It feels weird that I looked at the lead picture and immediately jumped to wondering whether the name should be transliterated as “Макдоналдс”, as pictured, or as “Макдоналдз”, so that the trailing ‘s’ is displayed as a ‘z’ sound. It just seems like an unnecessarily trivial thing to grab my eye first.

And include timing information at the top. ‘Preparation: xx mins; Cooking: xx mins’ is good, but ‘Resting: xx hours’ warns you in advance that you need additional time, before the crunch happens.

Looks like the shade of grey you see for the surfaces coated with a paint made of ground-up moon rock in Portal 2 to make them receptive to the beam from the portal gun.

No, that joke got run into the ground with the ‘#metoo’ hashtag...

At least it’s not the #Way, which would lead to Jalopnik referring to it as the ‘Smart No.Way’...

It may not be as awesome once you discover that the money you get for the energy PG&E sucks out of your vehicle to keep someone else’s lights on is less than the money you paid PG&E to put that energy into the vehicle in the first place.

Thanks; now I can’t get the image of buying a Volvo and getting an enormous flat-pack box with one Allen wrench in it out of my head...

You can make the same statement about cars, too...

“That is completely untrue and depends on the brand/packaging.”

I’m surprised that they don’t need separate facilities for the oozers, emitters, drippers, and spitters...

It’s basically a crapshoot for how long the irritant has been in the oyster, and the oyster has to be old enough; an oyster needs to be about three years old to produce pearls, and then it can take up to four years to produce a larger pearl. Companies seeding oysters for pearls can cheat by implanting larger seeds —…

...and in places with environmental activists who will cheerfully file lawsuits without end to block a mine simply because it’s a mine, and ‘destroys nature’.

Nope. If it’s got a skull on the front with eyes that light up and the skull breathes fire, those glowing eyes better be red. No sense of style.

“...so your strangest requests (“can you remove the burger patty from my plain cheeseburger?”) might just be harmless...”

I don’t like raw onions on a burger, and I don’t like the way hot pickles taste, so I’ll usually ask for no pickles or onions. I do like sauteed onions on a burger, but that’s way too much prep to ask for from a fast-food place. There’s one place I’ve been going to since the ‘80s where, on the occasions when I get a…

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
SHIT IS SHINOLA

I’m mildly annoyed that the configurator puts the call sign under the kill marks, which makes it effectively impossible to have both, even though there’s space behind the kill marks for the call sign.

Maybe I’m just jaundiced after decades of watching environmental groups filing lawsuits against every development project in sight, claiming irreparable harm to the lesser spotted hypothetical salamander, or whatever critter has popped up on their radar this time. Or just the BANANA syndrome (Build Absolutely Nothing…

“...the potential is there for... something like 50 to 100 years’ worth of lithium production.”

Well, yes, on a personal basis it’s going to make your life a bit easier, but compared to the abilities the Aces exhibit, you’re not even a blip on the radar. And if your zippers work properly, you’re not going to pay much if any attention to them, so unless you get a reputation for being able to unjam zippers for…