Ann Coulter tried to die on this hill that Canada participated in Vietnam while interviewing a Canadian politician, now it’s an alt-fact that conservatives are obligated to believe to be true conservatives. They throw out the Obi-Wan defense for every goddamn thing they get wrong now. “Some people crossed the border…

I will take that shit into consideration next time

“His parents grudgingly signed the forms, and McSorley travelled just across the B.C. border to Blaine, Wash., to enlist in the U.S. army, which was accepting anyone who came through the door.”

It’s a loan word. It’s an English word now, which means it get treated like all the other English words do, which means it gets a determiner stuck in front of it.

The difficulty there is that you often have to construct unnatural sentences to drop the article without it sounding bizarre... which is considerably worse.

Per the OED, Chicago, and Merriam-Webster, the article is standard usage in English.

First they came for the Jedi, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jedi.

So while language use is flexible and so on, and everyone can do what they see fit, the phrase hoi polloi doesn’t need a definite article before it, because hoi means ‘the.’

At least it didn’t ruin his hair.

Yeah, apparently his “Military Style High School” never explained the theory and practice of tariffs to him. Tariffs are either a sideways tax on your own citizens, or a bargaining chip with foreign governments to get them to do something you want them to do. Usually with unintended consequences.

The plan was, at one point, to tax Mexcian Imports. And that is as vague as it sounds; it was unclear if imports from Mexico would be taxed (meaning Americans would ultimately be paying through higher prices) or there would be some sort of tariff levied on American Exports to Mexico (at which point Mexico would just…

hobbits have very calm dispositions

I would not equate the remaining Apollo stuff with ships that took life. There is a big difference there and I agree with you that should not be allowed. IIRC there was some new rule passed a few years ago that now keeps people with the means from looting anything else from The Titanic. ( Granted you need to draw…

Ran when parked...

Not enough of a fuss has been made about Ivanka going to Berlin for the W20 summit. She has no qualifications to work in policy, international law or norms, diplomacy, or women’s rights. She has no reason to be the representative for our country, other than being the daughter of the president. She is not a fucking…

Is it dusty in here?

For sale: Apollo lander descent module.

The problem is not the visible mold, but the invisible heat-resistant toxins they generate. Not all fungi are toxic to us though, like the ones in blue cheese (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11271775)

“Is there anything though, like heat that would technically neutralize the mold? Like fuck you mold, but you dead now.”

Sure, lots of things kill mold, but the problem, like with bacteria in food, is that even if you kill the organism completely, the chemicals it produced while it was alive could still be present in…

The bottom picture is the literal demonstration of “they go low, we go high.”