No, because the Putin Regime’s (hereafter Russia) reasons are ultimately what Putin imagines as internal need for his fantasized new Russian empire and have nothing to do with internal Ukrainian politics except for the fact that Ukraine wants to pivot to the West and seek development and prosperity instead of the…

Tesla stans on twitter and Reddit are not Tesla Marketing.

The wakesurf dickheads all seem to have their stereos blaring louder than their Mercury 6.0 stern drives when they decide to pound the shoreline and other boaters to flinders because waterskiing is too scary for Brayden.  I suspect that the same will be true for most electric boat users.

The DA office that set $1000 bail for his arrest for domestic assault and bail jumping was not exactly staffed with conservatives.

Obviously the mechanic that worked on it before the failure needs to be spoken too, and perhaps a claim made against his insurance, but if he’s recaltrant, a ~150,000 mile junkyard motor can be had for like $500 and swapped in for ~$300 worth of labor, so the car might be worth fixing still.

For what it’s worth, Musk’s rockets do things like deliver astronauts to the ISS for NASA and launch other orbital payloads for cheaper than the competition. So whilst Elon and Bezos are both extraordinarily obscenely wealthy, I don’t consider their two rocket companies directly comparable. At least until Blue Origin…

Cars don't promise to be faithful to you in front of God, both of your families, and all of your friends.  Nor can they bring the paternity of your children into question.

Understanding the value of an anecdote, I know 3 people with the GM half ton I6 Duramax trucks, and two of them are averaging over 30 mpg lifetime. The other guy treats his like a 3/4 ton and still has an average in the high 20s. IMO, if you don’t feel the need for the power of the high spec gas engine, if the…

“...bodies...”

What conditions were you driving in? Before I lifted mine and put it on big tires, if I kept it under 60 I could see 30 mpg in my M1009.

The specific reason Drew can’t consume ethanol probably has something to do with the fact that it thins the blood and is contraindicated for anyone with a history of spontaneous bleeds (like aneurysm). But the other effects of ethanol use are more physically taxing than the effects of THC use too.

Peach skin is bitter, whereas kiwi skin is tasteless. I still eat the peach skin, but I make sure that I eat it first. When I started eating kiwis with the skin, my family loooked at me like I was eating boiled eggs without peeling them, but peeling kiwis is a hassle and I eat way more of them now. 

If you are a multivehicle household, that’s fine. In a single vehicle household, being appropriate for 90% of use cases isn’t good enough unless you factor in the cost of regular vehicle rental and the hassle of that rental, and still decide it’s fine. My next car will be a cheap used EV, not even a good EV like a…

I find that to be a likely theory but I don’t know that it’s been proven with sufficient vigor. After all, why would they not quarried the smaller stones from the large stone that was never removed from the quarry, if the temple was built in one phase?

We know where the blocks at the temple of Jupiter were quarried, there is even another larger block that never left the quarry, either because construction was abandoned for a time and the people who picked it back up lost the technology needed to move the blocks, or because they couldn't move one quite that large.

I don’t know, I’ve seen mid 20s with that motor in trucks.

Most Millenials haven’t had children yet, we are a low fertility age class, but the first Millenials are old enough that they could have 19 year old children without having kids before the age of 18 themselves.

13, as it happens, yes. His mother was born in August of 86, he was born in June of 2000 and graduated high school as a 17 year old. No skipped or missed grades, just one of the oldest girls in my class mothering a child who ended up being one of the youngest in his.   The father wasn't our age, I think he did some…

I was born in 87. I don’t have a college aged child yet, but the oldest child of one of my high school classmates is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, and there are Millenials that are 5 years older than me. Gen Xers are now 38-57. Millenials (Gen Y)are now up to 38.

Most Millenials remember these.   It's the Zoomers that won't.   Some of us millennials have children in college now.