Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and yet we all pronounce it “lay-Zer” not “lay-Ser”

polyamory is an alternative to monogamy, so if you think a community about monogamous relationships should be NSFW then I guess, but I think that might be a stretch.

Did you just say the government pays regular citizens?? Where I come from that’s communism. Governments are only supposed to pay corporations like the good lord intended.

I am somehow still surprised at how many of my intelligent, educated healthcare coworkers believe in the purposeful bio weapon theory despite there being no evidence of human-made genetic manipulation. We can analyze whole genomes now, there’s no need to make shit up.

I really would have liked being a fly on the wall watching a firee console the firer.

Pair it with sci-hub so you can actually read the whole articles and not just abstracts.

Correct. I have no idea why people are freaking out over drinking water. We constantly eat and drink things that have wildly different osmolarity than our cells and yet here we still are. Our stomach and intestinal mucosa cells are not going to burst if we accidentally drink a milkshake (a hyperosmotic solution).

Are you effing kidding me? He’s blocking it because he doesn’t like the idea of soldiers getting abortions.

Is Houston aware that some cities pay hundreds of millions of dollars to install a rail line to address this exact problem?

According to some module I had to take yesterday, 18-44 is “young adult” and 45 to something is “middle aged.”

I’m not sure how there’s a discussion when you’re pitting a real-life person against a hypothetical future person. Your other examples (eg climate change) affect society as a whole. There is no hypothetical about it.

I think his preferred answer in depositions is usually “I don’t recall.”