Canada’s in a recession thanks to the poor economic choices made by the Conservatives. OH yes, those economics-cum-astrology-weilding Cons. Good riddance.

Really? I tried making candles with crayon wax. I mixed bits of crayon with ~90% recycled paraffin wax and the resulting candle was really neat looking, but did not burn all too well. Crayon wax isn’t really the best wax for candle-making, but maybe the wax used to be different decades ago. :)

Glass is more conductive to heat, so it tends to be an awful insulator - even with the double paned glass in modern windows.

Maybe. If you had been infected with Zika as a child, you would likely retain immunity. Your immunity to the virus wouldn’t necessarily pass to the child during pregnancy, but it would prevent you from becoming infected with the virus DURING pregnancy - I think that is where the problem lies here is that many women in…

Yes, sadly it does. Especially in the form of a K-cup or Nespresso pod. Yeeeech.

Now THAT I would pay to see.

This. I used to be very PA. Not in a hostile way, but open confrontation terrified me and I can definitively say that it had something to do with my upbringing - my mother being a narcissistic, bombastic nightmare who would go from 0 to 200% in screaming rage over spilled milk. I learned early on that absolutely…

Democracy! It works, yeah! [...]

Really? I feel the same about some Christians I meet.

It’s actually helpful to consider growing vegetables in Martian soil - you can leave the compost to help build up an actual soild layer - in addition to eating the darned things, of course. Trying to grow anything hydroponically means bringing N-P-K + essential element powders to Mars, which adds more mass (or weight)…

Calgary: Texas North. ;)

HIV/AIDS is infinitely more difficult to generate a vaccine/cure for than other viruses. It evolves faster, a lot faster than most other viruses - a vaccine created today would not work on HIV for very long before the virus mutates and changes sufficiently enough that the immunity gained from the vaccine would be able…

Good question. The Radch doesn’t seem to really divide along male/female sexes - there are no strict delineations between male and female characteristics. In a situation like that, would people still feel gender disphoria? It’s an interesting question.

I dare say, Ann Leckie’s whole Ancillary universe could fall under gender non-conforming. But, yeah, that’s still not quite trans.

Condoms, spermacide and vasectomies are cheap. Vasectomies are reversible. Clue in.

It’s the entire dead cast of Sweeney Todd, in an LSD-laced purgatory, where Alice becomes the penultimate trip-sitter. I don’t care what anyone thinks, I will look forward to this.

Agreed. That Street Fighter was Raul Julia’s last film, however, is a crime against humanity. Rickman is still going out on a beautifully baritone high note.

“Rowling didn’t think this through enough.”

Agreed. I have lived in places with excellent public transport systems (buses/trains/trams) that ran throughout the late hours of the evening until well after midnight - there was no excuse to drink and drive. Now I live in the US where the public transit systems are atrocious, and it’s no wonder that some people are…