“...it is changing tech policy by stretching existing regulations to places no one believed they could go.”

I remember reading about a mathematics-based bar bet that, admittedly requiring setup, that tips things to 100% in your favor. The bet has you arrange a deck of cards in alternating colors, then give it a single riffle shuffle and cut the deck between two cards of the same color. The bet is that, turning cards over in…

“Speaking of tails, I can’t remember the last time I saw a high mount elevator.”

Reading this article makes me wonder about taking a recipe for gingerbread and pouring the batter into my waffle maker. Brownie batter I think might be a little too stiff to spread properly when you close the waffle maker, so you’d need to spread it yourself beforehand, but it’s still something to try.

Worse than that; there are only three unique designs, and the rest are ‘variants’. I thought we were done with this crap when the comic book publishers gave up on producing half a dozen variant covers in an attempt to drive up sales.

Or a Force-sensitive individual taken up by the Inquisitorius and trained by them, then has some traumatic experience that results in them rejecting the whole darkity-dark-dark-dark philosophy without going full reject-everything-even-vaguely-dark the way the Jedi seemed to want to enforce, taking an unauthorized…

“The fact that these internet giants would rather cut off Canadians’ access to local news...”

Al Gore, 2009: “Some of the models suggest to Dr, Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”

That sounds like a delightful enticement to overeating, like the yeasted orange-cranberry bread recipe I found in ‘Bernard Clayton’s Complete Book of Breads’ that makes fantastic French toast... assuming it survives long enough to go stale.

Even in this day and age, there are still people using their personality for birth control...

It’s the ‘risk averse’ attitudes you see in production companies all over; it’s gotten so expensive to actually produce a movie or TV series that “take a chance on something new” gets shoved all the way to the back of the bus behind endless “X made lots of money; let’s make a sequel”, “X made lots of money; let’s do…

The other answer is that it’s indeterminate. You could be anywhere on a isolatitudinal circle 1+(1/π) miles north of the South Pole, so that when you walk a mile south, walking a mile west takes you completely around the south pole to the point where you started walking west, so walking a mile north takes you back to…

I remember many years ago the staff at the San Diego Wild Animal Park talking about the fences, explaining how having the tops of the fence curved back over the enclosure discouraged the animals from jumping the fence, and I see with a casual search that the same technique is used to stop dogs from climbing or jumping…

“No smoking is a given.”

Your last line reminded me of an “a la Mexicana” recipe from the 1950s I ran across on the Gallery of Regrettable Food where the sum total of the spices in the recipe was “few grains of pepper (if you like)“.

Just remember that a good landing is one you can walk away from; a great landing is one where the plane remains usable afterward.

They’re not all identical chiclets; the green Model 3s, from the front, look like an angry frog -- easy to tell apart from the other models.

Flight simulators have gotten more and more accurate, but unless you’ve gone into peripherals in a big way, you’re going to be accustomed to using the keyboard shortcuts instead of the actual switches, levers, and controls on the panels — you’ll likely be hunting for the right controls, so you need to plan out what…

Potato flakes are also an excellent way to thicken up a stew; they’re neutral in flavor, so you don’t have to deal with cooking out the raw flavor of a flour slurry, nor do you have to bring it all back to a boil to see the full thickening amount before you know whether you’ve added enough.

“There are lots of ways to write a headline, many of them bad. Take this article, for instance. It might’ve been titled:”