Why is Beryllium worse than Lithium?

Edit: apparently beryllium ions will fuck up your magnesium containing enzymes.

I think a few of the commissioners are appointed by a body of judges, but most of them appointed to the commission by the commission after open job application.

Bolton. Bury. Wigan. Perhaps other parts of Lancashire, also.

It seems really weird you let the president pick the supreme court justices in the first place really. It’s also odd that you vote for judges in some places, because that makes the process overtly political, but even that would be better than just letting the president pick them.

In England and Wales, judges are essentially appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission.

The single syllable words “four” and “hour” are actually the two syllable words “fohwer” and “ower”.

The words “anything” and “nothing” are pronounced “owt” and “nowt”.

The word “the” is not pronounced “t’”, it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word “t’” is thus, actually, short for “to the”.

E.g.

Goin’ t’ shop. Wan’ owt?

means

I’m going to the shop. Do you want anything?

We also pronounce “bus” as “buzz”, too.

We also use “was” and “were” the wrong way round and say “pants” instead of “trousers”. The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.

If I had a penny for every time I heard about new advancements about to revolutionise solar panel technology, I’d have glazed the bloody Sahara with them by now.

They will, in fact, calm up.

Jurassic Park is about capitalist hubris.

Jurassic World is about why we should not allow BD Wong to create the reptilian equivalent of the torment nexus.

The context of a bare naked shoulder is important. If you walked into a male CEOs office and he had a picture on his disk of his wife and his kids in swimsuits at the beach, you would probably feel differently about it than if he had a pin-up poster of a supermodel in a bikini on his wall.

making cheese grate again

I’d bet bigly yuge that Trump is incapable of that gouda pun.

I’m not American, but I feel like I would rather go out in a blaze of glory, as it were, than be sent off to the queer prison biblical re-education camps that don’t seem to be very far away.

If the moon doesn’t oppress women, then why is the menstrual cycle the same length as the lunar cycle?

Checkmate, atheists astrologists!

Barack… Obama? Oh! You mean Captain Drone Strikes?

Well, in scripture a circle can be 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits in circumference, so…

I guess all that we can conclude is that through god, all things are possible.

It’s very important to note that Catholics believe that Jesus was both fully man and fully god, and in times past would straight up kill you for heresy for saying he was half man and half god.

I’d say this brings back memories, but that would be a lie because Electric Six has been in continuous rotation on my playlists for (apparently) over 20 years.

I can’t wait for Jurassic World 6 when we send the dinosaurs to space!

Fairly unsurprising conclusion, really.

Is it actually prompting any soul searching, though? To be sure, those who were already inclined toward supporting The Squad™ are now getting more vocal about it, but we’re also seeing a huge amount of people actively cheering the government on for rounding people up and putting them into cages and sending people to prison camps without due process. (I can’t find the source, I’m sorry, but) I saw something recently that said well above 60% of USians support government policies that help the poor, but that drops to about 30% if you call the same policies “welfare”. [Edit: found the source here.]

I think Zizek’s qualified support for Trump’s first term was a gamble that the US would then look at the consequences and then resolve to have to grow up and start taking politics more seriously. And I think that gamble was silly, both because of how the US currently is, and because of how often that hasn’t worked in the past 100 years. And that, amongst other reasons, is why I generally take what Zizek has to say with a pinch of salt.

Well, Freud was the first to say (or at least the first to popularise) ideas that - in retrospect - should be obvious, like that human behaviour is motivated by unconscious drives, or that past trauma influences your current behaviour. However most of his theories about how the unconscious works were basically unfalsifiable and based on nothing more that his own interpretation of what he’s noticed about his own patients (though to be fair, I think that’s mostly the case for most of psychology). I think a lot of the early psychology of Freud, Adler, and Jung is quite enmeshed with the philosophy of Nietzsche (who said some truly wild about human nature without providing a single source) and remains more popular than it should be for that reason.