Why all the hate for Google?

Here in New Hampshire we have to choose between Fairpoint or Comcast.

Would you like to know what *that* feels like?

This is the sort of thing that gives ammunition to climate change deniers.

How can congress formulate national policies to deal with impending issues like this when the timeframes keep changing?

At least now they won't have to rush things. Another 100 million years or so of inaction shouldn't make much difference.

Wow, you know more about me than I do.

Here's some info: not only don't I care about food, I don't even *taste* food except in extremely broad categories. Mashed potatoes and veggies and non-beef meat all taste the same to me, I can only distinguish between them by texture (and other attributes, such as "crunchy"). All coffee tastes the same, all wines of specific classes taste the same, and I can't tell the difference between most beers, or between liqueurs.

Not only do I dream in black & white, I *remember* things in black & white. I can recognize colors when I see them, but it doesn't go into memory. If I don't mentally label things with their colors as a separate fact, as in "John owns a blue car", I'll have no recollection of what color something is.

Tell me again what I'll be missing in a month. It sounds interesting.

You think you could wait until we get some evidence before you frame it as "sludge"?

We are supposed to be scientists, aren't we?

Because I don't care about food, never did, and I have a handful of minor medical issues which might be fixed by eating soylent?

Because Soylent costs about half as much as regular food?

Because drinking Soylent takes 5 min, while making and eating a meal (best case scenario) takes a half an our of preparation and fifteen minutes of cleanup?

Because Soylent requires no time spent shopping, and no refrigeration needed, while the alternative takes a 2-hour trip to the supermarket each week?

Is it so hard to believe that some people think that these benefits outweigh the alternatives?

There's the remote possibility that eating soylent might be good for you.

If you look into nutrition studies, you find lots of little anecdote studies (meaning: one-off scientific studies) that look like a small piece of a larger puzzle. Beef and chicken contain antibiotics which can trigger mild allergic reactions, glutin (from wheat) is a mild poison made by the plant to discourage predators, bread is now made with Bromine instead of Iodine (which the body needs)...

There's just a zillion different ways in which our diet is non-optimal, and a zillion little ailments with no known cause.

(Vitamins typically use Magnesium Oxide as a supplement - but this form isn't bio-available. Is Fibromyalgia caused by low Magnesium?)

A diet consisting of a everything you need without all the additives might just cure some of these diseases; though, I wonder whether lack of roughage will cause problems.

Still, it might be an interesting impromptu experiment. The effects of eating Soylent will be something to watch.

The game master would give XP for making an impressive joke, or figuring out a difficult puzzle, or whatnot. We also used to refer to the "Detect Magic" spell by the initials "D.M." (as in "I cast D.M.")

After we had finished cleaning the room, a female player casually remarked: "Ok, now I'm going to blow my D.M". To which he replied: "you get 1,000 XP".

We were rolling on the floor for at least 30 minutes...