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| Topic | Blue Dogs found in Russia near Chemical Plant... |
| adjl 02/19/21 12:17:59 PM #4 | Krazy_Kirby posted... I know there are some cats that glow under darklight. scientists were testing to try and cure diseases, and put that trait in to be certain the cat had what they needed for the test... some of their offspring inherited the glow It's pretty common practice in genetic engineering to attach the gene for "Green Flourescent Protein" (originally found in some jellyfish, does exactly what it sounds like) to the transgene they're trying to express. It's a surprisingly versatile test, and very cheap and easy to perform. Works in bacteria, plants, animals of all sorts... --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Would you fuck an 18 year old? |
| adjl 02/19/21 8:54:01 AM #34 | I'm not opposed to the idea, but in practice, getting to that point would involve talking to her, and that'd likely end up being enough of a turn-off to kill my interest. Exceptions exist, certainly, but the vast majority of 18-year-olds just aren't going to be mature enough for me to want to spend any time with them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Elected Texas official's power belief... |
| adjl 02/18/21 9:51:23 PM #23 | Zangulus posted... Okay. So youre just arguing things so broadly as to be utterly moot to the topic at hand. Evidently. I'd thought it was more applicable, but it's not. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Elected Texas official's power belief... |
| adjl 02/18/21 8:54:04 PM #19 | Zangulus posted... Your entire argument falls flat in the face that the Texas government has had knowledge that this can and will happen on a semi regular basis but refuse to acknowledge and prepare. My argument doesn't really hinge on Texas at all. I'm speaking more broadly. Based on the details you're providing (which I didn't have before), there is indeed no excuse for Texas to have let this happen so badly, and some degree of winter-proofing would have been both reasonable and responsible. More broadly, though, there's no sense in earthquake-proofing houses in a city that hasn't seen an earthquake since it was part of Pangaea. That's what I'm talking about. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I've been getting Ps5 scalpers back |
| adjl 02/18/21 7:53:35 PM #34 | Playsaver posted... What do you think might happen if some of these people get violent? It's not impossible, but given that TC isn't actually meeting any of them, nor giving them any information that could be used to track him down, he's unlikely to face such risks. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Elected Texas official's power belief... |
| adjl 02/18/21 2:54:50 PM #15 | Zangulus posted... Yeah... That's just not true. Texas has had warning this will happen. Repeatedly. They refuse to do anything about it. Yeah, therein lies the core issue here. Problems on this level may be unprecedented, but they're not completely surprising. Zangulus posted... Not to mention calling saving lives just wasteful. Lawls. It can be. Lives being on the line doesn't automatically take any cost-benefit analysis out of the picture. If the risk is low enough, investing significant resources to mitigate that risk is often unreasonable. There's no sense buying an air conditioner for a home in Alert, for example, even if heat stroke can potentially kill people, because it's extremely unlikely for that risk to ever come to fruition. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Elected Texas official's power belief... |
| adjl 02/18/21 12:35:41 PM #10 | argonautweakend posted... They want to secede but get foiled by 3 inches of snow and 20 degree weather. To be fair, many normally-cold areas would be similarly screwed over by the sort of heat and drought conditions that are normal for much of Texas, much like the east coast would be crippled by earthquakes that the west coast would laugh off. Nobody builds infrastructure to withstand environmental conditions they have almost no chance of ever seeing. That'd just be wasteful. This is why climate change is such a problem: it's going to introduce extreme weather events to regions that have never had to be prepared for them, with devastating results. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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