CraigM
1857
Don’t make me get my car sir!
Says the fellow from the left coast where they use toppings like pineapple and broccoli and still have the nerve to call it pizza.
Pizza is merely a wordgame. It is whatever a language community decises is meant by it. Accept diversity and just love them for the weird pineapple loving freaks they are.
So I guess we know what can go wrong given the incessant morphing of every thread into food and/or Gilmore Girls. (gesticulates at the horror that is the forum theme on this day) The Discourse Gods punish us for not using their forum software in accord with their Vision.
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Djscman
1861
+1 Like. This forum needs likes, and that is a terrific movie.
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TIL that the same jerk that invented leaded gasoline also invented freon, inadvertently killing millions:
Timex
1863
“Health products” that emit “negative ions” in fact just have Thorium Dioxide, which is radioactive. Nice.
What’s crazy is that I would expect these magic beans products to not work… I would not AT ALL have expected that they were actually putting radioactive stuff into them. That’s insane.
Yeah, that happens a lot with unregulated health products. Homeopathic products, supplements, etc. There have been some high profile cases where various supplements were found to contain lead, or be contaminated with arsenic or various other things. Or on the other end, herbal products like St Johns Wort that can have active ingredients that can interfere with various medications.
The refrain for these supplements is always “best case scenario: it does nothing, worst case scenario: it does something that you don’t want”.
So if I’m understanding this correctly, the reason they’re putting Thorium into these products in the first place is because Thorium does indeed emit negative ions, thus avoiding a charge of false advertising?
Seems like there would be a much less risky way of duping your customers than that. I don’t know what that way would be, but this method does indeed sound insane.
With great power plants comes great responsibility.
futilely searches for like button.
So an archology. SF has had them for a century or more.
I wonder where hard-good manufacturing fits. Will we have replicators? 3D printing of all goods?
Yeah, it’s essentially Shadowrun. Minus the, um, magic, trolls, orcs, elves, ogres, dwarves, and what not. But definitely with the evil corporations.
Thrag
1874
They do have wizard robes and glowing orbs.
Who knew Spec Ops : The Line was a documentary?
I assume the rich Saudi families will all have sprawling estates in the upper levels while all of the labor lives in one-room cells in the lower levels where the costs for their communal bathrooms, mess halls and Kingdom-supplied food, clothing and entertainment are deducted from their “wages” in such a way as to keep them forever indentured.
Could ne nice, but it looks like jail to me for some reason.
