So is every war or even violent conflict a genocide just because there’s a clear loser? Because if the Israelis are committing genocide they’re being really slow and inefficient about it. Looks to me like they’re using the brutal but effective tactics needed to shut down an insurgency, not an attempt to completely…

An Israeli social scientist invented a term first used by the Spanish during the Ten Years' War in Cuba? Those years being 1868-1878. Astonishing.

One time I was working in an out of the way town where the only restaurant was run by a Mennonite family. One of my coworkers decided to start asking the server about their beliefs and she started off with “You’ve heard of the Bible and Jesus, right? Well the Bible tells us to live and dress simply...” in a superior…

I see, I had much the same thoughts about why the fasteners stripped out. I may have phrases it badly but I was wondering if things like alloy or thread pitch, angle and shape could have influenced why they got stuck. Like how pressure fittings can get stuck because the threads are basically triangular in section so…

Someone can work their ass off and accomplish nothing, it's pretty easy. Especially common among people who talk about how hard they work. And take general comments personally. Maybe try to sand down that chip on your shoulder. Hard workers with clean slicers still get fired when they're touchy pricks.

Aside from possibly nostalgia and public interest in the odd arrangement driving numbers for the first few episodes, ratings aren’t going up because he comes back. It’s been a long, strange near-decade; lots of things that worked in 2015 don’t now and TDS is among them, regardless of who’s the host. The landscape has…

I don't think the ratings have that much to do with the host anymore, the problem is that their competition is now anyone with an opinion, a YouTube channel or Twitch stream and some level of charisma/humor/attractiveness. And the competition can fine tune their content for their audience in a way TDS just can't.

Complaining in this comments section seemed more straightforward than my previous attempts, which involved becoming a traveling newspaper editor in order to send them my notes via a series of crossword puzzle clues. Between the death of print media and them responding with acrostics in mission statements it became…

Regardless of what type they are several are clearly stripped. So either they started the tool before making contact with the fastener, the bit cammed out and wiped the head or the screws were so soft they deformed without camming out. Meaning it was a couple of bad screws, an inappropriate fastener design or they let…

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.