Don’t worry! Say “Bonjour” when you go in a place and say “Merci” when appropriate, don’t be loud in general, and everything will be fine.

Thank goodness you found this thread!

lash out in anger and destroy the people that make them feel that way

Small correction: “… destroy the people that they think make them feel that way”.

You are younger than me.

What’s something the 50-something-year-old knows that the 40-something-year-old doesn’t, and what does the 40-something-year-old know that you don’t?

Slowpoke Rodriguez!

This sounds more like infatuation than love, TBH.

The full text of the “umbilical dirt” paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.

Here’s a paper about self-replicating proteins, and this one is about self-replicating clay crystal structures, and how they might have been catalysts for biomolecule synthesis.