Yes, sorry. Said that in reverse.

Yes it's figurative. Fortunately I wasn't a baby Mortal Kombat contestant.

The sober mind should always have authority over the non-sober mind and be able to overwrite it, no?

Public introxication laws come to mind, I think the logic applies. It also explains some of my own thoughts. If the mind with authority puts the mind without authority in charge, what happens is on the mind with the authority.

In a world where we think of climate change and national debt as Western worries, Asia's dirtiness is enough of an absolute eco-hazard to warrant its own kind of debt if the rest of us thought the same way.

The same rivers Rama and Krishna bathed in could today kill you, and China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there, more or less the same way sand from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon.

Bold of you to assume my class has only had one.

Where I live, plastic bags and styrofoam are already rare now. Now we just have to wait for people to realize water is free.

My mom's heart.

That's elementary, my dear ~~Churchill~~ Watson.

It would be wise of them to stop relying on everyone else.

People probably wouldn't believe we sold water in plastic water bottles or shopped with disposable plastic bags.

Rotation is good. It makes sure the food gets bombarded by microwave particles on all sides. If it's on the edge of the turntable, though, the side facing the table would be colder because the microwaves take more effort to hit it, much like how the moon has a dark side because it's tidally locked around the Earth.

I remember feeling salty over that one.