I did, just now. Try to keep up.

If Nick Cannon ever had to give birth to something he would immediately change his position on birth control.

They also deny that Taiwan is a country, that they are committing genocide on the Uighur peoples, that waters 3,000 miles distant are international territory, and that there exists a cartoon character named Winnie the Pooh.

It is unlikely that they consider a woman not requiring a man to be innocent.

Fun fact: it is illegal to own more than three sex toys in Texas, but it is legal to own raccoons there. I guess that's why they call raccoons "dildos of the forest".

For a moment I thought this was the OP's edit history and I was impressed and afraid

Because

Just FYI, rock salt is not salt mixed with rocks. It's salt crystals mined directly out of the ground (rather than evaporated from seawater or runoff).

Rock salt is most often used without grit in it. It's cheaper when it isn't food-grade.

I agree with all of this, though perhaps not as robustly.

I have a friend with a Post-hole Digger in quantum physics. He said he was finally able to get a job when a prospective employer realized somepony with his credentials could perform tasks other than firing a particle beam at a target.

I agree.

I meant it's disturbing how reasonable that figure looks to a soulless corporation. It almost invites them to keep using children.

Amusingly, a lot of people who dismiss scientific funding don't even blink when the US spends trillions on a new fighter jet whose ignoble function may end up being naught but shooting down a small balloon with a $400,000 missile.

In contrast, data lasts forever and stands to benefit all of us.

I'm amused that you think the short duration of the Higgs boson is a strike against it when the exact opposite is true.

I agree that collider money may be arguably overspent in terms of funding, but there isn't an easier approach. Particle theory is important. In case you haven't noticed, it allows us increasingly good predictions for quantum materials science, which is exploding in new discoveries right now as we race to build an adiabatic quantum computer that will break existing encryption technology. Your phone probably uses quantum dots; a lot of the tech we use daily has ties to basic particle research. It's easy to be dismissive when you don't understand the point of research, but this is an area that--while arguably overfunded or misfunded--is still very important.

I don't get the joke. Is it because the image vaguely reminds you of the Prince symbol?

This data is mostly used to test existing theory. Eventually we may find a discrepancy that suggests the Standard Model is missing something, though this seems unlikely in the near future as the model has accurately predicted pretty much everything we throw at it.

It's how science works best: you make your boat, then do everything in your power to sink it. The boats that stay afloat, like quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, and general relativity, are the ones that continue to work in ever-more difficult situations.

This is science in a nutshell (as well as math, in the event you don't think of it as science).

A lot of cancer-fighting treatments don't come from directed research looking for a cure, but rather from pure research gathered in natural studies. So don't write off silly-sounding investigation into, say, the motility of sea urchin sperm.

It's another arena where politicians suck, too. There was a funded study on dog micturition (urination) that I can easily imagine a US politician shouting at the cameras, "We're wasting three thousand dollars on dog pee!", because it's a great soundbite for outrage. In reality the study looked at the fact that all puppies pee sitting down, but curs stand up, which means something changes the instinct. Turns out that neurons in the spinal cords of male dogs physically rearrange themselves to do this. Groundbreaking research can be challenging to fund, in part because it often isn't directed at a solution to a problem in advance. Sometimes we just have to learn more about nature.

You sound a bit dismissive of them (not that I disagree entirely).

No, most of us are sane. We're just not the loud ones.

I guess it's human after all.

Space them for being sus, then

I was going to post this except BI is on the banned sites list. How did this submission not get auto-rejected?

Yes, it's fun to point the finger as though Democrats and Independents had anything whatsoever to do with the specific content of a random person's freedom of speech.

Fisher.

I didn't know they identified as a subjunctive mood.

This is the perfect NTO article, which dooms it to a low vote ratio.

That is disturbingly reasonable.

"Sir, you don't need to return the unused portion."