I had a gallon bottle that I used. I only filled it completely maybe twice in seven years. I'd pull over on the shoulder in the country and pour it out the passenger window. Give it a good rinse every few days and a thorough washing every month or so and it wouldn't even stink.
Even for the people that use small bottles and throw them out, they can save them long enough to throw them away at a truck stop. There's no excuse for throwing your full piss bottles and other trash on the side of the road.
Businesses don't have to let you park in their lots. Cities can put up no truck parking signs. States can restrict parking on entrance ramps.
Stop giving them excuses to do so! You're just making things worse for drivers out of sheer laziness. Truck stops let you throw away your trash in dumpsters.
Everything not gravitationally bound is moving away from everything else. Every single point in space is growing larger. That means that things farther away from you are moving away from you faster then things closer to you. That's true no matter where in the universe you are.
There's not really an "away" from the big bang. That's something science communicators fail to explain - the big bang happened everywhere. Space may have been infinite in size (we don't know) and it still happened everywhere.
I'd recommend looking up the YouTube channel for FermiLab. They've got some excellent videos on the subject.
Few people know what Aramaic sounds like. It might be good for books (the Laundry Files uses Enochian, and nobody knows what that sounds like), but for a media with sound Latin checks all the boxes.
You are very much in the minority as someone who has studied Latin. Very few non-Catholic high schools even offer it, much less make it mandatory.
And sure, Catholic mass was held in Latin back in the day. Personally, I suspect that's a reason it's associated with rituals and magic. What is a priest doing, if not invoking mystical powers beyond the understanding of man? What language would someone use to invoke the powers of Satan?
If English had been a dead language for fifteen hundred years and was only used by people who talk about things only a tiny subset of the population understands?
I'm not talking about vulgar Latin or the romance languages.
For about a millenia and a half, everything that could be considered scholarship was written in Latin. Newton's Principia Mathematica? Latin. Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium? Latin. Kepler's Astronomia nova? Latin.
Almost every educated person in the western world learned Latin. That's how they communicated with their colleagues in other countries - letters written in Latin. That's why it was a lingua franca.
That the banana is proof of creationism because it's perfect for the human hand.
Problem with that argument is that bananas aren't natural. They've been bred and cloned to get to the shape they have. The original fruit wasn't very friendly.
Latin was the lingua franca for the educated western world for centuries. Texts on alchemy, mysticism, and religion were all written in Latin. Church rituals were performed in Latin.
Most magic in fiction has its roots in the past. What language would be more fitting?
I didn't read the article, so I'm guessing it's about how fast the I95 overpass was fixed after the recent collapse.
It was fixed for an exorbitant amount of money on a no compete contract. That's how you get things done fast. It's certainly not how you want to build infrastructure normally.
I'd wind up with an acre of goat heads. No thanks. Even with mowing and dragging a carpet behind the tractor our dogs still track them in for us to step on on the way to the bathroom at 3AM.
General Sherman was a union general during the American civil war. His approach to warfare was to a bit unconventional for the time - he focused on destroying the enemy's infrastructure and supply lines and burned down nearly everything flammable he came across. It was very effective.
Only for lazy shits.
I had a gallon bottle that I used. I only filled it completely maybe twice in seven years. I'd pull over on the shoulder in the country and pour it out the passenger window. Give it a good rinse every few days and a thorough washing every month or so and it wouldn't even stink.
Even for the people that use small bottles and throw them out, they can save them long enough to throw them away at a truck stop. There's no excuse for throwing your full piss bottles and other trash on the side of the road.