Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season where they'll recycle your old incandescent strings of lights and swap them for new LED strands.  I think the restriction is 5 strands per person, but that's still a pretty good start to a more…

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season…

Depends on the plastic. Earthbound Farm buys plastic water and soda bottles that have been pelletized and then molds them into clear plastic clamshells for their salads and greens. They figure that buying the recycled pellets instead of buying pre-made clamshells also saves a ton of fuel because the pellets are more…

WEAR NATURAL FIBERS.

This.

The only thing airplane ice has going for it is that it’s not actually being made on the plane, but rather being delivered in bags or whatever as the plane is being serviced at each stop. The turnaround time for the airlines these days means most planes are barely cleaned of litter and visible filth, let alone…

A phobia would imply an irrational fear. Food safety (and yes, that extends to ice as well as utensils, water, condiments, etc.) is a serious concern. Crunching the numbers tells us that you’re a million times more likely to have your life put at risk by foodborne illness than by terrorism - yet people are willing to…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and posit that rather than Jaguar’s cells having “slightly different chemistry” instead Jaguar’s engineers just wrote different charge management software to prevent their cells from charging to full capacity in the first place... i.e. It’ll show 100% on the dashboard, but the cells…

You’re on the right track, except for that “simple bacterial test” is still in the realm of science fiction. Too many different possible pathogens and metabolic byproducts, undefined levels of what it might take to make somebody sick, and field tests in general are easily contaminated making for common false…

In all seriousness, if this tactic had been applied with the first reports of a Chipotle outbreak, there wouldn’t have been any other instances.  Having your entire inventory of out-of-temp or undated/unmarked food destroyed by the health department (they usually direct employees to do it while they stand and watch)…

I’d dig into the health code a little more on this if I were them. Most codes that I’ve had experience with either have exemptions for food giveaways and community events, or don’t apply to food at all if no money is changing hands (i.e. food provided gratis at church or a private home or community barbecue, etc.).…

I know it’s hard to maintain momentum over weeks, let alone months or years, but I was really disheartened that most of the progressive GOTV and anti Voter Suppression initiatives didn’t really get kicked off properly until summer. Sad to say that the Parkland kids and their efforts probably got more people to the…

If this were somebody’s lawyer, this would be legal malpractice...what’s the recourse when it’s a judge? I’m assuming he could get disbarred over something like this, but maybe not?  If I were a defense lawyer, I’d be looking for a way to parlay this display of insanity into some sort of grounds for appeal or vacation…

My biggest gripe about these interactions is whenever something obviously looking and smelling like horseshit dribbles from Trump (or Sanders’ etc.) mouths, the whole rest of the assembled press corps just...ignores it and clamors for their own chance to ask a question. These guys all joined the same union, they came…

When a candidate within single digit percentages concedes before the counts are done, it really does all those voters a terrible disservice, because most states simply stop counting once the race is officially called.

Gawd, I hope THEY do another “boycott” - you know, where they make an effort to go in to several different locations and order drinks with special names on the cup like “JESUS” and “CHRISTIAN” and “LAMB OF GOD” etc.  That’ll teach ‘em to pull this “holiday cup” nonsense for the 21st year in a row, I tell you what!

I dunno, around me the ‘Bucks is still cheaper, ounce for ounce than the Dunkin’, plus I don’t have to drink outta styrofoam, but to each his own, I guess.

But they got coverage, so that’s “Mission Accomplished” on a 40ft banner flapping in the breeze behind them, right?!?

“Ally” isn’t exactly new or some fluff buzzword...It’s pretty spot-on and has been used in this context for quite some time.  Like the Mattachines and PFLAG and Lambda Legal old, and I’m pretty sure it was co-opted from the greater civil rights movement even then.

Well, as an ally, you’re either helping me in some form or another, or you better stay out of my fucking way. The quote is awkward on the street, but in the context of TwitchCon - you know, on a panel of content creators being asked how to help, it’s about as specific as you could ask for - you pay us, you work for us…

OOoooh! I have the perfect stuff to try this with. It’s a brand called Farmhouse Culture - they have a couple different varieties of kraut, including kimchi, as well as fermented beets and fermented carrots with ginger. They’re fresh - so in the refrigerated section, and not only pretty damn delicious, but also…