K, so you’re providing an example of what I’m talking about. Oil companies aren’t the problem. Even if we stopped burning petroleum products COMPLETELY, we’d only cut our CO2 emissions by about 20% and we’d cripple our economy. The problem isn’t fixed and our ability to find new solutions has been destroyed.

Livestock…

But with the green movement, they’d put a giant ice cube on the house and it would destroy the house under the weight of the cube... AND it would cost a trillion dollars.

These are the people that replaced CFCs with HFCs, paper bags with plastic bags and killed off elephants in Africa to try to save the grasslands.…

Oatmeal with soy milk and blueberries? You could go Japanese and have some Natto. Or British and have some baked beans. Toast and Vegemite? Roti and Dosas?

But that’s not what they’re talking about when they say it’s the hottest month on record. Ice cores and tree rings aren’t accurate enough to look at individual months, and there weren’t enough accurate thermometers deployed around the world to get a ‘hottest month in the world’ prior to about 150 years ago... Try to…

The most effective thing that Americans can do is to stop buying meat, milk and eggs.

You can’t put a house fire out with an ice cube. There’s no point in trying, but there’s no harm in trying if because ice cubes are cheap.

Now, imagine that ice cube costs a $1 trillion. There’s no point in trying and trying is highly detrimental. The green movement has a long history of ineffective action, and in more…

For the love of all things curly braced, don’t teach yourself to code.

You can start out learning the basics but if you learn in a vacuum (meaning no one is looking at your code telling you how crappy it is... and it IS crappy), you’re going to entrench yourself in some really bad practices and waste a lot of time.

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” - Al Gore.

The measure is per capita... the difference is in quality of care. To use the MRI example from above, the US has 5 times as many MRI machines per capita than Canada does, which means if you’re needing an MRI, you’ll have to wait in Canada, but can get one done pretty much immediately in the US.. last time I had one, I…

Cave Johnson approves.

Infant mortality is part of life expectancy. There are other measures, like life expectancy at age 5, which is what most people think of when they think life expectancy. For example, paleolitic man had a life expectancy of about 33, but if you ignore childhood deaths, it was closer to 55.

Pretty sure all of the food they ate had hormones in it... Hell, the fruit you (presumably... hopefully?) eat is exuding hormones while you’re eating it!

The lower life expectancy thing is a myth. The numbers are skewed by the huge number of babies who died young and the number of people eaten by dinosaurs. Exclude…

Otto’s boogie was one of the most powerful CC spells in DDO... It’s an AOE stun, effectively. Plus, in DDO it came with disco ball lighting and dance music... so there’s that.

The situation is terminal, though. How long are your co-workers going to stick around working at a job where they are perpetually short staffed? You’re going to have attrition. I work for one of the best companies in the country (unlimited time off, fully paid benefits, company-paid team outings every quarter) and…

That’s a sign you should leave your job. Time off is important. If the company doesn’t value you enough to hire someone to allow their current employees to take vacation, you need to find an employer that does. If you’re a skilled worker, there are plenty of companies out there who will treat you right.

If it’s anything like Chat Roulette...

Well... It’s inferior to a life jacket in that a life jacket can keep you afloat and upright when you’re unconscious.

If you’re in water so rough that you can’t swim to the top, how are you going to pull the lever? And then you have to hold on to the float?

Jebediah approves, though he would have preferred to test it in a sub-orbital trajectory.

It’s important to note that the PCMR has determined that there is no safe level of consumption for processed meat. Any amount is detrimental to health. Your child’s lunch should not contain any processed meats or un-fermented milk products (there is an increase in all-cause mortality and fractures associated with…

Do all Japanese ladypants all have bows on the front? All of the ladypants I’ve ever seen in Anime have a bow on the front