Oh the gel on cartridge razors is almost certainly made of petrochemicals.

There isn't. The bed is 5 feet long.

Let's get the official moderator business out of the way first: Pictures of cats enjoying woodworking projects are welcome and encouraged in this community.

As for finishing recommendations, looks like yellow pine, maybe fir? For an outdoor project, the most protection you can give it is three coats of exterior latex house paint. If you want the wood grain to show, go with Thompson's Waterseal or similar. No outdoor wooden furniture is eternal but with those coatings your enjoyment of your bench will be measured in decades.

I never saw Luke considering joining the dark side. A MAJOR personal challenge of his, perhaps his greatest struggle, was reckoning with his father's fall to the dark side.

As depicted in the only six Star Wars movies made before I started refusing to watch them, Luke Skywalker manages to be on the light side, and fully human. The Jedi as depicted in the prequel trilogy have to sand most of their humanity off in order to remain on the light side. No family, no friends, no favorite foods, and only emotions that Barney The Purple Dinosaur would approve of. Luke is able to let out a war cry, pound his father into submission, amputate his hand, and then say "Nah, see: rage and violence against abject evil while it's actively trying to harm you, your friends and innocent civilans is something good people do, so I'm a good guy, QED."

Then Vader goes "Like this?" and throws Monster Mash down the Lucas pit and his redemption is complete.

Moral of the story: Extremely hurt bad people.

🇧🇷 Portuguese.

They're predators, but they're the "I'm adapted to hunt in one environment but I hang out in another" kind of predator, so they're these amazing fish seeking torpedoes in the water, but they're these delightfully ridiculous footballs in dinner jackets waddling around on land. And they're licensed under the GPL which is always cool.

Imagine you're a fighter pilot, and you're going to do a hull run to blow up some important part of some giant space ship. You have a mental map of the ship's structure, and it's probably "right side up", so while navigating along the hull you're probably going to orient your fighter to your mental model to take that much off your very heavy cognitive load.

Or a capybara that is just sick of that pelican's shit.

"Lank," he lanked.

The Voice Of America has a standardized Simplified English they use for broadcasting to regions where English isn't commonly spoken.

There was also that attempt at destupifying English spelling, a very small amount of which stuck. Color.

Nothing. I've heard it used occasionally for decades.

Choose your own adventure:

For "What are you doing, step-carpenter?" turn to page 41

For "alternate universe Evil Dead," turn to page 22

I was specifically referring to this which proposed many of the changes you're talking about, but very few were actually adopted.

Peggy, that's the recipe for mustard gas!

I'm not "trying" anything. I've encountered a lot of websites with Choose Your Language dropdowns where English is represented by Old Glory and not the Union Jack.

🇺🇸 English

Does antimatter have antitemperature?

In the aviation world, we have this concept called Pilot In Command. The buck stops with the PIC, they are solely responsible for and the final authority as to the operation of the aircraft. Something goes wrong, it's on the pilot. This is borrowed from the maritime industry.

Meanwhile, we've got driverless cars on the road right now with no clear legal authority over them.

Almost everything is wired in the least efficient way possible in the human brain. Everything crosses through the middle.