I love this! Perfect example of how “common sense” only works in “common” situations.

Well I’m assuming you’re reading American news sources right? From the U.S. perspective, losing all the built up wealth in coastal cities and having a tonne of arable land turn to desert is bad, and the fact that Siberia will become rich is not a good from the U.S. perspective.

Well considering this is an american site, catering to an american audience - I’m pretty sure their perspective is that losing half the wealth of america so that siberia can thrive is considered bad.

I’m not sure why you think research funds from tiny solar and windmill companies outweighs the incentive of research money from oil companies, which pretty much dominate the richest companies in the world.

From human perspective, if the x animal that dies is human, then that’s bad for us.

Actually, if you think about it a little more, it makes perfect sense that we can’t accurately model tomorrow’s weather but can model long term changes and consequences. You can’t accurately predict a coin flip, but you can accurately predict 50% heads over a long period of time.

Well yes, the best technique is different, of course, depending on the outcome you want. Though, for each specific outcome, there can be a best way to go.

Yep, you should check out the Food Lab. In the recipes he actually tackles a lot of commonly held practices (like don’t flip your burgers/steaks more than once - which turns out to be wrong) and thoroughly tests to perfect or disprove them, along with scientific explanations of why, to create the “perfect” recipe.

Just as a quick counterpoint to the often stated advice to salt afterwards or at the end, Seriouseat’s Food Lab actually tested that out and found that salting 15 minutes before is actually the best way to go.

Yes I think it should be called most common co-habitation arrangements.

It actually specifies “married” so not just any two people that consider themselves a couple, but specifically two married spouses (though yes, again, gender doesn’t matter)

I think it’s more common for elderly couples to live independently when they’re both still alive because they’re able to care for each other and are usually still young enough to be independent. By the time they move in with children, it’s usually because either one passed away and the surviving spouse can’t live…

So for all the people saying electric cars won’t work in NYC because they park on the street but can fill up on gas anywhere...

Couldn’t find the last two in the dictionary. But thanks for that first word, I could remember the word for you.

Yes, I enjoy pointing out to armchair quarterbacks that they are not as smart as they think they are.

Yes it does, a lot of oversized trucks have to drive right up to the bridge to turn right before it. Building a “non-destructive” bad would mean banging up and scratching 99.99% of the trucks that legitimately should be there to save the 0.01% who can’t read.

Look up definition of normal. Bye.

And we’d have more accidents from people distracted by the video, or even trucks watching the video and getting distracted before ploughing into the bridge.

You don’t have an after shot?

Because plenty of smarter people than you have thought longer and harder about this than your 5 seconds looking at a video. Look at the website, it’ll explain why both of those suggestions were considered and both don’t work for this exact bridge.