There’s also the old adage that the dose makes the poison. So even assuming the bricks contained a tiny amount of cadmium, and assuming that some percentage of it leached out, how much time are those bricks spending in someone’s mouth?

I hear you, though on the brick separation front, Lego has had a tool to do this since the early 90s, at least. I know because I was still a kid when it came out (I’m 42 now) at which point a brick never went in my mouth again. Then again, my parents tell me I stopped putting things in my mouth at a pretty young age…

Exactly. Just because someone is up against an asshole, it doesn’t mean they aren’t also an asshole.

No, right now our #1 environmental problem is climate change. There’s a lot more Earth to put plastics back into in a way that won’t harm the environment than there is an atmosphere and ocean to dump carbon dioxide and methane into. Like, orders of magnitude more dirt/rock.

Thinking about this more, what we really need is to separate plastics from truly recyclable material, so that it can be landfilled. Additionally, you want to keep it separate from food and medical waste, really anything fermentable or compostable, so that plastic landfills can avoid outgassing methane or CO2.

I’m pretty sure that, if you keep them out of your kids’ mouths, they’re perfectly safe. If your kid still puts shit in their mouths, they’re too young for Lego; it’s a choking hazard.

No, this is actually useful information. Industrial scale plastics are actually much easier to recycle than consumer-used plastics, because they’re single-source in large quantities, as opposed to consumers who frankly can’t be expected to know these ins and outs. Frankly, I can’t be bothered to parse what plastics…

Samberg was in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.  I’m guessing that’s the joke.

I don’t think the show has ever been for “toxic manboys,” unless it’s for ones that have recognized their toxicity. When I see myself in Rick, it’s “ugh, I see the worst parts of myself in that right there.” From the very first episode I saw (I started watching between the second and third seasons), it was obvious…

Originally I thought Rick was essentially a stand-in for Harmon, but I think it’s clear now that he’s taken from Roiland and Harmon.

I dunno, I think part of the fun lies in trying to figure out which of the scenes in the opening will actually be in the show. For instance, I was certain that neither Morty being butter, nor Morty nailing that golf shot, would be in the show, and I was right.

For those of us not super familiar with Samberg’s voice (I think the only thing I’ve seen him in is Palm Springs), do you think he’s Rick or Morty?  It’s been pretty much confirmed that there are different actors for each.  I *think* he’s Morty but not certain.

Still pretty darn close, though. I wonder if there’s actually been someone in-house that had quietly been filling in when they needed to tweak dialog and/or Roiland had been too drunk or just not showing up.

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Their statement seems to indicate that they found that recycling those bottles into LEGO bricks generated more carbon emissions than landfilling the bottles.

- The A.V. Club, apparently

My wife and I said the same thing. What the hell was that?

See, *I* remember when The Root was in the same media group as Slate, and it was even better then.  IMO Jezebel never stopped showing its roots in trash gossip rags with Gawker.  I wish the Hogan lawsuit would have actually meant the demise of Gawker; as it stands, Gawker deserved to die for that hypocrisy, but…

The fact that this vexes truckers yet general aviation pilots look at it with equanimity, tells me that the solution isn’t to slow the world down with a bunch of toilets but rather the need for a standard solution like a funnel that runs down under the truck for those too stupid to realize you don’t have to toss your…

Yeah the plumbing is just not worth the hassle for non-luxury planes.