Would be nice if the dude just went ahead and dove into taoist alchemy instead of trying to create a veneer of actual science.

Put it in a pot, add water, filter it, evaporate the water: you’ve got potash. Not a lot of it, mind, but any not salt loving plant is going to create potassium carbonate when you burn it. The salt lovers create soda ash aka washing soda or sodium carbonate.

It’s a social taboo for a person to try to “pass” as another race and fail. It’s common for people to have a mismatch between their personal identifying race and what others assign to them. Passing as white, for example, was always historically fraught. It could often lead to ostracization from all sides. The same is true of trying to pass as black. There’s a similar issue with trying to pass as another class (another social construct). It’s not fundamentally immoral to violate social constructs though.

There’s very few labels for groups of people that aren’t social constructs. Ethnicity is also a social construct, for example, and it’s quite different from the nebulous concept of race.

Well by definition is diabetes. Not necessarily diabetes mellitus, but diabetes.

This means that legally, a jury can say GTFO to jury instructions set by judges.

Only when it comes to acquittals though, which aren’t appealable. Those decisions can and will be reversed in civil cases or if people convict inappropriately. You mentioned as much by noting double Jeopardy but I still think it’s an important distinction that makes it irregular.

I don’t like progressive used that way because historically progressivism was just about an ideology that was results driven and often independent of other labels. There were progressive conservatives like Teddy Roosevelt and the Nelson Rockefeller Republicans in America (though the progressive conservatives in Canada are anything but). They were fundamentally centrist liberals though, essentially a watered down evolution of the historical French radical liberalism/radical whigs. Merkel, for example, called herself a progressive and she was a Christian Democrat.

Yeah, dude doesn’t understand that old “I’ll put out the fire but you have to sell me your house for $5,000” trick

Yeah but under Doug Ford? Dudes a moron who’s made it his personal mission to spend money to remove bike lanes.

Look on the bright side. It’s not Cumberland. They’ve also got a state prison and their main claim to fame was the C&O canal and people setting out on the Oregon trail. I’d say those things are worse economically than being a railroad hub.

English is the weird one of the Indo European languages in dropping grammatical gender. Or if you look at it from Persians perspective, we don’t go far enough because we still have gendered pronouns.

There really should be a united font against this sort of thing.

Yeah, the real Washington county seriff’s office would never post stuff like this.

Plus Hagerstown doesn’t look that clean or brightly lit.

Edit: for folks that don’t live in northwestern Maryland: Hagerstown is a shithole that collects everyone who was recently released from the state penitentiary up there. It’s main claim to fame is being a railroad hub, but, as you’d imagine, that has not been the greatest economic boom in the last 50 years. And it’s not as convenient as Frederick for being a commuter community down to DC.

You’d think the tariffs would be a big booster for them. BYD cars would kill them, but so would BYD batteries used by other automakers.

I’m actually trained in this. I went to school and this was a topic and then I passed a test and got a license. My name is registered on a state database and I put letters behind my signature. I’m an expert on shit.

Henry didn’t care about Arab states so much as wanted to import them to be his cheap labor. He hated Jews but I’m sure he would’ve preferred gazans to be refugees so they’d work in his factories for nothing.

Only issue you might find with signing up for world is you can’t get db0’s piracy communities. I’ve been too lazy to switch since coming from kbin though myself.

Well it was a woman philosopher and likely written with the dichotomy in mind that we accept brain dead organ donation while reviling paying people to sell one their kidneys/part of their livers/one of their lungs and also accept surrogacy while reviling this modest proposal.

That’s an incredibly expensive bad idea. Dialysis will likely be necessary and the beating heart corpse just kind of slowly breaks down over time with multi system organ failure. 9 months would require a heroic effort at life support. Makes sense it was suggested by a philosopher. She also suggested using male bodies as incubators. Might as well use pigs if you’re going that far. Humerous that the philosopher that suggested it was a woman though.

It is a good thought experiment to gauge where people stand on brain death and personhood too I guess. I obviously think a body with a brain that is dead to the stem is just a corpse. That brain will actually end up liquefying because it is actively necrotizing.

In reality, I also agree with the premise that actual surrogacy is worse. An economic trade where someone rich buys someone else’s health is no different than buying a kidney. So that point they made is absolutely not wrong. Surrogacy should be abolished, though this obviously has no chance of taking it’s place.