toast

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I realise that many people, on reading that first sentence, will suspect I’ve finally flipped. Where, pray, are those rolling sand dunes or sere stony wastes? But there are many kinds of desert, and not all of them are dry.

  No, being dry is really what makes a desert. Deserts can be hot, cold, even seasonally wet, but overall they must have low yearly precipitation.

  In fact, those spreading across Britain are clustered in the wettest places.

  Obviously, no.

  Yet they harbour fewer species than some dry deserts do, and are just as hostile to humans.

  Few species and hostile, sure, but these are not defining attributes of desert.

  Another useful term is terrestrial dead zones.

  Well, it is closer to accuracy.

  This twat is using desert figuratively in an article on ecology while chastising readers for thinking that deserts are dry.

  Idiot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads when you’re pumping gas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you’re holding a nozzle that sprays liquid. Just douse the speaker in gasoline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No case, no problems so far. I’ve had numerous phones over the last 20 years, never had a case, and never had an issue. Don’t drop your phones.

  I did buy a case for my son’s first phones, but I wouldn’t suggest he need one now. He is certainly old enough to take care with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women are the devil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

  You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn’t scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women are the devil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly a misremembering of what happened, yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should talk more about air-conditioning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could do without a few of those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Resident Alien' Season 4 Filming Update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Farmer is absolutely great in it. Alan is good in it but for me Gary steals every scene he’s in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Villains or heroes isn’t the issue. It’s the argument that we need a group that doesn’t play by the rules that apply to the rest of society that I find problematic.

  Shouldn’t we strive for a world in which the rules really do apply to all? Can’t we hope to conceive of a set of laws standards by which we should all be judged? Isn’t the world of Star Trek meant in some way to be aspirational, rather than just a reflection of what we have now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Reading the article, Section 31 seems great if you just want to just shit on everything else in the franchise. Nope, not for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, a colorful sorting would only negatively affect you when you are actively looking for a book.

  No, unfortunately, it would remind me every time that I looked at it that I had somehow married someone who thought this was acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, Ms Allen is neither sly nor clever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While a tool that extends your reach is useful, when dealing with a difficult to reach spider, your best asset is the element of surprise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still think his point could have been made twice as convincingly through the magic of buying two of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween Botany⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pumpkin pie is always made with squash. Many times those squash are pumpkins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radioactivity⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it could be non-radioactive next week. That’s not very likely, but it could be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixar CCO Says Live-Action Remakes Bother Him: “I Like Making Movies That Are Original”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Muppet John Wick Muppet Gattaca Muppet Mean Girls Muppet Die Hard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biomimicry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you trying to suggest that your use of punctuation is sarcastic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh yeah⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No shells?