Amusingly I got a spam call last week that came up on caller ID as “Obama 2012”.

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The chemical most places use for drycleaning is perchloroethylene, or perc, which can contaminate groundwater if not stored or disposed of properly.

I used to operate a drill rig for taking soil and water samples. I learned to read all the utility markings and to spot the telltale markings of previous drill work. I can walk around an urban area and tell you where all the gas stations and drycleaners used to be just based on a look at the pavement. In that sense I can “see” things others can’t.

The idea that eating carrots helps your eyesight came from WW2 Britain. It was an intentionally spread lie to cover up for the fact that they had radar.

There are scholarships for people with POTS and disautonomic disorders. Get your grades up and work towards going away to college.

Most arguments for using Hitler’s DNA end up supporting the eugenicist trash Nazi scientists espoused. There is little practical use for it.

You’ve probably already tried this, but TrizULTRA + Keto flush worked wonders for my dogs persistent ear itching.

https://www.chewy.com/trizultra-keto-flush-dogs-cats-horses/dp/126809

Just squirt in a bunch of the liquid, massage behind the ear for 30 seconds, let your cat shake its head, then wipe the ear with a clean soft towel. Do that daily for a week and it hopefully will make a big difference. Then you can do the rinse weekly or even monthly after that to maintain.

There is no government that is not the “lesser evil”. That is why it exists in the first place.

As a geologist from Illinois, I wish we had some Igneous granite. In my field camp we cored 500 feet of glacial loess.

What is in the sandwich determines if you cut it diagonally. Tuna/chicken/egg salad sandwiches shouldn’t be cut diagonally because everything falls out.

I work at a highrise full of old rich people and my side gig is googling solutions to their tech problems. Things like unzooming their iPad, turning the child lock off on their dishwasher, or telling them their power strip is plugged into itself. They are more than happy to throw $40-50 at me for 5 minutes time that saves them hours of frustration or an expensive repair visit.

A lot of people are saying immortality, but keep in mind that doesn’t necessarily include being unaging or invincible. You could age into a decrepit mummy or break your spine and live your life as a paraplegic.

The version of Sugar High used in Empire Records with a female vocalist.

That depends on the definition of comfortably and happy. Everyone probably couldn’t live at the level of an upper middle class American, for example.

Protoceratops because I am completely convinced they would be cool hanging out on the couch, playing fetch, and otherwise acting like a dinosaur house pet.

Magnet fishing

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

1. Pass an act that declares infrastructure to be part of national security. Billions in military spending would then be redirected to the Army Corps of Engineers to repair our roads, bridges, water, sewer, electric (especially solar and wind), railroad, and other systems of infrastructure. This would provide a large amount of jobs and make out country safer and more efficient. It would also reduce wasted military spending.

2. Pass the USPS modernization act. Internet service would be considered to be under the purview of the Postal Service. They would be enabled to operate low cost high speed Internet service nationally, with a focus on isolated rural communities. This would provide competition for private ISPs, keeping the prices down and the quality of service high. Amazon would also be nationalized and put under the USPS through this bill. This would eliminate the defacto monopoly, allow regulation of product quality, and prevent market manipulation.

3. Constitutional amendment defining healthcare as a human right as well as mandating a nationalized healthcare system.

4. Pass the Wealth Disparity Reduction Act. It would remove the annual income cap on paying into Social Security, tax inheritance 100% over 1,000,000 times the federal minimum wage, tax stock dividends as income, add tiers above the current top marginal tax rate escalating 5% per tier until there is a top tax rate over 80%, and tax political donations by any person or entity by 1% per $1,000 capped at 90%.

5. Labor Rights Act. “Right to work” laws are illegal, federal anti-union activity watchdog empowered, mandatory sick/vacation leave, mandatory parental leave, mandatory employer health insurance contributions to national healthcare system, time and a half over 8 hours at work, double time over 40 hours, no scheduling shifts within 12 hours of the end of previous shift, corporate tax subsidies for work from home and 4 day workweeks, mandatory paid 30 minutes lunch plus two 15 minutes breaks included in 8 hour shift.

I expect I would be assassinated pretty quickly after that.

My dog gets so lost in sniffing things that he walks into objects constantly. He’s walked directly into stop signs, a gas meter, people, and even walls.

Maybe a dumb suggestion, but physically switch the positive and negative wires on the motors?