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Random Thoughts or Whatever

Out of no where this random thought hit me just now:

"I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet".
Always wondered who wrote this, so did a look-see... it was the unforgettable, Helen Keller.
"If you have no shoes, sooner or later you'll have no feet."

-- Noogies, 2022.
 
The Lemmon 714 wasn't as good to me.

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So that if he decides to change his name from, , , oh, , I don't know, , Bruce, , and decides to become, "Caitlin", he's already partway there :dunno:
That was a suprize, there does seem to be a psychological component to the whole package. Intersex of family members and acquaintances/ friends is not something that comes up in casual conversation and generally remains an awkward inner secret. I've known at least one person that was born physically intersex, assigned male with multiple surgeries, and it hung over his entire life as a dark shadow.
 
That was a suprize, there does seem to be a psychological component to the whole package. Intersex of family members and acquaintances/ friends is not something that comes up in casual conversation and generally remains an awkward inner secret. I've known at least one person that was born physically intersex, assigned male with multiple surgeries, and it hung over his entire life as a dark shadow.

I gotta admit to feeling sad for Bruce, or anyone else in that situation. I can't imagine what it must be like to have such an identity issue....
 
Same basic template for humans, plumbing details vary for purpose, or no purpose. Most have either option, some have some of both, or neither dominate or evidence predominantly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
I think it is more efficient in making the male body without growing the plumbing with nibbles. It is an extra baggage that doesn't do anything. I bet more than 99% of men have no use of it on their body. :)
 
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 has reached its lowest value in the last 66 years. According to a report from Economic Policy Institute" “...a federal minimum wage worker now earns 27.4% less in inflation-adjusted terms than what their counterpart was paid in July 2009, when the minimum wage was last increased, and 40.2% less than a minimum wage worker in February 1968, the historical high point of the minimum wage’s value.”
 
$5,000 is the average monthly rent in Manhattan NYC). The median monthly rent in Manhattan (NYC) is $4,000 ... an increase of 30% since June 2021.
 
A recent study from New Zealand shows how quickly the air in buses becomes displaced by carbon dioxide exhaled for its passengers. Within 20 minutes, the level of CO2, on average, increased from 516 parts per million to 5,737 parts per million. Thus, one (1) in seven (7) breaths was filled with air other people had breathed out.
 
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

- Wittgenstein
 
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