Ooooh, that's pretty interesting.

Nowadays they call it "plant-based butter."

Ineffective polish? Sure!

 

Also, margarine is excellent at dissolving adhesives (namely those pesky stickers/tags/labels that won't remove cleanly) thanks to its high oil content

Most recent data on child abuse in the US: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/report/child-maltreatment-2020

> In the first weeks of the 97th Congress, the House passed a resolution providing for Spellman's pay as if she had been seated, and for her Congressional office to be supported as if a member of Congress had died or resigned.[5] When it became clear she was permanently incapacitated and unlikely to recover, the House passed an act declaring the 5th District seat vacant.

I can't help but feel like that Congress would fuck around for an entire election cycle if this happened today instead of making the seat vacant. Like whichever party would benefit from a comatose congressman would stonewall any resolution on the matter.

Is there a toll for the ships each time they raise the bridge? Just curious.

Also useful for detecting hydraulic leaks. Wave a broom ahead of you while looking for a suspected leak. A pinhole leak at a few thousand PSI will blow right through it, just like it would go right through you.

Sequoias are absolutely massive in both width and height and look like something from LOTR, yet they have acorns the size of a pebble

Was on a large landscaping job years ago. We had the apprentice on the easy job, with the petrol blower just pushing stuff into one area for clean up. We caught him sitting down. Apparently we ran out of 2 stroke oil and he didn't want to damage the machine by using straight fuel, good kid. (Usually we had a few one shots or a bottle knocking about, or someone would run out to grab some, but we were on a time limit this time). So we pointed to the rake and he thought we were joking.

Yes, that would be. The Confederacy in particular was a great combination of white supremacy and treason that is easy to point out. And before you make the argument of self determination, the slaves in the Confederacy, who made up a large part of the population, had no say and were being forced to go along with a treasonous government trying to separate themselves from a Union trying to free them.

Making a splash in a theatre near you!

There can be only ONE!!!

I don make the rules and I kinna die.

You might have been detecting some other hazard and hopefully you avoided stepping in it.

Like I said it was not perfect, and I'm glad they reviewed and updated it (as all historical texts should) but associating anyone who supports the 1619 project, or pointing out the Confederacy was primarily focused on the continuance of slavery and white supremacy, as racist is the straw man.

I could imagine some IR goggles would be nice if you had them. But a broom is always handy, doesn't need batteries and it works.

Limekiln is a lovely place to camp. The redwoods and the views are amazing.

I can imagine that the "new guy" at any place is told some really stupid things and this sounds like one of them.

I'm also sure a few people have died trying to to look like fools. "Oh, you were SERIOUS about the broom thing?"

I'm not sure anyone really wins...lol

Negative. Glad we live in an era of streaming services!

You win the pun award today.

I mean -- this isn't a bad thing. Good old know-how is using the best tool for the job. If you already have a broom -- it works as a great "invisible flame" detector.

I guess you could toss out a cloud of particles to detect flames everywhere -- but that also has a downside of putting more flammable items that could grow the fire.

Other than infrared sensors -- which is a device that need maintenance and can fail. What better thing could they use?

If you’re a celebrity, they let you do it.

I live in Eureka ca home of the redwoods and on thing they are leaving our is how wide they can get and when fallen over the root systems pull up a small house worth of dirt

I appreciate the response.

Yep, that’s why I said it’s a personal prerogative. Personally I have trouble separating the two things, but not everyone does. I was just responding to an obvious attempt to gaslight, but wasn’t going to get into a debate with someone who supports abusers.