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This ^ comment may have been a bit too savage. I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry. I'm not right, but I'm not wrong either.

This is a fallacy. All materials and compounds are harmful, in certain degrees. Along with gas, anti-adhesive coatings and potentially maybe even some of those glass ceramic compounds those induction cookers use (especially at high heat)? It's a slippery slope.

I didn't say we shouldn't do anything about either, but banning natural gases that are found in nature because of "lung-irritating pollutants" is not particularly smart. I'm not in any lobby groups. I care about freedom and energy independence. Some NYT article pushing an agenda of "all electric" and climate change is contorted logic.

Put all of your trust in some on-grid electric power utility company where in some cases are not stable(cough cough PG&E), all the while power grids are huge targets for foreign "attacks", and even a solar EMP (Nuclear bomb? Solar flare?) could render all electronics useless. All the while, you make cooking with natural gas illegal? I suppose at that point, we could rub sticks together and cook by a wood fire (since the dawn of Man)? Or that is illegal now too?

Uh...Yea, no thanks.

And how is it you are helping? What is it that NASA does again with its annual $20B budget? Sleeping? ...Not putting people into space, that's for sure. Or maybe it pays others to put people into space? Is that how it works now? On the plus side, I saw one of your NASA T-shirts at Walmart - good job? ...No NASA emblems on spaceships though.

Just curious, if we are discussing cooking, safety, health and the environment, why did the author not discuss Teflon™ pans and how "unsafe" and damaging this is not only to health but also the environment?

If you want to make certain forms of energy "illegal" because of some "lung-irritating pollutants", I mean why not start with the unsustainability and cancer risks of these poly type chemicals, no? Especially ones coming in direct contact with your food, and your water supply (a.k.a Dish Washing?)? Never mind the actual environmental damage of manufacturing chemicals like these?

I was being lazy, you're right. I don't recall ever filling one of those forms out however. I do recall a Census worker coming door to door and I suppose filing this form on my behalf.

But I appreciate the link.

"The U.S. census is a direct count of every resident. Required by the Constitution, it has taken place every decade since 1790."

"The data it collects is used to determine political representation in Congress and to direct more than $1.5 trillion in federal funding annually."

Serious questions...

1.) What data are they anonymizing? Especially by "randomizing numbers by taking numbers in one place to another place", doesn't this defeat the purpose of a census?

2.) Are they asking your political affiliation? I never got asked this, rather just: "how many people live here" - this is all I was asked.

3.) What other questions are they asking residents? Is it different in each state? What are they doing with this data? Is it legal?

4.) Isn't this then number used to assign how many "congressional seats" go to which state?