Not just Carl’s, but a lot of independent greasy spoon places do it too. There was one place I instructed to “use the top bun where you usually use the bottom bun to build the burger”. The guy says, “So you want us to build the burger upside down.” “No,” I reply. “You usually build it upside down, and this is just…

So much aggravation could be saved if people just followed the simple rule:

I think it’s a LOT more likely that the government will be picking the voters instead of the other way around, and I think they’ll be rethinking their policies on use of genocide against their own surplus population to maintain order.

And so a handful of humans who can out think neural networks of the future, will still have a job. And you are convinced that you will be one of them.

Is this one of those things where if your cable company doesn’t carry it, you can’t sign into the Roku app?

Replicant dog, though. All the land animals are extinct. Kind of a big deal in the original PK Dick novel, and the point of the original title. Referred to in the movie. Deckard’s answer is more a recognition of the humanity of replicants, or in this case dogity, more than a comment on the dog itself.

I kind of wonder…

For about 4 months a year, western Washington. It’s between 75 and 85, low humidity, with not a drop of rain in sight. And the days are really long during the summer thanks to the latitude. Add a couple more months for sunny with gorgeous fluffy clouds above you in the afternoon with a sweater or hoodie. You have to…

I’d find it creepy seeing these things. It’ll always remind me of that time we ignored Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, and the autonomous cars became self aware, killed all the humans, and took over their society.

I think they reduce use of buses. Because buses inherently suck, especially when you have to stand. But I used to take Lyft to the Metro Expo station when I lived in LA. And take the Expo the rest of the way.

I’ve also done that for the Link Rail system in Seattle.

When I get an electric car, I’m going to have it make Jetson-mobile noises.

It’s hard not to see how 2 or 4 wheel hub motors won’t become the standard eventually. Eliminating mechanical linkages would save a lot in manufacturing. With 4 wheel motors, you can turn two on the passenger side of the car in one direction, while turning the other side the other way, making parallel parking in tight…

Design time is a fraction of manufacturing and testing for something like this? Maybe so. It’s not the only sunk cost. All the work that goes into specification, materials acquisition, manufacturing bids and the rest of the back office overhead. The setup for manufacturing rigs, testing rigs, circuit boards, and other…

Golden Age of Hot Hatches. They’ve never had better handling, nor have they been as fast, as they are now.

Also, maybe the “New Golden Age of Old Muscle Cars.”

When you have a Costco in your area, that is always where the cheapest gas will be found. Everything else is measured in cents more per gallon than Costco.

Back in West LA, we never went to Costco for gas. The line was ridiculous. Where we live now in rural-ish Washington, most times there’s no wait. Costco is six…

You might need robot rocket motors with some sort of grappling system, to grab distant stuff like that and bring it closer to Earth for servicing.

When you make something that is one of a kind, the first part is very very expensive to make. Going into that part, would be research, engineering and testing to destruction. All very expensive parts of the manufacturing process.

The incremental cost of the second part, beyond the cost of the first part, is vastly…

Better they take as much time as they need, than stick to an arbitrarily set schedule. You don’t want a repeat of the problems Hubble had after it was launched. That was a VERY expensive problem to repair. Possibly Earth’s most expensive remote field service call ever, too.

When made some horrible mistakes when we bought our house. But one mistake we insisted on avoiding, was moving to a place with a homeowner’s association. The people that run those are all little fascist dictators on a power trip of ultimate conformity.

I have to go with the 928. As an all around car, it’s smooth, fast, handles great, grabs attention and it will feel familiarly modern despite being 30+ years old. You need a garage for it, because new it only put out 288 horsepower, and c’mon...you know you can make it do better than that.

Hope they make or made a stop in western Washington. And avoid(ed) Seattle. That’s really not a place to drive.