Tar_Alcaran

I am, however, a big fan of shooting billionaires. Into space, or otherwise.

Saves a lot of money if you worry about the followup later.

Aren’t spacesuits tailor made? Actual spacesuits, not flight suits.

It’s an adaptation from “the road not taken”, by Robert Frost, which does the same

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Can’t wait for Khaleesi to flip her shit and murder everyone

Does the sriving instructor have three boobs?

Sometimes to my despair, as I get older, it would be easier to not have such a strong preference.

Being bi only doubles your likes, your odds stay roughly the same

My cats are surprised both by me seeing them sitting on an empty floor, and by other cats who they didn’t see sitting on the floor.

So I can only conclude the answer is semi-perpetual amazement.

Mammals don’t come in green. We have 2 colours available to us, in different amounts: eumelanin, which is dark brown to black, and pheomelanin, which is yellow/red. We can mix those up in any way, or none (for white), but it’ll never be green.

Now, many other animals don’t have green either, peacock feathers for example, have brown pigment, but they have a structure that makes it look green and blue from wave interference.

Unfortunately, you can’t really do that with fur, since you need to look at fur from all directions, not just the front.

So, mammals don’t get green fur.

I mean, chef cousin bubba puts it in his own steak too, so it’s probably ok

Honestly, the pipeline isn’t really the problem. Pipelines are the least terrible way to transport oil, creating by far the least CO2, and even ruining the least amount of land and water with spills, simply because trucks and trains crash more.

The REAL problem is that the pipeline makes it profitable to exploit the oilsands, which is basically the preteen child labor of energy. It is horrible for the environment to extract, horrible for the planet to prepare for shipping, terrible to refine and after all that, it’s still crude oil.

How is that possible??

Massive doublethink? I haven’t talked with him much, and don’t want to contact specifically to ask, but the post just made me think back.

And why would anyone do two phds? I thought that was just a hollywood trope.

I’ve got the one, and I often wonder why the hell I ever did it.

I do know 1 other person with a double PhD, but he figured “Nah, now that written half a dozen paper, I suddenlt realize economics sucks, I’m gonna do maths instead!” and got a 2nd degree in his late 50s. Personally, I would rather get keelhauled than go for another phd, but to each their own.

I know a guy with two PhD’s, who works in a genetics lab, and is entirely convinced that Neanderthals (and all other pre-homo sapien humanoids) are a hoax by evolutionists to lead true believers astray.

That beats the “In case alarm, run away because both you and fire need oxygen, and the oxygen is about to leave the room” system that some server rooms and labs have.

It’s very annoying that they don’t mention the blatantly obviously problem of how solar generation is distributed. Without significantly more storage (day-to-night) and longer term storage (summer-to-winter), power consumption has basically reached the maximum amount of solar power generation it can accomodate in most western countries.

Adding more solar panels can’t “raise the peak” any further. We’re already seeing more and more curtailment during solar-energy peaks. Additional solar power can only contribute in “widening the peak”, which is MUCH less usefull, since it necessarily discards the most efficient and most productive periods. Of course, they’re still useful in winter, but they’re also much less effective in winter.

Solar will always be kind of a niche, wind and hyrdro are the real powerhouses for anyone who doesn’t live near the equator.

Sometimes the answer to “why did it go wrong” is “because I need to practice more”.

Like, I know how to play the piano, I know how notes and keys work and in theory, I should be pretty good. In reality, I’m just shit at it because I never practiced.

Russia realized that if you just steal shit, you don’t have to pay for it anymore.

but wouldn’t that imply an interchangeability that doesn’t quite reflect skill, and even moreso institutional such?

Sort of, yes. There’s definitely a difference between how an experienced hotel cleaner makes beds and how I make beds, but I can start cleaning hotelrooms tomorrow, without needing other qualifications. And you could also start tomorrow. And so could basically every other able-bodied adult, and we’d all do roughly the same job (though not as well as the person who’s done it for 10 years).

But neither of us can start tomorrow as a plumber, because it requires pre-existing training. That’s not an unskilled job.

I’m a woman in my mid-30’s. I’ve visited Egypt once, for two weeks.

I’m pretty sure half the gropings of my entire life were during those two weeks.

We got married for legal reasons. It’s much easier to get married than to get power of attorney, wills, and all that legal stuff done separately, so one day while sitting on the sofa looking at that stuff, I just said “hmm, you know, getting married is much easier”. And that was our proposal.

We got married with just our close relatives there, because my mom would kill me if I didn’t invite her, and his grandma would help out.

We DID have a big 10 year anniversary, because we wanted an excuse for a party, but it wasn’t wedding-like at all.

I dunno, as a human, I enjoy my vagina a fair bit, and rabies has never been a problem. Id go for this choice too.

Unless it comes with 3 uterusses too, in which case I’d rather eat ticks.