Cremation doesn’t burn everything to ash. Pieces of bone are left intact and must be mechanically pulverized to make the remains a powder.

When my dad’s dog was cremated many years ago, the remains they gave us were partially ash, but the larger pieces hadn’t been pulverized. It still had many intact pieces of bone. We could see evidence of some injuries and degenerative disease the dog had experienced in his hip and spine.

I’m not sure how many people would be down for rooting through their pet’s remains for proof that it is the right animal.

Yeah, that’s what I meant. Ask the women in your life for advice.

What do your woman friends say?

So sitting on my ass eating candy isn’t the way to lose weight?

https://youtu.be/PZbqAMEwtOE

Edit: if it were actually a commercial, it would be the best commercial ever created.

The woman on the left: “You asked for the TV to be removed, and you did nothing about the fact that my eyes were closed?!?!?”

I think it would be more useful to dramatically increase taxes on unoccupied or AirBnB properties. Increase penalties on slumlord behavior. Similar things to gently (or not so gently) discourage people from hoarding residential real estate.

Otherwise, if someone was renting my house and they wanted to buy it at $100/month, it would probably take more than 800 years to buy (if I could afford to get it into shape to maximize the appraisal).

it has pedals like a bicycle

Are you taking about the Aptera from the video you linked?

If so, the Aptera doesn’t have pedals like a bicycle. It’s a fully electric vehicle (or it will be if it reaches production).

As I understand it, it isn’t sunlight, but distance.

If a child spends all its time indoors focusing on nothing farther than the walls, myopia will result.

Because ignoring genocides is what the world does.

I could never understand how believers refused to believe in evolution. Even if you believe in an all-Knowing, all-powerful deity, why would you want to believe they wouldn’t use all the tools at their disposal?

Having evolution at your disposal and still manually creating every living thing would be like using a pencil and paper to sum the columns in an Excel spreadsheet.

In other words, if you believe in God and don’t believe in evolution, you believe in a dipshit god. Your God probably failed out of deity school.

“This is frightening! Someone like me afraid of heights might just wet myself up there!” wrote one Chinese online commenter.

If you’re afraid of heights, why the hell would you be up there? Wrong turn on the way to the corner store?

I have heard that the younger generations just want to bang on the drum all day.

I’m gonna stand with LEGO on this one.

They only answer I’d ever give.

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Israel has decided to implement a “final solution” to the “Palestinian question”.

Actually, now I’m thinking I’ve forgotten how it’s supposed to work. I’ve been trying to sit in a chair and use a table.

Maybe I should be sitting on the floor.

Might need some help standing up again.

My wife got a series of letters from some law firm trying to collect state taxes owed. They wanted something like $500 because of a ~$10 tax they claimed was owed by my wife’s corporation.

Problem was, the corporation no longer existed. My wife was an optometrist who owned her own practice. When she became disabled, we had no way to continue, so we had to close it down and sell everything to pay off it’s debts. We ended up spending a bit of our own money (“investing” in a dead corporation), so my wife didn’t feel dishonest about how she left things. That wasn’t a financially sound choice, but I understood how she felt.

It had shut down a couple years before the tax liability. They claimed taxes were owed on business that occured after the corporation had shut down. Not sure how that’s possible, other than a scam.

However, even if it was possible to owe taxes on sales that didn’t happen, it would have been the corporation that owed the taxes, and the corporation didn’t have any assets.

The lawyer wanted her to file some paperwork with them so that they would know the claim was invalid. She told them no. It required far less effort for us and far more for them for us to just ignore them. If they didn’t want to waste their time and money pursuing an invalid claim, they could fix it themselves. They kept trying for a few years, but gave up eventually.

One of only two times when we were able to use the corporate shield to tell some shithead to pound sand.

After years of my family saying I’m too difficult to buy gifts for, and me saying, “What the hell are you talking about? Just get me LEGO!”, one of my kids got the message and has been getting me LEGO sets for Christmas every year.

It might have started when I bought myself the Cinderella Castle set.

The only problem I have is I’m 53, not 13. Sitting hunched over a pile of LEGO bricks for hours leaves me in pain. I need to come up with a space where I can play without injuring myself.