Tar_Alcaran

It’s an awesome book! I LOVE the angle the writer takes on alien life

Wait, cars are sexy now?

As a former Mensa member, I always tell people who are considering it that the biggest problem with Mensa, is that Mensa is full of people who want to be in Mensa.

The number of titles I use depends hugely on how much I like someone. More means less.

For the stuff that’s worth >a million bucks, the serial number is like “6”

Well, one dealership today.

There’s a difference between stupid and ignorant. You can fix ignorance with education, you can never fix stupid because it’s intentional.

But… My earpieces already have 2 touch zones and multiple press combinations.

Eventually, alcohol will freeze too. Pure alcohol around -110, so that’s kinda hard to do at home, but at 35% Jägermeister will freeze at -25 Celsius.

Totally doable if you pack it in dry ice, for example.

“we want to win”

Or, alternatively

“Some fat personal bribes please”

Admit and/or got caught

I love this dedication, but as someone who works in hazardous materials and workplace safety, he sounds rather naive in some areas.

“I don’t know of a single farmer who’s doing things purposely wrong,” Bloem says. “They’re just following the rules. The problem is, the rules are wrong.”

I can only conclude he doesn’t know many farmers. I don’t visit farms very often, because there aren’t a lot of safety or materials certificates farmers need to have, but I’ve still seen some shit you wouldn’t believe

Mixing things in water by sticking your arms in to the shoulder and swirling them around, working in the dust without PPE when that dust contains known heavy metals from the streams they dredged themselves, working downwind of pesticide spray… And those aren’t even uncommon.

I fully agree a lot of safety are stupid, either because they’re too lax, or unworkably strict and unneeded, but there are FAR more issues that arise from people ignoring the rules that come out of the rules being too lenient. And when it IS the latter, it’s mostly because we just don’t know stuff.

When is the last time you followed the instructions on your cleaning spray to the letter? Or paint? Never? Yeah, exactly.

“Chemical companies need to show their chemicals are safe”

And how would that work? How can you show a chemical is safe, ever? How can you test for interactions you don’t know about, or chronic effects that probably won’t even show up in animals?

And even if you DID show it was safe under circumstances, how can you make sure people handling it will stick to those circumstances? This shit is hard, and people suck at risk assessment, so they’ll fuck up even if they know better.

I don’t have a penis, but I for one was a total idiot at age 9.

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.