Interesting, thanks for sharing that. I wasn’t aware that there has been newer research countering the tooth wear model

There’s a reason grass is so common - it’s because it’s a wildly effective life strategy. Grass is actually quite hard to eat - there’s basically no nutrition in the leaves themselves, and grass evolved to incorporate silica “needles” in its leaves, so that it wears down your teeth when you try to eat it anyways.

Not to say that it’s impossible to eat grass, but you need to undergo a ton of highly specialized adaptations to make it possible. For most animals (including humans), it’s just not worth the effort

To me, this reads as that Republicans want to dominate something that appears exotic to them. Same reason why, to my recollection, right-leaning people tend to favor interracial porn over left-leaning people. So it’s not that there’s a lot of trans people in red states, it’s probably that there’s very few of them. I suspect that increasing the amount of trans people in red states might actually decrease the searches for trans porn

I notice it when I eat cheese mixed with something acidic or spicy. Quite a discomforting taste but it doesn’t typically stop me from eating it anyways

If you’re in a legal state, then sure. Start with small doses. I will say though, it does feel somewhat underwhelming. At least for me

That would only encourage billionaires to nope off into space fantasy land (and of course they would still maintain power over governments). As it is right now, billionaires being on the same planet as normal people is at least incentivizing them to keep the planet in somewhat hospitable conditions.

As it is now, the best course of action would be to depose billionaires more quickly than they can escape off-planet. And to do it in a public and spectacular way to put fear into the billionaires

State, I think?

It seems the rules are different for me than for you. I brought my backpack with my laptop. I did work during breaks. Or used my phone. I just made sure all electronics were off when in the court room. And I’m pretty sure I brought my water bottle too. The one thing that the security did enforce was my pepper spray, which I had to remove and hide in a bush outside. I’m not sure if that helps at all.

One thing you can do is to leave your laptop/things in the car. You can leave the building during breaks and then just come back into the building before the session restarts. That was what most of the jury did during breaks during my time

Also, she got second degree burns, and she was not the first person to be injured by the coffee, and McDonald’s was told multiple times that they served their coffee too hot.

During the trial, McDonald’s showed zero care for the the people they injured, to the point that most of the fine that McDonald’s ended up paying was punitive damages