I don’t disagree with you, but I also don’t see how lucid members of the American public have any more sway with our corporate overlords than non-Americans.

The tangental connection is clearly outlined in the thread: one way rice could have been mistaken as plastic in laboratory analysis is if a careless idiot sampled a fragment of the bag, rather than a fragment of rice. This is precedented by a careless forensic analyst sampling their own DNA rather than the DNA in the…

As I read through the comments, I started responding to comments as I read through them, rather than reading through them first, then responding.

Evolution has been proven. Of course there are still theories about evolution, just as there are theories about flight. But evolution as a mechanism of hereditary change is fact and observable.

97% agreement is consensus, not debate. Pretending that last 3% counts is the equivalent of saying that we are debating whether or not we went to the moon.

I never read them, but I was a childhood fan of The Eyes of the Dragon - which kind of left things hanging in a way that you expected a follow up. Just looked at Wikipedia, and it turns out that the story not only happened in same world as the Dark Tower, but the antagonist (Flagg) shows up in both the Dark Tower and…

We get what we deserve. Denying the science won’t change the fact. If we’re too chicken shit to face our challenges head on, we deserve to get kicked in the ass.

4-axis CNC Lathes are a thing of beauty. But I’ll raise you one CNC pipe pooper bender.

Sounds like a scene from a Wes Anderson movie.

A good tech story would be looking into how Nigeria’s initial analysis confused microbially rich natural plant fibers as being synthetic polymers in the first place.

KOTOR FTW

To deride Gehry Design, without at least acknowledging (really exalting) Gehry Technologies is a clear indicator of a lack of understanding of the subject.

Not sure what you’re getting at with the Architecture school comment, but I assure you that even in the 90's, the students who were somehow inspired by Gehry were laughed at.

Part of me thinks I’d be really annoyed. The other part of me would gladly accept some PSA time as a replacement for Ina Garten’s incessant fawning over Jeffrey, Guy dwelling on his BFF Sammy Hagar and Donkey Sauce, or Giada’s over-pronunciation of every Italian ingredient.

That’s the equivalent of wondering if you should let your child ride in a car with their previous DUI convicted uncle, who is a recovering alcoholic, but has been sober for the past 6 months and really does care about the kids. You want to trust drunk uncle, but there’s that inner voice asking if its worth the risk.…

The overall design is clean, minimal, and unoffensive. The patchwork unit pattern is clearly reminiscent of status-quo HGTV landscape paving - of questionable merit. Mica is a very strange material, and my suspicion is this is one of those things that exhibits interesting visual phenomena that doesn’t necessarily…

Guess this is one of those foot in mouth moments where I’m preaching to the choir ;)

I don’t know that it’s fair to describe ‘the pot’ as an illegal drug anymore (at least depending on locality), and I’m pretty sure that the term ‘street’ drugs refers more to nasty synthetic life destroying substances with zero benefit (crack, meth, etc).

Yeah, but tourist money gets dispersed among the general economy of Utah. We’re talking corporations that want all that money for themselves, and politicians who want their pockets padded by the corporations. Of course the corporations will create tens to hundreds of jobs - a small percentage of the jobs created by…

White. Brown. Easy math.