Amateur chemist, middle aged father of three, occasional powerlifter.
I have approximate knowledge of many things.
'Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.'
@sonikudzu
*sighs*
> click through links
'... mouse models ... protein in excess ... atherosclerosis ... male mice'
Yeah OK I'll make sure not to feed my mice too much protein
@RizomaSchool
Unschooling is OK if you have kids with a great deal of natural curiosity, who will *want* to read all the books on the shelf
But in other cases it's just a recipe for feral children
@jack24dd30
Apparently the guy at Chilton who initially lobbied for its approval was fired when it initially didn't sell very well
I wonder whether Chilton kept the rights long enough to eventually make bank on it
@Kurt_Steiner
“...the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years."
@eigenrobot
As with child abduction (where 99% of cases are 'wrong parent ran off with the kids'), I get the sense that these case are overwhelmingly not scary crime, but are just people who decided to leave without telling anyone they were going
@thechosenberg
I don't think the guy ever beats Tyson unless we add stochastic elements like, say, Tyson has a one in a trillion chance of having a stroke in the ring or something
@Atlanticesque
Adulterate it with canola oil, yeah
Bertolli has paid multiple $10 million plus fines for various 'accidental' problems with their olive oil
The stuff Costco sells now has a fancy sticker with 'traceable chain of Italian origin' and other verbiage
@UsingLyft
Some places have improved a fair bit (Rwanda and Uganda have had good GDP per capita growth) but it always looks so damn fragile, like all you need is one Bokassa or Idi Amin to show up and you get teleported 40 years back in time.
@eigenrobot
Yeah the controlled demo theories always struck me as goofy... pretty Rube Goldberg plan if you have to fly planes in to the buildings to cover for your *real* plot
@eyeslasho
Eh ... people themselves really don't need much water. It's the agriculture to feed them that needs water, and with a modern rail system you can take care of that elsewhere.
@AskYatharth
The bit about calcium oxalate is wrong but yes the gympie gympie is something else
Australia also has some of the few plants that produce poisonous fluorinated compounds to defend themselves (though Africa has some too).
@InfamousBlanco
@SAXONFLOOD
@zumstamm
You would be wrong. The 2nd incarnation of the KKK (1916-1940 roughly) was huge and influential. Admittedly there was a strong element of MLM along with the nativist politics but anyway, millions of members at peak.
Later/third KKK 1965 and on was marginal, sure.
@tallsnail
Babies have a very wide tolerance for unusual tastes... They trust you to give them things that aren't toxic and are just trying to get calibrated as to 'what does the food here taste like', so aversion to unusual flavor gets put up on a shelf for a while
@esjesjesj
The founders gave a lot of leeway to the states when it came to religious restrictions (although Article VI of the Constitution makes it clear they didn't think much of them). Wasn't til 14th amendment that the federal government had full powers to protect individual liberties.
@AskYatharth
Well, few organisms use fluorine for anything at all so seeing plants put it to use is unusual. In this case they produce fluoroacetic acid, which is quite poisonous, although some local critters that eat the plants have evolved a tolerance.
@RWApodcast
I mean if you're going to count that kind of limited-independence Jewish polity then we should really add New York City to the list as well
@yifever
There seems to be some threshold (also reached by von Neuman and Euler) where you end up developing a functional Normal Person Emulation Mode that allows you to get along just fine despite the 60+ IQ point gap you have with most people you encounter.
@weatherdai
Fair point, though if I were a shareholder I would be asking 'why do we have 9000 employees' rather than wondering whether we were paying artists too much.
@thechosenberg
The gradual removal of good candidates from the pool is real.
I don't think the jaded/bitter/damaged part is. People who were good prospects when younger still are and I think some people even learn something.
But the thinning out thing is real and huge.
@ruinwanderer
Did you know that not every war is winnable? The Finns in 1940 were smart enough to realize this and negotiated a peace while they still had bargaining power.
@SwiftOnSecurity
This kind of thing should result in the 'professor who headed the lab' being 'interviewed' in a basement by people who won't acknowledge which agency employs them
@lickeddrip
@GravitysRa1nbow
@KarnesMellagio
Making terroristic threats? Been illegal for a while, though I think they did revise the statutes slightly in 2022.
