JohnnyCanuck

Okay yeah. I don't think I use that as often or that it would catch me the same way.

Having this on by default with a "never ask again" option (which can then be turned back on in settings) would be ideal.

This gets me all the time. And to be clear, it's not just swipe to go back, it's the back button as well.

Look I'm sorry, i wasn't meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn't the only person to call out the inaccuracies.

Oh I didn't realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.

In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn't use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.

If vaccines were given in Pop-Tart form there wouldn't be an antivax movement.

From XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2975

10th century starts at 900 CE, so you're actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.

However, you're also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren't even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist were looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.

Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn't invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).

I mean if you had a full data set of known allergies and millions of DNA of people that have and don't have allergies, you may find a genetic correlation of people susceptible. But there's too many environmental factors that would alter that anyway.

Wasn't there a huge announcement this year about exposure to allergens at a (very) young age preventing allergies? That would suggest genetics is a very small part of it and environmental factors being much more important.

However, checking hair samples doesn't necessarily mean checking DNA. They could be checking for certain markers like antibodies your body produces. Still sounds like bunk science or it would be much bigger though.

I don't believe this one. Links, or it didn't happen.

There are places where this is common. They hope to get paid (I assume to get them to leave). Sometimes they're accompanied by pick-pockets who pray on the distracted.

Fuck yeah, I'll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!

I'm so frustrated that this article, and many other sources - including news programs, are not talking about the lack of alarms in the buildings. I agree that the materials and density were terrible and created a catastrophic situation for the structures, but the lack of alarms to alert residents is absolutely ridiculous and is what made this such a huge tragedy for the people who died.

If the buildings' alarms aren't working, then they should be on "fire watch" with 24/7 personnel ready to alert people on every floor where the alarm isn't working. Does that cost too much? Then fix the fucking alarms as a top priority. This is especially true when there are no automatic sprinklers, which sounds like is often the case in Hong Kong.

There are reports that people were getting calls from their friends and relatives and that's how they learned about the fire. People were waking up to the smell of smoke without an alarm going off. WTF. That's so far beyond acceptable, I don't know what else to say.

I travel a lot and I always bring my own smoke and CO detector with me. This is an example of why.