Ironically, as a vasoconstrictor, cocaine does not help in the old erection department. People who are having sex that doesn’t involve a live penis may have a better experience, but I’d think the reduced blood flow to the vagina wouldn’t be much fun for the ladies, either.

Insufficiently lubricated friction certainly could raise the temperature enough, but liquid kerosene also is difficult to ignite. Maybe once the temperature causes enough of it to evaporate into fumes, but those same fumes are likely to stop one’s ability to continue to apply the friction.

Dire Straits - “Money for Nothing” - you can replace the slur in the second verse with “douchbag” and it works just fine.

Inara George’s voice in the Van Halen tribute album is like David Lee Roth’s chops combined with a sultry lounge singer.  She’s a unique talent, for sure.

There have been a couple articles about this and so I’m not sure they’re talking to the same groups of scientists, since the model has been made available online, but the one I recall said that the warp bubble itself would require the mass of two Jupiters. So, still a whole hell of a lot and not practical anytime…

So there are two things going on here.

Not sure if it’s your genre, but check out their cover of Panama, too.  

I mean, I’ve seen masturbation sometimes cause something else explosive that she might not want to have shared on a movie set.

The Bird and the Bee did a whole album of Hall & Oates covers and it slaps.  They did another one of Van Halen covers which is also great.

Say what you want about capitalism in America - separation of employment, voluntarily or otherwise, typically doesn’t result in your employer *literally* killing you.  

Social media was a mistake. I liked the internet just fine when the barrier to entry to having a platform was higher. Blogs and forums were pretty perfect.

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Glad to see you here again Will!  Now let’s get Sean and Emily St. James here too!

I dunno, I like Zosia Mamet.  Couldn’t say whether I’ve seen the other two, but Mamet made the most of a limited role on Mad Men, and I really liked her work on The Flight Attendant.  I’ve heard she was great on Girls but will admit I’ve never seen that show.

I dunno, most folks I knew with half a brain moved from lower middle class (at best) to middle or upper middle class just by getting a middling state university degree and moving out of Bumfuckburg to a decent size city. Meritocracy may be a myth when you’re talking about the upper echelons of society, but it seems…

What’s the median income level of a family a new car is actually sold to, though? I don’t think there really are that many folks outside the top 10% that can afford a new EV.

Exactly. What’s the point of having a tax credit phase out before someone makes enough money to buy the car.

Not really, but the timeline works. A Dance With Dragons came out in 2011, which was the last ASoIaF book to be released. Leviathan Wakes was also published in 2011, which was the first Expanse novel. It took only ten years for the entire Expanse nine-novel series, along with some short stories, to be released. …

The supposed dirty little secret is that he had ghostwriters through at least the last couple books he completed, but they left to write a little book series called The Expanse, and he hasn’t finished a mainline Song of Ice and Fire novel since.

Yeah, I think Google’s approach of crawling the original, human-curated lists of websites worked great, and continued to work well (despite SEO shenanigans) until we went from the blogging/message board era to the social media platform era. Prior to social media, humans were still writing things and manually linking…