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Eek. - Spidra Webster

Do they have little spikes - got a few of those around here lately = brown widows now common in so cal - SteVe C

I hear they burn very well. - Tudor Bosman

I disagree that "left pseudoscience" is harmless -- see: people who forgo cancer treatment in favor of "alternative medicine"; vaccine deniers. - Tudor Bosman

Agreed, the anti-vaxxers and quacks and snake oil salesman definitely cause harm, but I think the main contrast the author makes is how one side has embraced anti-science as a political platform, and whatever support on the other side there is for non-science and pseudoscience, it's certainly not symmetrical. - Victor Ganata

Denying global climate change, or at least human involvement is a stance of the right. Anti-vaccine is not a stance of the left. It's not equivalent. - Heather

Wow, looks like he's got checkmate on Broder. - Andrew C (✓)

That's the most plausible explanation, although some of the advice he claims to have received is hard to explain by simple incompetence or lack of training. - Walt Crawford

"Manhattanhenge – sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice – is a circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The neologism is derived from Stonehenge, where the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices with a similarly dramatic effect." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

I like Glympse. I use it to keep my wife updated of traffic conditions during my evening commute so she can figure out whether I'll make it home in time for dinner and/or Violet's bedtime. (My commute takes about 30 minutes with no traffic and 90 minutes at the worst of times) - Tudor Bosman

I like Glympse for meeting people; I use Latitude for my wife to check on my commute. - Amit Patel

The B-52s (Topaz is posted here just to start things off) - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

La Lupita - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

You probably mean fission. Nothing can undergo spontaneous nuclear fusion. - Tudor Bosman

Spontaneous nuclear fusion powers the sun. All elements lighter than cobalt are formed by stellar fusion in the core. That's why Carl Sagan says we're made of star stuff. - Victor Ganata

I am, though, using "spontaneous" in the sense of "releases more energy than consumes". Obviously, it takes a lot of activation energy to get two atomic nuclei to overcome their electromagnetic repulsion. - Victor Ganata

Agreed. - Betsy #TeamMonique

Luft German. - Betsy #TeamMonique

I really kind of don't want this to happen, no matter who the director is. What are they going to do? Rehash old lore? Or make up some random shit that doesn't really have anything to do with WC or WoW so long as it has dragons, orcs, and elves? - Victor Ganata

There's a lot of lore in the Warcraft universe that could make for beautiful, cinematic stories. I, for one, am looking forward to this movie. - Tudor Bosman

"Since it was first announced, Frank Darabont's new TNT pilot L.A. Noir has been saddled with jokes about it being related to the video game L.A. Noire, simply because the two share similar time periods, locales, dramatic milieus, character archetypes, cultural references, and titles." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Maybe Google's corrections are still good, but you're more bleeding edge :) - Tudor Bosman

No. Comment. - Hookuh Tinypants

Well, at least you have an excuse. It's all good. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

"Fucking is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 kilometres (21 mi) north of Salzburg, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the German border. Despite having a population of only 104, the village has become famous for its name in the English-speaking world. Its road signs are a popular visitor attraction, and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting tourists until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Its sister city is Gebumse, VA. - Eivind

"Kerry County Councillor Danny Healy-Rae has put forth new legislation that would grant people in isolated areas in Ireland special permits that would allow them to drive after consuming some alcohol." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

“A lot of these people are living in isolated rural areas where there’s no public transport of any kind, and they end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don’t want to take the risk of losing their licence.” - Tudor Bosman

And they don't have designated drivers either? - Andrew C (✓) from Android

And why? - Micah from Android

Unfortunately, my experience has been (B) followed by the item arriving with pickles. So as a customer, I'd go for (A). Or, you know, (C). - Walt Crawford

"A cross-dressing Catholic priest, who had been suspended by church officials after he was found to be having sex with men in the rectory, was arrested by police for allegedly dealing crystal meth." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"Beginning in late September 2012, an undercover officer with the Statewide Narcotics Task Force began buying meth from Wallin. During one of their meetings in Wallin's Waterbury apartment -- where he was later arrested -- the affidavit states the undercover officer saw a gallon-size plastic bag filled with crystal meth." - Andrew C (✓)

