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Lipo's can absolutely burn your house down, but only while overcharging. Igniting a battery while you're walking around with it will at most burn your pants down, not kill you.

You can absolutely make a lipo battery "explode" by overheating it by drawing too much power. But it's the kind of explosion where it spews hot gas and maybe catches on fire. You'll definitely get hurt, but that's about it.

You can do MUCH worse by overcharging it. (note the size of that battery). There will eventually be a fireball if you overcharge it and keep overcharging it when it's already swollen to a balloon. But you generally don't charge stuff while it's in your pocket.

These were actual killing-people-explosions. Lipo batteries don't do that.

Secret backdoors... And planted plastic explosives.

Akira definitely counts. I'm sure my parents were in the "all cartoons are for kids" camp that everyone was in in the 90s. Similarly, the Guyver.

I'm going to refer to lakes as "cosmic ray sterilization basins" from now on.

More expensive doesn't always equal better, especially for things like keyboards, clothes or eyewear, where branding is huge and inflates prices more than quality.

It's pretty decent at unimportant optimisation tasks with limited options. Like "I'm driving from X to Y, my friend travels by train from Z, what are good places to pick them up?"

You know, out of all the ways I've had herring, I don't think I've ever had it smoked. Which is weird, because we smoke every other fish here...

But the point was that I enjoy a lot of what others consider to be weird fish stuff, but whale blubber is too far for me.

I meant in a "how many are there" way. You're obviously a lot less likely to hit a Minke whale in your car.

What? Are you telling me that "baby one more time.mp3.exe" I got off of Napster isn't actually reliable? Gasp!

So, disclaimers are needed here.

In Norway, they hunt Minke whale. The Minke whale is classed as "least concern", which means "doing great" as far as being endangered goes. It's the same category deer are in in the US, or pigeons everywhere.

So, obviously I tried whale meat, a few ways.

As a steak, it's kinda like gamey beef in texture, but with a fish-adjacent flavour. Like if you shifted a steak 20% towards tuna without changing the texture.

There's also whale bacon, which honestly tastes like pork bacon, but with the fat more in splotches than in layer.

There's also the blubber, which I'll simply an acquired taste. And that's given that I'm Dutch and enjoy my pickled herring and even like lutefisk. It's like if you filled a grapeskin with a nutty-oily, semi solid jelly substance.

Because they have a LOT of money riding on convincing people not to vote blue. Gee, I wonder who benefits from that most.