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Well, I knew somw Quakers and they expressed their stance on DP as a question: Why do we kill people to teach that it's wrong to kill people? Succinct.

NASA, after putting men on the moon, co-building a space station, sending probes throughout and beyond the solar system, landing sophisticated exploration robots on Mars, and spending trillions to usher in a new age of exploration, today celebrated the removal of two stuck fasteners on a box of dust! The Guardian reports: Curators at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have said they are “overjoyed” to have finally got a canister of asteroid dust open, four months after it parachuted down through the Earth’s atmosphere into the Utah desert. The space administration announced Friday that it had successfully removed two stuck fasteners that had prevented some of the samples collected in 2020 from the 4.6bn-year-old asteroid Bennu, which is classified as a “potentially hazardous” because it has one in 1,750 chance of crashing into Earth Most of the rock samples collected by Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission were retrieved soon after the canister landed in September, but additional material remaining inside a sampler head that proved difficult to access. After months of wrestling with the last two of 35 fasteners, scientists in Houston managed to get them dislodged. “It’s open! It’s open!” Nasa’s planetary science division posted on Twitter/X. The division also posted a photograph of dust and small rocks inside the canister. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/21/nasa-bennu-asteroid-dust-rock-samples-johnson-space-center

Moon Lands on Spacecraft!

Ironically enough the company that started Snapple was Unadulterated Food Products, yet they managed to make a tea drink that contained aspartame and no antioxidants.

My favorite execution fact (if "favorite" is really the word in such a grim context): when they give a lethal injection they have to swab your skin at the injection site with alcohol. So you dont get an infection.

Think you are reading too much in to it. Myself otoh bought one of Cleese's books *(and I might buy just one or two books a decade) and was unable to "read into it" more than the first 10 or so pages ,so earnest it seemed to me. Well my concentration/absorption levels have dipped the last good few years (I felt the same about Hemingway who I also thought would be an interesting read) * Life and How to Survive It https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/life-and-how-to-survive-it_john-cleese_robin-skynner/637920/#edition=2384136&idiq=15047948

You are playing a video game, you have received a "gift" box, it could contain one of many items... has the box contents been determined as it was presented or will the contents be determined as you open it? Is the box empty or does it already contain a gift?

Of course there is, my Gran made it...

When I replied to a Mensa ADVERT, I was given a quiz that I had to pay for to see my results; how ironic is that???

OIC, we are looking for a way to make killing a helpless person palatable to the general population? To me it's a lot like trying to make a shit sandwich tasty enough to sell at a fast food place. Killing another human being is always bad... sometimes it's just better than the alternative. I come down solidly on the side of if you're going to do it do it fast and get it over with. Dragging it out, no matter the motivation, will always result in a worse outcome for the person to be killed. What should really be in question is do we kill people, once we get past that obstacle all we can do is make it as quick and practical as possible. Can you imagine the man who was suffocated via nitrogen gas telling us how grateful he is we didn't just inject him with a hot shot of fentanyl but allowed him to suffocate in agony so we could feel good about it? Now that is funny!

That is because it is (apparently) only of very incremental interest to the consumer of the beverage whereas the cultural significance of the drinking of the tea is far more important. There is also the humour involved in the Boston Tea Party where the English and the Americans are free to have a good laugh at each other if they want to. You kicked us out of your country using the "tea issue" at the outset but we are the ones who (in our minds at least) actually know how to use the stuff. Any coincidence that the phrase "a storm in a teacup" is still fairly widely used? The Japanese also hold tea in high estime(not so sure about other countries) Don't see what "pushback" you mean. I am sure it may well make a difference in the taste but ,personally speaking I have never added sugar to tomatoes even though it is well known that it makes it taste better and is often recommended in recipes.....

I fund it interesting that the pushback I’ve seen on this is that it goes against tradition rather than evaluating whether or not it makes for better tea.

“Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick had a few choice words for the public on his way out the door of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office” https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjydq/former-pentagon-ufo-investigator-is-pissed-because-congress-believes-in-conspiracy-theories “As of the time of my departure, none, let me repeat, none of the conspiracy-minded ‘whistleblowers’ in the public eye had elected to come to AARO to provide their ‘evidence’ and statement for the record despite numerous invitations,” he said

Not here. Within the circles I move in, beer is the social brew of choice. Only to geordies who ask daft questions. More the chutzpah of those who believe their taste in tea is somehow superior to anybody else's. There is no universal 'perfect cuppa'. Just an individual's preference. The similarity of sugar cellars to salt cellars in many establishments has caused most of us to have conducted unplanned experiments with salty tea.