“The only new variable is the proliferation of video recording devices.”

Get a new goat every spring and have a cookout in the fall.

Goats can be rented.

My parents moved from Brooklyn, NY to a nice quiet town in Litchfield County in CT. They had zero concept of owning a house with a lawn, never mind a 1 acre plot of lawn. By the time they realized they needed to do something about it, a lawnmower was no longer an option. They had to wait until it got longer and have a…

I think the XC60 (and V60 soon after) were mentioned because the long light pipe and LEDs were more of a distinctive sculptural-light element which was pretty newish at the time. It was very distinctive at night. 

Even back in the notoriously safety eschewing 1970s when I was but a wee kid and we readily accepted both rides (with no seat belts) and candy from strangers, this situation would have been considered unacceptable.

Pedestrian overpasses paid for by railroad company. These can be constructed out of aluminum and set on small foundations and quickly installed at a low cost.  The railroads often own the land and control building jurisdiction (Don’t tell Little D) over their land.

This isn’t a proofreading issue. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the NASA statement.

Clickbait math.

I’m not sure how to do the correct math but if the odds of ANYONE on earth being hit are 1 in 2,467 that does not mean that MY chances are 1 in 2,467 as I’m one of 8 billion people.

Because humans aren’t the only ones producing methane. Everything from decaying vegetation to volcanoes to glaciers to whale farts produce methane, and if its breakdown is prevented, problems will arise even if no one else ever eats a hamburger again.

I disagree with a mixture of alternatives being the solution (I think the real answer is going to be just higher density batteries until only niche industries still use actual fuels.) I do agree that “zero impact” is a frustrating buzz word.

Instead they should be pushing “minimized impact” an EV has a bigger impact…

Bingo. The prosecutor’s office acted unethically and outside of the rules.

It’s not really civil forfeiture when the boat itself has been abandoned.

Saw in another thread that it could’ve been a wheel spacer causing fatigue on the bearing, and that’s where the failure occurred

Twitter users have suggested that it was probably a wheel spacer or lug nut that failed and set the truck’s wheel free.

Great! Park them inside, set your house on fire. Park them outside, they get stolen.

But...from the article, “it is so very flammable”?

While this is promising - the story doesn’t quite line up with the the headline, you know?

Yeah, if you’re running an adblocker or a cross-site-script blocker (uBlock origin here), the paid-link-advertising to Amazon simply doesn’t load sometimes (like on this article, for me).