which Protestants by and large don’t believe in.

My trumper dad and I could only agree on her points in re ck’s death, they’re completely valid.