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It was the rise of phytoplankton that created the atmosphere necessary for human life. It will be the collapse of the phytoplankton that will eliminate the the atmosphere necessary…

A more accurate way to say “best practices” is to say “minimally acceptable”. This one trick is especially helpful when talking to management. If everyone is doing it, then it mean…

The concept of “capital gains” in the U.S. is a joke, unless you buy stock directly from the company, or buy when the company goes public, there is no capital investment. Once the …

The Zodiac didn't inspire the song, the Hound of the Baskerville's inspired the song. "So the Zodiac actually emerged some months after the song was finished" Story behind the song…

Maximizing profit and shareholder value is the only thing that matters to the executives, and BOD of Facebook. Just like tobacco companies, just like Exxon, just like every other c…

Ah chemistry class. Our teacher would do a simple demonstration every year with a small piece of sodium and water. The plan was to have the small piece of sodium fizz around in the…

Dynamic body movement, dancing, running, jumping. Desk jobs force us to be static, the longer we are static the more accustomed our muscles, tendons, ligaments and nervous system b…

I didn’t know there was a reason to be on social media.

AIDS, (HIV) spent a long time in human the population before it became a serious problem.

Afghanistan was a live combat training exercise. It gave valuable experience to career officers who will lead the U. S. Military for the next 30 years. Russia and China can’t deplo…

My 2019 Honda Accord LX got totaled from the Ida flooding, it had 16k miles on it, I paid $22K. Looking at cars now I’m seeing 2109 LX’s with 30K mikes selling for $26-28K it’s cra…

It feels like the Government pay system. Opening up salary information means that everything about salary needs to be equal, fair and objective. Basically the review system will be…

I don’t understand why you are shocked. Ethics should follow the same standard normal distribution model as everything else. Which means that 50% of the population has less than av…

The trap isn't bargaining, the trap is allowing someone to shift the responsibility from demand to creation. What I mean is that the role of demand hasn't fully defined exactly wha…

When you have 7x the number of humans the planet can support with natural resourse there is not "sustainable manner" in which to operation when consuming natural resources.

I guess I'm trying to figure out why it costs more than some 3d printers

Ancient native American stone eel traps still in place, the Susquehanna River near Danville, PA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbbKJ17_No

When China declared their emergency on 12/31/2019, the rest of the world should have closed their borders to travelers who had been in China for the previous 60 days. If the U.S. h…

hmmm, maybe it's just me but your tone seems thoughtfully heartless. You are heartbroken that public spaces can't be used by all, but you aren't heartbroken that so many people hav…

A lot of people who are homeless have mental health issues and are homeless due to those issues, it's almost like they need to be cared for in a mental health environment because b…

I'm so glad she said this: “there’s a long history” in the United States of people “needing to show their papers” Now maybe we can get rid of drivers licenses, and passports, and S…

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Return on investment, essentially a zero barrier to entry, and immediate gratification, and it's wildly flexible. It takes about 10 minutes to learn the basics a spreadsheet, and w…

Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide and it lasts for 114 years in the atmosphere, and scientists aren't exactly sure how much nitrous oxid…

I just want my 2 external monitors to work, 1 in portrait, the other in landscape in my M1 MacBook Pro. I bought a Pluggable doc, for $300, of course it wasn’t until after I couldn…