“There’s no functional benefit to these massive, blocky fronts.”

I’m pretty sure that it’s going to be cheaper, measured in the number and size of future lawsuits, to tear it down and rebuild it rather than risk the section collapsing in heavy traffic, because a collapse will pretty well kill any hope of Los Angeles successfully arguing that they exercised due diligence in…

Yes — I looked at the second picture, and my first thought was “What the hell were they thinking to put the head in the middle of the cabin like that?”

The thing that has soured me on US drivers ever learning how to zipper merge is all the idiots coming up a freeway onramp into solid, slow-moving traffic who ignore the lane marker disappearing (which should tell you that there isn’t a separate lane any more), continue up the merge as if it was still a separate lane…

It’s amusing that this is greatly similar to the problems England faced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as the pace of shipbuilding, both for commerce and for the Royal Navy, wore down the English forests despite careful management, with the Royal Navy turning to build ships in its colonies, where vast…

One of the few EV battery fires where the FD didn’t have to worry about an adequate supply of water to quench the blaze...

The Raines sandwich, created to get around a liquor law and never intended to be eaten.

You don’t even have to go back that far:

...Justice Clarence Thomas called for the court to overrule other privacy rights, including contraception and marriage equality.

You could probably buy a Zimbabwean million-dollar bill cheaper than it would cost to print your own...

I still find it hard to understand how buying what amounts to digital certificates of authenticity and expecting to make tons of money from them in a business model that relies on an endless chain of finding someone willing to pay more money for them than you did in the expectation that they’ll be able to find someone…

Super balls. That way, even after the first car hits one, it will keep bouncing around the track menacing other cars; a live chicken will hit one car and then just be something that the track crew has to scrape off the track.

the standard drink is shown to include oatmilk, Pumpkin Spice Topping, four pumps of chai tea flavoring, and ice. The gingerbread syrup is available to add as a customization to the drink, but it is not part of its standard makeup.

And that links to one of the reasons why I think the film was installed -- LV doesn’t want to have the cost of detailing officers to the bridges to keep people moving (or ticket them if they won’t).

There is nothing more frustrating then watching something and it getting to a critical moment and then boom, ad. Takes you right out of the program your watching.

The state has a strong interest in making sure that crime doesn’t pay... except for the police agencies that perform the asset forfeiture, many of whom directly profit by receiving any revenue from the disposal of the seized property.

Back before the pandemic, on my way out of work to the parking lot I passed an elderly gentleman getting into a lifted pickup that was heavily splashed with mud, and I actually stopped and thanked him for proving that there were still people who had a reason to lift their vehicle, instead of just jacking it up and…

The problem with your solution is the time constraint; you find out only at midnight whether the sample is contaminated, so each additional test takes another night — and you have to find out tonight for the first case, and tomorrow night for the second.

The answers to both questions live or die (heh) on the premise that zombies have enough biological functions to be affected by the poison; if they are, for example, animated by magic, then drinking the water wouldn’t affect them, and you’d have no idea which barrel was poisoned.

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