Me? I don't want sea salt. Not with all the mercury and PCBs floating around in the ocean. You think they refine it or anything? Nope, they just evaporate the water and package it.
I want the stuff that's been underground for millions of years, unmolested by humans until they dig it out. Give me the most refined, chemically pure salt they can possibly manufacture. Sodium and chlorine in equal amounts, that's it (well, maybe a bit of iodine as well).
You try telling one of the people in the store that sea salt may not be better. They'll chase you out of the shop with a slab of tofu!
Whole Foods, and in my part of the world, Sprouts, are fantastic places to find in-stock fresh vegetables at a fair price, as well as spices in bulk well under the price that a bottle of Shilling or McCormick will cost me. Similarly I can get some deli items (cheeses, specifically) and microbrews my normal grocery store might not carry.
For that, I love them.
...and then there's the homeopathy aisle, and the gluten-free-because-it's-trendy-not-because-I-have-an-allergy aisle.
Given all that, my first attempts DID include a second claim of being medically exempt from physical contact. I have since dropped that part, to focus on the one exemption that matters.
You're anonymous, so, I can't see that it matters, but......what the heck makes you medically exempt from direct-contact searches that still lets you get on planes in close contact with other humans?
It's just one of those pet peeves, and one of those things I'm willing to take the reputation hit on when it's marked "troll." I'm good with language evolving. For example, "Texted" was a word a long time ago, but it didn't mean what it means today, and there isn't a need to always say, "I sent him a text message" over "I texted him."
Begs the question, OTOH, is just one of those things said because people heard someone else say it, so they assume it makes them more erudite for having said it too. It's like "further," where people think the UUUURRRR sound makes them sound like they're holding a pinkie in the air while drinking tea....and now we allow further to mean distance as well.
Numbs my mind how many space-related stories use "further" to talk about distance.:/
why do you hate it? it makes just as much sense as anything else
That's sort of the problem. It doesn't make as much sense as anything else unless you had it beat into you as a child.. Things are divided by 2's , 3's, 4's and 8's and 12's and there's 5,280 feet in a mile FFS.
Sure, there's pints of beer worldwide, but it's not hard to keep thing straight in the Metric system, other than perhaps the danger of being off by an order of magnitude.
While I agree that people who reach a certain point in the penal system have nothing left to lose, I disagree that it's getting easier and easier to get there.
Do you know how hard it is to actually go to jail for more than 48 hours?
I carry the vastly unpopular opinion that it's primarily a choice to end up prison, a choice that culminates in a LONG, LONG series of bad decisions. Further, ending up in lengthy stretches in solitary is generally the result of further awful decisions.
Almost anyone can avoid going to JAIL, let alone prison, let alone solitary confinement.
Man the fuck up, do the right thing, and stop being a waste of oxygen.
They interact with a human (briefly) several times a day.
How many strikes does it take for the average man to get from productive member of society to solitary confinement. Here's an oddly wildly unpopular idea -- how about stopping being a waste of skin and fluids somewhere before your 7th or 8th strike?
About 7 in 10 prisoners perform in Levels 1 and 2 on the prose, document, and quantitative scales. These prisoners are apt to experience difficulty in performing tasks that require them to integrate or synthesize information from complex or lengthy texts or to perform quantitative tasks that involve two or more sequential operations and that require the individual to set up the problem.
They say that about 70% have some problems with complex or lengthy texts -- mostly as a result of them entering prison as a person who likely lacked an education to begin with. Nowhere will you find anything credible that says 70% are illiterate.
begintoread.com is propaganda.
You can see here: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/......that while prison rates are bad, they're not significantly worse than anything else....and still only measures people deficient -- not outright illiterate. At mostly, only 25% of specific prison groups by ethnicity have difficulty reading documents....and in some cases, their literacy level is HIGHER than outside prison.
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Me? I don't want sea salt. Not with all the mercury and PCBs floating around in the ocean. You think they refine it or anything? Nope, they just evaporate the water and package it.
I want the stuff that's been underground for millions of years, unmolested by humans until they dig it out. Give me the most refined, chemically pure salt they can possibly manufacture. Sodium and chlorine in equal amounts, that's it (well, maybe a bit of iodine as well).
You try telling one of the people in the store that sea salt may not be better. They'll chase you out of the shop with a slab of tofu!
This just in: All salt is sea salt.
