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You're thinking of bacillus cereus, which grows on cooked rice or pasta stored at room temperature.

Toronto's main international airport is in Mississauga, about 17 miles (28km) from downtown Toronto.

It's pretty normal for metropolitan areas to span more than one state, and many municipalities, served by a single international airport that is in the suburbs of that major city.

The point is that if you're flying international in or out of DC, IAD is literally your closest option. And if you're flying there, it's probably because you're visiting DC and not some Civil War battlefield in rural Virginia. Functionally speaking, it's DC's airport.

Coral can recover after bleaching, so the threshold for bleaching is different from the threshold for dying.

i can say people are fucking animals when it goes to camping

It took me reading the rest of your comment, and a lot of thought, before I realized you were using the word "fucking" as some kind of intensifier instead of as the word for "having sex with."

I think the main ethical pathway to billions is through intellectual property. Write a beloved book series where each installment sells over 10 million copies, gets adapted into a movie cinematic universe that grosses billions, sells a shitload of merchandise, etc., and taking a fair cut of all that economic activity might result in a billion dollars.

Yes, in a sense it's still rent seeking of being paid some kind of toll for someone else building on your work, but that foundation is still your own work.

On a smaller scale, you've got songwriters, filmmakers, other entertainers, who can do one thing that gets seen/appreciated by billions. Same with inventors or artists.

I mean it comes up basically every day here where people complain about censorship in a screenshot submitted to some shitpost or meme community.

where the fuck are these people buying detergent

I just did the math on mine, I'm paying about 10 cents per cycle for laundry detergent. Even if the ingredients to make my own were literally free, I'm still only saving about $5 per year. Not worth my time.

Yeah, I just looked it up. The name brand that I buy is $23 for 132 fl oz. With the way I use laundry detergent, at 0.5 oz per cycle, that's 264 cycles for $23. Less than $.10 for the name brand stuff, maybe less for a store brand.

I have kids so I run 2 batches per week, but that's still 20 cents per week for a family of 4. Not sure that's worth making my own.

It happened a lot in our nation's history that folks would have relatively simple kitchens not equipped with scales or even a set of measuring cups

That's, like, every nation's history. Cooking has never required that much precision, especially home cooking. Even baking can be done by feel, with enough experience.

Pliny believed that elephants knew enough to kneel for human kings, or to point out directions to lost travelers.

Not a reliable source, if this claim can even be found in his works.

While we humans eat a lot, something like 50% of our calories are going to our brains.

I don't think that's right.

This article says that about 20% of an adult human male's resting energy expenditure goes towards supporting the brain's metabolism. Obviously for more active people, the higher denominator of total energy expenditure will mean an even lower percentage of energy being used for the human brain.

Flying is energetically expensive to start doing, but pays off in efficiency once an animal moves a far enough distance. How many calories does a goose need to consume to fly 4000 km, and how does that compare to terrestrial species like deer or wolves?

Birds have to use almost all of their available calories on flying.

But flying is quite energy efficient as a method of getting from point A to point B. That's why flying insects and birds have had such evolutionary success with that strategy.