Filed under “Most Russian Things Ever”. The knitted pasta strainer does look like pretty practical gold weather gear.

You think we would really go full out toe to toe with the Chinese over Taiwan? It’s a ridiculous and dangerous notion, given that they have a major home field advantage.

In addition to the above, they also found that non-helmeted riders were more likely to have consumed alcohol

On the practical side, how many have we actually used simultaneously in a combat situation? It seems more like operational convenience having them located in quantity all around the world, but what sort of situation is going to have to happen to need say 100 of them at once within a few minutes with no ramp up? It…

Allocate water to crops based on protein content and nutritional value.

There’s actually a market for that slurry with a consistent supply chain. Those minerals aren’t garbage, they’re a valuable chemical resource. But the value isn’t high enough to offset the energy costs, let alone maintenance.

I’m just snickering thinking about all the Jalops who over the years said “We don’t need electric bullshit in cars when diesels can get economy and are now clean, and that’s just as good.” They’ve been pretty quiet lately.

Honestly, I can’t say I’m unhappy about the theft. The streets of LA are blighted by storage trailers parked on public roads, even shipping containers without reflectors or license plates.

This is looking like past El Ninos, where at the end of the season snowpack winds up at record levels and the ski season goes to July.

Desalination is very expensive (it uses a lot of energy to maintain extremely high water pressure), and environmentalists hate it. It’s also too expensive for growing crops by two orders of magnitude, and growing crops uses 85 percent of California’s available water.

It does feature a drift encouraging mode, which is a little bit bonkers.

...and are unavailable in the US except as soft, quasi luxury vehicles from Buick.

And the usual Greek chorus of auto journalists will say “The Golf R is better because it’s more refined like a proper German car”.

They could have offered to put him on a waiting list for the next available test/dealer car. There’s always going to be one.

Interesting that you think there’s a market for old school looks at new car prices.

Dessert pountines are real. They have a sweet and savory thing going, and it’s pretty good. What that McChocolate Potatoes dish needs is a scoop of bacon ice cream.

Well, he’s probably not wrong. We create epic man made disasters all the time. There is no trend line that says we’re going to stop anytime soon. We need to colonize space so all the eggs aren’t in one, obviously fragile basket. And if we do that, the commercial pressures on propulsion and other systems, might just…

Good. Maybe it’ll mean fewer cars on the road and traffic will be lighter for me in the future, since it doesn’t look like new roads to handle the increased (and highly predicted) traffic over the last 30 years in my city, are going to be built.

The difference between the UK and Hollywood: in Hollywood the line producer would have been fired for upsetting the star, and you never would have heard a word about it unless another disgruntled crew member shot video.

If the line producer in Hollywood spoke up in public, their career would be over.

2015 Kia Optima. My sister in law has one. Extremely roomy and comfortable, the leather is nice, has a lot of bells and whistles, and around 9 years left on the powertrain warranty and 4 left on the bumper to bumper warranty. You can also get a turbo version for about the same price, but we’re talking about people who…