Now, she’s all bent out of shape because the 13th amendment allows slave labor, and she seems to expect all of us to be outraged, as well. It only applies to convicted criminals, Amber, i.e., prison inmates. It’s not like they’re plucking people off the streets and forcing them to pick beans somewhere. These are…

You are correct but the common name for the larvae of Cochliomyia hominivorax is screwworm.  As the scientific name does not exactly roll off the tongue, I think that we are stuck with the established misnomer.  By the way, as a large animal veterinarian, I often work with and depend on state and federal officials who…

And yet so many of them have worm in their common name:

CATL is the biggest name in EV batteries, supplying everyone from Tesla to BMW to Mercedes with cells to run their electric cars. American lawmakers, however, see Chinese manufacturing and appear to enter some sort of bloodlust state — tripping over each other to ban the company from bringing goods into the …

This is one of those instances where the government is truly the best option and it is fun to advertise how successful it has been. It would be a nightmare for any company to take on an international ecological issue and not have it screw over the masses.

The explosion pressure can be as low as 10 - 20 psi. 15 psi over-pressure is the equivalent of a dive 33 feet deep in water.

Hard to reconcile the complete destruction of the vehicle with ‘man was treated for minor injuries’. That aside, dude is an automatic nominee for Darwin Award.

It was a dumb comment - there is “an electoral process.” It’s that thing that happens in November, and it leads to the Defense Appropriations bill (when the Congress actually gets around to passing it, what with their busy schedules - and the group of them who actively try to prove that government doesn’t work).

Not that it really protects Oceangate in reality, but the release they signed pretty clearly stated that they could become fish chum doing this.

The issue is that there’s so few of these vehicles and they’re all such highly built with significant differences in max tolerances, regulations doesn’t exist for them... And there’s also already ratings for submersibles capable of reaching various depths. Titan was not one of them for reaching the titanic depth.

It was obviously heavily implied that it was safe,... Do you honestly think that they would get many takers if they advertised “many experienced submariners have told me that this sub is definitely a death trap”?

Ironically, the answer to your last sentence is in your first sentence!

Doesn’t the Jones Act only apply to ships that go between US ports? These foreign ships were involved in international trade.

Norfolk Southern and Boeing must be grateful for the distraction.

That is such and ugly bridge anyways, they worried about looks? more like costs.

The Texas bro that rode stupid, STUPID speeds (150 mph+) in Colorado and monetised got extradited back to Colorado - excellent!

The dude is wrapped in cheetos sweats, driving a cheetos-themed car.  The mschf boots are the least cheesy thing going on in this picture.

My cat loves salmon, but he insists on pronouncing the L. It drives me insane.

There were tugs that guided the ship out into the main channel then pulled away as they thought they were no longer needed. When the ship made a distress call they raced back but couldn't reach the ship in time.

and you’re likely to save a few cents per gallon over using the pump-mixed mid-grade gasoline