I used all plastic utensils when I lived in a place with no dishwasher. Washing silverware by hand just wasn’t worth my time. Went back to metal when I got a place with a dishwasher. I live with myself just fine. I also didn’t recycle in that place, because the landlord didn’t provide a recycle bin and I wasn’t going…

High explosives seems like overkill. There’s plenty of humane ways to kill someone. Just give them a facemask and a tank of nitrous oxide, and slowly move from air to nitrous. The victim gets a bit of a high, then loses consciousness, then dies. Takes a few minutes, doesn’t require special skills, and the supplies are…

Humidity is a factor as well. Here in Jersey, we regularly get 90% humidity in the summer, which makes even 80 degree weather insufferable. Feels like you can’t breathe and sweat doesn’t evaporate, so sweating doesn’t help. Even cool temperatures feel muggy and gross in that humidity. When I went out to Oklahoma, it…

Nuclear produces milligrams of waste per kwh, while coal produces over a pound of carbon. In addition to being able to barrel and contain the former, I’d say the difference in amount makes nuclear much cleaner.

As a millennial, I can say it doesn’t appeal to me. But then, I’m a bad millennial, I don’t particularly like avocado and have never put it on toast.

Meanwhile, here in NJ’s 2nd district, we’re stuck with Van Drew, who’s as red as a Dem can get, because that’s who the party chose, because our district is ‘conservative’. Nevermind that it’s a pretty diverse area and there’s a lot of untapped progressive potential, let’s try to swing a few conservatives by being…

Man, this comment brings me back to the good old days of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Must be over 15 years ago now. It had keys to lean left or right, which bent your character at the hip about 45° almost instantly. So, rapidly leaning back and forth made your head am almost impossible target whipping back and…

“if you could get it to annihilate completely”

Ok, I stand corrected. Did a little more research. The microwaves from your household appliance would just burn the skin. But lower frequencies penetrate better, and would cause heating inside the body without much loss at the skin level. So yeah, I suppose a directed microwave could be used to cook part of your brain…

Perhaps there’s more to that theory than mentioned here, but microwaves are just another wavelength of light, and they don’t penetrate matter very well (which is why they are so good at heating food, they hit the food and turn into heat). Contrary to popular myth, the microwave in your kitchen doesn’t heat food from…

Hmm, but you can’t really prorate those employees’ salaries to individual incidents. Presumably, they’d still have their jobs even if there were a handful more/fewer incidents any given timeframe. Especially with govt, it’d probably take a huge decrease in workload before downsizing the number of paper-pushers on…

I suppose if they used some kind of strong epoxy or somesuch, it’d be held on securely enough that it would seem like part of the machine.

Not sure if DR is correct. Depends if a ‘tourist card’ counts as a visa. Was just there six months ago, and you have to pay $10 for a tourist visa when you arrive, which is good for 30 days. Then they have a series of fines charged when you leave if you overstay the 30 days. About $51 for 30-90 days, twice that for up…

That’s a silly distinction. I’m fairly sure there’s plenty of plants that would severely harm or kill you if you smoked or ingested them. Marijuana is safe because it’s safe, not because it’s natural. Natural/synthetic is pretty meaningless. One is a series of chemical manipulations performed by humans, the other is a…

I feel like this is one of those things where either you have good management, in which case you don’t really need this, or you have shitty management, in which case this doesn’t help much. Like, I could see some dick manager giving employees shit every time they come forward with one of these color codes. “Are you…

He was cursed at 11, and it’s broken 10 years later, so yeah, 21 works out.

That’s not 2015, that’s age 15. The chart isn’t showing an increase in injuries over time, it’s showing the age distribution of injured kids. Why make a chart that way? That I can’t say.

Just need a good whale with a gun.

This a what came to my mind. I played in 2000, and they had that. It would warp your vision, sort of like tunnel vision, iirc, and also randomly jerked you left and right randomly, even while standing still. That motion was kind of teleporty, so I found there were places where heavy drinking was fatal due to having…

Perhaps a better comparison would be the move from manual to automatic transmission. At first, they were less efficient, so the only real benefit was that it was easier to drive. Some people switched, some didn’t, more new drivers went with automatics, and over time the technology became more efficient. Now, very few…