And in the US, jail can be up to just short of a year.

I’d like to point out, ‘proper’ jail, for misdemeanor level offenses, is ‘up to a year,’ but I personally know individuals who have been in jail (where people awaiting trial stay, in addition to people convicted of misdemeanors) for over three years now, still waiting on their trial.

Wait… isn’t ~1,000 per 100,000 much closer to 1% than 2%?

It’s still mind boggling, not trying to minimize it.

Dehydration is a common cause for cats to be ‘ill’ and brought to the vet,* so it could be that their piss reeks because they are having to concentrate it so much in the first place.

*source: a dimly remembered conversation with a vet friend when I asked her why she was adding water to the already wet food for her cat. She said her cat could never be encouraged to drink enough, so it was her way of staving off the annoyance of giving iv fluids to her own animal someday.

And we’re all jealous of woody the woodpecker on this glorious summer day.

Damnit! My secret-keeping low volume speakers have foiled me again!

Damn, how do they get the price of the ink so low? I would kill for large size prints of my guts innards for $5.

My mind somehow meshes the ideas from butcher’s dresden books, where your belief in an icon as a symbol of the faith matters more than its actual connection to the religion, and lackey’s high magic (compared to the wild magic) where the collective energy of the populace can be collected and stored to be used. So I end up with this idea where the catholic church has collected a vast amount of energy to be used, and the utterance of latin is the individual’s (in this case constantine’s) personal symbolic link to the catholic church to harness that energy.

That always made me do a double take in hades. Everytime he was called ‘prince zed’ by sisyphus I had to take a second to think about what was being said.

You’re gay and canadian? Notice me, senpai!

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You did drop the t to a glottal stop in your last glass of water, though, just saying! :P

Wait until you learn why it’s called epinephrine. Then you’ll really roll your eyes.

Don’t you dare say waddling is from across the pond. Here in america, more than 60% of our population waddles about!

Okay, look, exponents are okay, but when you start using factorials with decimals in the exponents? You’re just a jerk.

and the bacterium cant divide anymore. That gives the immune system time to kill them off.

I personally loved my microbiology’s professor summary of this: “For microbes, if you’re not growing, you’re going.”

Why the fuck would I take the cup out of my room, mom/dad/insert-authoritarian-asshole-here? I’m drinking from it, goddamnit.

I’m going to give the AI a high five on this one. It’s the hidden mind’s only way of subtly telling the person staring at the screen that they are an idiot. Use the proper program (like one of the dozen MAP apps!) for the proper purpose.

Right, but what if you were a teenager, still mostly inexperienced and vulnerable to people claiming to be authorities, and it was just presented to you rather than being sought out? We’ve already seen it happen on tumblr, back in its heyday. That sort of ‘happenstance education’ can shape your ideas for the rest of your life.

No, no… the non-giltter bomb definitely still needs a charge. The bigger the better to avoid making the not-glitter too densely focused, aye?

Aye, it surprises most folks who move to the ‘country’ how many of the people out there are employed in the prison industry. I think where I was in a rural area (about 20 people per square mile) about 5-8% of the jobs in the entire county were because of the local prison.

I once thought the females of the species had one opening for both. Growing up on a farm means you have some wicked advanced knowledge compared to other kids your age, but can introduce some really hilarious beliefs…

I never thought about why I thought women were more like our chickens than our horses/cows, but eh, some things just pan out.

Blowing bubbles is always the first thing I taught kids when they were learning to swim.