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Comment Re: If only (Score 1) 276

If you want to be a pedant

Yes

then subtract the under 18s from the population not declared mentally incapacitated specifically for the purposes of voting due to organismal senescence and you'll at least be in the ballpark. Who's registered isn't it, it's who's eligible and capable.

FTFY...

Comment Re:If only (Score 1) 276

Holy statistics, Batman!!!

So, of the ~72 million below the age of 18 in the United States of America (about 21% of the total 342 million population), how many are strategizing to not vote and/or firebomb a Walmart?

My co-worker's little 6 month old is more interested into latching onto mom's teat and turning red-faced when shitting their diaper. Maybe it would be more meaningful if you stated statistics for eligible voters/registered voters vs. how many voted. Not sure on the accuracy, but Google says 174 million registered voters in 2024. Google apparently can't find stats on how many didn't vote AND then failed in their attempts against Walmart.

Comment Re: Silly (Score 1) 222

IANAL, but how does it work that way since it's not in the interior of the country? The Wikipedia article you linked mentions "The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States secretary of the interior."

Note the lower case on "secretary of the interior" is the articles formatting, not my own. The lake in question has a border between two nations, so wouldn't this lake be on the exterior of each country? :-)

Comment Re:What does the science say? (Score 2) 85

Everything is a carcinogen, it's the exposure and amount that matters. Glyphosate has been around for 40 years, its much safer than other weed killers. If we do away with roundup, we'll go the next rung up the ladder and start using that herbicide that is more toxic. People need to be reasonable, it's not all or nothing and we have to use something, those in an urban environment where there aren't many weeds won't understand, if you have a backyard full of them, it comes in quite handy vs pulling them.

Glyphosate has been around longer than that, Monsanto put it on the market under the RoundUp brand in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I remember as a kid seeing small mounds of 5 gallon and 30 gallon Round-up drums at the edges of fields where farmers would mix with water in their sprayers; self-propelled or pulled by a tractor. That was the mid 70's. A person would empty the drum into the sprayer, then toss the empty drum onto the pile.
As to the safety, smell it and touch it and you should think it's not safe. I've had it on my skin more times than I could ever count, spraying a field or getting caught in someone's overspray. Like safer than other weed killers? maybe, but I definitely would not drink a glass of it, LOL.

IMHO, it's a mistake to always go on to the next more potent, toxic alternative. Instead I would suggest study and research on the effectiveness of drone application (spot application) Ag-Chem companies have been doing the last several years. Bring back field cultivating, computerize it and make it selective based on satellite and drone imaging? Educate and push for the use of Safety and PPE when using these chemicals (most farmers I know are notoriously bad at practicing safety, period, but it's worse when you need to get that field sprayed in time to beat the rain coming in 6-8 hours). Roll some farmland out of CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) and put it back in crop rotation. My two cents...

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