You'd have to see what they charged him with if you wanted an exact date.
@uncle_deluge
The inclusion of potatoes in period cuisine from various places and times has been an occasional source of contention in the SCA ... they are 'period', sorta, but late, and didn't arrive everywhere at once...
@ArthurinCali
@memeticsisyphus
Dicken's writing style in some of his works was heavily influenced by the fact that he was writing a serial and getting paid by the word
@josusanmartin
@SkyNews
Uh, damn. For a minute there I thought 'not true' meant 'fake news', rather than 'oh ha ha no, 37 isn't nearly as many as got gunned down a few years back'
@Kordell43106375
@Kurt_Steiner
You think he might have been indulging in a bit of high-flown hyperbole while giving a pep talk to a bunch of young men? Say it ain't so!
@interpretantion
I vaguely recall that the folks with the patent were saying they'd let everyone have it for free if this passed. If so there would be no monopoly.
Still not a fan of this law though.
@Iron_Man_Actual
To say nothing of the recent 'here's an arrow showing how China and Russia could invade the US through Alaska'
Though that was really bait
@growing_daniel
Dogs kill like 40 people a year in the US, bears average less than one. Considering the size advantage bears have, their temperament must be hugely better than that of the average dog.
@Casagrandezz
Even living a TV-free, hermitlike lifestyle I can still only gape in amazement at this level of Olympian obliviousness ... aspirational goals
@cruelsardaukar
There's a conspiracy theory that says they set the Hindenburg on fire intentionally, and arranged for an unusual number of reporters to be there that day.
@NobleQAli
@opinonhaver
I read an interview with one of these guys and the job is really more general 'dangerous industrial scuba work of all kinds'. I mean yeah they weld but it turns out that there isn't really full time underwater welding as a profession.
@ToughSf
I mean that's neat from a theoretical perspective but the big players are all quite adept at playing 'hide the bomb(s)'. If you know where the nuke is well enough for this approach to work, there are already less futuristic methods available to destroy it.
@sock_dem
It feels like it must have existed in some liminal space between 'strange happenstance' and 'enshrined custom'
Shame they didn't commit fully and make it just their established way of dealing with troublemakers
@realChrisBrunet
You are comparing an all-pop ratio for China to a cohort ratio for Canada
As you no doubt know, the ratio for 20-24 year olds in China is more like 123:100
@razibkhan
At some point I estimated that the average military enlistee became more intelligent than the average entrant to (US) college some time around 2010 (but possibly not the average graduate).
@ReiQuilombo
@abcdentminded
That doesn't work for all toxins. Yes, if it's some big molecule your immune system can learn to attack with antibodies, you can increase your resistance. But simpler toxins that need to be cleared by liver/kidneys, no, you can't develop your immunity.
@That_Chemist
I wonder under what design circumstances an engineer sits up and says 'Well, you know, fluorine is obviously the right choice of lubricant here...'
@eigenrobot
I (probably) developed an iodine deficiency after moving to Oregon... switching to iodized salt and eating seaweed snacks helped.
Various hippie/crunchy types including my ex seem to dislike iodized salt (or the idea of it), which is unfortunate.
@ChadNotChud
@vanillaopinions
I mean if you were trying to weaponize it you could add a lipophilic solvent carrier with a melting point around 30C. But just fentanyl, by itself ... yeah.
@torinmccabe
@alternativeted
@Steve_Sailer
Probably didn't cover the whole human sacrifice aspect of Dahomey either. At any rate I assume this is based on Dahomey, they were the ones with an all female military unit.
@StefanFSchubert
I mean, the relatively flat low peak for Gen X is interesting ... never had more than 45% employment for that generation? A bit unusual.
@mtracey
@DarrenJBeattie
I'm hoping that the Dems buy in to the 'sub-literate white Trump voters' hard enough that they don't do the math on who would actually be primarily impacted by any such civics test
@JoelDaCatDad
@ZwiezenZ
Weren't people even as far back as the 1970s wise to this, and demanding a share of the revenue instead of the profits? I mean, I realize some may not be in a position to negotiate...