never miss a chance to go ahead and shut up

It’s interesting that you mention Japan, as they are very strict about immigration. To be a citizen you pretty much have to be Japanese (they offer lots of visas to foreigners though).

Cognitive dissonance is something that far too many people in the US are afflicted with.

Of course we need to spend money on the military, just slightly less, and with more of a focus on actual defense, with less focus on propping up defense contractors (f-35, patriot missiles), protecting corporate interests (the middle east), and playing world police (every war since WWII).

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Of couse there were no whiny comments back then. Why would you complain before it starts going downhill?

There are some things that are, should be, and always have been the sole purview of the government. National Defense is one, we have added so many things on top of the very few things that government must do, immigration control and law enforcement are two others. The arts and sciences are things that can go on…

Don’t let him hear the radio version of War of the Worlds then. He might start launching nukes at New Jersey.

Chickenpox was thought to be mostly harmless in children (I guess they didn’t know about shingles at the time) and since it’s highly contagious and there was no vaccine, the thinking was that you are going to catch it eventually no matter what, so you might as well get it over with while it’s harmless.

I was referring specifically to chickenpox, which didn’t have a vaccine at all until very recently.

It seems like Picairn is hard to get to due to laziness (and possibly exclusive contracts) on the part of the ship operators, not due to it’s remoteness.

Supposedly, contracting chickenpox as an adult can have a silimar effect.

If its anything like the dairy farms in Wisconsin, the milk is chilled immediately after it comes out of the cow, before it even hits the storage tank. 

At the DFA factory I worked at in the early 2000s, the cheese was slow pasteurized. There was a machine that recorded tank temperature on a paper disk, and we had to heat it to a certain temp then hold it for a certain length of time. I think the paper disk (or a photocopy) even went with the product when it was…

No, the engine is clearly spinning counter-clockwise for the first 6 seconds (as the man walks past it), then stops and reverses direction.

I never understood the idea behind the chemtrail conspiracy.

No Mans’s sky is also 40%-off on steam at the moment.

Damn, beat me to it.

they deprive the private owner of full control of their property in favor of the public good.

I don’t know if fiber is actually a requirement, coax technology hasn’t hit it’s limit yet.