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1. about 3 years ago on Stone Soup Classics

   Any parent that respects their kids would explain why. How else is a kid supposed to learn what is proper/safe/moral/ethical/whatever behavior if they don’t understand the why?

2. about 3 years ago on Ben

   Where were you going to/coming from that Portland would have made a good stopping point? It must have been either Canada or the north-western tip of WA as even Vancouver, BC is only about 300 miles from Portland and could be done in one shot.

3. about 3 years ago on The Buckets

   https://boneclones.com/images/store-product/product-1169-main-original-1415041962.jpg

   Tarsier skull. That really gives a good idea just how large their eyes are.

4. about 3 years ago on Reality Check

   That’s not a tangent and apparently all the above “math nerds” failed. A tangent only touches a curve at ONE point and never crosses it (this also means you can’t have a line that’s tangent to a steady infinite sine wave.)

5. about 3 years ago on Lio

   That’s in terms of total deaths, not deaths per capita. If you look at deaths/capita, then you get a totally different picture (and a more accurate one.) The county map shows deaths/100k but the list is only totals for the state.

6. about 3 years ago on Lio

   Texas is #24 in deaths/million, not #33. And Rhode Island is #4, not #1. You’re looking at number of tests/1million.

7. about 3 years ago on Bound and Gagged

   Parrots and the Priest

   A woman went to her priest with a problem. "Father, I have two female parrots, and they only know how to say one thing. All they ever say is, ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Wanna have some fun?’ "

   “That’s terrible!” exclaimed the priest. “But I think I can help. Bring your two female parrots over to my house, and I will put them with my two male parrots whom I taught to pray and read the Bible. My parrots will teach your parrots to stop saying that terrible phrase, and your female parrots will learn to praise and worship.”

   The next day, the woman brought her female parrots to the priest’s house. His two male parrots were holding rosary beads and quietly praying in their cage. The woman put her two female parrots in the cage with the male parrots. The females said, “Hi, we’re prostitutes. Wanna have some fun?”

   One male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed “Put those beads away, our prayers have been answered!”

8. about 3 years ago on The Buckets

   Not after “the noodle incident”, anyways.

9. about 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   BTW, the Mars Exploration Rover mission cost about $1.45bil (adjusted for inflation) over its 25 year span (will end in 2025.) The population of the US has been an average of around 300mil over that time. That comes out to a MASSIVE (pecking away at a calculator) $0.19/person/year! No wonder we’re all in the poor house with spending out of control like that!!!!!!! All this government spending on garbage and junk and abandoning rovers on Mars. sheesh

10. about 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    The rover itself didn’t cost that much. A lot of it was spent on rocket development, launch control, administration/support facilities once it was landed, etc, etc, etc. It’s like a NYC cab doesn’t cost $250,000 even though it cost the driver’s parents around $200,000 to raise him, cost $20,000 in maintenance on the cab, $10,000 in gas over the cab’s useful lifetime, $10,000 on insurance, etc, etc, etc. The cab itself may only cost around $50k but the total cost to have it operated for 10 years may wind up being 5-10 times that much.

    So the cab cost $50k out of the factory and maybe the rover cost $50mil to actually design and build it and get it out the door. Still much more but……. :)