Call him out, evil dude. Call him right out.

Google’s perfectly free and available for you to use at your leisure.

“Horton, Here’s a Poo!”

Let he who doesn’t chop his parmesan cheese with a credit card cast the first stone.

Exactly right. And the more irregularity is introduced in its trajectory, the quicker that energy is transmitted to the surrounding tissue.

I rarely comment here, but you are correct. It should be publicized, gross as it is. I’m a medical examiner in a state where rifles are easily available. The ammunition most commonly used is closer in size to a 9mm, but the damage is much greater. After all, kinetic energy is 1/2mv^2. People tend to focus on the size…

This should really be a massive campaign; statistics are just numbers, but I think if anyone’s on the fence about control, understanding how a round actually affects the human body and the aftermath of a gunshot wound would probably make people think twice about supporting teenagers’ ability to own weapons like the…

We say the same in a joking way, but I’m 3/4 serious.

1) On comparing yourself to your parents: My parents were black, Spanish speaking immigrants from Panama. They both had union jobs with good pay, time off and bought a house using a thrift loan throogh the union co-op bank. They also had a modest pension.

You are struggling compared to your parents. Real Wages have not really increased but the cost of living, taxes and inflation have never stopped rising.

Nuclear ramjet. The US tried it - 50 years ago. They gave up on it because they figured it would just force the Soviets to try and build one too and people had less world-destroying tendencies in the late 60's.

I agree, the AR15 .223 isn’t the issue. If they ban tacticool rifles, then grandpa-looking guns like the Ruger Mini-14 would still be on the market.

When it costs more to eliminate the waste than the waste itself costs, perhaps?

Will there be any substitutions allowed at all? What about for allergies? Celiac disease? Vegetarians and vegans? Religious dietary restrictions? People on diets for health reasons, like a low sodium or low cholesterol diet? People on diets to lose weight?

Actually, we haven’t been running reactors in space for decades. Most nuclear power in space is radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are way less efficient but vastly simpler and extremely reliable. The Soviets had a lot of fission reactor powered satellites back in the day (and one of them ended up smeared…

Pretty sure Kilopower is a stirling engine design. No turbines, need a thermal gradient to produce power. So the heat is part of the equation, a place that stays colder is the other. Ground can help, but it’s a poor conductor so you would tend to permanently warm a chunk of it. Usual solution is using lots of ground,…

Dichen Lachman is the best part of anything she’s in.

Holy crap, Dichen Lachman is in this? I mean, I was already thinking of this as a darker, grittier Dollhouse, but she was the best part about Dollhouse, so I’m in.

“a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial,”

Incidentally, I have been buying a helluva lot more beer under this administration.