It’s not dumb, it’s right on the money. What I have a hard time with is not letting conspiracy mind tell me it’s deliberate.

It feels like stat shouldn’t be a senior level elective in HS but should be a freshman/sophomore level requirement, with a heavy focus on how statistics are wildly abused in what amounts to propaganda.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

There are a bunch of these if you search the tagline

Seriously these things are huge

Imagine destroying that because it’s useful. Like cutting down a redwood

Stay the fuck off Plumbago thanks, Maine doesn’t want it’s mountain tops chopped off like fucking West Virginia. I love that since we have a state ban on metal extraction, and even though the lithium is bound as a silicate mineral (spudomeme, sp) it’s technically a metal and that’s prevented it’s extraction so far.

Also they are the largest lithium crystals found, I believe, anywhere. We’re talking 30ft long tree trunk sized crystals embedded in matrix, some of which have been exposed and are insanely cool to look at. The site is on private land but it’s not terribly difficult to get in contact with folks who have permission up there. Maine has a very long history of mineral extraction, and some of the richest gem deposits in North America, but the size of this locality and the type of mining proposed would be a massive problem for a relatively pristine area of Northern Mixed Hardwood and Conifer forest, not to mention the very small towns in the area that would be entirely transformed in the process.

Zesty Italian education

I’d read it

Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.

It was ice cream for me

I’m 2 years late to the party but I made it!

I love that almost everyone used their image as their pfp

Safrole is a precursor for MDMA

Picard would be armed.

All of my firearms have been inherited/gifts, I’m not hot on purchasing more. The shotgun is a 20g single, great for birds and some asshole coming up the walk. After that it’s a 10/22 with 5 10rnd mags and a 25. I know I know .22lr isn’t a lot. I’m banking on them being dissuaded from continuing by the knowledge that I can put a lot of metal down range for a few minutes if need be.

DOES YOUR CAT MAKE TOOOO MUCH NOISE!?

A 20g is smaller than a 12g, I don’t understand how a 12 is going to control kick more?

Edit: Google says heavier gun=less kick with a similar payload. I typically only use 2.5in shells in my 20 and yea it still kicks like a horse. I don’t own a 12g but figured bigger round=more kick, but there’s more to it than that, including how choked the barrel is and mine is full choke

A 20g is going to be easier to control on subsequent shots, and shells are cheaper.

It’ll definitely bake your eyes

…and does nothing useful.

So a day at the lab then.

Ugh such a good video. Cya in 20 minutes

And it did help me quit tobacco, I can hardly stand to smoke a whole cig anymore. But in turn it destroyed my gut, so now I use pouches. We’ll see how these fuck me up, probably rot my gums or something.

I am really excited to see how my less progressive fellow Mainers respond to this guy. He has the look, the gruff voice, I bet he drives a truck, lots of things the hordes of fragile men in this state need to feel legitimate as a man. And his competition is your nasty mother in law that only wins because ®. Basically I think he could be another Jared Golden but not a (not so) secret asshole.