It's sufficiently engagement bait for their voters, you mean.

iirc that water released from japan wasn't even that radioactive on its own before dilution, but nuclear scary stuff gets attention and clicks.

New phobia unlocked.

I have had adductor/hamstring leg cramps in the past that were gnarly enough that my muscles bled. Big deep bruises coming up from underneath that looked like I had a broken bone or something.

cute + gay

I have the perfect story for this.

About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.

He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he'd never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.

He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.

It's fun to imagine an opposite world where everybody has EVs and other more efficient forms of transit, and then industry wants to introduce ICE vehicles to the market.

You fill it with flammable liquid poison and it shoots gaseous poison out the back while it's running, and nobody can refuel at home, and it's immensely more mechanically complex, but at least it's quick to fill with fuel at the fuel store! Just try not to inhale the poisonous explosive fumes or spill the poisonous volatile liquid on yourself while you do it.

Price aside, as somebody who has gotten pretty good at ignoring my old normal slab smart phone, this might only make sense for nostalgia and conversation starter reasons.

Now if I could force this thing upon other people in my life who cannot separate their eyes from their doom-screen, we'd be on to something!

This feels like a game of, all together now, "Which Evil Is It??"

Is it because they are abusive pedophiles who want fodder for their kind, or is it because they are evil capitalists who want fodder for their factories?

Por que no los dos, am I right?

Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?

I have experienced the reality behind this comment so deeply in the past year.

I have been building a lot of stuff recently, and in 2026 alone I have made several large Home Depot lumber runs.

It's always me in my old shorts & t-shirt, loading like 2 dozen 2x4s or 4x4s or plywood into either my little mazda3 sedan or the family SUV my wife drives that has a mix of "cute" and "sassy feminist" stickers all over the back. All around me are trumpy-looking chuds in their pristine business casual work clothes carrying a single little bag or mailbox post to their also-pristine emotional support trucks.

And I'm not faulting them generally for clean clothes and nice cars. I'm a software engineer with a desk job, and I am way overdue for a fun new car that won't even fit lumber. But I am way way way over the stupid culture in this country where having a good job makes one a valid human and having a big vroom vroom truck makes one a legit rugged big strong boy.

I'm gonna guess that most F-150 drivers don't even know that microplastics exist and don't give a shit about pollution.

But also, you can still make the biogas trucks worse if you make them even heavier than they already are.

I react to cilantro roughly like Dracula reacts to the midday sun, and ranch dressing tastes good to me.