Also, most all LED light strands have built-in fuses now.

Did no one read “Freak Like Me” by Jim Rose? As I recall it (and it has been years) There’s a pretty squick-worthy section regarding MM and "groupies" in there that allegedly happened during a tour they were both on.

I recently saw an interesting Q and A (maybe on Twitter?) with a trans man who was in the middle of hormone therapy. He suggested that the reason behind it was that testosterone increased body temperature, as he had been experiencing the same, and given all options, wearing shorts made the most sense, as legs were the…

How many deaths from nicotine have we seen outside of lab accidents and the like? We’ve historically seen lots of deaths from inhaling combustion products that happened to have nicotine, but how many from actual nicotine? We’ve seen a handful of deaths recently from, as far as the government can tell, inhaling…

Of all things to have as a habit, a mild legal stimulant is the least of my worries. I mean tons of high schoolers are addicted/dependent on caffeine, yet no one is proposing banning frappuchinos or sweetened coffee. I get that historically, the ways to fuel the habit for nicotine have been saddled with serious health…

If we assume, for the sake of argument, that he was not abusive, I could certainly see the impetus behind the lawsuit- not filing it would basically be silently admitting it was true. Of course if he was abusive, filing it would cause people to wonder whether he was innocent, because that’s what an innocent person…

I wonder what the Vegas odds are that this tech will get trotted out by R. Kelly’s defense?

Atlanta gets a big nod from me because of the way it is laid out- 6 parallel terminals connected by a train/walkway that drives right down the middle. There’s no “crossing under the tarmac” (looking at you O’hare) or “Yeah, that’s in terminal 2, so you’ll need to take the train or a long walk, hope the 40 minute…

“A good place to start, maybe, would be making it impossible to legally purchase a weapon capable of killing dozens of people in seconds”

“The most curious angle of this is how the company landed on five slices of deli meat as an appropriate single serving?”

I never attempted to defend Franken. And there you go again, assigning motivations through your own lens- when did I ever say I liked Franken? I really don’t have much of a care one way or another about him- I think I remember him being kinda funny on SNL, he was a reasonable progressive senator, and I think the…

And you do it again. “you find them inconvenient for your fucked up worldview” It is not surprising, as people’s minds tend to fill in details that, to them, fit.

While there were some instances of deliberate smallpox introduction (Fort Pitt, etc) the vast majority of the decimation was the old-fashioned inadvertent epidemic spreading that occurred anytime two distant populations met. “Oh, Flores is feeling a little under the weather, but should be ok!” and then Flores spends…

I’m guessing the sampling plan didn’t include the people who live in fairly rural areas and have the options of The Piggly Wiggly down town, or the Walmart in the next city over. (Not to mention folks who are stuck with a Dollar General Market and nothing else.)

Computer parts? Obviously they think you are a tubby, neck-bearded basement dweller who needs a diet. (not the case, but I could see social media outrage over the situation based on that line of thought)

Here’s a great recent example of Fundamental Attribution Error-

No one (that I’ve seen) said that.

Psychic powers don’t exist. So please stop pretending like you know what I think. You don’t. You’re jumping to conclusions based on what I would posit is: 1) previous experience with others and 2) a general feeling of persecution.

Basically (though there is likely a difference in asking what action someone performed, rather than what action they witnessed. Your memory of whether you painted your siding is more concrete than your memory of which of your neighbors painted theirs.) But that’s why THE cornerstone of our legal system is the…

I guess it is the south’s turn to mock?