The thing about global dust storms is they require the planet to already have been almost completely dessicated. It is interesting that the planet’s low gravity and global dust storms can contribute to water loss as a positive feedback loop to an already dying hydrosphere, but they leave open the real question of how…

I had thought these idiots would just ignore Greta but here they are, idiots in the comments as well as idiot celebrities in the news, making absolutely ridiculous arguments. If a 6 year old made arguments like these they should be assessed for mental retardation. In a 60 year old they should be assessed for early…

Ah yes the death of the white family and the white race continues apace. All according to plan. White women can’t stand white men enough to fuck them and white parents hate their children so much no one wants to show up for family events. How I love to watch the hate. How I enjoy watching it all fall apart. Soon the…

Sometimes I think the gamer community is toxic, and it is, but in the sense that I feel bad for the studios and creators that get brigaded by this horde of chittering goblins. But not now. Google deserves these “people.” I hope the horde whips them into shape.

There is no such thing as a fact that cannot be independently verified. Scientific literacy is a way to defeat propaganda by states and religions and idiots all. There’s your lifehack. This article doesn’t seem to have any.

In my experience your first D&D character is made with the DM and a pile of books and a laptop during the first game. Or the DM hands you a premade sheet. Or the DM gets together before game. The point is the DM knows the system and knows the game they’re running and wants to help you get involved.

That isn’t to say…

Brilliant. Love cranberries. Sad how they’re treated in most recipes. Glad to see this one.

fuck off “activist,” what did you ever do

I think the secrecy around these films has got a bit much but this was a big fuck up. Not just on John Boyega’s part, in fact he’s the least of the problems. Why was a physical copy of the whole script ever printed? Why was it given to an actor? Why were they allowed to take it home? This is a gross failure of the…

Not impressed. The white man has been in this hemisphere for 500 years. He has never listened. Some white men have deigned in their “wisdom” to let you talk to them, but that doesn’t mean they listened. There’s all this talk about undoing centuries of poverty in the black community and not enough talk about undoing…

I think Elon Musk fell in love with steel during Starship development. Originally it was going to be carbon fiber but then one day he threw out the tooling as a write-off and the next day announced it was going to be steel. Multiple times in the R&D of multiple vehicles he’s had an idea in his head and he’s invested…

Needs a list of “most common cars on the road” to compare to or the data means nothing.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug. My dealer refuses to sell it to me. They don’t want me to burn down the town. Considering the shit they’re afraid I would do on this drug, the shit Papa John is actually doing on this drug is pretty mild.

These food writers are coming up with these increasingly silly ideas to give themselves something to write about. It is nice to have a job and pay your way in the world. But this year instead of trotting out recipes that are at least adjacent to traditional, in the hope of getting random moms and aunts to click out of…

...how is “the biggest slice” a thing? It’s basic geometry. There either is no biggest slice and the guy who wants it is delusional or the guy cutting the pie is an idiot who should not be allowed to handle knives in any context, let alone apportioning a dessert.

Peanut allergies are real. They can kill. Allergies are a scientifically tough nut to crack. But peanut allergies aren’t correlated with narcissism. People who are visibly scientifically illiterate do not brigade internet forums demanding your “belief.” It isn’t part of their identity. All they want from society is an…

This is all hideously misleading from someone who isn’t actually educated. It’s the same quality of information and argument as antivaxxers. 3 generations are all it takes to reduce the gene for diabetes 2 from a preponderance to a minority in island nations. Humanity suffered a population bottleneck @ 70,000 years…

I wish narcissism was a gene, and I wish genes worked like lines of code in a computer. But instead narcissism is a personality disorder, which like the other personality disorders isn’t a physical problem with the brain or a gene you can snip, like schizophrenia is. What it is correlated with is lack of socialization…

Yes that’s all true but this phenomenon is modern, so data from 10,000 or 5,000 years ago isn’t directly relevant. The data from this single study indicates that gluten intolerance is highest among hard-core Trump voters, who are also all extremely stupid and morbidly obese diabetic pill-popping white supremacist…

Why spend so much time doubting other people’s experiences?