Or not. ;-)

A friend of mine and I just discussed this - I think all the long thin telescoping columns descend down to a very small planet surface. He thinks they’re all floating suspended between cloud layers in a gas giant.

No no...that was YOUR point, by lumping communism, socialism (all types??) and leftism (not even sure that’s really a thing) together into the same condemnation. Different things are called different things because: differences, was our point (although saying that in the plural makes me sound like a socialist, I’m…

Ah, always with the conflating of communism, socialism and leftism (and leaving out contextual nuances, like cultural norms, history, economics...). SPOILER ALERT: they’re different ideologies, that’s why they have different names.

I can’t laugh - it’s not funny.

By the by, this is also exactly why the cop in this type of situation needs to be immediately charged and booked and interrogated by an investigator: getting sent home for a few days/weeks (months?) of paid administrative leave is a whole lotta time to concoct some story about how it all went down. (There’s a reason…

Heinous through and through, but the thing that keeps getting me about these cases - and there are too, too many of these cases that fit the same damn profile - is this gun ho cop blowing somebody away in a traffic stop. When did cops in America start channeling Judge Dredd to the point that misdemeanor moving…

Thanks for that. I think the diversity just within E. coli is enough of a warning to us that we really need to respect food safety and sanitation standards.

Is 0121 more toxic or more virulent? Like, does it produce more/different metabolic wastes, or does it just reproduce hella-fast? I’ve been of the understanding there’s lots of different E. coli strains in the wild, but the ones we classify as human pathogens are the ones that don’t play nice with other bacteria in…

The E. coli strains that wreak havoc on human GI tracts tend to be the ones that come from other humans (crappy hand washing - literally), or livestock (as in spreading manure over a field as fertilizer). Rodents aren’t impossible, but the spread of the contamination seems to rule that out as a possibility in this…

The vegetarians in my office get food poisoning like 10x more than the omnivores do...I always suspect the leafy greens and sprouts!!

One of the biggest problems we have with figuring out vectors for food poisoning is that the different infectious agents have different incubation periods and depending on the type of contamination, and can present in different ways (there’s also the issue of foodborne illness vs. foodborne intoxication - the…

hehe - You said “a league of their own” and I spent the rest of the article imagining Lex Luthor fielding a baseball team of second-string DC villains in old-timey uniforms.

A couple issues with this. One, I don’t know too many communities that have been able to go completely solid state. Several big projects in progress for rolling out solid state lighting for new installs and retrofitting old fixtures as they cycle out, but almost nobody just switched to 100% solid state in one fell…

The solution is some combination of all of that, plus maybe re-thinking the value of a 9-5, mon-fri “work week” and real estate development that goes UP instead of OUT.

By 2030 battery/fuel cell density will be multi-fold what it is right now...there may even be inductive charging strips under some lanes, car parts will be lighter, the onboard electronics will be more efficient, and most of Southern California will be burnt to a crisp by uncontrollable seasonal wildfires from decades…

Ya did good, Denis! The film was great, and I saw it a couple times (as well as having refreshed myself beforehand with a couple viewings of the original, just to prime the pump). A big chunk of blame lies on your studio - marketing pushes can get real expensive but they don’t seem to get held to the same measure of…

Pai needs a pie in that perfectly-punchable face of his. There are luckily some deep pockets in favor of net neutrality, so there will be legal challenges, and the whole shebang will wrangle its way through courts, but this affair has already done damage with the uncertainty factor chilling some proposed development…

Dumb people gonna be dumb, I guess. Starbucks is huge, they probably have more international stores than they do U.S. ones, so being generically “holiday” festive is a classy move (the religi-nuts can still go in the store and buy a “christmas” ornament or an “advent” calendar, or even a tumbler or gift card with…

That ain’t no mermaid...it’s actually cooler: It’s a fucking SIREN, luring us to our sweet, sweet, caffeinated deaths. Praise Hades!