Never knew THOT is an acronym. I always just read it as a new slang word.

Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor

It’s a scleral ring. Lots of animals have that, many including humans don’t.

Leage of Legends: Runeterra Drift

Might mean the US government warming up to the new leadership in Syria. The new president was seen as a terrorist until last year.

What risk? Worst outcome, Russia stops the war, leaves Ukraine, delivers Putin to the Hague, gets a democratically elected government and re-enters civilized society AND THAN we have to pay them back. We can be pessimistic, in which case that will never happen. Or optimistic, in which case: if we could get all this by just giving Russia back its money, I’d be the first to say pay them!

The sperm and the egg would contain different copies of the chromosomes. The cell randomly divides its chromosomes when it becomes an egg or sperm. When they merge, two halves of a genome form a full one again. But some chromosomes would be there as doubles, others would be lost. The effect would be the same as incest. Mutations that would be hidden in a healthy cell would emerge.

No, it is something different. Cloning creates a another being with the exact same DNA. This would allow people, who can’t produce viable sperm/egg cells, to reproduce with their partner. First patients would be infertile men and women.

I did, and I am.

In my experience, a lot of these politics are purely performative. Politicians get elected on the promise of ‘reducing regulations’ to ‘release the economy’, without any connection to reality. In office they than have to do something that looks like the thing they fought for. We’ve seen the same after Brexit. The ‘bad and idiotic’ EU regulations were dropped and untreated sewage was let into the sea.

Maybe they mean lupus? I think wolfes were already extinct in the 1600s on the British isles.

That’s why the dwarfs where helping him with his decision.