Whole Foods, and in my part of the world, Sprouts, are fantastic places to find in-stock fresh vegetables at a fair price, as well as spices in bulk well under the price that a bottle of Shilling or McCormick will cost me. Similarly I can get some deli items (cheeses, specifically) and microbrews my normal grocery store might not carry.
For that, I love them.
For that, I hate them.
Heck, $400 might just be a good night on the town. How we value our entertainment dollar is entirely subjective.
Care to share your ailment?
Yes, his condition is called "I'm making up inconsistent stories on the internet to get vague questions answered."
FFS dude, you're anonymous on the internet.
If you're asking a hypothetical question, just say so.
If not, explain the condition.
Given all that, my first attempts DID include a second claim of being medically exempt from physical contact. I have since dropped that part, to focus on the one exemption that matters.
So, what is your claim? Is it hypothetical?
You're anonymous, so, I can't see that it matters, but... ...what the heck makes you medically exempt from direct-contact searches that still lets you get on planes in close contact with other humans?
What's $400 over what could easily be a year or more? Probably a dent in his daily Starbucks budget.
I grew up playing arcade games at $0.25 a play.
Occasionally spending a buck for another 20 minutes of Candy Crush when I'm bored is a harmless dent in my yearly entertainment budget.
Money spent on digital purchases doesn't cease to exist.
The developer can get a life coach, or feed the homeless with his profits.
It's just one of those pet peeves, and one of those things I'm willing to take the reputation hit on when it's marked "troll." I'm good with language evolving. For example, "Texted" was a word a long time ago, but it didn't mean what it means today, and there isn't a need to always say, "I sent him a text message" over "I texted him."
Begs the question, OTOH, is just one of those things said because people heard someone else say it, so they assume it makes them more erudite for having said it too. It's like "further," where people think the UUUURRRR sound makes them sound like they're holding a pinkie in the air while drinking tea. ...and now we allow further to mean distance as well.
Numbs my mind how many space-related stories use "further" to talk about distance. :/
Something more or less toxic than suffocation?
which begs the question...
It does no such thing.
why do you hate it? it makes just as much sense as anything else
That's sort of the problem. It doesn't make as much sense as anything else unless you had it beat into you as a child.. Things are divided by 2's , 3's, 4's and 8's and 12's and there's 5,280 feet in a mile FFS.
Sure, there's pints of beer worldwide, but it's not hard to keep thing straight in the Metric system, other than perhaps the danger of being off by an order of magnitude.
Move it all into Lotuses while you can!
As seen spammed in every other story posted today...
Probably far less freedom than they'd have by choice either. What's your point?
While I agree that people who reach a certain point in the penal system have nothing left to lose, I disagree that it's getting easier and easier to get there.
Do you know how hard it is to actually go to jail for more than 48 hours?
I was expecting to be modded troll on these.
I carry the vastly unpopular opinion that it's primarily a choice to end up prison, a choice that culminates in a LONG, LONG series of bad decisions. Further, ending up in lengthy stretches in solitary is generally the result of further awful decisions.
Almost anyone can avoid going to JAIL, let alone prison, let alone solitary confinement.
Man the fuck up, do the right thing, and stop being a waste of oxygen.
Should we massage them like Kobe cows?
They interact with a human (briefly) several times a day.
How many strikes does it take for the average man to get from productive member of society to solitary confinement. Here's an oddly wildly unpopular idea -- how about stopping being a waste of skin and fluids somewhere before your 7th or 8th strike?
I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd come out way ahead on $1.15 with food and housing paid for.
conspiracy to commit murder while in prison
This animal can't even live among other animals.
Boo hoo he's locked up in solitary.
Why should they not come out better than when they went in?
Forced education of the basic R's would be a good start. Nearly 60-70% of our incarcerated population can not read
Bullshit.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs94/9410...
They say that about 70% have some problems with complex or lengthy texts -- mostly as a result of them entering prison as a person who likely lacked an education to begin with. Nowhere will you find anything credible that says 70% are illiterate.
begintoread.com is propaganda.
You can see here: ...that while prison rates are bad, they're not significantly worse than anything else. ...and still only measures people deficient -- not outright illiterate. At mostly, only 25% of specific prison groups by ethnicity have difficulty reading documents. ...and in some cases, their literacy level is HIGHER than outside prison.
http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/...
they can be isolated safely without the extremes of solitary confinement
We all eagerly await your detailed plan for their isolation.
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