Perfect logic here. Everything must be dangerous because it has “chemicals” and isn’t well tested. Have you done a scientific study on the chemicals you breathe such as your local air supply? It’s definitely dangerous unless you have and I suggest you stop inhaling it until you do.

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Caprice (or Taurus?) police car and fingerless glove really date this photo.

Probably because it was an affluent school. In a school with more poor kids, stuff like this is their little chance at feeling higher status than their peers even though it’s all imaginary based on marketing.

I think honey is just the byproduct of these colonies. Their primary use is to loan them out to farms to pollinate the crops.

Just fine because they’re well tested.

How can you talk about “ignoring science” while making claims like “inhaling chemicals into your lungs is just clearly a bad idea?” You may want to look up a basic definition of “chemical.”

Just because someone in the medical field conducts a study and publishes it doesn’t mean they’re correct or that their findings should automatically be taken as truth. That’s literally what science is, questioning everything. Medical science also told us that the cure for mental illness was to scrape out parts of people’s frontal lobe or shock their brain with thousands of volts of electricity and we can see how that turned out.

Nicotine usage is such a polarizing topic that gets lots of money flowing in from both sides with both sides expecting favorable results, so I absolutely take every one of these studies with a grain of salt.

I know of at least a couple of earlier e-cig studies that fired the coils until the tank internals literally started to melt (i believe they were 60 second long ‘puffs’) and give off toxins. They then used this flawed data to claim that vaping normally would expose you to these compounds. Outside of old ancient mechanical mods, most every device times out after 10 seconds and even if they didn’t, no person would ever come close to a 60 second (nor even 10 seconds) long drag as the vapor temperature would burn the shit out of your throat long before that and people’s lungs aren’t large enough to inhale for that long.

I think i must be conflating different instances as I did do some googling and the “Underwear Bomber” most closely matches my (probably addled) recollection. However this guy wasn’t arrested just before takeoff either, so that aspect must have been some instance that didnt gain as much notoriety and was lost in the news cycle.

That Kurosawa / Mifune combo is going to be hard to beat but I’ll check them out. Thanks for the rec!

I recently went on a Kurosawa binge and while I enjoyed this one, it’s grandeur was probably lost on me as someone who isn’t super familiar with Shakespear. My absolute favorite was definitely High and Low as I was shockingly riveted by this black and white crime-drama from 1963. Typically black and white movies don’t pique my interest and I only watch them out of ‘respect’ to the classics, but this one felt like it could have been made exactly the same today just in color.

For Epstein of course. They’re trying to claim the buck stops there while the dude had a private island and jet that he used to bring friends and clients to (like his “best friend” Donald Trump)

I swear shitty merch is the reason why Star Trek has always been viewed as a show for nerds while frat bros will happily wear Star Wars gear. $245 for a lizard action figure based on 1960s costume design?

Maybe I’m thinking of the guy who had the liquid pouch and matches, who is the reason why I can’t bring a bottle of water through security. I would Google it, but I don’t want to end up on a list by searching those specific terms in this political climate.

Today is the day you find out that you’re not a person but instead an iHeartRadio radio station.

Pretty much just Youtube or random sites I’ve googled for whatever reason. I got banned from reddit and some lemmy instances hit the IT blacklist for being named like common malware so I don’t even bother (plus it can get stale if you view it too often). I used to browse Facebook for the dopamine fill, but since the election that place has gotten quite insane even compared to how insane it was before.

I’m on vacation right now and our AirBnB came with a bidet. I am so stoked about it because once I got used to it at home, I can’t go back.

Kia/Hyundai uses cameras and screens instead of mirrors in South Korea but that technology is illegal here in the US so we get mirrors. Its not too different than adaptive headlights which can adjust themselves to not blind other drivers. Legal in Europe but illegal in the US.

I don’t know why people dislike it so much other than the girl and her brother doing a terrible job at being relatable or authentic. I thought Jack Black and Jason Momoa did a great job and I’m not even a fan of Momoa.

“But pinpointing exactly where that’s going to fall, you can’t do that.”

But it shouldn’t be hard to predict that this rain will all drain into rivers such as the one bordering on this camp even if it falls miles and miles away.