It’s a two pronged attack.

It has always been a two pronged attack.

The rich assholes who want to fuck everyone over can’t just come out and say it, they need a Face to rile up the crowds, but that Face is a problem. The Face can turn on the rich fucks. Well, to an extent. They’re a useful charismatic fool, and possibly a danger to the rich, but mostly a danger to everyone else.

Anyway, the solution is to stand next to the fool king, and pass him “advice”. Like a list of judges to appoint. “Don’t think about it, we vetted these guys, and they love you”.

Then there’s the congressmen. “Don’t have time to write a bill? Well, we saved you the trouble. It even does some of the shit you’ve been ranting about, but mostly it makes us richer”.

And that’s how it goes. People like Leonard Leo, Peter Thiel, Joel Kaplan. They’re the brains.

They also funnel a shit-load of money into pushing their twisted ideologies.

Guardians 3 was good.

Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.

On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.

Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…

Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.

They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.

The calcium carbonate in hard water precipitates out when you boil it, i.e. it turns solid.

Microplastics make for great nucleation points for the calcium carbonate to latch onto. So, the microplastics became super easy to filter out of the water (with some getting stuck to the bottom of the kettle in that white scale that you have to use vinegar to clean out.

The calcium carbonate in hard water precipitates out when you boil it, i.e. it turns solid.

Microplastics make for great nucleation points for the calcium carbonate to latch onto. So, the microplastics became super easy to filter out of the water (with some getting stuck to the bottom of the kettle in that white scale that you have to use vinegar to clean out.

Maine doesn’t really have anyone “upstream”.

The sad thing about Oblivion is that there are in-game books in Morrowind and previous games that describe the empire as being in the middle of a bamboo jungle. The vibe comes off as the Roman Empire in South East Asia.

Instead we got generic high fantasy with the occasional guy wearing Roman armor.

Only as far as storyline and setting go. Other than that, it was an okay shooter.

The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.

Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)

A sharp increase in Carbon-14 would be visible for a few thousand years.

The rest of the elements released by nuclear testing? Not so much. Cs-137, and Sr-90 both have half lives of about 30 years. That means that after about 300 years, they’re both completely decayed into their daughter products.

Now, Cs-137 decays into Ba-137, which is stable. It’s also naturally occurring as about 11% of all Barium.

Sr-90 decays to Yt-90, spends a few days as such and then decays to Zr-90, another naturally occurring isotope. Zr-90 is a bit over 50% of all naturally occurring Zirconium.

A lot of that will eventually make its way back down to earth.

Some will still be there, especially in higher orbits, but the majority will eventually see orbital decay.

Wouldn’t that be alchemist jacket panic?

The thing is, the exclusion zone isn’t uniformly radioactive. The hottest spots are not areas that wild life would normally spend a lot of time near.

Then there’s the fact that the way we’re all taught about radiation and cancer is just flat out wrong. The Linear No Threshold model that most people know was actually created by the Rockefeller Foundation in an attempt to slow the adoption of nuclear power.

Combine those two factors, and you get stories like this, where researchers are shocked that higher than average radiation exposure doesn’t equate to a simple linear increase in cancer rate.

Not that these wolves haven’t developed an increased resistance to radiation. But it’s not a new thing. Every living creature on this planet has mechanisms to repair DNA from radiation exposure. These wolves are simply better at it now than generations past.

That’s the most common, but there are weird pasta types out there made with beans or cauliflower or such…

The majority of those are vegan by design, but I’ve seen a few that were just gluten-free, and still used egg as a binder.

Usually sold as egg noodles, yes.

Most Italian died pasta is going to be made with just flour and water, but again, there are exceptions.

There are vegan sauces that are quite nice, sure, they’re just not Worcestershire sauce.

Hell, I’ll go further and say that if it’s not made by Lea and Perrins, it’s not Worcestershire sauce.

Dry pasta is. Any other noodle will not be. Eggs are used in a lot of places.

All Worcestershire sauce. It’s fermented anchovy sauce with some spices.

Anything that doesn’t have the anchovy, isn’t Worcestershire sauce.

That something was that they were bought out by a right wing billionaire.

Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.

They literally go through the class schedule in each book. General studies are not in it.