I had to go to the R&D cell culture lab last weekend to scrounge for some L-Glutamine. They had, I kid you not, dozens of unlabeled, partially empty, bottles of... I don’t even know what. They all started life as normal things, like PBS, buffers, and whatnot, but now they’re nearly-identical bottles of garbage.

Repurposing things to accomplish wacky things the manufacturer wasn’t anticipating is a time-honored tradition in research and development labs. I myself have Rube Goldberg’d many an experiment in a research lab.

Yeah — the M&M problem...

There’s a story from back in the 80's about Van Halen having in their rider a requirement that the green room had to have a bowl of M&M’s with all of one particular color removed. People thought this was about bands being entitled, but in reality it was a safety test.

BAck in the 80's, bands…

The dish soap is concerning, not because it’s dish soap or that it doesn’t work as they were using it. It’s concerning because it’s not spec. If workers unilaterally decided to use dish soap instead of what’s spec’d, you have to ask what else did they decide to change on the fly?

The dish soap itself wouldn’t bother me if it was in the assembly spec. But since it wasn’t there’s probably no paper trail of which planes got soaped up and which ones didn’t. Maybe it matters, maybe it doesn’t, but it does make me concerned about what other steps they’ve been improvising.

Ahhh, right next to DC which makes sense being a defense contractor. I guess they got the stuff that supposed to blow up confused with the stuff that carries passengers.

I mean...don’t stand under a flock right after take off

I feel like I have a high tolerance for less than beautiful vehicles, but the current M3 is a bridge too far. I don’t care how good it is otherwise, I just couldn’t own a vehicle that makes me throw up a little every time I look at it. 

I mean...none of the first set of things are me. But the Section 179 was me for a lot of years.

Personally I wouldn’t want a 90k luxury truck for hauling building material. Risk of damaging something so expensive is just too high for me.

But that’s personally, if someone has the money to spend on something like this for that purpose, more power to them. Seriously though, good for them, and I’m happy for them.

I miss Fancy Kristen...

Imagine:
Income being $21,700.
Expenses being $38,200.
New debt = $16,500.
Old debt = $142,710.
And trimmed expenses by $38.50.

There’s kind of an underlying point here worth making that way more of this type of content is fake than people care to realize. Even if this is an exception, and most people will say “oh yeah of course I know its fake”, you’re still better off being conditioned to assume pretty much everything on the internet is a…

“Hannah, however, was created in a lab to make people very angry online,”

Came here to say this. We have a self-cert model for FMVSS compliance and people seem to really struggle with that concept.

My takedown was more based on the editorial and staffing direction of this site and the sort of thoughtless contrarianism that seems to be spilling all over the stovetop.

Nothing, nothing, nothing is an acceptable alternative to a single cab. If your truck using goal is the least amount of flexibility possible with the lowest amount of leg room, a single cab stands alone. There’s a reason that a single cab resides at the top of every retro-contrarians nonsensical wish list!! Everyone…

This is precisely why we should all be hugging Mazda, Toyota, and Subaru. The Miata and GR86/BRZ shouldn’t exist, and we should all stop spending money on useless shit boxes and just buy them.

As a Brit, I find it almost amusing that people laud over the original Defender, often paying well over $100k+ for an average example. The new one is actually pretty capable, looks fine, and certainly stands out in an ocean of egg-shaped crossovers.

People are freaking out about the 130 like Ford hasn’t been doing this same dance since 2007 and GM since 91.