See also: I am reading a book because I want to read this book, not because I am killing time until a man comes to talk to me.

I fucking hate that original article so much. IF I HAVE HEADPHONES IN DO NOT TALK TO ME. It’s aggravating enough walking down the street in New York City and being a woman; headphones are basically my only recourse to drowning out weirdos and catcalls. Related: why, in 2016, do we still insist that men have to make…

It’s ok, guys bleed out their wieners too. Constantly! And nobody ever talks about it.

You’re officially old if you find every second of this red carpet utterly insufferable.

Stop it with reasonable analysis you obvious corporate shill!

My wife had a particularly trying day at work last week, and I wound up snagging this for her as a surprise gift before she got home (Steam version).

I can see where it wouldn’t be the type of game I would invest a great deal of time into, but she seems to be really enjoying it so far. She really goes in for exploring,…

Even if you prefer the original design (and still don’t have one), there will be excellent deals from two weeks on.

“No one is impressed by your dumb choreographed videos, OK Go.”

Except that a) as I mention, we’re directly dumping plastic in the form of small particulates into the water (and plastic breaks down into small pieces very quickly - both before it hits the water, and also afterwards) and that form of pollution is already everywhere, b) most plastic - even large pieces - is suspended…

Worst case is that this thing turns out to be a giant boom supported gill net and breaks into multiple pieces becoming an untrackable genocide against pelagic life machine.

“I like to see this project truly succeed and if at worst, it fails, at least it would have failed trying!”

At first glance I thought this was a neat idea and the booms were cleverly designed to harvest plastic through some internal mechanical method. As it turns out its a lot simpler than that, its just a big net, and potentially a very bad sort of one.

Did you miss the section on “Photodegradation of plastic”? Yes, there’s a lot of material there, but making something useful out of it is not going to be simple or cheap.

Except if you blow up a rocket at a test facility you maybe kill a couple people and lose some money. If this thing is deployed in it’s full state and something goes wrong after 2 months, 2 years, 10 years, it doesn’t matter there will be a devastating effect on the area.

It’s no laughing matter to completely change…

Oh Jesus, this again. Apparently no matter how many times people tell him that he fundamentally doesn’t understand the problem, that it’s small plastic particulates that are the actual problem, he’s just so in love with his boom that he’s ignoring everyone. I understand that the issue of plastic pollution is really…

“Oh no, this man has been shot! Quick, give me a knife, I’m going to stab the bullet out of him. Why are you upset? You just said that any ill-conceived action was better than doing nothing...”

“I find all the critics being oceanography and marine biology community primadonnas with all talk and no action...”

I find something very unsettling about a non-cynical engineer.

The problem is that the plastic particles that are most problematic are a) too small to be captured, and b) not in the upper layers of water where this would interact with them even if it could capture them.

No, it’s actually worse. I don’t see how a giant net in the middle of the ocean WON’T catch all kinds of sea life. Have you SEEN that episode of The Simpsons? http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Li…