And I thought I was weird about teeth.

So-called liberals? I’m really doubting it’s Maureen Dowd firing off those death threats. Bloviate less.

In Dred Scott v Sandford, 60 US 393 (1857), 9 judges ruled that black people, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. SCOTUS isn’t the holy see; they can make mistakes. The Scalia opinion is one of them.

Difficult to debunk a theory without experimentation.

The missile failing would be separate from a warhead detonation, inasmuch as I understand such things. You can have one without the other. Even if you spray radioactive debris over an area accidentally, that is not the same as thermonuclear obliteration of that area.

You put it in water. You measure its displacement. You weigh it. Then you ask someone good at math and science to tell you by atomic weight if it is gold. This seems pretty entry-level stuff.

Dentist is a pretty sweet gig, except when the profession gets pilloried after some MN jackass shoots endangered African wildlife. And I see what you’re beginning to say there, and PLEASE don’t.

Dude, you got me to laugh.

You may have missed your calling.

Truck yeah!

Wait, what's wrong with carwashes? We need to be afraid of carwashes now? Thanks, Obama.

How great of a prank would it be for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick to start walking around that foundry.

I saw this documentary on netflix. It was a good one.

Don’t even get me started on the portrayal of dentistry.

I think it’s pretty clear Jihadi John was not killed in that US airstrike, and is alive and well and hiding in Pittsburgh.

I thought of a robot car implication. Currently, pedestrians don’t just step into the road because a driver might just straight up kill them. But if robot cars are constrained to harm no humans, will ingeniously idiotic and/or nihilistic people just start walking across busy intersections with zero effs given?

But why can’t even one game dev get past hit points and DPS?! In real life, a nearby explosion might leave a frail child with ringing ears, while a bad poke with a pencil might kill a navy Seal. Why do otherwise hyper-realistic games have these ridiculous energy bars and number values for damage? Can’t we have a game…

Really wanting to see the conditions of Sea State 9 didn’t work out so well for the Andrea Gail.

Operation Plumbbob... the thunderwell story! It's the most adventurous steel plate in human history.

I think just as bad for games is having hit points and levels for characters, and damage/speed/any other metric for activities. This inevitably steers all play toward the “best” weapon based on dps or item description special ability, and turns every game into a grind. Why not just, play? Have one item and find…