I love how the person in the lead image appears to be someone with Type 1 diabetes using an insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor. These people are not immunocompromised! If anything they have overactive immune systems (T1D is an autoimmune disease after all). Vaccines work just fine for them! Yes they are in…

Not only that- the rocket thrust could be used to augment the tire grip. Angle the nozzles upwards and a portion of the thrust would be converted into downforce. There’s probably some optimal angle for how much additional traction vs. propulsion is worth that would  make a cool problem for a physics class.

Negligence or criminal charges in what court? They’re in China. The most we could do (and already did a while ago) is cut off their NIH grant funding.

We already know they had crappy biosecurity practices and were not complying with the regulations they should have been. If it turns out that it did come from the lab does that mean it wouldn’t have if they had been complying, or do we need to make a change to the existing regulations? Unless we figure out something…

This. It’s a waste of time and money, a distraction from bigger and more urgent problems, and a potential source of propaganda and misdirection. I see no benefits to this investigation even if we do somehow find all the answers. Even if we figure out how how THIS pandemic started, using that knowledge to justify better…

What I’m getting at is that some people don’t have the resources to make the choices they know would be better for themselves and for the environment. It’s why the poor end up paying more for everything (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/25/why-it-costs-so-much-to-be-poor-in-america/). They…

Sometimes the choices we make aren’t the choices we want to make, but the choices we are forced to make. Some people can’t afford a car that will last 30+ years. Yes, it would be more cost effective in the long run, but they just don’t have the money to make the payments. I worked at a car company where I remember a…

I’ve got a similar story, except for valve cover gasket replacement job. Youtube vids said that you didn’t need a torque wrench, so I ended up breaking the last bolt (on what would have been my last quarter turn!) in the worst place. My various attempts to remove the bolt myself ended up breaking off a tap in the…

Funny, I just saw this on Facebook today:

Yup. There are lots of tall and very old trees in my neighborhood that are out to get us. A couple of years ago a tree fell at night in high winds and crushed a house killing someone in their bed. More recently a perfectly healthy-looking 100ft tall red oak in my neighbor’s yard ripped its roots out of the ground in…

When we were expecting our first kid we had a short list of names for boys and girls. “Verona” was at the tops of the girls list...until Suzuki came out with a new model called the Verona. Thankfully that one was a boy.

I have a dog that dug out a buried drainage line and shredded the perforated pipe in there. Then she tore the gutters off the walls and chewed up the bottoms (yes, the metal aluminum part). I finally figured out she was chasing chipmunks that would hide in the gutters. I zip-tied hardware cloth (like chickenwire, but…

Just avoid the calamari:

I’ll answer a slightly different question- how nearly traumatic was your school bus rides with two stories from bussing from the suburbs to inner city middle schools in Florida in the late 80's:

“All the money is in service already”
That’s one reason they would be complaining. EVs need a lot less service. Mostly just tires & brakes (and less brakes due to regen braking), and those aren’t usually a dealer thing for most people.

I’ve got half a mind to suspect old Elon hit the self destruct button to increase the press coverage after a successful test completion.

Huh. I don’t even see you in the greys up there. But Kinja doesn‘t always make sense or work right. I guess your mileage may vary- some cars are stupid and turn their own wipers on when you don’t want them to. Some owners are stupid and rip their wipers up scraping their windows. I think the specific car and…

Reply to Romeo Reject up top then, since he seems to know more about what he’s talking about. I’d like to see a good discussion by people who know (or at least think they know) what they’re talking about. But according to some other comments (and depending on the car) leaving them down can also expose expensive things…

Does this mean that the army needs to stop naming their helicopters after Native American tribes? Or is this analogous to the Florida State Seminoles, who keep using that name (and also have specific permission of the tribe) because it is intended to honor them?

Came here to post this. I’m going with the car people on this one.