i'm going through an old link dump...

this is russian state media. seriously. not a joke. take it seriously? well...

the reason it's interesting to me is that it frames an answer around an old science fiction cold war narrative.

if we take roswell and the rest of the ufo movement seriously, if we allow for the possibility of an organized and intelligent extra-terrestrial presence during the cold war, what side would the aliens pick? although we would have to pretend that it wasn't a bunch of bullshit, if we consider the ideological debate of the cold war, this is actually a very interesting question, isn't it?

would these highly advanced beings prefer to side with communism or capitalism? would they prefer us to develop using co-operative or competitive models? would they be more concerned with our development or their safety? or would they follow the prime directive and not interfere?

apparently, according to russian state media, they hacked into the us system and disarmed it and then tried to launch an attack from russia to the united states, one that the russians valiantly prevented.

http://sputniknews.com/military/20130501/180942695.html

waking up out of an allergy-induced sinus headache haze into something approaching mental clarity really reinforces the magic that is consciousness. it's short. enjoy it.

i was also going to point out that it looks like a cougar, if not for the cut tail, but what jumped into my mind was a possible hybrid. if you look closely, you can see some patterns on it's coat, which is not a cougar trait. cougars are declining in florida, that's when these hybrid events start happening....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5NJuVUp7o

nowadays, it's actually high school biology to understand that you're really not what you eat. your body takes everything you eat, breaks it down into small carbon chains and then puts it back together again. blood cholesterol levels are consequently controlled by your liver, not your diet.

an easy understanding is this:

energy consumed - energy burned = energy stored.

if your body is storing too much energy, be it in cholesterol or some other way, what it means is that this equation is not balancing - which in practical terms usually means that not enough energy is being burned. so, the answer is to get the cardio up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/10/feds-poised-to-withdraw-longstanding-warnings-about-dietary-cholesterol/