Domestic toilets in the US are lidded. Public toilets -- airports, hospitals, public restrooms everywhere -- never have lids -- just the seat portion....
I saw that in a video about India. The dung dries to a shiny finish. Fine for dry weather, but when it rains and is damp? But then we're talking about...
Granted, clostridium difficile is bad news for the already-ailing patient, but I haven't heard of any studies identifying death-dealing fecal fountain...
What, exactly, is the sense of it? True, the flushing action might eject an aerosol mist of water, waste, and bacteria. However, toilets in institutio...
I have neither served in a military nor been trained in military strategy and tactics, but it's clearly absurd to think that one can carry out urban w...
In one way the answer has to be "Of course they contradict each other!" Received religions posit a creating God who is the first mover, the first caus...
An element of the Hamas attack that supports the idea that it was home-grown in Gaza (and not cooked up in Tehran) is the use of motorized hang-glider...
You say that Who are the good Jewish people you would like to see running the country? That's not a rhetorical question -- really, who/how? I've no do...
If I invited you over to watch a Netflix movie, you can rest assured that the movie would be the only featured attraction! Well, I might pop some corn...
One reason men like anal penetration which has nothing to do with sexual orientation is prostate stimulation which in turns intensifies sexual pleasur...
Maybe your wife would just say, "go fuck yourself" which probably means "no". Sexual contraptions are better as props in porn flicks than as a way to ...
According to Freud, there's no such thing as innocent little boys and girls. Actually, I've never heard anyone use "peg, pegged, and pegging" in any c...
@"rguingWAristotleTiff" Oh, @"Sir2u" might have been pegging students according to this definition. I don't know him that well. Normally one would sup...
You had a very cushy middle class upbringing, For children of the lumpen proletariat, kindergarten was a sweat shop. No snacks, no nap time. We had to...
Maybe the thread, "Israel killing Civilians in Gaza and the West Bank" should be merged with "Ukraine Crisis" along with "Who owns the land?". Please ...
Surely the months of social turmoil over Netanyahu's judicial deforms served as distraction and cognitive interference for pretty much everyone in Isr...
I don't have any information about how much is real and how much is PR, but apparently Iron Dome missiles (several models) cost between $20,000 and $1...
Just how low-tech is the Qassam rocket? The Qassam can be improved, but improvements require more engineering knowledge and complicated tools, like la...
Does anyone have any information on how much Hamas's unguided missiles cost to make, load, and fuel? (they are unguided, right?) How much do they weig...
I don't either. But... I don't look at European arrival in the western hemisphere as "an occupation", which sounds too much like a military program to...
There are LEGAL frameworks that establish a basis of ownership. Wherever colonists landed in North America (and everywhere else), they transferred the...
I'm not sure I have heard him before; "Michael Johnson" isn't a rare name in these parts, but after hearing him sing your favorite song on YouTube, he...
Not quite sure what they do, but "quantum dots" specialists got the Nobel in Chemistry. I suppose they figured out how to make Dots candy very very ve...
I heard on the radio that one doesn't have to be a member of congress to be elected speaker. So... any of us could be speaker. As jobs go, being in Sp...
At least the crippling depression, ennui, despair, and more! are all familiar, so that's something to be grateful for. Is there any chance that your n...
President Ronald Reagan 1980-1988 had a hand in the USSR's failure some commentators say. He didn't introduce military competition between the US and ...
'State capitalism', where the state is the largest (or only) company of which everyone is an employee describes both the USSR and China (plus NK and C...
Lots of good points here. There is no such thing as pure capitalism, pure socialism, pure communism, or pure democracy. Social and political organizat...
I tried to write a filthy limerick but my puritan upbringing ends up subverting smut. This poor trash was the best I could do. I started out with anti...
Or I took some an ti bi ot ics to day ---------- 10 syllables My phlegm went from green to gray ------- 7 syllables Or An ti bi ot ics I took to day -...
I haven't read anything by Ken Liu, but were I to find what you quoted as a blurb on a back cover, I'd give it a pass. Too high concept. I'm not a cre...
Good. I agree. We can live life this way to the extent that we can obtain innocence. I imagine this is the way life is experienced by animals for brie...
Why indeed? Apparently that isn't a sufficient reason. Were existence more difficult for us all (not just one), and survival less certain then perhaps...
The Universe isn't meaningless because it has inherent meaning (as far as I know) but because somebody (like me, like you) said it has meaning. We gav...
At some point, probably during the Cultural Revolution, somebody in the People's Republic (Mao? Foo Yung?) decided that RED = STOP was contrary to soc...
If human life has value because we value it, why wouldn't human life have meaning because we give it meaning? Your life has 'you' as a referent, doesn...
We generate / shed / excrete / ooze / produce... meaning. Meaning is not some sort of irreducible 'element'. Meaning is always debatable. Even road si...
Does anybody remember Shasta soft drinks? Royal Crown? O So Grape? The filling station next door had a pop dispenser; the bottles stood in (probably f...
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