In the Senate a quorum is a simple majority. 

If I knew that I had the ability to have my domicile burn down every month, I can come up with a number of ways to take advantage. Get arrested, fail to post bail, and watch every local jail burn to the ground while I wait for trial.  That’s just the first one to come to mind.

1999 is a bit recent for that. We didn’t have required installs and day one updates until the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 generation and that was 2005/2006.  Even though I’m in my mid-thirties, I didn’t have any consoles until a PlayStation that I got in mid-2000 and, with the exception of scratched discs, it was pretty…

The Sims 4 DLC is only about $500 total (on Origin I haven’t looked at Steam yet). I got the base game free in a deal some time ago and figured out that total on a whim a few months back (it was closer to $460 but I know there’s been more DLC since then).

None of my mother’s bat killings has happened since 2013 (she is currently at war with a number of local groundhogs and other rodents on Michigan’s legal list of pests). That’s when the bat species that live in our state were added to the endangered species list.

My mom preferred a broom for the extra reach but, you do you.

A bat outside isn’t vermin. A bat inside is. If my mother taught me anything, it’s that once a living thing enters my home without permission, it has forfeited its right to continue living.

That depends on how you respond to a situation while panicking.  My mother, for example, responds to bats in her home by grabbing whatever object is immediately available and swinging at the bat until she hits it.  Once it’s down, she tosses it outside.  Yes, she has destroyed appliances this way.  However, no bat…

All of this is why Singapore does ban gum. In most western democracies though, we don’t ban things unless they cause massive harm to people other than the user and sometimes not even then.

Even the government response in South Korea can be partially explained by culture. Some of the things they did to stomp out their outbreak would have violated the First Amendment here if there was massive spread within a church that decided to fight the government.

An issue in addition to the problems some people have generating COVID-19 antibodies at all is that none of the other viruses in the same family (coronaviruses) offer lifetime immunity. Their antibodies are flushed out of the body after a few months and, since COVID-19 hasn’t even been around for a full year yet, we…

My two friends in Texas live in blue districts. I don't think that Cruz or Cornyn would do much about this though. 

I don’t know which VPN you use but, you should try switching servers. Some VPN endpoints get blacklisted because, just like you’re trying to keep your browsing secure, people doing illegal things also like to keep their browsing secure and the only IP address seen by the victims is that of the VPN.

I don’t know which VPN you use but, you should try switching servers. Some VPN endpoints get blacklisted because,…

Oops, I already own The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and it doesn’t check for that when you claim.  So, since the deal only goes for another three minutes, here’s a link for the first person to click it to get this game free if you missed the deal on GOG.  https://www.gog.com/redeem/1CFC6-4CF3B-1867C-63B78

I was 11 or 12 when I learned that you can’t power a DC bell from AC power...when I wired a DC bell up to AC power using bare copper wire and paper clips inserted into the socket. It was a shocking experience that blew a fuse in my house. If I knew then what I ended up learning a few years later helping my mother do…

Michigan’s mask mandate specifically excludes waiting to cast a ballot as somewhere that a mask is mandatory (our Governor is probably just trying to avoid lawsuits claiming that she’s limiting access to the polls.) That being the case, voting in person is probably not the safest thing to do where I live.

Yup this is Potassium Chloride. My dad was a diabetic with high blood pressure so I’m quite familiar with it.  Some people claim to be able to taste the difference though.

Those links that the author included about “previous integrations of gaming technology,” those are about those programs.  One of them is even a past Kotaku article.

Manual transmission cars are going the way of the dodo. Even a number of sports cars aren’t being made in manual (standard) transmission anymore because they just don’t sell well enough. Other than that, I generally agree with your list (even if my own idea of “minimum level of cooking competency” involves boxes or…

My father had a penicillin allergy that was discovered rather abruptly after he took a shrapnel injury in Vietnam. Fortunately, my pediatrician knew that these aren’t hereditary and I was prescribed amoxicillin for an ear infection when I was a kid and survived. Oddly enough, I’m on it again right now for a dental…