Parasitic wasps?

Well, as I said in my post, with the exception of the specific type of wurst he’s using, Brian has simply rediscovered a salad spread that was widely known during the Great Depression and well into the second half of the last century. It may be weird to people from parts of the country where the right kinds of sausage…

This isn’t really much of an innovation—maybe using hotdogs as a base. But if you live in a part of the country where there is German or Amish influence and you had relatives who lived through the Great Depression, then you will likely know of the variation on ham salad made from ringwurst, aka “ring bologna”, called…

Since the Trump regime, via Secretary Chao, has explicitly stated that the purpose is to deny states rights, it sets up an interesting argument into how much weight that still carries with right-wing justices. It’s also worth pointing out that California “forces” no other state to follow its regulations; those states d…

It still works, and it still costs more and still has a higher-capacity battery that occupies more of the interior volume.

6 users paying for 6 memberships is different from 6 users fraudulently exploiting a discount.

I suppose that whichever tech company programs the “Taylor Swift” AI doesn’t want Microsoft association, but Taylor was one of the most overused names for infants of all sexes several decades ago, and while “Tay” may be a logical shortening, I had no idea that it had been trademarked.

It’s hard to see this plot as a series. The movie Targets (1968), Peter Bogdanovich’s first complete feature, written by him and Samuel Fuller, executive produced by Roger Corman, and one of Boris Karloff’s last real acting roles (and his favorite, according to his daughter) is fantastic, but it only needs to sustain…

The analogy isn’t perfect, but it’s also somewhat like saying that the close captions of a video constitute a separate work that needs to be licensed. I do see a use for the feature that isn’t so stupid; having already learned the alphabet at age three or so, I was reading by age four by recognizing the letter…

However, note that this movie predates the first Sony Walkman by at least 5 years. In 1974 a “portable” cassette player was closer in size to a hardcover textbook and used multiple pairs of D batteries.

It looks somewhere in between Ford’s Rose Beige Metallic and Champagne Beige Metallic.

The Republican voters don’t live in the city, or the nearer suburbs. It surprises me that they would even venture to urban PNC Park, Heinz Field, and especially PPG Paints Arena.

Apparently you’ve never driven a Versa Note, which is going away but still in Enterprise fleets.

Beyond Burger 2.0, out for a month or so, has a more beeflike texture and flavor. I actually preferred the finer mince texture of the original, which tasted like meat but not necessarily beef-it reminded me of lamb patties or turkey burgers.

They’re not claiming to own the design or style, they’re claiming to have developed the technology underlying LED filaments as opposed to LED point sources used by previous bulbs. The filaments don’t necessarily need to be arranged to mimic historic bulbs, that is just a fashion they have been used to provide an…

It’s true that the 5 cars with cruise control that I have owned were all Mazdas or Fords, but all of them explicitly stated in their owner’s manuals that cruise control should not be used except on dry pavement. Whether that means it is actually hazardous to do otherwise is open to question. However, the prohibition…

Insurers previously offered discounts when safety equipment like airbags and ABS were introduced, only to find that loss rates really didn’t change much, because drivers have the perverse habit of altering their behavior to maintain a perceived level of risk they are already comfortable with. This time they’re taking…

No, you actually can’t put the sensors in the bumper, because it’s the bumper, and safety-related systems must by law continue to function after a specified impact.

Having seen all of those cars in person, I have to disagree..

Before factory canning or readily available ice, and marketing, lobster was a cheap, lower-class food fed to servants and prisoners. In the mid-19th century the Maine legislature passed a law limiting the number of times per week lobster was served in state prisons, after protests. Crayfish is more difficult, although…