Those things are generally not illegal.

It’s illegal to buy/sell tobacco as/to a minor. It’s not illegal to use tobacco.

Most of the restrictions on smoking are not by law, but policy. 12 states don’t have any sort of ban on tobacco use.

Beakman’s episode on teeth lives on my mind rent free.

https://archive.org/details/beakmans-world/Beakman’s+World+-+Season+2/Beakman’s+World+-+S02E10+-+Video+Games%2C+Beakmania+%26+Teeth.avi

“Mr. Walz offered an inversion of that old Radiohead single at his introductory rally on Tuesday night. “These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell,” he smilingly charged. From his mouth the word comes across as a somewhat spicy Midwestern revision of the coastal freakout, common during the Trump presidency, that almost every day was “not normal.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/arts/tim-walz-trump-weird.html

Totally. If someone just thinks it’s “dumb,” they might not be realizing it isn’t necessarily about them.

It’s also solidarity with non-cis folks to normalize identifying preferred pronouns so that they can be addressed as they would like.

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“Even if it does get that bright, we’re unlikely to get much benefit because, at its brightest, it will be very low on the horizon and lost in its haze, as seen from the northern hemisphere.”

Sweet.

Government administrations wanting to know the ingredients of how something is made isn’t exactly new.

Right, that’s what a swizzle stick is.

Counter point though, breaking it meant I didn’t even need straws…

Not according to Johns Hopkins nor the Alzheimers Assoc.

Saw a video that showed using swizzle sticks jammed into the coin slots to release the lock and get free laundry.

I had bike spokes laying around and tried it. It worked, but actually broke the coin slots. Management reconfig’d to other slots, which I then broke.

Laundry was only 25 cents if you knew which slot to put a quart into.

Early onset dementia is for people 65 or younger.

Biden is 81…

Jesus fuck, no one is saying that.

Acids are sour, which isn’t bitter.

“lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth”

Wouldn’t increased CaCO3 dissolution increase pH? I’m surely misunderstanding you — presumptively there’s less compensation allowing more CO2 / carbonic acid?

I’m out of my depth…

Not long ago, 40-50k, now 90-100k.