I will third the Texas drought, as my hometown is also in the Texas hill country. My mother is convinced that had the drought gone on another 3 months or so, we would have been unable to pump water f… (View Post)

Because science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell The TL;DR of it is that warm air rises at the equator because it is the hottest until it hits a point it can't rise any more but can't sink … (View Post)

Oh look, now it magically dropped 98.1%! From 2,500,000 PER YEAR to 235,700 over FIVE YEARS. IT'S A MIRACLE! You know what else? Victims threatened or attacked back with OTHER weapons 391,100 times, … (View Post)

Good luck, I went to MD Anderson when I was 18 for an unusual testicular cancer. Though caught as a stage 1 and most likely cured by surgery alone, it was unusual in some parts of the tumor were conv… (View Post)

I worry more about dying in a car accident than I do from EITHER a mass shooting OR a terror attack. They are oversensationalized, your chances of being in either is pretty slim. Now, people who are … (View Post)