But that’s what we’re left with. I’ll vote for whoever is on the ticket, but there’s literally 0.01% chance someone else gets the nomination.

I’m just defending my decision to vote for Biden, not defending Biden himself. Get therapy.

I’ll defend it. In a choice between a lunatic narcissist surrounded by sycophants and a potato surrounded by semi-competent advisors, I’ll have the mashed.

Just like the '70s, Detroit wants to build enormous energy-dense cars, while automakers from another Asian country come in and sell what the market demands.

Expect US automakers to blame unions when they face another round of bankruptcies and begin demanding government bailouts.

All sea salt is hydrogen.

No. Unless that hot water is very, very hot vapor, you’re just adding more mass that’s going to be cooled by the original cold water. And even with vapor, the heat transfer between a hot gas and cool liquid just doesn’t happen fast enough, the vapor will be in the atmosphere before the water heats up very much.

A note for the liquid soap incident said the door seal fitting instructions were “vague and unclear on what specifications or actions are to be followed or recorded by the mechanic,'” per The Times.

This is the problem, not the use of the soap.

Chaya Raichik needs to be held responsible for posting names and addressees (I thought doxxing was against Twitter TOS, Elon?) of people, knowing others will target them.

I crossed back and forth into Canada in the 90’s with just a state ID and telling the border guard I was visiting friends. Only one time did I get stopped, and then my car was full of friends who wouldn’t shut up (drinking age was 19 in Ontario).

9/11 changed all that.

in yet another example of the failures of the state prison system.

It’s not a failure if it’s intentional.

Is this the same Pentagon that can’t pass an audit of their own? That Pentagon?

See also: 2x4s

(how is lumber measured in Europe? Are 2x4s called 2x4s? or 50x100s?)

Still a recall. Sure, they fix it OTA, but they still have to mail out notices, track fixed vehicles, provide quarterly progress reports, etc.

Cancel Prime

Add ‘Personal Blocklist’ to your browser, block Amazon from search results (although ‘Google Hit Hider’ for Greasemonkey works better)

Amazon hasn’t managed to get any of my orders to me in fewer than 3 days for over a year. I just put together some computer parts using PCPartsPicker, and Amazon wasn’t the cheapest option on anything. There’s no advantage to using them anymore. They treat their employees like shit, they treat their suppliers like shit, and they force anyone selling through Amazon Marketplace to agree to some seriously fucked up shit.

Gary Webb?? (journalist that wrote about Iran-Contra)

Don’t worry everybody, I’m sure we can turn this around somehow!

that’s the way it’s always been!

Engineer here. It’s like that because that’s the way it’s always been. To change it would mean retooling silk-screen printing on the D-pad, and changing the wiring underneath. And they probably use this D-pad everywhere, so someone like me will have to talk to someone else like me, and right now I have phone shyness (can’t just be an email, have to call a meeting). I’ll also have to talk to a supplier and get them to change the wiring, and Procurement won’t let me just change anything, because it gives suppliers a chance to requote a job, and they’ll ask for more money. And then I’ll have to talk to Production, because they’ll have to retrain the workers, make sure someone doesn’t stop the line because this new part doesn’t look exactly like the old part. Oh, and Quality of course, need to make sure the inspectors don’t start rejecting the new parts (just kidding, they never look at parts). Then there’s Marketing. Since this is a customer-facing part, definitely need their input. Might have to change catalogs and brochures with new pictures.

No, they just got the good brand of gummy bears in the cafeteria, I’m going to go buy a bag of those, and then fill out these forms my new boss has been asking about. New boss, new forms, same old shit.

I can’t sit. There’s a kink in my tubing somewhere that closes off when I sit. Then I stand up, and I always have to turn around to finish anyway.

And if the bowl’s not elongated, I end up…touching…the water or the bowl, and that creeps me out.