Since you’re involved in designing objects that go to space maybe you’d know if it’s the vacuum and extreme temperature changes that could have caused the problems NASA was having with the fasteners or if a manufacturing or assembly error was more likely to have been the culprit? Thankfully I think we can rule out…

Yeah, I may show that to my retired machinist father. He'll probably get a good half hour's entertainment explaining to me how he'd go about making it and/or what they did wrong.

Is that similar to Pozidriv? I've never heard of the Torq-set brand/style.

Did Roy roast the hell out of a Comedy Central executive or something? He was the funniest correspondent and seemed to actually want the job. This is a cop out. Nostalgia will carry it for an episode or two but people rarely get funnier or stay at the same level as they age, especially when they leave the target…

Why on Earth or in space did they use Phillips fasteners? They are designed to cam out over a certain torque, guaranteeing damage when turning with enough downward force to keep the bit in contact with the screw as it's pushed out. So many other, better options. Maybe they have to be a special alloy and those were…

You whiners in the comments getting mad over people giving a grown woman shit for riding the gravy train to Bullshitville as a life goal crack me up. Of course she's a shallow spoiled child of privilege with no talent worth speaking of. Not a child. Not someone who "paid dues" or "put in the work". Someone who got a…

Are we talking enrollment in a tribal register or DNA? If DNA how do we know we haven’t already had an award winner who is primarily of Native American descent? Gladstone is white passing and has an Anglo name. If she didn’t tell people about her ancestry most people would assume she is of primarily European descent.…

Well yeah. The news is supported by advertising which cannot sell things to people who are penniless. Thus the news is pitched towards potential consumers with money, not those without. Why would this have changed?

So he either needs his license taken away or more ground clearance, AWD, hill descent control, a shorter wheelbase and better tires. Get this man to a DMV or a Jeep dealership at once!

We keep those around either because we want them for spare parts or we plan on fixing them. Or sheer laziness, that too. But not an insurance scam. Scrap dealers will pay to pick up junk metal or at least do it for free and no one insures broke down cars in the hopes they’ll be destroyed by natural disasters. As for…

He got caught in a cycle where health problems drove him to drugs but the drugs gave him more health issues so he used more alcohol and pills to keep going. That aged him fast.

I’d like to add that if the system you are describing does not respect the Marxist-Hegelian dialectic method of economic philosophizing and does not embrace the historical determinism that tells us that capitalism will be replaced with the dictatorship of the proletariat then they are authoritarian socialists with…

Yes, I’m sure the company that wants to make a profit is intentionally sandbagging the assets they’ve bought and paid for out of either incompetence or ideological myopia. Or maybe people who own and use the things have a better idea of their capabilities and vulnerabilities than someone who's only seen a…

I misread the title as being about “horror movie porn” instead of “prom”. I had never heard of the genre. Despite my disappointment at the actual article and Google’s recent lack of functionality, I persevered. There is horror movie porn! Both parodies and porn that is supposed to be horrifying. Live action tentacle…

All tools reduce labor and, in your parlance, “steal jobs”. Hard to say how a thing can be stolen when the person who possessed the thing gives it to an entity freely and of their own choice but you’ve got to make the semantics negative, I understand.

It kind of sounded like you’re relishing it. Perhaps not though. As unpleasant as Baldwin is I don’t understand how some people’s dislike for him is so strong they’d look away from what sure appears to be actual persecution by the legal system. If they’ll do that to rich famous people us common folk can get thrown in…

Ok, nevermind. You’re actually mentally disabled. Please return to wasting taxpayer money producing shit, piss and farts until you die. It's the closest thing you've got to productivity. But in the future please do so in a toilet rather than putting your excretions on the internet.

The cops broke the gun when they first tried to examine it, then sent it off to their super cop buddies who said "Yeah they were right even though they're incompetent to disassemble a weapon". Nice how that works. I'm glad you trust cops and their buddies, I'm sure that'll work out for you if you end up on the wrong…

Years ago I discovered that, rather than making me sleepy, incoherent, a sleepwalker or amnesic, it makes me hallucinate. Apparently it’s a rare side effect. I think it was a 10mg pill and I took half. I have experience with psychedelics so when colors got brighter, objects acquired halos, movement left tracers and…

No. She got sober and people have been giving her parts because of her notoriety and since she’s sober she’ll actually show up to set. When you’re a celebrity I guess making it through rehab and trying to get a job counts as a "Renaissance".