Bastet

There was also a ground beef recall this week, but the beef was sent to restaurants, not stores. If you're ordering a burger from a restaurant, you may want make sure they know about the recall and have made sure they are not serving any of the recalled beef. It's from Detroit-based Wolverine Packing Co. (which recalled nearly 170,000 pounds of ground beef it distributed to restaurants across the country).

I have one that quotes Gloria Steinem: If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

A friend has been occasionally sending me links to AITA asshole posts on Reddit for years, and whenever she does I wind up reading several more. There have always been a lot that are clearly fiction, designed to elicit a predictable response (e.g. rage bait). And now those kind of posters aren't even bothering to write their own fiction anymore, they just have some sort of AI do it for them. It gets called out, and a "This is fake" comment usually rises to one of the top responses, but there are still way too many people feeding the trolls.

Games like that always make me think fondly of my late grandfather. He didn't give a shit about football, but if he was going around the dial on a Sunday and came across a game heavily obscured by snow, he found that an interesting challenge for the teams and would watch. I wish the Steelers had won (since this time they're the team who doesn't have a rapist under center), but, yeah, the conditions were fun to watch. (I'd never live anywhere with snow, and, if forcefully transported to such a climate, I'd never leave the house unless absolutely necessary. That folks go attend a football game in that weather is so wild to me.)

Yeah, I had quite a scoff at that, but felt I needed to quote her in full.

I wouldn't worry right now, then; the BUN is affected by things other than kidney disease as well, and it can be significantly high at one point and then back down where it usually is by the next test. So if the creatinine and phosphorus levels did not also shoot up, she's probably still bopping along at a slow progression of the disease. Stage 3 of CKD can last a long time, and even Stage 4 doesn't necessarily mean the end is near. Since she's eating dry food, is she a good water drinker? You may need to increase her subQ fluids, as dehydration is obviously an issue with CKD and it's specifically something that can cause the BUN to go up. There can be too much of a good thing, so you don't want to give too much, especially at one time, but she may need more the older and farther along in the disease process she gets. How much do you give her at a time, and how often? That she's eating well speaks to her still having good time left at her advanced age, especially if she's only three years into CKD. Just keep an eye on her hydration, and otherwise continue indulging and enjoying her. (So long as it's not too salty, that rotisserie chicken is a great treat for her -- tasty, has moisture content, and has good protein.)

I'll be watching football tonight, so checked the archive earlier. They always leave off Ken Burns's co-directors (and it's verbal, not written, so there's no space issue), which is annoying. The living in sin TS surprised me. I missed three in nonfiction and two in da Vinci, but might have come up with mirror writing in that category if I'd been able to see the picture (nothing would have helped with sfumato). I ran the rest of the first round. I blew myth entirely (shocking, I know), and missed two each in cinema and castles (well, technically three, but I've been to Edinburgh Castle, so I'm giving myself credit that I'd have recognized the picture), so not my best DJ. I ran math/science and fun, and got all but Psyche in silent P. I had no idea for FJ.

Yeah, I don't know how my brain/fingers combination managed that (twice!). I've fixed it, thank you.

Wrong documentary; Martha was not interviewed in this one. You're talking about the Netflix documentary, Martha. Here's the thread.

What stage is her kidney disease (CKD)? Does she eat the prescription (low phosphorus) food or regular food? If the latter, have you ever tried adding aluminum hydroxide, a phosphorus binder, to her food (if she eats wet food)? Their phosphorus level tends to be the one that makes them not feel well when it gets into stage 4 numbers. The Rx food is low phosphorus (that's why it requires a prescription, as the low phosphorus content does not meet regular nutrition standards), but, unfortunately, it's also low in protein. It's based on research done on rats, and then tested in dogs. Unlike either of those species, cats are obligate carnivores -- they need lots of protein! Now, a low-protein diet (and the junk ingredients those companies shamefully use in their expensive food) causes problems in the long term, not immediately, so in a senior cat many feel it's fine to just go ahead and feed the Rx food in order to get the low phosphorus content that will slow the progression of the CKD, because by the time the protein deficiency would start causing problems, the cat will already have died (either from the CKD or another cause). But some cats won't eat the Rx food, and there are owners who don't want to feed it (especially if their cat is younger). So where a cat is eating regular food, the phosphorus binder will reduce the amount of phosphorus they actually take in. Aluminum hydroxide powder is pretty close to odorless and tasteless, so many cats will allow it to be mixed into their food. This site is a fantastic repository of information on feline CKD, but because it has so much information, it can be overwhelming. It's good to start here, process that information, and then go to the Home page and start digging around a little at a time. (My cat Maddie was only about 9 years old when she was diagnosed with CKD. I fed a regular canned food that had the lowest phosphorus content of any commercially available [a Solid Gold formula that unfortunately no longer exists] and monitored her hydration, giving her subQ fluids when she needed a little boost. Her values fluctuated from the high end of normal to stage two, but were most often in the stage one range. She died seven years later of an unrelated illness, with normal kidney values.)

Yeah, that gets shown time and again. People who don't watch news will either answer "I don't know" or will choose the most logical answer, which happens to be right. Fox News viewers will pick the wrong answer because that's what their propaganda network told them, and that's their sole source of news. So people who don't pay attention to the news consistently score higher than Fox News viewers.

Anything is possible, as you didn't miss anything -- we've been given no additional information on the Reddit post that set this all in motion. And all we've heard about the hidden documents is that they proved opioids are addictive, and "could have" resulted in the drugs being taken off the market "ten years earlier". The details of the Reddit post, the documents, and what "ten years earlier" refers to all remain to be revealed.

Mikey not figuring out "You Shook Me All Night Long" after the two wrong guesses surprised me. Her beatitudes response to the researchers clue made me laugh; she got as far as blessings, rang in, realized she didn't actually know, yet still decided to say it? I expected to be terrible in tarot, but only missed two. Same exact thing in gladiators. Movies turned out to be my bad category; I missed three in movies. I ran the other half of the first round, at least. I ran the vocabulary category the contestants were so awful in and capitals, and got all but Benz in leftovers, but it was not a good DJ as I missed three each in everything else. When I saw the FJ category, I knew this just wasn't my night. I didn't have a guess upon reading it, and pretty much just tuned out until it was time for the responses to be revealed rather than reading it again and trying to think of something. I do that a lot with religion/mythology FJ clues; if it doesn't happen to be among the few things I know or something that quickly brings to mind a guess I can consider, I'm not interested enough to try. I wouldn't think so. The only time identifying a character by their relationship to another character rather than by the character's name should be correct is if that's how the character is solely or primarily known in the story.

Dolly Parton's latest good deed: The Dollywood Foundation gives $4.5 million to the Nashville Public Library Foundation in support of its new early literacy program.

CDC and public health officials in several states are investigating an outbreak of E. coli O121 infections linked to multiple brands of recalled organic whole bagged carrots and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms. Carrots on store shelves right now are likely not affected, but check what you have at home. Here's the list of recalled carrots. In response to the carrot recall, Fabalish announced a recall of its Kickin’ Carrot Falafel Bites. Notice here.