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  • Mercury boils at 356.7©

  • As I understand it, the danger is the vapour. It boils at a high enough temperature that it's supposed to be safe for handling.

  • You probably wear your clothes inside out and walk everywhere on your hands.

  • Jesus. We'll never hear the end of it from the right wing wackos. They'll use this as justification for starting up the Nazi Youth

  • Well I see now I commented on the wrong thread.

  • That squiggly line is the Mississippi river.

    While using rivers to divide states may seem conceptually simple, the natural tendency of river courses to change over time has caused complications. If you look carefully at maps and legal history, there are numerous territorial oddities and disputes that have arisen over the years.

    For instance, a series of earthquakes in 1811-12 shifted the course of the Mississippi River in a way that stranded two Tennessee towns—Corona and Reverie—west of the river in what seems like it should be Arkansas. Upstream, the same earthquake, and a lack of precision by early surveyors, left a bit of land known as the Kentucky Bend completely surrounded by parts of Missouri and Tennessee. Meanwhile, Kentucky and Indiana have engaged in a protracted debate about which state owned a piece of land near Evansville that connects to Indiana if the river is low but becomes an island if water is high.

  • I know what a watershed is, we're talking about borders between states.

    Draw a squiggly line that follows the river. You get the left side, I get the right side. The river moves as rivers do. After 100 years we do a survey and find I have a big chunk of property that used to be my side of the river but the river moved towards me and now that's on your side of the river. I've lost some land due to some being on the other side of the river and more due to the land I used to have being a river now.

    Is the boundary between us the water and we put up with the uncertain nature of our property, or do we honour the line drawn 100 years ago even though the river isn't anywhere near there now?

  • What happens when the river moves though?

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  • During a bad day the bosses mom asked me why I wasn't my usual chipper self. I said if you want me to smile all day every day I need paid more. Then the boss yanged at me "why are you telling mother you want paid more?!?" and I told him, because I want paid more.

  • That's a good idea. I've blocked so much almost all I get is depressing news. They need to let you export blocked lists. Mines so long it's probably worth something.

  • They were born ordinary and became exceptional through hard work and dedication. And bootstraps.

  • I feel like I could, but I'm not an asshole and normally don't shout obscenities to people doing their job. Maybe it's a Canadian thing?

  • It's like a comic book. The League of Assholes

  • ❤️ Trudeau?

  • Bending the pin helps with auto closing doors too.

  • The dementia was Reagan's biggest plank in his platform. Those actually making the decisions found it super helpful. That's why this time they're running 2 demented candidates. Even if they lose they win.

  • Remember when Instagram said you reached the end of new posts?

  • That's bang on. Aside from the quarter. I used to call collect and they would get "Would you like to receive a collect call from 'Hidadcomepickmeup'?"