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Plus working hard is not necessarily correlated with being paid more, or being promoted.

The company could easily refuse you promotion if you're considered irreplaceable.

Planes don't maintain sea-level atmospheric pressure the whole time. That's why your ears pop in-flight.

I should be quite surprised if it was legally binding, as opposed to tradition.

The Parliament doesn't immediately stop functioning if the Black Rod breaks, is stolen, or is out for repairs, for example.

In fairness, they can't just pop down to the hardware store and use one of those soap dispensers, since the changes in air pressure at altitude would cause them to leak all their contents or pop.

The average dispenser is basically two one-way valves, and a flexible tube you compress to squeeze it out (or a bottle with a pump). Everything inside would be forced out by the lower air pressure.

Fire and Brimstone Hell is also commonly believed, but not actually in the bible, if I recall right.

Most of the punishment around Hell in the Bible is less about Hell itself, and more about not being able to enter Heaven and join God, and all of that, as oppose to Hell itself being punishment.

... Why not just say that then? It would save much confusion.

It'd be hard to say whether there would be no suffering in off-world colonies, but I should doubt it. Traditionally, colonisation has been a dangerous thing, and human nature is as human nature does. The best you can do is reduce it so that what suffering does occur is either minor, or ineffectual.

Also, why do they dismiss asking ISS staff to participate in studies? Bodily autonomy doesn’t mean you can’t ask someone to conduct … uh… research with you. It just means you have to respect it they say no. Astronauts seem like the types who wouldn’t mind putting in a little extra effort for… science.

Too many other introduced variables? Microgravity has a lot of other systemic effects on the astronauts that might affect sperm motility, even before effects to the sperm themselves. Or just individual variation/genetics on the part of the astronauts themselves.

They wouldn't be able to get a sperm sample that wasn't affected by microgravity from the astronauts to begin with.

Headline made me think that "The Mainichi" was the culprit for the thefts.

No, it was a weasel. One of the other kinds of long, furry noodle creatures.

Coal smoke is more radioactive than the outside of a fission reactor anyhow.

Got a link to the Onion story? Couldn't seem to find it.

Yes. For a while, South Korean internet nicknamed him the "Gold Goblin" (after Diablo), since he was so disliked that anyone shown hitting him would receive a decent amount of money in donations.