The Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.

Both of your examples fared incredibly poorly under external pressure and collapsed. Which is pretty much what happens with every poorly aligned group of people.

But dulce de leche is brown… Both of these are white.

I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.

I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can’t explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.

I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don’t remember).

My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken. I think I have some vague delirious memories from that, but none of them make sense, and maybe I inveted them afterwards.

It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There’s no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.

Funfact: not all windows laptops let you choose what happens when you close the lid.

My previous laptop had options for shut down, sleep and hibernate. And if you wanted none of those, you could go fuck yourself (or install not-windows, which didn’t work for the shitty niche software I need)

The protestant church as an institution isn’t exactly destitute either. It’s just not in gold.

Protestants when they walk into a Catholic church and remember the first two commandments (or just the first, depending on who/when/where). Or the sermon on the mount. Or the part where Jesus says to sell your possessions. Or the parable of the poor widow. And probably a dozen other places that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

They didn’t randomly decide they didn’t like gold, they do have a few reasons for it.

Also make brain go quiet after a day of thinking for a living, make back not hurt, make sports more fun and make moving around easier. Also makes partners very happy, though ymmv on that last one.

And if none of those, burn more calories, so you can eat more tasty things.

But lift heavy circle make brain go quiet.

Despite OPs copout, I absolutely said that. Why not?

Oh the problem wasn’t with the radio, she didn’t know how it worked.

It indeed does not

I do workplace safety, and it’s incredibly hard to work with (manufactured) stone in a safe way. The dust gets everywhere, and you basically have to take the same safety precautions as with asbestos remediation.

Every resin-based material is friable after the resin decays. That’s one of the major problems with asbestos roofs, the resin holding the asbestos is breaking down after decades of sunlight.

What do you think most brake pads are made with?

Today I learned the US allowed asbestos brakepads till mid 2024. Jesus fucking christ people.

Aren’t the vast majority of people suffering cancer from asbestos exposure the people that worked with asbestos for years?

Sorta kinda. It was much easier to get prolonged asbestos exposure than repeated glyphosate exposure. We used it in everything, including carpets and roofs. The asbestos fibers in those roofs are fine, but the glue holding them together isn’t. It’s been falling on the ground since forever, but it’s accelerating more and more.

Meanwhile, the only people working unsafely with glyphosate are basically a subset of farmers. Now, I’ve basically NEVER seen a farmer handle chemicals according to the instructions, so within that group unsafe exposure is basically 100%, but it’s a much smaller fraction of the population.

For all the panicky people:

Microplastics are bad, but they’re not remotely close to asbestos bad. Nobody is dying horribly from emphysema because they accidentally contacted microplastics two decades ago. The effects absolutely exist, but they’re quite subtle and do not involve suffocating while you cough your lungs out in small pieces.

Gylphosate is bad, but it’s mostly bad for the people working directly with it and ignoring every safety precaution (the Venn diagram of those two groups is pretty much a circle). Eating food that was once treated with gylphosate will not be remotely bad for you on any measurable scale.

Source: am chemist, work as a safety professional (independent, no large company is paying me for anything but an occasional audit that is mostly unrelated to chemistry)

But, I’ll happily add something that’s bad, but not on the level of asbestos. Indoor cooking on fire and/or with poor ventilation. It creates combustion products, releases particulate and smoke and many complex volatiles that are just drifting around in your house for pretty much the entire evening.

Edit: and growing your own food on local soil in a city. That dirt has been collecting pollution for a century, and the odds are pretty decent that it might actually qualify for remediation if you live near anywhere industrial or a big road that’s been there for a while. Get your soil tested, or use raised beds if you’re growing food.

I found my first mosquito sting of the year this morning. Hurray…