A basic DNA test can tell you your ancestry back thousands of years and identify numerous genetically determined traits. It’s kinda crazy what kinds of things they can tell you about yourself.

Anything conducts electricity if there is enough of it.

The locked door told them the store is closed.

I was supervising filling in a pit we had dug on the edge of a forest. We had dump trucks coming in dumping gravel. One particular driver wasn’t great at his job and there had been issues with him in the past.

That driver came in and dumped his gravel, but then he drove off with his bed still raised and almost immediately smashed into electric lines that ran off into the forest. One telephone pole even snapped at the base and fell over.

Within 30 seconds multiple cops came speeding onto the job site. It turns out those electric lines ran to a radio tower in the woods that ran the police radio. The idiot in the dump truck had taken out the police comms for the whole town.

Supposedly the Egyptians did know how to make a simple battery. Mythbusters reproduced the battery and it produced around 4 volts. It only takes 1.5 volts to produce hydrogen gas from water via electrolysis. It’s technically within the scientific capability of the Egyptians to do this, although I don’t think it likely.

The Chinese zodiac doesn’t have a cat, therefore cats don’t exist.

Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward. After the ultimate triumph of good over evil, a group of villains save the world from good. It’s a total inversion of the standard fantasy trope. Highly recommend it for any fantasy fan, doubly so for Dragonlance fans.

I remember one guy telling his story that he was raped by a pregnant woman. He didn’t want to hurt the baby so he couldn’t force her to stop.

Yes. When they are cops or being hassled by cops. Next question

American values? Can’t have that!

Like the separation of church and state?

Immigration? Come on in, we’ll worry about it later!

That’s how 99% of the country got here. It’s what made (and still makes) this country great. Incorporating people from around the world is an American value.

Trump is running again? Let’s do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to stop him from campaigning!!

What about the American value of respecting law and order by not supporting a convicted felon for president?

Crime is getting worse? Let’s ease up on punishment! Crime isn’t getting worse.

Crime is actually going down.

Biological men want to compete with women in sports? Okay!

Accepting those with different beliefs and respecting the way they choose to live their life is another American value.

https://www.ballotready.org/

I cannot recommend this organization highly enough. They provide nonpartisan information on candidates in every state for every election.

a giant underground storage tank

That’s basically what groundwater is already.

The trick isn’t storing it. The earth does that naturally. The trick is moving it where there isn’t enough.

That’s fine. Wearing a mask is now a political statement which is protected free speech.

I heard the cyber truck called the “Incel Camino” and now I can’t think of it any other way.

While I disagree with it, there is a valid argument that getting rid of the filibuster would become an absolute disaster once Republicans gain the majority.

He has really departed from the way he was written in the beginning. Becoming popular forced the character to be written shallow.

That logic makes no sense. Trump criticized Biden for being old, not “all old people”. If he is going to give that criticism, he should take it too. After all, he is almost as old and a lot less healthy as evident by his age related incontinence.

Considering the main attack on Biden from the right is that he is too old, it’s fair game to do the same for Trump. They opened that can of worms.

6 months from now “Why are all these Venezuelans coming across the border!?!”

Most of the time, these people are not arguing in good faith. It’s called sealioning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning