I think it has to do with the size of steps you take when climbing stairs being fixed, and not ideal for everyone. When you climb up a ramp, you take steps the size your particular biomechanics dictate — depending on the length of each of your leg bones, your weight, the angle of the ramp… When you climb stairs, you…

“Profit predictability for shareholders also is one of the main reasons behind airline moves to charge additional fees for checked baggage…”

Fixed.

It looks also like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queijo_coalho, a Brazilian cheese which is usually (more like almost always) eaten grilled (with molasses, of all things), and does indeed have a squeaky texture.

The TSA has been more prone to overreaching after their latex glove supplier started shipping ‘Husbandry Line’ veterinary gloves with reinforced elbow seams.

“That’s not mine.”

Can this contraption be used to cold-brew coffee?

I forgot to mention: intensity-controlled brake lights too. Normal tap on the brakes, light up; ABS-activating full-on panic brake, flash brake lights full-half-full-half.

One thing I’s like to see in a car is variable “intensity” turn signals. Instead of a single position on the stalk—blink blink blink, how about two (or three) positions: “I’m changing lanes/I’ll turn ahead”; “I have to move over all the way to make my exit”; “I will stop/enter in the middle of this curve, so back off!”

Living for more than 30 will do the trick for most people.

WTF’s a scrotilla?

You drive an automatic, I drive stick. Taking one hand off the wheel is par for the course to me.

I actually have found myself going to the volume knob on the stereo rather than using the steering wheel controls. The tactile feedback of turning a physical object is much easier to process for someone who’s driving.

The poor thing probably thinks he was a baby genius back then. We at least know the sad truth.

Have you ever tried to listen to a kindergartener trying to tell a story?

That is probably because KLM (and most airlines throughout the world) don’t overcharge for checked luggage as US airlines do. That in turn stimulates people to fly with only carry-on, and that fills up the overhead bins really damn fast. I have never flown anywhere else other than in the US that people had to…

And profitable.

The investors/shareholders will intervene because there’s loss. As soon as people forget the incident the market will re-value their stock, and they’ll be blissfully oblivious to lousy service once again.

Brilliantly written.