The untold story: 1.) the grade was curved due to everyone’s low numbers

2.) no one wanted to get near the rocks to identify them because there was one weird mofo walking on all fours around the displays, randomly snarling and licking each one

Homeslice identified a few more than everybody else and his grade shot to the moon.

Your words may be small, but your place in my life isn’t. i feel you, dog.

First, they aren’t critical in either of those roles, and second, there are a few thousand species of mosquitoes, and only five of them cause issues with human health. Get rid of those five, and you haven’t caused much ruckus. The others will be fine in their continued parts.

Now, that being said, nobody knows for certain what will happen if all five are completely eradicated, but the sentiment above seems to be the consensus among people who have studied them.

Law enforcement already can just subpoena/get-a-search-warrant-for them all they want. Why would they bother with paying a fee?

Aye, and 2 seconds is the bare minimum. A company I have worked for wanted 4 seconds between you and the car in front. That always felt a little much, but it definitely helped prevent wrecks.

Even funner fact: anyone remember the USS Liberty? A common thought is Israel did that to pull us into their war then. Nowadays you would have a presidential candidate boldly declaring that [insert ‘vile’ country of choice] killed our troops and we must rush to war against them. I bet there are israeli leaders just salivating at the idea of repeating the scenario.

Hocus Pocus is classic 90s comedy/super-light horror. It’s gooooood.

edit: and OP says in another comment that they want to avoid it. Noooooo! …I get the sentiment, but noooooo!

I’d just prefer to tell them how to get rid of carbon in their bodies, and if they looked up the process they would get the real info about it dealing with carbon. It’s not my fault they don’t know the context of what would happen when the carbon goes away.

I was being facetious, and using odd phrasing to emphasize it. Yes, the typical terminology would be ‘quite dead.’

10 undergrads from an intro-to-psych class that held the specter of an A grade above their head to convince them to participate.

Maybe I’m just grumpy, but by the time the potatoes are finger-licking good, you’ll be quite unalive. Even if the potatoes were boiling first before you went in, you’re still going to have an impossible time not screaming and flailing as you suffer third degree burns in fractions of a second.

Ah, a fellow enjoyer of greek mythology!

You might not even get a public defender. Is an expired license at the same level as a speeding ticket in your area? If so, your government might only assign public defenders to ‘criminal’ charges with potential jail times. Just be aware of that before you start desperately trying to find one that doesn’t ‘exist.’

I’m just gonna do the English thing and mix my Latin and Greek without carrying about form or origin. We can settle for Atlapodae, or Atlasae.

I still keep a state map stowed in the pocket behind the driver’s seat. You know, just in case.

That’s pretty much how I do it. The interstates in the US make it simple to get to just about any major city, and friends might boggle a bit, but they can tell you what the minor highway/street you need to look for and give you a landmark.

…It really drives home how the old horror movies weren’t unrealistic in folks getting lost randomly.

Aye, going into it now with the knowledge of where most stuff is has definitely taken some of the shine off. I’m currently playing it again though. It’s a bloody black hole that I can’t escape from long term.

Wasn’t it another cartoon fandom that literally called porn of their show (or the actual sexual organs) “plot” because of this?

Bah, bullshit. Businesses are the oppressors. Morning people are just the victims who get whipped less.

Meanwhile, night fucks folks are the cool kid clique not allowing anything fun to happen until the rest of humanity is struggling to not die.

You sure about that, boss? http://tolweb.org/Eukaryotes