 resistance to counteract these effects. But in actuality, there’s one very specific reason why so few pathogen mains try something like this: animals fight off infections using their immune system, and almost all animals’ immune systems rely on a number of chemical processes that happen much faster at high temperatures. When cold-blooded animals get an infection, they usually try to seek out warmer areas so as to get their body temperature up to the optimal state for immune function. Endotherms don’t need to waste their time with this because they can just adjust their own body temperatures to the optimal level for an immune function, also known as activating the [Fever] ability. Endotherms’ superior immune system and superior ability to sustain vigorous activity can both be categorized as part of a more general trend: maintaining a consistent body temperature makes just about every biological process more efficient. Not only immune responses, but also digestion and cognition occur much faster in warm bodies.

There’s one more hugely important advantage of warm-bloodedness that I want to talk about, and that’s that it makes it a lot easier to successfully complete the [Reproduction] questline. Vertebrates in the embryonic stage of development are extremely sensitive to changes in the surrounding temperature and can be totally destroyed by disruptions that an adult of the same build would barely notice. Consequently, it’s very important for vertebrate players to find some way to keep their new players at a roughly constant temperature until their games have fully loaded. Endothermy opens up a variety of ways to do this. In the case of mammals, this is done by locating the spawn point inside of a player to ensure that it stays at the same temperature. While nobody’s figured out how to make live birth work with a bird build, bird players can achieve something similar by sitting on their eggs until they’re ready to hatch and using their own body heat to keep the eggs at an appropriate temperature. Cold-blooded animals do have ways of keeping their spawn points warm, but they’re less reliable and generally require more care on the part of the player.

So I think it’s clear that warm-bloodedness is a great ability which confers many advantages. But by now you might be wondering: if warm-bloodedness has so many advantages, and factions that spec into it almost always seem to rise to top-tier status, why do the vast majority of players decide not to spec into it? That question will be answered in the third and final post in this series.I hope that’s not the same office Sunny was doing her business in!
ADD: Avoid, Deny, Defend.
These are the REAL WORLD things you need to do in an active-shooter situation.
She’s doing a good job of following that so far. Ideally she should be looking for something heavy enough to use as a weapon, but I don’t think that would actually help in this particular situation, as she’s not up against a single gunman.
The way she’s crouching is good, but it would be better if she were to lay down, especially with her feet toward the door.
Westside Guy: It’s a man on a boat holding a fish he caught.
Especially like the middle panel on the left.
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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), referring to a scientific "body of evidence" to attest to the reality of climate change, is about as authentic a stance as atheist/evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins quoting Scripture to support his belief in the theory of evolution.
In 1993, twelve years after a United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee invited experts to testify on the question of when life begins, science buff Barbara Boxer assumed office. According to a prominent physician who attended the hearing at that time, there was not "even a single expert witness who would specifically testify that life begins at any point other than conception or implantation."
Testimony supporting life included statements from Dr. Jerome LeJeune, professor of genetics at the University of Descartes in Paris, "discoverer of the chromosome pattern of Down syndrome," who testified to the Judiciary Subcommittee that "after fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being... each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception."
Barbara Boxer chided those who reject the claims of global warming alarmists, saying that they "cling to a tiny minority view... wishing that climate change will go away." Boxer argues that it's "not a policy -- it is a fantasy." Yet couldn't that same logic be applied to the "fantasy" that Barbara Boxer and the pro-choice community cling to, which, contrary to science, maintains that unborn children are not human beings?
Defender of both the environment and the destruction of embryos, Ms. Boxer continued in defense of climate change by telling skeptics that "[p]roblems do not go away by pretending they do not exist. And the longer that the vocal minority insists on keeping their heads in the sand, the more it endangers billions of people around the globe and threatens to dramatically and negatively reshape the world as we know it."
If Barbara Boxer is so concerned about the authority of science, maybe she should heed the words of the late Ashley Montague, geneticist and professor at Harvard and Rutgers, who believed that "[t]he basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception." Perhaps Dr. Montague could have explained to the woman fretting about "endangering mankind" that babies "do not go away" either, especially "by pretending they do not exist."
Senator Boxer criticizes climate science cynics, alleging they are standing in the way of significant progress toward lowering greenhouse gas emissions both domestically and internationally. That means that global defender Barbara Boxer should also understand that if Americans silently stand by while millions continue to exercise the right to choose, and if the majority of Americans continue to insist on "keeping their heads in the sand," then billions of unborn children around the globe will be all the more endangered.
Whether Boxer agrees with science or not, more than greenhouse gas, abortion has "dramatically and negatively [reshaped] the world as we know it," both physically and morally. However, it is probable that Barbara Boxer opposes the view that blames abortion on demand on human irresponsibility and immorality but does agree with scientists who believe that climate change results primarily from human activity.
Concerned about saving the planet, and despite scientific evidence which maintains that life begins at conception, Boxer has voted "No" on banning partial-birth abortions, "No" on restricting U.N. funding for population control policies, "No" on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions, "No" on criminal penalties for harming an unborn fetus during other crimes, and "No" on virtually every piece of legislation that protects human life in the womb.
Professing concern for scientific evidence, Barbara Boxer also "dismissed a series of hacked emails that [some claim] show climate scientists hiding data [and] raise questions about global warming." Boxer maintains that the e-mails "were thoroughly studied, reviewed, investigated, and... found not to undermine the consensus on climate change in any way."
Unable to attend the international climate change talks in South Africa, Boxer addressed the group gathered in Durban by way of a video message. The three-term senator urged negotiators to make "significant progress" on an agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, and did so as strongly as she opposed Republican opponent Carly Fiorina at the 2010 California Senate debate. In the first debate, Boxer argued that "[i]f [Fiorina's] views prevailed, women and doctors would be criminals, they would go to jail. Women would die, like they did before Roe v. Wade."
Thus far, dilation-and-curettage/cap-and-trade advocate Barbara has not yet shared whether or not her concern for technical exactness as it pertains to "endangering humankind" extends to being as 100% sure that a fetus is not a human as she is 100% in support of abortion.
If Barbara Boxer is calling upon science as the basis to promote legislation that protects the environment, shouldn't that same devotion to scientific proof extend to all policy