I’d be surprised if there’s enough material in there to get him through two dumps. In the salad days of tobacco advertising, it was the size of a small county’s phone book and you could take all week to finish it.

I’m legitimately upset that Lukas was let go. Maybe I should have clicked on more of his links from the blog, but for some reason in the past few years I’m more interested in his blog than actual uniform news.

Jesus Christ. Throw all these grifters into a snake pit. 

“staff might get bigger”

Considering the new folks running the place, the Swimsuit Issue is probably going to have an outsized place at SI going forward, so that staff might get bigger.

They’ll still get it. It’ll just be shot entirely on an iPhone from here on out.

Erik,

I didn’t start listening to Car Talk until I was in college and had a $500 car that I could barely afford to keep running, so I had to learn how to do it myself. Years later, I was a consultant and landed in Boston on the day that Tom passed. I remember listening to NPR and seeing the info boards over the Mass Pike…

“The show’s most frequent listener these days might in fact be Ray himself. He said he still listens to the show “all the time,” mostly to hear his brother’s voice and remind himself about times they had together. To remind himself of the jokes they shared. To remind himself of the good times.”

Thanks Erik, I didn’t…

I never really “got” Car Talk as a kid, much to the surprise of the adults in my life. I was a little car nut from Massachusetts, after all. And my dad loved it. But this story closes a lot of loops for me.

This is the biggest pushed-under-the-rug/willfully ignored supply chain problem for EV manufacturing and product lifecycle. Batteries are rare metal resource intensive (check out cobalt price histories) and nearly impossible to recycle. EVs will need a 3-5 year bttery replacement cycle at current wear rates (and even…

I just took in a 2 year old laptop with bad memory. In previous years that would have cost me 20-60 bucks to fix. With the memory now soldered on the whole logic board has to be replaced for $500. At that point one is tempted to chuck the whole machine. Even something as minor as a bad wifi card is catostrophic.…

They could also start by eliminating the pointless New Hat upgrades and by making their hardware serviceable and by generally steering away from that planned-obsolescence thing.

And this is the company that make a laptop that, in order to repair it, you need to trash a good proportion of it... Colour me cynical but Apple and any environmental or ethical practices are complete strangers to each other.

the dishwasher will do this nicely and greatly reduce your water usage on it

I can’t believe the shit you’re getting about rinsing out stuff like tomato sauce from the cans and jars. How much extra water would it take to stick them in with the dishes we are already washing? Or a cup or two of water, swirl it a few times (or shake if it has a lid) and dump it. Doesn’t have to be spotless, just…

Many recycle plants will immediately throw away any containers with food  left in them as the food screws up the recycling process.  But whatever, fill the landfills that you have no more room for because your president had a falling out with the largest recycling plant in the world.  

I assumed most people would rinse out this stuff just so their own house wouldn’t smell of shit, I guess not.