Tar_Alcaran

Exactly. It’s fine to attack their horrid personalities, terrible actions and all-round aweful nature, but we don’t attack people based on things they can’t control.

They chose to be fucking terrible, and we can attack that, it’s really pretty simple, and easy too.

Which everyone would think is fine, but that would mean they’d be mods of an empty community, and thus have no power, and that of course made them upset.

And more basic: if you attach a hard scale lump to a rubber surface, that rubber surface simply won’t seal anymore.

I’ve had one that had a big bucket that had a valve at the bottom. If that doesn’t sit flush, I can picture it leaking pretty easily.

It depends on how hard your water is. The calcium can cause any seal to not be a seal for long

I work in workplace safety, hazardous materials/waste handling and certification. Nobody knows shit about the entire field.

The government leaves the whole thing to the certifying bodies, who audit on form and process without any technical knowledge. The actual rule-makers are either the personification of regulatory capture, or completely oblivious about how their rules will be interpreted in the real world.

The companies doing the work hire independent experts who are fully dependent on those companies and can’t afford to burn too many bridges, despite the fact that they are the only skilled people making important calls.

The majority of the companies (naturally) only care about the profits and will gladly find experts to agree with them and pressure employees to ignore the rules.

And most baffling of all: the people suffering under all the above just see the safety regulations that keep them alive and healthy as annoying and needlessly slowing them down.

I live and work in a place where these people have permanent employment contracts and get paid by the hour. They have no reason to be idiots, and yet…

I hear the FDA actually controls American food in a much healthier way than European even though the opposite is commonly thought.

What do you mean by this? Because when I look at lists of banned substances and why, or pesticide limits, the EC seems much stricter than the FDA.

You make it sound like the same people did both things…

I dislike this fact, because I very clearly remember when it was brand spanking new

Not to make anyone nervous, but dropping a fuckass big missile on a pile of very secure and safe nuclear material will still scatter that material in a wide area, and wind will make it worse.

But no, making a modern nuclear suffer a meltdown is basically impossible

The Omen, Poltergeist, The Exorcist.

Makes sense. Those were groundbreaking at the time, but the ground has been broken, repaved and built into a massive skyscraper now.

Spirited Away, and to some degree all Ghibli stuff leans very heavily on a shared cultural Mythos. It doesn’t do exposition in the same way that zombies or angels aren’t explained; everyone knows that stuff because we all grew up with a million references.

Sometimes I think back to the shit we saw, and I’m a little amazed so many of us came out so well.

And then elections happen, and well…

The armor is light, the vehicle isn’t.

On the other hand, a pair of locomotives can easily be over 400 tons, and that’s not counting the rest of the train. Those doublestacked shipping containers on a well car can add 100 tons each.

As someone with zero artistic skills, what are paper blocks?

Well, people in the past talked MUCH more formally than we do.

If I talked to my grandfather in 1400 the way I talk to my husband today, he’d probably disown me.

Welcome to dutch, where there are more exceptions than rules, and the natives just ignore the rules anyway!

In general, “Je” is by far the most common form. Children use “u” with adult strangers, adults are generally only expected to use it with people in authority positions, but that’s becoming more and more rare. It’s still polite to use “u” with strangers, but nobody will be very upset if you don’t, unless you’re addressing a judge, mayor or your boss’s boss.

Some people address their grandparents formally, but most don’t. It’s still considered polite to use it with much older people, like 30+ years older, but hardly will be upset if you don’t.

Quite a few companies require customer-facing jobs always use “u”, to be respectful, but even that is getting less. My city sends me letters with “jij” nowadays.

Dutch has a formal and informal 2nd person word (think “you” vs “thou”).

I have an intern who will not stop using the formal version, and it feels super awkward. I keep telling her to stop it, but she said she always uses with older people…

She’s 23, I’m mid 30s. Ouch.

Same with paleolithic bifaces and arrowheads.

You have to do some shopping around if you want a nice one under a hundred nowadays. But OPs requirement wasn’t for it to look good

Charcoal isn’t as bad as wood, it creates less smoke and the most complex chemicals are already gone. Gas is better, since it burns much cleaner, and electric obviously doesn’t create any gasses at all.

On the other hand, grilling and smoking red meat means dripping fat, which means smoke, meaning you create a whole new set of PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), which you breathe in and get stuck to the meat and those are carcinogens. On top of that, red meat is already not too great for you. Eating burned food (charring) is also really unhealthy.

But assuming you don’t spend every day breathing mostly bbq-smoke and gasses, I wouldn’t worry about this too much. If your main diet is home grilled beef over self-made charcoal, you definitely need to reevaluate your lifestyle choices though.