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I'm reminded of Adrienne Barbeau in The Fog with her late night radio station in a lighthouse, or Lily Tomlin in Prairie Home Companion saying "Now radio's just a bunch of people y…

In the land of the ignorant, the man with one fact is king

It was not the Natives who nearly exterminated the American bison.

Montgomery Burns already tried it

I interpreted this article to be talking about commercial trucks, like semis and box trucks. Are there good electric alternatives available?

He may have been pulling your leg. We bottle feed the calves formula, because to allow the calves to drink the milk would defeat the purpose of raising dairy cows. Also teat cleanl…

I routinely take a suburban or regional bus to and from O'Hare. It's way better than driving/parking and a Lyft from the suburbs automatically costs at least 50$, and I don't reall…

If you're suggesting that medieval witch-hunters may have been acting irrationally, I won't argue. Anyway, this isn't my hypothesis, it travelled around for awhile talking about su…

The idea in medieval Germany is that when farm yields were low, they were looking to reduce the number of mouths to feed and post-childbearing women were deemed sufficiently 'worth…

Guessing parent was referring to the practice of heating BPA-laden paper in the near vicinity of commercial food-prep

I only eat supernatural ingredients though...

"The vampire of Bytow" - Is that pronounced [bite...ow]??

Not sure whether this is /s but as a too-many-tabs guy I would very much prefer the entire Internet was like that.

So is the Pope, who also does not set policy in the municipality of San Francisco. To reply to your question: the mayor and city council (which is a group of humans, a species whic…

'Free...' as in '...beer' (Gratis)

Related question: would a tinfoil hat actually work, or just be another layer of filtering to compute?

He merely completed the article's published title...

'An injustice anywhere is a justification for injustice everywhere'

Rumsfeld personally advanced the de-baathification directive - the lynchpin of the clusterfuckery - all on his own, and he certainly would have known to expect the 'unexpected' res…

Those who say don't know because those who know don't say

Itself another aspect of the Founders' Roman Republic fetishism. The mace was inspired by the symbol of state authority, the fasces, composed of twigs that when bundled together we…

Named for the great Chicago business scumbag, Charles Yerkes. Got out of prison in Pennsylvania and hobbled together Chicago's L train. The side of the street that he claimed the e…

Cheddar cheese is indeed white, unless annatto (a tree nut) and sometimes paprika are added for flavor. Tillamook makes both.

SnapOn hasn't been mentioned! 4 billion USD, 12,000 employees (mostly union), 100% US made. They sell direct to consumers now (they used to only service whole plants/shops). Origin…