I was thinking about patenting a door as the way to enter a building. What, there are plenty of other ways to enter a building - you just gotta innovate! Like a window, or sliding down a chimney, or catapulting yourself through the wall. The fun and awesome starts right now!

Use your newfound powers wisely, O' Mighty Creator!

Here ya go:

What would this do to the salt concentration in rainwater? Would it be more dense than, say, the normal evaporation of sea water in the hydrological cycle? Because, from what I understand, salt - in the form of densely salinated rainwater - would wreck havoc on Earth's soils/plants:

Well, plants communicate with each other:

I have a feeling you didn't read the articles. Few things:

"... a voracious demand for animal protein *coupled with dumbfuck management of the animals* has resulted in environmental degradation, cruelty to livestock, and the spread of dangerous diseases."

This is a shining example of clever wordplay.

Very well put.

Meanwhile, companies JUMP at the chance to slap some bullshit on their label like, "Great Source of Vitamin C!"

Wow, that what was an incredibly informative, ecologically broad-based and nuanced descriptions at some of the possible repercussions of this stuff (or, the "unintended" consequences). Thanks for that. I'm also digging your other replies as I make my way through these "discussions."

Awesome. Especially in bringing up the soil, which a lot of the people who think GMOs are miraculous or, at the very least, innocuous fail to understand or take into consideration. GMOs - along with their monoculture planting and use of copious amounts of petro-chemical fertilizers and biocides - decimate soils by…

Bingo. Taken with support and guidance in a clinical setting, and any follow-up therapy necessary. In addition to this clip, there's an excellent (and harrowing) documentary on the YouTubes called Detox or Die where the documentarian/addict undergoes Ibogaine treatment. It comes in 5 parts, with treatment being…

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Awesome. We need to move more towards edible landscaping. Even if it's small-scale projects like front-yards:

Ha, it did get a little out of hand there. If I slapped a title on it, I could've packaged it as a novella.

Exactly. The only "big bang" I'm worried about engaging the Glorbons with involves action on top of a bear-skin rug with George Michael's "Careless Whisper" playing in the background.

I think one of the problems is the conditioned mentality that people must work for work's sake. In the words of Buckminster Fuller:

You might enjoy this, just read it in the book I'm currently reading (which is cited at the end of the article):