I think we need a fact check on the cellphone thing.  Maybe congregants didn’t have cellphones on them or with them or turned on, but even some of the strictest interpretations of torah law will give you a pass to call 911 if somebody’s just been shot on the sabbath.

This, a million stars for this.

Necro bump because:

This.

...wait to draw conclusions...

You mean good ole Moo-mar, praises be upon him, right?

Ugh.  I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that “holy week” is probably one of the busiest times for tourists at the cathedral, and the conservation/reconstruction work was probably on an altered schedule because of this - either of which would be perfectly plausible explanations for an accidental fire.  But no,…

This.  The “think of the children” nonsense has even been called out publicly by tumblr as specifically NOT being the reason for this move (though I think it made for a great excuse to get the ball rolling on this with the urgency we’re seeing here)

Purely crunching numbers may make tumblr’s user base seem pretty balanced, like only a fraction of the users post or reblog or otherwise engage with “adult” content, but in reality, the adult content is the section of tumblr that was actually lively, thriving and growing. You can’t make a business out of cat memes and…

To my point though, take Bill Cosby for instance...he was brilliant, his stuff was so funny and beloved by so many, but now I would go out of my way to make sure that man never makes another cent off of my support...and he was actually TALENTED. So who is supporting this Takeshi crap, when there was barely anything…

Did #45 sign those with a magic marker?  Did it also look like he was trying extra hard not to mess up signing his own name?

At what point is an artist just so brilliant that you’d overlook the fact they’re a convicted pedophile rapist and go on giving them money by buying their music and tickets to their shows and whatnot? I mean, this guy is trash, his work is meh, and yet he’s still selling music and merch and tickets for his tour dates…

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…