It’s always been insane to me that people see women’s sports as being at risk from trans acceptance. It leaves me wondering exactly how many trans people they think there are in the world, and what the intersection is between that population and elite-level athleticism. Do they think that any average man can just…

Might as well put a height limit and minimum cup size on competition too, as long as we’re putting arbitrary definitions on what it means to be a “woman.”

It’s not merely “re-extending” his arms and legs. When you extend your legs like that near the peak of a jump, it reactively thrusts your body upward and lowers your center of gravity. If you can perform this action with enough power, it boosts your torso’s upward velocity while you are still mid-air. It takes an…

Computer algorithms are way better at generating random numbers than humans are though.

Yes but if the requirement for self-driving to work reliably is complete state information about all other vehicles in the immediate vicinity, then one person driving something slightly out of date is gonna screw everything up. Me not having a backup camera doesn’t affect anyone else’s ability to drive in my presence.

This will never, ever happen. Step zero of that plan is to make it illegal to drive any vehicle on public streets that is not equipped with those sensors and communication devices, which will never, ever happen.

Heck, the original Wipeout had in-game ads for other Psygnosis games!

If the kid just jumped out of the truck immediately to chock the wheel, that’s pretty off-script for a normal traffic stop. It could easily make a sane person a little nervous that he’s going for a hidden gun.

I actually find this ruling kind of interesting because the supreme court has a history of disregarding the 4th amendment in favor of DUI enforcement. 

Fun fact, last year with the BLM protests, the National Guard and/or other military forces tried to make hotels give them rooms in DC, and the hotels were like, “aw hell no!”

If only the cop had established the “no tag-backs!” precedent he would have won the case!

It is, isn’t it.

“it involves a full-throttle run starting at 50 km/h (31 mph) and continuing until the engine reaches its peak-power rpm”

It’s not about people going deaf, it’s about noise pollution

Right. Any “drift mode” from factory is made explicitly for getting yourself into trouble.

“Made for drifting”

Honestly I have no idea how it would turn out if I tried to expense a scammy fee like that.

My credit card agreement includes rental car insurance, and yours probably does too.

Sure, but there’s the whole calculus of how much time the company wants to waste on fighting it vs. what it costs to just eat the fee, especially when the whole trip costs $4000 or whatever, and the employee under-spent on meals by $300.

Yeah, but some people don’t care as much, and some Hertz employees probably “smell” things that aren’t there.