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Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) are colorful, bright, faster-than-lightning flashes that thunderstorms generate above the clouds. TLEs can take a variety of fanciful shapes with equally fanciful names. The most frequently observed TLEs are called “sprites,” like the enigmatic and playful fairies of folklore.

https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/spritacular/

Needs more JPEG and arrows. I’m not quite following.

6 week incubation time is wiiiild though.

I think it’s pretty neat, but amusing that it’s an “early warning system”, but the last update was an hour ago. Call my crazy, but I don’t think that’s early enough.

I was genuinely very sad to see them in that list for the same reason.

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It’s a retired couple with adult children who don’t live with them.

I personally know at least one family who is a Nielsen household. You’re asked to keep your participation confidential which is probably why you don’t know anyone doing it.

Whatever it is sounds smashing!

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Why not?

Honestly, Australia having free pay phone calls is almost more interesting than the game they are playing with them.

But here we are, years later, and he’s still hell-bent on becoming a “Carrington.” Why?

I think you answered this yourself directly after this.

Well, for one, he’s never liked me or my last name, and he’s not close to my side of the family at all…I have siblings, but…neither did I ever let my son visit them. The last time my son saw my parents or my siblings was when he was 10 years old, and that was it.

From my perspective your side of the family sounds dysfunctional. You have siblings and living parents but you don’t see them and won’t let him either? What exactly does this lineage represent to him I wonder? Isolation? Disappointment? Bad feelings? I can’t imagine it’s anything good.

But still, that doesn’t give him the right to change his last name

Depending on his age, you have no say in this decision and I think you need to come to grips with that.

For actual advice: talk to him and try to understand what is driving this without judging him or trying to change his mind. Additionally, I’d work to repair your extended family relationships, with your son. If his linage is real people he has bonds with, I suspect he would be less willing to sever those ties.

I wish you the best of luck.

Yup. Getting temp banned for this as well. Be respectful next time.

If you giggle while they grope you, it makes them very uncomfortable.

Source: I can’t help but giggle because the whole thing is so dumb.

In the era of fake news, I really only trust CUM publishing.

For a bigger house in a hot climate, it can be a significant expense. Additionally, air conditioners typically can’t cool beyond a certain differential, so letting all the cold out means you might not be able to get the house down to where you want it any time soon.

Midwesternism intensifies