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The average American can just barely figure out how to competently wash their own hands; boiling milk successfully may well be out of their skill set! In reality, the bigger issue is how to ensure food safety on the national scale. I know people who keep chickens/goats/dairy and beef cows, and...

To expand a little on this, this is actively hurting the farmers themselves as well, as the majority of the bottleneck issue lies within the steps that convert the raw material from the farmers to a format that is provided to the consumer. Using milk as an example, as the article states, with...

FYI, for those engaging in exercise while trying to maintain effective social distancing, it's probably safer to stay 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) away from the people around you when running in a line, and up to 20 meters (65 freedom units) behind a person cycling ahead of you. (Caveats: white...

They forgot "Out of an abundance of caution" (translation: "this is the smart thing to do, but we don't want to appear weak/scaremongering, nor do we want to imply that we have to shut down because someone amidst our ranks has tested positive in the last XX days")

It's things like this that that remind me that many people don't understand on a practical perspective how staggeringly huge "only 3%" is in this sort of situation (going for middle-of-the-road badness, death-rate-wise). I'm quite confident that every human knows at least 33 people, and probably...

Much of the information is increasing and changing (and is of course expected as patient data increases, but is naturally frustrating from a policy-making/recommendations point of view!) One example is defining common symptoms for this novel coronavirus in order to make all the recommendations...

Recent reports (out of Japan, I believe) suggest the possibility of reinfection (or, arguably better case scenario, simply longer viral shedding/detection window). However, hopefully there will continue to be increasing data on the risk of reinfection vs. partial or complete immunity (e.g. which...

As far as I understand it, it was less a rider of "oh by the way let's set aside $1B specifically to fund abortions while the republicans were not looking because OOOH, LOOK OVER THERE, CORONAVIRUS!!" and instead that they hadn't attached Hyde Amendment verbiage (which bans use of federal funds...

I can't believe "My Dad Wrote A Porno" hasn't been mentioned yet. It is exactly what the title suggests, and yet so much more. Three British friends (Jamie, Alice, and James) reading erotica (firmly in the "so awful that it surpasses good and goes into mind-bendingly hilarious" category)...

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself...I'll show myself out now

Though Peter Cushing looked pretty awful in RO when you could actually see his features. From afar, he was great. Up close? Not so much. Glad they didn't do that with Carrie (the digital version of her younger self was bad enough). (Would I have liked more KMT in TRoS? Absolutely! Though...

They did sort of lightspeed-skip the whole movie. Granted, I normally watch shows at 1.5x speed when I can, so I wasn't too fussed by the pace.

I mean, the *real* reason is just story writing 101 - Word of God says you always have to come up with a bigger menace than in the previous installment, or otherwise it's anticlimactic (story/canon justification be damned). But that's less fun than coming up with goofy theories as to why highly...

Apparently it's cheaper to drive a planet around than an entire fleet of starships? Why bring out the ExtraSuperMassive weapon if the SuperMassive weapon will do to quash the rebel resistance scum? Or possibly the legion of Sith Minions (who may or may not have been spirits of sith past or...

Overall I liked it (granted, I also liked TLJ, for different reasons than this one). I definitely see why critics were harsh about how much of a re-tread it was (resurrect the old "scary" bad guy, visit all the same old places, basically no new characters) but for the (ostensibly) last movie of...

"Basque"? (Perhaps it's like basking, you just have to do it with a French accent...)

Unless it has coffee/some other component that specifically needs filtering, you can slice the top off and decant the contents into the pre-warmed liquid of your choosing - most of the hot chocolate mixes are just like what you'd get in a packet/tub at the store. You can say that you're making...

Some places elect to simply refuse further service if there's even a whiff of dissatisfaction - and I write as a veterinarian who works in a very large center that does not fire clients nearly often enough, though by no means am I saying that they should have done this to you/your animals! At...