Yes, and part of what the FDA does is look at those side effects and compare them to the benefits. The bigger the benefit, the more tolerable the risk. Take chemotherapy, which has many awful side effects, but because it is often the difference between life and death, those risks are acceptable. However, if aspirin…
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Giving a prefered name of robots does not make them drones. Unmanned, autonomous flying vehicles have been called drones for 80 years. It is an apt name that is widely accepted and is not technically wrong in any manner. Naming an autonomous vehicle after a hive-mind controlled bee isn’t even wrong when talking about…
I would accept quadcopter too since the copter in helicopter is derived from ‘pteron’/‘wing’ in that round about way language does. And the Heli ‘spiral.’
Last I remember the attempted suicide rate for men and women is quite close, but the number of actual suicides is far higher for men because they chose much more effective ways of killing to get the job done.
Actually, men do not “generally commit suicide more than women,” so much as they succeed more often because they tend to use more violent methods, such as guns. But women attempt it more often.
What makes these findings so striking is that female veterans’ “suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a finding that surprised researchers because men generally are far more likely than women to commit suicide,” said the L.A. Times. Epidemiologist Matthew Miller (who wasn’t part of the…
That’s not to say Apple doesn’t have plenty of original ideas worth stealing
I get to use my new favorite meme again!
Being Batman means never having to say you’re sorry. Or back up. Or parallel park. Or fit in a single lane.
Moses also get this, although Moses, being part of a monotheistic system, only get two horns on his crown
Wouldn’t the child of a demon just be called a demon?
Old Ironsides is a beast, chief!
As one simple counterpoint, I think some sort of registration system is a good idea. Obviously, this is a professional chef with a legitimate kitchen, but if some family with good intentions tries to do the same good deed and accidentally* gives a bunch of homeless people food poisoning, I think health officials…
“Chai latte” causes me to mentally spasm, since “chai” in the US/other Westernised countries refers to Marsala chai, which is almost always spiced milk. Therefore “chai latte” is “spiced-milk-milk”.
It’s not a shake it’s a frappe
That’s not quite fair. My college boyfriend’s family went on and on about how much they looked forward to Christmas crackers, and how they’d make sure I got a Christmas cracker, and and ever showed me pictures of them sitting around wearing paper crowns, saying “See! Crackers are so fun!” and I was so excited for the…
This has always been a difficult subject for me to tangle with. On one hand, I have two cousins with autism and they are absolutely wonderful kids that I wouldn't trade out for anything. They have a fun exuberance to them and I view them like any other kid. On the other hand, they are disadvantaged in a lot of aspects…
The omnivores start by starting a nice letter writing campaign to not lose their favorite spot.
I love it when people compare the rights of human beings to those of animals and think it doesn't make them look completely fucking ridiculous.