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I've always assumed that the damper arctic environment was probably the main reason that atlatls weren't entirely supplanted by bows & arrows in the north. Most of the materials available to make bows and bow strings would have been affected by moisture. Woodworkers soak wood to make it pliable...

Oh, yes we did!

Is no one else as astonished as I am that those warning pages are still up on the FDA website? Someone in MAHA land isn't doing their job.

It's undoubtedly to take her mind off all the horrible RFKJr. related stories (not to mention cuts to Medicaid in the BBB) she has been writing lately.

I think that would be one of those non-tariff trade barriers Trump is always ranting about. But I'm sure he has plans to deal with that nonsense. We'll make those countries import American made asbestos, while we import Trump approved Russian asbestos. Or something like that. To be fair I don't...

If I lived anywhere near them I'd be in a least once a week. Our local equivalent, Hardwick & Sons https://hardwickandsons.com has moved to Idaho, and now doesn't appear to have quite the selection of esoteric used stuff they once did. I used to stop in and ask "What's new that's used?". You...

I'm going to have to look up which companies make those benzimidazole drugs and grab some shares on the next market dip. Doughnuts to dollars that stuff will be the acclaimed (I can't imagine by who) miracle cure for bird flu, or whatever the next epidemic is. Heck, why wait, maybe RFKjr can...

I was deciding whether to upvote this or not, and my brain locked up trying to decide who was most incompetent, Hegseth or RFKjr. Not to mention most of the rest of Trump's appointees.

When I saw the video of Edwards claiming to have gotten the MMR vaccine as a kid, and that it wore off, I recalled seeing on a CDC website that some of the MMR vaccines given in the '60s were ineffective and that if you don't know which kind you got, you should get revaccinated. It's a bit...

I've always filed my taxes on paper, via the USPS. Once upon a time, the post office would be jammed on April 15th with people rushing to get their tax returns mailed on time, nowadays the lobby is practically empty. Even if you don't want to download the forms and actually file on paper, I...

If I recall correctly, Dispair.com's own customer service motto is "We're not happy 'til you're not happy!"

We called the middle seat in the pickup the "knee banger" seat. But it beat riding in the back in the rain (or snow), especially on a long highway trip.

Reminds me of what my dad used to say about pre-packaged food. "That stuff's not good for you. You don't know what's in it."

No, no, no! Philips screwdrivers come in sizes. Do not use the wrong size driver if you want to save yourself (and the next guy who has to deal with the screw and/or now mangled driver) a lot of grief. I think you are thinking of Reed & Prince. As for British threads, I recall my first...

I'll admit that I haven't waded through all the comments to check, but I can't be the only one thinking, they don't call it "artificial" intelligence for nothing.

If you don't see much, wait a bit and look again. I first looked at about midnight and saw little, at around 2:00 lots more to see, by 3:00 mostly gone. It can change quickly. Naked eye views were so so, but handheld cell phone pic's show a lot more color and detail.

I don't get why they didn't go all the way and have a manual choke that needs to be constantly adjusted as the "engine" warms up. When the '92 automatic that's my current daily driver is a little baulky on cold mornings I still sometimes find myself reaching for the choke that isn't there.

We had a drooler once. In my experience, some cats do (drool when they're happy, not food related) and some cats don't. Head bumps are the same, some cats are bunters, and some cats aren't. Some people try and figure out why cats do what they do, and others have more common sense don't.

The baskets are amazing (both workmanship and condition)! I wonder if anyone has attempted to determine what may have been stored in them.

Long ago, my grandfather taught me to play Nine Man Morris. IIRC we made our board from cardboard re-purposed from a cereal box (or perhaps it was the back of a notepad). The pieces were buttons borrowed from mom's sewing basket. I've long since forgotten the rules, given a lack of others who...