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Comment Re: Yay to the abolition of lithium slavery! (Score 2) 135

People have heating oil, propane, and kerosene tanks next to their houses all the time and rely solely on the fire-rated tanks. Batteries aren't special in this regard, unless you consider they aren't a liquid that can spread or a gas that can expand so they're safer.

Fuel oil (whether you're talking about heating oil, kerosene, diesel, or anything else in this category) is relatively difficult to ignite. Propane tanks are usually separated from the dwelling by some significant space.

Comment Re:Running for President in 2028 (Score 2) 184

I was specifically addressing the nonsensical concept of âoesquatters rightsâ, which should not exist in any American state

If there's one place squatters' rights should exist, it's a nation that was founded on the top of a bunch of other nations and is all stolen land (since the USA has honored literally zero of the treaties it signed with native nations.)

Comment Re:Running for President in 2028 (Score 1) 184

Chicken is not going away. You can raise them on bugs and produce scraps.

Lots of people say they really enjoy grasshoppers. I have yet to taste one, but to a lot of people the marine flavor of seafood is a big drawback so it's reasonable to believe they might like them more.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 50

I bet you would LOVE to live in a solar powered cave or similar hole-in-the-ground

I'm struggling to determine why this would be bad, except for a potential lack of views. Come to think of it, if we built hobbit holes on appropriate slopes, then everyone would have a view, unblocked by other buildings. The energy efficiency would be exemplary. Thanks for sharing this idea with the class, not just even though but especially because you thought it was a bad one, o blessed reverse barometer.

Comment Re: If it is burned then it is not vented. (Score 2) 50

You want to talk about primitive, let's talk about fire.

It is a horribly wasteful method of getting energy into things.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not about to stop cooking my steaks with it, there are times when it's great. But given the basic issues with using fire I want to avoid it whenever it's not adding anything to the end result.

There's a reason steel plants use induction.

Comment Re: nazi said what? (Score 1) 184

I had a casserole recently with an enormous amount of insect parts, but that's a failure of the FDA inspection, and the incredible number of insect parts per million allowed in certain foods.

Some of use don't want insects, but respect your rights to enjoy them.

But there's no freedom of choice in this legislation, just political posturing, the need for domination rather than live-and-let-live.

Comment Re: Don't say don't say don't say don't say gay (Score 1) 236

Your theory would make sense if the majority or even a significant number of bathrooms had some kind of controls over who could enter them based on apparent gender. But for the vast majority of bathrooms in the world, or in the US, or in fact in any place you can name, there are no such controls.

As such, the idea that not letting people with penises [claim to*] be women and use women's bathrooms protects women from being sexually assaulted is, frankly, spectacularly stupid. Men dressed as men can just walk into them and rape women. In fact, it happens dramatically more frequently than a chick with a dick doing it.

* It doesn't matter which for the purposes of this argument, and I'm not interested in having that debate in this thread

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