My personal opinion is A, B, and D.

In my experience, the material of the vessel in which the water is heated matters less than the water quality, but the taste of the microwaved water could also depend on the cleanliness of the microwave.

To make the water hot, yeah, it’s not really a big deal. I personally balk at the thought of reheating tea in general, though.

Their normal tea (like a sencha or Earl Grey, etc.) is actually really good. The black tea isn’t necessarily Fortnum and Mason good, but they’ve got quality tea there mixed in with the fruit tisanes and actual candy blends.

As everyone else has already explained to you why you’re wrong about the phobia part, you’re also wrong about “homo”. Yes, it’s the genus of primates including humans, but the “homo” in the construction of “homophobic” is the same one as in “homologous”, “homology”, “homozygous”, “homophone”, “homomorphic”,…

He’s leaving the Republican party and rebranding himself, so I doubt he’ll try to court the bonkers end of the Republicans while trying to appeal to the center.

He vetoed the last incarnation of this bill, and this one is far nuttier than that one.

I’d put the action a little below the original Star Wars but a little above the first season of Power Rangers—there’s laser beams and swords and metal stuff getting cut in half, but it’s mostly just cartoon violence, and no one dies, although one character is heavily implied to be dead at one point. The worst battle…

Putin is pronounced differently in French than they would normally read it as it is spelled is because pronouncing it as written sounds like the word for whore.

Yeah, so this morning it took an hour to vote because of the line, and my polling station had pens and the two double-sided paper ballots with +10 races, 2 state amendments, and 8ish other measures on it. At any given time, there were 40 people there. What was holding us up was that there were only 10 booths available…

NY has draconian laws because of Tammany Hall and from when people would literally stuff ballot boxes or vote multiple times with disguises on.

Alas, all I can offer is the footnotes of my own stupid behavior. In my experience, whiskey is the least fun of all alcohol coming back up, and beer is the least unpleasant.

I personally think the music is mediocre and despise the plot. The behavior of some the HIV+ characters is bullshit to the point that it’s disrespectful to the people that died especially considering the intended audience, and I wanted to smack my college roommate for thinking I—who had lost a family member to…

We must watch different Westerns, then.

How’s a real-life one? West Virginia was the location of the (then-secret) fallout shelter that would have housed Congress etc. in the event of nuclear war.

The reward for being the banker in Monopoly is the skimming. Embezzling makes Monopoly more realistic.

Right. Duh. I should have known.

I thought the Lizard People lived inside the Hollow Earth and the Nazis lived on the Moon?

Sounds like the easy fix to the quality of life issues would be to hire more people and let all employees work non-batshit insane hours. That cuts into profits, though, so it’s probably never going to happen.

Political suicide meaning pharmaceutical companies, universities, the NIH and CDC themselves, any sort of medical practitioner, and all the companies that fund scientific research would stir up shit. The NIH at least partially funds most non-private sector medical research, and a lot of potential drugs themselves are…