Also, an outhouse or a latrine are not ‘toilets’. They are bathrooms, but not toilets. Fear my pedantry!

It’s sad for the author, but a 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R isn’t that interesting these days. It’s too outdated to be in the same league as today’s sports cars, and it’s not old enough to be a veteran. It’s a bit like bragging about having a Pentium IIIS cpu - which was creme-de-la-creme when it came out, and fairly…

The simpler explanation tends to be true. YABP.

I never saw plants grow out of a toilet.

I haven’t heard anyone say that people get scared and thinks irradiated food is radiocative except for claims the pro-irradiation side, like yours. What worries people is that the irradiation kills indiscriminately, including the bacteria we need. Without a thriving flora of bacteria in our guts, we die. Some of them…

I am not a religious person by any means, but I think there’s something interesting about how so many of the major world religious haves rites involving submersion in water. There’s something about it where you re-emerge and feel… what? Good? Clean? New?

I use lastpass paired with two yubikeys. One is locked in a safe. The other is with me at all times. A password I can remember, and a one time single use password that is discarded.

As far as I can tell, trolling seems to be a way for people to validate themselves. Much like playing the victim does, but at the other end of the stick. The sane ones may be those who say “nope, nope, nope” and move away, quickly and silently, before being caught giving attention to either.

She’s not a SJW. She doesn’t fight on behalf of others, but appears to thrive on being a victim. It seems to always be about her.

Ellen Pao wrote a melancholy op-ed about the harassment she faced

I fed it the preamble to the constitution, and substituted the top recommended word alternative whereever one was available, in order to increase the openness. Here’s the result:

Ius Abutendi. I have the right to destroy my own property.

Or maybe it’s just the way we have evolved to signal “does not compute” without appearing threatening; defusing instead of escalating, because we’re social animals. Remember, chimps have the trait too, and I doubt that it’s because of their ability to smile at the cosmic figure that the biggest of us cuts in strutting…

One of the reasons why I am very glad I don’t have children.

As a songwriter, there are old songs I have not published, and do not want published. Doing so would make me look bad. They suck. They are only kept in my files because I may be able to use tiny pieces in something else, which doesn’t suck. And so I can look…

We don’t use UTC in America, where NASA is from.

If someone can’t spend 5 seconds to figure that out, they should probably be worrying about some slightly less stellar scientific activities such as breathing or not choking to death on their beans and toast.

It’s also not a satellite, it’s a probe. A satellite per definition orbits something.

Is there a different standard for gas giant (and ice giant?) from rocky planets?

Nope, still not a planet since Pluto still fails to meet one of the criteria in the new definition of planet (the one about dominating and clearing out its orbit.)

should i seppuku myself