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Asbestos stories go like that. Thank you.

Kilowatt. I don't expect Americans to know how to spell it. The American unit is horsepower or BTU

It's not too cheap to meter even when provided as a public service. Nuclear is more expensive than battery + solar, more expensive than wind, more expensive than coal

"Too cheap to meter" was a lie that ignored costs of safety and decommissioning.

The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

It's a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe

I think it's losing due to the cost of the electricity over its lifetime

I guess not everyone has easy access to booze

Slaves? We have electricity and automation. Although slaves might make things easier, slaves are people and should have the same freedoms as you and me

Also employees would have might higher production than the same number of slaves

and thus not a part of the rainbow?

Colour need not be on the rainbow. Colour is the human experience of colour which includes purple

Our minds don't care whether a color is pure or whether it is a mix. We see those colors.

Like the berries there are technical definitions of colour that don't mesh with the common definition

Violet is dark spectral blue, added as a separate color by people who wanted 7 not six colors in the spectrum

That really makes me wonder what you mean by liberal

My take on the word highlights individual freedom except where it interferes with other individual's freedoms

My take has most regulation put on corporations, ie. you and I are pretty free; Google has rules to follow (and so does the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker)

To make it clear the common liberal position is individuals should be free to do as they want unless it is harmful to others; companies should be regulated enough to protect people, the environment, competition

I have rescued so many fruit flies from my beer. You hardly need to drown them, just present them with a 5% ethanol by volume solution and let them drown themselves

(My beer system is outside in my courtyard, fruit flies love the drip tray)

Don't you drive a car?

There's even the old Marx brothers joke "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"

The fruit fly trap taught to me by an entomologist friend is baited with wine, suggesting the fruit flies want fermenting fruit

The trap: get a plastic fizzy drink bottle; bigger is better

Cut off the top. The cut piece is a cone

Place the cone (the top piece) upside down on the rest of the bottle

Sticky tape the joint

Bait with cheap wine or leftover wine or beer. The bait is poured down the funnel into the trap

Her tastes were revealed in the description of baiting the trap — she specified red wine, but I have tested with various booze and fruit flies have no taste, they'll go for anything. You could probably extract bait from the sourdough starter you made in lockdown and kept alive despite never making bread after that first try

I vote for Putin

Just heard about it on the radio. US gov seems hopeful that this might bring the end of the war soon

Israel says they're going to keep going until all hostages are returned. I wonder if Israel has made that an impossible condition to give themselves reason to keep the war going until the one state solution is the only solution

There are those of us nostalgic for the 3DO

It may be you're allergic to something in your food. I used to get chronic low grade urticaria on my upper arms that antihistamines wouldn't touch but it went away when I went on a very limited exclusion diet (nothing but beef)

It looks like other eels don't necessarily follow the mostly tail body plan of electric eels; morays seem to be less than 50% tail by length

It's pretty cheap

European law says you need to identify paid content, it's up to the channel to decide how, it's usually "AD" written in a moderately contrasty color in the top right of the screen