The biggest concern with that setup is how inefficient it is to reach the Pacific Northwest region, LA is a serious bottleneck on top of being a common endpoint in and of itself. A line that goes straight to either Seattle or Portland from the Northeast simplifies things a lot.

The most efficient would be 3 major east/west lines, Boston to Seattle, DC to San Francisco, and Atlanta to LA, connected by a series of north/south lines to form a grid. On the east coast, just extend the Acela down to Atlanta.

“Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?”

My conspiracy theory is it was chosen to deliberately harm the optics of environmentalists. Something with minimal useful impact and maximum inconvenience would turn people against the whole idea of environmentally friendly alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterial_cervical_lymphadenitis

90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.

It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection unless you want necrotic frostbite) is about 150 F warmer than that.

Which raises the question of why he would create a planet with the illusion of age and send you to hell for falling for his own trick.

Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?

I think regardless of how realistic it is, it’s definitely interesting how the owning class really likes the idea of a future with a class of sapient beings with no legal rights.

That and the lead poisoning.

Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it’s engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.

The talk page is an all-time classic of petty Wikipedia drama.

Octopodes nuts?

Minimizing death by replacing it with eternal torment is some evil genie shit.

For any randomly chosen person on an infinitely long track, the trolley will take an infinite amount of time to reach them. 0% of the people on the track are harmed at all.

Whatever it is, it looks like it’s been sitting out for a week.

I feel like there’s a primal part of my brain that would tell me not to drink something that looks like there’s mold growing on it that would be difficult to get past.

The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.

“Why” implies they act according to some form of logic. The thing is, they’re racists, and racists tend to be fucking stupid.

Yes. We could have had a planet Orcus and we were like “nah, we’ll pass.” That would have been metal as shit.