I was going to say this myself, but then I haven’t kept up with kids shows over the past thirty years, and lord knows I couldn’t be bothered to do the research, especially since I’d start in the greys and was going to excoriate the author for such an insipid question.

When faced with two bad options, you choose the option that’s more likely to result in you getting more than one option next time.

It’s also that the byproducts of the reaction are much different. The byproducts of fission are a bunch of relatively long half-life radioactive materials. The byproducts of fusion are plain old helium-4 (which is not dangerous and has plenty of industrial uses) and free neutrons that only last about 15 minutes. …

Same!

If freight trains were staffed by more than two crew, what would the other crew members do?

I read these stories about how all these companies are forcing a return to office, yet almost no one I know who has been WFH since 2020 is being asked to come back.

This is perfect.  Human shield writing definitely a useful term.

Right? Even journalism majors have to take some math and science classes. Not figuring it was done this way is some spent-middle-school-in-lockdown, young end of Gen Z, poorly educated nonsense, and Mr Hughes has been around too long to be that young.

Calibri-Green?  That’s actually a pretty funny mistake.

We did, decades ago - Irish-American.  Not sure if they still teach these hyphenated terms now that the diversity of European immigration to the US has now been flattened into “white,” and “persons of color.”

Besides, a total solar eclipse in a particular place is an exceedingly rare event. I’ve been hearing and thinking about Israelis and Palestinians killing each other nearly every day for at least the last 35 years.

Especially since Dud used to clean pools with his dad.

Also, for those of us that really will mostly just commute and run errands in an EV, because we have comfy road trip ICE car, I’d be fine with something smallish, with 150 mile range in CA, 100 mile range in the cold. I really don’t understand why VW doesn’t do an electric Beetle in this vein; I’d be all over it and…

Those can be very hard to get.  Frankly even cabins and hotels are like that.  The problem is that when you plan that far in advance, things like this can happen.  The airlines won’t refund you for this if you’re flying in.

Also depends how far you want to go.  Personally having done all of CA-1, though not all in one go, I find I enjoy just staying in a cabin in Big Sur.  It reminds me of camping as a kid back east, but without all the bugs.  But if you’re from far away, it’s worth at least driving from Malibu to Monterey or Santa Cruz.…

I don’t have any issues seeing anything on this show, but my TV is OLED and the deeper blacks seem to help compared to my other TV which is not OLED and has very dark gray instead of black.

Speaking of conspiracies, have comments vanished for AV Club, or is it just me?

Other cities, too… maybe a Ghostbusters in Los Angeles, where they actually have a ghost come to THEM for help.  The ghost could be a 1940s-era private detective, who can’t find rest until he solves the Black Dahlia murder.

Most of the underground hard coal (anthracite) mining in East Pennsylvania was done by 1960. The Yablonsky Murders took place in extreme southwestern PA - think basically in West Virginia soft coal (bituminous) mines.

Oh, definitely.