Um… There may not always be male and female plants, but pollen is definitely the ‘male’ form of a haploid gamete, and nearly perfectly analogous to sperm. The link should be able to take you to every part you’d not want to know about plants. Allergies are normal. People who don’t have allergies are the freaks, because their bodies don’t care that the tree is trying to have sex with their nose.

Hell, the part of the fruit that you eat is often the plant sperm that didn’t fertilize the plant egg. Pollen contains a second plant sperm that fertilizes a different part of the female plant and creates all the juicy goodness you ingest. You can read about it here.

Now, the dandelion is formed seeds, sure. So baby cannon it is. /shrug

I use both as well. Ublock would let a lot of things through that NoScript does not. Ublock also gets stuff that NoScript does not. Facebook and google stuff? Zapped by noscript. Youtube ads? NoScript lets them through because you have to okay the youtube player, while Ublock blocks them.

Only complaint I have with NoScript is that it doesn’t seem like I can allow scripts without it automatically reloading the page anymore. It was nice to be able to click the ‘expand image’ here, see that NS blocked the script, allow the script, and just click the ‘expand image’ twice more to close/open it. Now I have to click ‘expand image,’ unblock the script, the page reloads, I have to go find the post again, and then see it. If you figure that out, let me know.

Comfortably? Nah. They should live in barracks just like the military. Public Service requires public servants.

Milhouse is not a meme!

Interesting how the ‘vintage’ ‘black border’ meme has a remarkably modern website watermark. Go back to sucking on your pacifier, you wanka.

I’ll forever be grateful to those thronal thespians of the page, who told me exactly whence the phrase, “Close, but no cigar,” came from.

Nice to know what happened. Quick action with no communication is probably better when security is on the line. I was internally debating whether it was a hosting issue or ya’ll had been targeted by some government agency. Speaking of, have you thought about putting up a warrant canary?

This is a big one, and I’d add in an aggressive tax for owning multiple properties. Make single land ownership ~70% of what it currently is, and each additional property increases all your property tax by 300%. Couple that with getting rid of idiotic exemptions (seriously…I have a friend with parents that owned more than a hundred different properties in a semi-rural area [one that was going to become suburban soon] and paid nearly no taxes because they plunked a few cows onto each one until the development companies paid the big moolah for them) and there would be plenty of homes for everyone. Last report I remember said we had more than enough empty homes sitting around to house every homeless person multiple times over.

It was, when it was just people looking to get a tiny bit of income from renting a room in their house. Then people tried to make it their sole income, and then companies got into the game. Part of it is that the service became popular, so any cheaper rooms are snatched up instantly, and the user now gets to choose between a hotel-looking hotel, or a house-looking hotel, with nasty fees to get more money from you.

I have an honest question for you. Have you ever seen a bulletproof vest?

Also, the person you’re replying to gave a very frightening scenario: being hunted down at your own home. If you’re not shooting back, what do you think the enemy is going to do? Give up and go away? Molotov cocktails are an easy, low-tech solution to a barricaded enemy you don’t care about taking alive.

Now, if we assume you’re in public, there are still issues with a bulletproof vest. They’re not really all that great at being concealed. If you truly have a bulletproof vest that can fit underneath clothing, it’s not going to stop many bullets. You can look through the wikipedia page on different levels of body armor, and do a quick search to see how bulky the different types are. Police armor is rated for most handguns, and is super bulky already. Military armor can hopefully stand up to a rifle bullet, but they’re often ceramic plates, which don’t last against multiple rounds, and are very obvious and stand out. Your slim-fit vest may be able to handle a very small subset of rounds. If you go the route of more protection, you’re going to find yourself targeted by the gunman due to your visibility and because your potential as a threat is large compared to others. Even a very high quality, military vest/suit is not going to cover you well enough to make a difference if a single person is shooting at you and A) you don’t have buddies to give you cover fire and make them put their head down and B) space because you knew the shooter was an enemy before he pulled out a gun and started shooting at you.

Grave of the Fireflies was a pretty good movie about children in Japan during WWII. I’m sure most people have heard of it, but it was recommended about a year or two ago, and it was much better than I was expecting.

That’s a humorous take, because I’ve known so many people who went to see crappy movies because of the movie previews for something they liked. This was way before the internet took over as a way to see videos, but still, interesting to note the opposite.

I wonder if it is related to how the browser is reading the websites. With the new version, I noticed I now have scripts from every instance that is ‘touched’ in any way running, rather than just the instance I’m using and viewing the others through.

I’ve lived and worked in areas like the article describes. I’ve been the one giving CPR for 20 minutes while waiting for an ambulance. This is just part of living in a rural area. I think we were around 1,000 square miles with one ambulance. It’s not just EMS, it’s everything. Groceries, police, fire (this was actually the least spread, because everyone likes to be volunteer fire), doctors, lawyers, telecom companies, etc. etc. etc. All of them are spread thin when the populace is thin.

While yes, it sucks, it isn’t going to be fixed by throwing money at it from the state. It’s just like suburbs of a city taking more money per person in budget areas like infrastructure. If you take money from urban areas to give to these rural areas so they have rapid EMS response, you’re spending the money much less efficiently, and it isn’t sustainable. Accept that your area’s funding is tied to the amount of people, and move to where there are more people or learn to live as you wanted to: away from other people, and the problems and help that they bring.

The rest is good, but “sits idle for 22 hours a day” is… meh. Most of my things sit idle. I only use a toilet for 30 minutes a day. My shower may get 15. Is that suddenly a bad thing?

So for anyone who doesn’t want to go to a website that spams video ads:

Seafight - MMO - F2P

Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War: F2P

One Piece Odyssey - JRPG/Turn based

Return to Monkey Island (2022, gasp!)

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Sea Dogs

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean

Sid Meier’s Pirates!

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Risen 3: Titan Lords

Sea of Thieves

Tropico 2: Pirate’s Cove

Rebel Galaxy

Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked

Isn’t carina where the trachea splits left and right into the lungs? Why did they call the nebula after that?

The equator and its rain forests are much more pleasant. Plenty of shade and the temps don’t reach quite as high. It’s the tropics that get nasty. There was a stretch of the border between the US and Mexico that reached 115 this week. The summer I spent in Texas years ago broke a record for never getting below 90 for something like 45 days, and the apartment I had didn’t use AC. That was a nasty summer.

What does an account matter? Make 10 more. Make them with names insulting admins.

Just think in terms of the not ‘in your face’ subs. Memes/pics and such were easy to make a post and it either goes up or goes down, but most other subs would need a little more thought/time for a post to be made.

I was a member of a 2-4 million subreddit, and I think there were only about 20-40 posts a day. Some repetitive posts were removed by the mod bot that you would occasionally see, so maybe a few more than those 20-40, but even the most prolifically engaged-with comment sections would max out around 400 comments.