They are called sheltered people. Afraid of the world, yet think they should own it.

You sound charming ....

Why is American Horror Story great?  Because of her.

Only choosy moms choose jif.

I also don’t find the Slate piece so compelling, but more importantly, when we say “impressive intelligence,” I more mean “surprising intelligence based on our expectations of a mollusk and of however we judge animal intelligence.” It’s hard to judge another species so dramatically different from us, regardless. Maybe…

laughing loudly at this one

when I get fired for laughing loudly at work I’m blaming you.

It’s octopodes and you damn well know it.

I’m going to be that guy here.  The plural of octopus is octopi.

Test subject found:

I’ve found some iron ore on my farm that I smelted into weapons. I’ve traded the weapons for 1/10th of each of your neighbors’ fields. We’ve all decided that we will each split your acreage among ourselves and enjoy the lamentations of your women. Sorry. :)

Now all your trashy carbon rich smoke is choking the crops on MY imaginary farm!

That’s why I burn my garbage and compost the rest on my imaginary farm.

Ah, shit. It does.

The your/you’re error takes a few points off.

Hey! I started throwing stuff, mostly my excess beer bottles, which granted can be quite copious, into my recycling can that’s downstairs...it’s very hard saving the environment!

So here’s just a fun little thought experiment and simplification to use on your climate doubter friends.

Prove it.

For that reason, he concludes, “the biological impacts of the PETM were likely less severe than those of human-caused emissions under a business as-usual scenario.”

So basically we’re all gonna be extinct a few million years from now, and we’ll become the fossil fuels of a new species in the future???