Yes, I'm still 12. - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"It can take a site a while to figure out that there's a problem with their 'report a bug' form." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

I've taken to calling the latter "The Real Housewives of Silicon Valley" - Tudor Bosman

Bow ties are cool! - Tudor Bosman from Android

Bow ties are cooler than fezzes! - Amit Patel

"Physics students at the University of Leicester decided to buzzkill the entire sci-fi genre by going and calculating what would happen if you were to kick a spaceship up to the speed of light and look out a window. This is about the extent of what you'd see:" - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

I was specifically thinking of the light that was hitting me. - Brian Johns

"I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment. As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path. I now regret it completely. So I guess you’ll be wondering – what happened between 1995 and now that made me not only change my mind but come here and admit it? Well, the answer is fairly simple: I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Read this, from one of the founders of the anti-GM foods movement. This is very good, and it unsurprisingly praises the work of Norman Borlaug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), whom I consider to be one of the great unsung heroes of the 20th century. - Tudor Bosman

They only include a USB charger in the box. After 4 hours of charging, it's only back up to 30%. They sell an "accelerated charger" (an A/C adapter) separately for $20. Seems to me it should have been included. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from Bookmarklet

Change it for a Paperwhite if you're mostly reading regular books on it. It's a wonderful device. I just charged it for the second time since I got it for my birthday the day after Thanksgiving, but I'm just keeping the WiFi on and I experimented a lot with browsing and such the first week I had it :) - Eivind

https://www.foxrwc.com/tickets... - Ken Gidley from iPhone

Same as Tudor, Sparky and Georgia... - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

"For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men for reasons related to their culture and society. Many of the women assumed their male identities from an early age as a way to avoid the old codes that governed the tribal clans, which stated that women were the property of their husbands." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Tudor Bosman

This makes me guffaw at the idea that Wikipedia is supposed to be "neutral". - Victor Ganata

Status quo ain't nonpolitical. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

"In America, if the word “control” is anywhere near a social policy issue, then to your left will be its unwitting executor: psychiatry. “They already decide financial benefits, criminal responsibility and who gets more time on tests, so why not mandate a psychiatric clearance for gun owners!” Because it’s madness. Of course I’m not opposed to this in theory, because in theory is the only place where it would be conceivably valid or reliable. In practice you will have a guy judge you based on his own prejudices, or his fear of lawsuits, or on the negotiated fee. Why not have a gypsy run some tarot cards? At least when it all goes bad you can blame the cards.     Which is the whole point: the system is designed to fail in specific and predictable ways, because a tragedy that is the result of a failure of the system is much easier to live with than a tragedy that happens for no reason, even though they are equally common and equally dead." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Well, of course alcohol prohibition was a total failure. It was repealed in barely a decade! The federal drug prohibition, on the other hand, has lasted for most of a century. Surely that's not a failure, right? - Gabe

Lets not forget that he recently took the Horde's greatest hero (Thrall) and made him neutral, then replaced him with a Warchief that was not only incompetent but unlikable, not from just a roleolay standpoint but from a real life perspective. Cataclysm was very anti-horde as has been a lot of the stuff that has happened lately. - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

It took me a while to realize that you mean Metzen the WoW writer, not Metzen the Reindeer. - Tudor Bosman

:/ - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Public-private partnerships are the root of all evil. - Tudor Bosman

I'm all about Oakland pride but I'm still mad at the financial commitment the city made to get the damn Raiders back. And the fuckers have started to talk about leaving again! - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

They are expensive as all get-out, but I'm thrown by their being rayon, even though I understand it's a technical term regarding their production. - Meg V. Meg

Thank you for discussion :-) I like cotton and wool, and recently found bamboo fabric used as green material. Just made a search and read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Slavomira

Buy online, pay a few bucks for fast shipping, veg out at home? :) - Tudor Bosman

If I buy it online, it won't get here until 2013 :D Last minute shopping FTW! - Victor Ganata