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"Made this last night for our big Christmas Eve dinner and it was delicious. The chia seeds were a nice touch (luckily they had them at our local food co-op)." - Sat

"> We do bestow rights to plants in the form of Nature Sanctuaries, National Parks, and Wildlife Preservations. We don't have parks/preserves to benefit plants: they are there to benefit humans." - Sat

"Just to play Devil's Advocate: Isn't the real problem our over-consumption of, well, everything? Those large ships are only there because we, as consumers, are demanding them. I'm not giving government/corps a free pass but we, as individuals, must accept part of the blame and act accordingly. I think there is an implicit assumption that we can just go on living the same way and somehow expect government to save us." - Sat

"> According to "proper" traditions, there are very few reasons for raping a prisoner: lodging information against other inmates to authorities, theft of other prisoners' property, failure to pay debt in time. Did you happen to miss that? Granted, I don't know much about prison rape culture in the US but it seems like the rape in Russian prisons is punishment, not just your average part of prison life." - Sat

"Just noticed that. Thanks for the heads up." - Sat

"I have been trying to use Midori more frequently but it has gotten really slow on both computers I use it on. One is an old computer so I expect it to not be as snappy as I want but it feels even slower than Firefox. However, on my Core2Duo with 2GB, it should not have noticeable lag but it does (e.g. there is nearly a second delay when clicking to change tabs). Sadly, chromium hasn't made it past the testing repository in Arch and many of the AUR chromium builds don't work on my older CPU. So for now I'm stuck with Firefox." - Sat

"It's not an exact fit, but nebbish might work." - Sat

"I'm sure this sort of thing is fairly common but the news has a propensity for ONLY reporting on negative stories like this. These tragic stories are the type that sell so don't expect to see a lot of reporting on normal kids getting on with their rather uninteresting lives. Twitter is full of average people saying/doing uninteresting things and people continually mock it because of that." - Sat

"I'm not sure a shark is interested in the supply and demand of dairy products." - Sat

"Actually, there is an oversupply of dairy products. The business is quite brutal. Only a few mega-producers are able to survive because the profit margins are so thin. Milk is disgusting anyway. Veganism is the way to go." - Sat

"They need to "buy them off" earlier, i.e. when they are children. Where do you think a great majority of terrorists come from? It sure as hell isn't the Hamptons; it is from impoverished areas. Less opportunities for recruits would mean less problems with terrorists." - Sat

"Have you been able to get AdBlock+ to do anything other than sit there and not block anything?" - Sat

"Tomatoes are awesome: if you get some ripe ones. The ones you see in the store in the middle of January are most likely not going to taste good." - Sat

"Interesting. I guess the problem with using terms such as "sustainable" is that they are not regulated and can thus be manipulated to mean whatever you want. For example, I found [this article](http://www.localforage.com/local_f...) explaining some possible differences between organic and sustainable but the general gist is that you don't really know unless you interrogate the farmer." - Sat

"Actually, I've seen the label "sustainable" applied to some produce at my local food co-op and it is used to mean that it is produced using organic practices but isn't organically certified. This usually happens when a producer is switching over to organic but must wait a few years before actually gaining the USDA organic certification. I'm actually interested to know what your view of "sustainable" vs "organic" is though." - Sat

"While I think that organic meat is a giant crock of shit, organic foods are not necessarily a marketing gimmick. Sure, you probably aren't hurt yourself by eating conventional produce but think of the difference of the people who live next to conventional farms. They are exposed to pesticides and other disgusting things that almost definitely impact their quality of life. The bigger marketing problem is so called "natural" food products. They are exactly the same as conventional products but have a marked up price and fancy marketing to make it seem like you are doing something nice for the environment. Sadly, most large companies who are buying up smaller organic-oriented companies are introducing more "natural" products while reducing or even eliminating organic products. People who are used to some organic brands end up getting duped into paying more money and these companies get to spread nonsense about being "green."" - Sat

"I was at the farmers market when it hit me: wouldn't it be great to be able to search the web while constantly being reminded of fruit. Next thing you know, Microsoft releases Bing, the first cherry-inspired search... err... decision engine. I'm not saying Microsoft stole my idea or anything but just look at the name: Bing. Cherries... fruit. Get it?" - Sat

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"Nice to see that is handles all the Google services. I think checkgmail is better for functionality on gmail though." - Sat

"Nice to see that is handles all the Google services. I think checkgmail is better for functionality on gmail though." - Sat

"I've been using Apache and never really looked into the alternatives. I run a very small, low volume site and this actually looks like it might be perfect for me since it's lighter than Apache and seems to have an easy web-based admin. Thanks for the tip!" - Sat

"Don't you get it? Sarah Palin has just ROCKED THE WORLD OF POETRY!" - Sat

"Groundskeeper Willie didn't appear until February 14, 1991 in the "Principal Charming" episode, though." - Sat

"grraaahhh! the colors!!!!!!" - Sat

"> “I’m German and I love sausage, but I would never eat pork that isn’t free range,” Dr. Held said. What a joke. Either you respect an animal, in which case you don't go about slaughtering and eating it, or you don't. Dr. Held's line of thinking really disturbs me." - Sat

"Does anyone know if Count Chocula is chaotic neutral or chaotic evil?" - Sat

"Doesn't seem likely based on this convo: Me: Did you watch the world series? CB: No I did not watch the world cup. Did you watch it?" - Sat

"The container is the "cache" and it may or may not have trinkets inside of it (depending on the size). You aren't supposed to put anything of real value in them to avoid vandalism. You should expect things like tiny action figure, buttons, etc. to be in them. Kids seem to love it." - Sat