No, my anecdotal evidence isn’t enough to prove something scientifically. It is arguably insufficient basis to legislate. It is absolutely enough to generalize from—that’s how human beings live in the world. They abstract from the specific to the general. You have to be open to being convinced your generalizations are…

I literally said that I was open to being convinced that certain strains, amounts and preparations of marijuana might be fine for work, in the same way that caffeine and nicotine are basically fine for work. I have no problem with people who smoke weed, and have been pro-legalization for decades. My non-user status is…

Xanax is intended to bring someone closer to normal behavior, so I’m pro. If it turns out that THC can be used analogously for, e.g., people with anxiety disorders, then I’m okay with that. I just question whether it can be. Some people drink to calm down—it doesn’t follow that they should be allowed to drink on the…

I don’t have “no idea.” I don’t smoke, but I have been around a lot of people who smoke regularly or occasionally, and I’ve been around them when they are both stoned and not stoned. As a sober observer, the difference between stoned and not stoned is a lot closer to buzzed/not buzzed than it is to coffee/no coffee or…

I’d say no, for most jobs. Nicotine and caffeine are very mild uppers (compared to other uppers), and that’s about it. They might amp up the nerves and aggression a little, but it doesn’t put you in a materially altered state, as we understand that societally, and are probably net-net often good for work.

These are never all that accurate, particularly for New York and San Francisco. Manhattan, in particular, has a practically bimodal income profile: very poor people who live in NYCHA housing, and very rich people who live in extremely expensive housing. There’s a little more variety than that—plenty of students of…

Education, biotech, other tech, second-tier (comparable to SF) finance and associated industries (law, consulting and other advisory). Boston is like a mix of New York and San Francisco, industry-wise.

Pretty sure that's a Pagani, bro.

Lana, Johnny Bench called. He said Hope Solo is mad at both of you.

Well, you've proved your point that a lot of people don't know what it means, but I have no idea where the other posters got those names. Ford itself says ST stands for Sport Technologies. See this press release, for example: http://corporate.ford.com/news-center/pr…

Oh, ST means Sport Technologies. And, as far as I know, that's just a branding thing that has nothing to do with any internal engineering group or anything within Ford.

ST is a trim level, indicating that the car is tuned to be sporty. For example, compare the regular Fiesta hatch with the Fiesta ST: you jump from 120 horsepower to 197, and from 125 ft/lbs to 202 ft/lbs of torque. You also drop an inch closer to the ground, stiffen up the suspension, swap rear drums for discs,…

A lot of anti-union gripes are dogwhistle horseshit, but there are some genuine problems in the building trades with requiring pointless labor. There are some truly egregious examples, like requiring a steamfitter be present during the use of certain machinery which once was—but for decades has not been—steam…

Cleaning Port Authority Bathrooms to take 1,095 Times as Long as Augean Stables

That car looks like an expensive German coupe had an illegitimate love child with a mid-'90s Taurus.

Fake brake vents add 10hp. See, e.g.,

I love everything about the styling of the Mark V except for that landau. Just the worst styling cue of the late '70s - early '80s.

I find you cloyingly optimistic and inappropriately effusive.

Why do you guys use pictures of Marlon Wayans from White Girls for stories about Iggy Azalea?

Oh sweet summer child, I see a disturbing lack of USENET nostalgia in your post for you to truly miss the old internet. I suspect you have never watched a dot matrix printer do its thing.