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What can actually be recycled? While most plastics are either not accepted or get lost in the recycling process, facilities are best...

How colonial of them...

Wow. I know old fashioned brake clean (perchloroethylene) can create phosgene gas, when exposed to heat and UV light. Very scary.

I was greasing the door hinges on a car when the straw came loose and the grease shot out of the can quite forcibly. It hit the jamb...

Gotcha... I put the "early 80s" in my original story post, though this event would have been later (late 80s, maybe early 90s).

It was the Merlin system, thus it did require power (I did actually know what I was talking about).

Another one: We're sitting around running our mouths since a big-ass thunderstorm has blown through and the power is out. A guy pulls...

Bah, try white lithium grease in your eyes. 😲

Back in the day (early 80s) my family ran a service station located just off a major highway. We had soda machines outside of the...

I agree! There may be a correlation between lead and violent crime, but I don't believe the former caused the latter. I was simply...

A correlation that, once you apply logic, is obviously not causation. The so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" only restricted the sale of...

Mom-in-law lives on the outskirts of Albuquerque (her house is literally across the street from the Sandia Mountains). All the times...

I agree with you. I also think the real solution to crime is actually putting criminals in jail, but... Frankly, I think we need a...

Security. The better lit a place is, the less crime occurs there.

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It's right there in the sentence before I use the acronym; fossil carbon dioxide emissions.

The top 5 oil companies by revenue: 1. Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) 2. Sinopec (China) 3. Exxon-Mobil (US) 4. Shell (UK) 5. TotalEnergies...