oh! also, try little French (Puy) lentils. Different texture, somewhere between regular lentil and fresh pea.

red lentils are significantly softer and cook faster, unless you want mush.

Bartender, pour me
Your Christmas spirit
So I can find me
Some Christmas cheer
I've had my fill of
Their Christmas spirit
Thank God it comes but once a year

Jewish dad's Xmas song:
What has become of that old Xmas spirit
Look how it's fallen 2 pieces
What has become of Silent Night
& making a birthday 4 Jesus
Day after day from Thanksgiving 2 New Years
The lords of the Almighty dollar
Hit us w/Xmas as hard as they can
& count all the pennies that follow

also like most people I have an enormous lazy-cognition problem....

v curious about what the fake journal name is, by the way...

oh, not at all - given what I do for work I'm deeply conscious of it, just hard to describe the slop production in <300 characters....

WOW

V glad you knew enough to spot the fake.

I'm glad they're updating it

force is justified "that is intended or is likely to cause death or GBH...if....the person to be arrested takes flight to avoid arrest..." ?
That's faintly horrifying.

Pretty!

I was trying to understand a specific medical condition, for work. Typed in a question, got an utterly plausible-sounding answer that I knew to be false; asked, "Isn't that the opposite of the truth?" and it said yes; sailed on as though it hadn't straight lied about a thing that could kill. Yay.

I forgive GBBO for being the first and winking at British culture, but anything else is just trying to catch someone else's lightning.

I hope you feel better soon!!!

ha, true.

Do you know what it's from? Because that's a lot. I hope you have access to a doctor....

there are days where I feel that I, like Galadriel, have quietly passed into the West.

I love that you mention Tufte :) See also "information is beautiful" - informationisbeautiful.net