Probably the singlemost important one that for some reason commonly gets forgotten about… lacrosse sticks. They were literally weapons historically.

Same. My brain literally made dial up noises until I figured out it was pure stupid.

‘need’? It doesn’t.

Possible useful applications? Reporting on anything relevant to the fridge (temps., power consumption, water level, maintenance reminders, usage tracking etc…)

Other than that I can’t think of anything other than 'bragging rights.

Soap Operas

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KABOOM MFR!

Easily.

This ones Yak piss yellow, this one’s Ballsweat Blue, and yup that’s Salty Rash Red.

Hey just a heads up, inpopularity starts with a ‘u’.

WWII ? only thing I can think of.

Kill it. Kill it with fire!

The bigger ones weigh almost a full tonne. Bulls can take offense to your existence if you get too close or it is mating season, and Cows will protect their calves, but in general moose are docile and normally avoid humans. The fact one was spotted in the middle of a city means it is an outlier for any number of reasons (rabies?) and as such all bets are off.

Detroit

Keeps going? I’ve been avoiding it for decades and I can see it from my porch.

Last time I visited the customs office emptied out into a literal ghetto. Like, an entire 4 blocks of ought-to-be-condemned housing with rusted out patchwork wrecks abandoned in yards and on the street (or worse following behind you). The corner gas station had more security features than most prisons in Canada, and every street sign had numerous bullet holes. That was their welcome mat 2 decades ago. F that shithole country.

It’s important to remember the word ‘ideal’ that dictates the conditions needed. The gas cannot be mixing with an ‘external’ source, gaining or losing energy to it’s surroundings beyond the changes being specifically examined, is not subject to any forces or conditions not considered, and so on…

You’re literally asking ‘at what point are perfect conditions, impossible to every truly achieve, implausible?’. The answer to that: as soon as any factor cannot be simply ignored for the sake of simplifying the math.

Sorry mate, but any first year biology student learns that the higher up the food chain the more concentrated the heavy metals are. Take Tuna. As free range as you can get but it is advised to minimize consumption, particularly when pregnant, due to the high mercury content.

While lifestyle does affect palatability of the meat (Bear near the dump always tastes ‘off’) it is more a question of ‘what’ is being bioaccumulated, not ‘if’. In your example scavengers are bioaccumulating pesticides and preservatives, whereas the successful predator accumulates all the heavy metals its prey, and their prey, and their prey (repeat until the bottom of the tree) consumed.

You can’t get around it. All high level predators have shitty meat, whether it tastes bad or not.

I didn’t get the rest but take solace in knowing how her story ends.

My favourite technique learnt during Lifeguard training was The Eggbeater. Basically picture yourself sitting in a kitchen chair but whirling your lower legs in opposite directions. You do this very loosely and slowly. It allows you to tread water while leaving your hands free. You ‘can’ use your hands by slowly sweeping your arms out wide forwards and backwards but this is only to reduce the workload so that you can very easily stay afloat with minimal effort (without floation devices).

The same technique can propel you on your back by simply leaning back a bit. It is good because it uses different muscles than typical flutter kicking etc. so you can switch it up if you get tired.

A mysterious brown paper bag was tossed out of a car window aimed to land near me playing in the front yard…

Like god intended.

…and was apparently written by AI it is so bad.

This so much. I walk my dogs by a gradeschool and I smell it in the air every morning. Gradeschool. They aren’t even teenagers yet. At 8am. Every. Day.

Bonus points for the deluge of infused product packaging litter everywhere.

Speaking generally, repair/Haynes manuals for vehicles and home appliances (the ones that exist ofc). Some are out there, but I almost never find the one I want.