Mr Vonnegut, may I offer this as an intro into that exact subject from an early 20th century Japanese design perspective?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows

Tina Belcher is my spiritual guide on this issue. Nothing wrong with a little erotic friend-fiction becoming reality.

Cloning, once you have done it once, is a dead simple process, relatively. Figuring it out the first time was hard, but since Dolly (the first cloned sheep, born at University of Idaho) there have been high levels of publication on sheep cloning specifically.

Anymore, anyone who can parse reasonably complex instructions and has access to the kind of facilities any large animal vet might have could do this. It takes more money than I personally command but an even slightly well off person could afford it.

Jean-Claude Van Johnson deserves to be on this list, perhaps as a sixth best-comeback honorable mention.

Sorry, gone too far

Ooh, since this is a safe space for dorks, I would like to be pedantic myself. Thank you for the opportunity. The oxygen catastrophe was caused by cyanobacteria-like organisms, which are photosynthetic, but are not plants. But it’s true, all bio-mass matters!

The Azolla Event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event. I mean it is cool and the major climate shift it helped create certainly caused some extinctions. But plants can change the world, never forget!

Overboard, right?

Witness you, adulting so hard after the end of the world.

Interesting enough, Morgan’s widow became one of Joseph Smith’s plural wives. It’s a small country.

Idaho is just sitting there, not doing much of anything . . .

Of that I’m sure.

That poor crab

Like tears in the rain…

None of us know where any of this is going. That’s why we have this game of ‘dueling truisms’ here in the comments.

Keep sharing the tapes.

It is so true. As a gay man I had to leave the Mormon cult but it meant committing complete social suicide. It’s not an easy thing, by far the most difficult part of coming out.

I finally got a widget I modeled in OpenSCAD to print correctly in my resin printer. The shape is such that supports were really challenging.

It’s interesting to me because I have graduated from the ‘tchotchkes’ phase of printing into the realm of making functional parts that further my other projects.

Trying to get Cthulu’s tentacle-beard to print correctly was a good exercise, but designing and printing a useful part feels like a real step up.

As a person raised deep in the Mormon culture in our lovely Deseret, I get it. Being bisexual and independently minded made it impossible to stay in the culture, but damnit, it is still part of who I am.

So many complex emotions that you need to use German to try to describe them.

The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.