The FDA has not approved GM salmon for ocean aquaculture. You say GMOs aren’t “worth the risk” but you haven’t actually described that risk.

Opposing all GMOs because Monsanto is bad is kind of like opposing thermostats because Honeywell makes (well, used to make) cluster bombs.

This is a land-based aquaculture system. They claim that the accelerated growth results in 25% less feed required per adult fish and that the carbon footprint of each fish is further reduced by reduced transportation costs. Sounds plausible enough to me.

But this company isn’t Monsanto, and Monsanto is not the only source of information on the safety of GMOs.

There are issues with the patent system, but I don’t see “a process for profitably producing salmon in land aquaculture (that happens to involve genetic engineering)“ as a bad patent. Whatever position one might have on the RoundUp Ready Canola controversy, the same concerns do not apply here — these fish are being…

I can understand finding the underlying material unpalatable. Honestly, even without the commentary there’s a kind of black humor to the chummy, glib commentary being juxtaposed with such horrible things. The host segment afterwards, ‘Catching Ross’, is cathartic. To me, it’s not much more painful to watch than some…

“I think I’m on Reddit”

I like how pissed off Joel and the bots get at “Catching Trouble”.

I love that you can tell at a glance that this ad is from the ‘80s. There was this huge fad for “elegant-looking” serif text, black on a white background. It’s bizarre seeing it for a hubcap full of grease. EA really loved this shit back then, too:

I have gained a strange new respect.

The Pok Pok Thai restaurant here in Portland does small plates (or at least it did years ago the last time I went there), and they made a point of explaining it very clearly. I seem to remember them even showing us a plate. I was really glad they did that, because the Thai place my folks went to at the time had such…

I’ve never been asked this at a place that didn’t have some kind of gimmick about how food was served. Mongolian grills and buffets and tapas and all that kind of stuff. I guess I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it at a place that serves a relatively unusual cuisine, too. Do regular-ass restaurants have waiters ask…

Okay. 5,000 korok seeds, and if you collect them all Hestu kidnaps Link and force-feeds them to him until he turns into Tingle, and then you have to play the rest of the game as Tingle.

I bet that’s what Gritty’s scrotum looks like.

It’s very strange to me that ketchup chips aren’t really a thing in the US. Americans love ketchup.

I wouldn’t call Wheat Thins a salty snack. I mean, they have salt, but they’re pretty sweet too. I do like them a lot.

It’s like if the first pick in the “best candy” draft had been Good & Plenty.

I want the game to have 3,000 korok seeds and if you collect them all Hestu reveals that he’s been hatching them into korok babies and eating them alive.

Depends on the disability.

You could climb in the rain by jumping after every few handholds. You’d lose ground occasionally, but you’d climb further between each slip than the slip would take. Good reason to cook and carry around stamina-boosting food. Revali’s Gale helps in a pinch, of course.