this is what we’re doing in canada with the CNSC’s small modular reactor program.

I might have missed the window on weaponizing my daughter’s crap explosions, sadly, but I have a FIERCELY geriatric canine that has been having issues with his bowel control.

Not detained in the dealership, but detained in finance at the dealership. After a several hour negotiation, I go to finance to start that tilt. The guy starts his song and dance about extended warranties, credit protection and the like. And my 9 month old absolutely destroyed a diaper. As in, I’m surprised it didn’t…

When the snow falls and the winter winds blow, the lone wolf dies while the pack survives.

It’s a side effect of failing upwards through connections to the inbred aristocracy. Every empire goes through this right before their collapse.

Part of the state’s power outages come down to the fact that its infrastructure was designed to withstand extreme heat, not cold.

Also, don’t forget that Texas’ power grid is fully independent from the rest of the states. So they can’t even import power from states that *have* excess capacity.

some people at a work place have access to jalop, but are blocked from sites such as twitter or any social media to keep production steady. i for one am grateful he posted this image. i mean...do we have to attack everyone for everything? dont answer that. its rhetorical really.

In case anyone wants to actually see the cool tires mentioned in the headline without going on a fucking goose chase:

cotd

“Dunder Mifflin Chevrolet, may I help you?”

They’ve been setting the standard for a long time, having pioneered racecam in-car cameras in the 1970s.

Yea, I’m 38 and decidedly not cool, but I know who the weeknd is. His line “Star Trek roof in that Wraith of Khan” in the song with Daft Punk is stellar wordplay.

As a manager, if you can’t tell who your most productive employees are without software, you either need more managers or better ones. I can absolutely say that the potential for misuse and abuse is ridiculous. 

My workplace technology use likewise could be monitored, that is everything I do is tracked, but it takes someone to actually do something with that information that makes it a threat. We have over 6000 employees and a very overworked IT department due to HIPAA and FERPA regs. The threat of hackers is ever-present and…

Takeaways -

Other than maybe Christian von Koenigsegg, yeah. Agreed.

This is the Elon I like to see. Less drama, more science, and ....humble?
Also, reading this article felt like reading Popular Science articles from the 90s-early 2000s, in that it felt appropriately scientific yet easily digestible.

This is impressive. I’m not the world’s biggest Musk fan, but very few C-suite executives have anywhere that level of knowledge about their product. Credit where credit is due, good for him. 

ok, that’s funny.