That’s about the best you’re going to be able to get. A plastic straw contaminated with milkshake and spit may be recyclable in theory, but it’s not economically feasible to clean it well enough to actually do that. Conversely, every joule of paper and food waste set on fire in a waste-to-energy facility means one…

I was certain this was an exaggeration, but: FAA: Special N-Numbers, Changing N-Numbers.

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They came cleaned, though the hard cartilage in the head had to be cut out. (Dare I say it was the beak?)

Is there a reason you’re driving traffic to the Daily Mail?

. . . Meshach Taylor as “token male” (thanks, press release) Anthony Bouvier.

“We’re under no naiveté that this is going to end,” Weems told NBC News. “The manufacturers said that this is a bulletproof sign. We’ll test that theory.”

“Organic” produce also uses pesticides. (And fungicides, and herbicides, etcetera.) List: Title 7 → Subtitle B → Chapter I → Subchapter M → Part 205 → Subpart G.

There’s a certain charm to gifting gold plate. It’s like a birthday card made with macaroni and glitter, although it doesn’t show the same level of commitment to the schtick.

There’s a certain charm to gifting gold plate. It’s like a birthday card made with macaroni and glitter, although it …

You can’t cross the same river twice, so one has to be kind of careful about attempting to revisit nostalgic pleasures... But having said that: films like Wedlock and The Blood of Heroes were better than anyone could have expected, and it’s in great part because Hauer brought it every. Single. Time.

Just in case anyone’s wondering: methamphetamine isn’t particularly long-lived in river/lake water. Bacteria eat it. (Ditto for cocaine.)

Some of the problems here are ones a sandwich pick solves. But in a fast food context, this observation doesn’t help—as an uneconomically high number of people will injure themselves by eating the pick.

Yep. That was one of the strengths of Deep Space Nine: the characters were a backwater B team who suddenly became more important. Competent-ish but flawed makes for better storytelling.

As Chekhov’s Guns go, a sign reading “This facility has gone ____ days without an assimilation” is leaning on the fourth wall a bit...

Dr. Wen wrote:

I’m no Malcolm Gladwell,

It could be that it’s unclear what the company gains from this kind of aggressive outreach/ customer service.

That’s a good argument that there’s little to fear from a bucket of pure oil. But for cases like oily rags and pistachios, the actual stuff is a complicated mix of oil and other flammable materials--and if exothermic reactions start going in them, that’s when you can get runaways that eventually result in open flames.…

Oho! You’re way ahead of me; excellent.