I spent most of my formative years as an aspiring engineer watching Mythbusters. Grant and Jamie were my favorites. I never became an engineer, sadly, but I still have a strong love of it thanks in large part to him and the Mythbusters team.

I’m totally gutted about Grant Imahara’s passing. He was one of the best things about Mythbusters. Really feeling for his family and friends right now. 

Exactly. Pulaski was considered an asshole because she acted like an asshole all the time. Had nothing to do with gender.

It really is a fascinating situation because... well, yeah, Star Trek on this subject is often a “it was often not-good-to-bad, but it was still better than most of the contemporaries” situation.

And I am sure Erin Andrews was discussed here back when she was on ESPN and some dbag took a nude video of her through a peephole in her hotel room.

Self-awareness may not be this site’s strongest suit...

Honestly, 75% of Dirt Bags are people I have (or my teenage kids have) never heard of. Tom Bergeron is a legend! Hollywood Squares, America’s Funniest Home Videos...an actual professional who seems like a generally decent person. 

I think this is Dirt Bag worthy: Jezebel’s garbage queen using a racial slur, then pretending not to know that extremely common racial slur is, in fact, a racial slur: https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/cardi-b-uses-anti-asian-slur-in-instagram-post

I think the BLM = terrorism was spawned from seeing all the businesses and communities get destroyed. The BLM movement struggled at least initially to distinguish the people protesting inequality and the anarchists just there to break shit. And to be fair there definitely was over lap between the groups.

When you stand on my hood or beat on my windows...  the game’s gonna change.  I’m not going to be another Reginald Denny.

Viper or truck, hell no I wouldn’t shoot somebody, but there would be an altercation for damn sure. It’s not like someone can get a pass for shitty behavior if they claim it’s for protesting,

Is it an open, public road? Why do the protestors have more of a right to use it than anyone else?

Nope, but if I was inside it and a crowd of people started breaking the window, I would get out of there the best I could. An attack on my property while I’m inside it is a reliable precursor to an attack on my person.

So at what point is someone actually allowed to feel threatened?

Also, if you don’t want cars in your protest, you work with the city to get the roads where you’re protesting closed. Lots of groups do this when organizing marches or protests.

The remaining 36 were unclear, especially when drivers fear for their lives due more to racism than any real risk to their safety. Even when the case seems pretty clear cut, charges might not be forth coming, like this ramming attack in New York which resulted in a protester being dragged for a block, but no charges…

Based on recent history I expect this post will be deleted, but while it’s up:

People who dont stand in the middle of the road get hit 0% of the time. True story.

My focus would not be on the rich and famous, but rather the unknowns who get ganged up on and fired due to social media mob campaigns. Like the woman who reported a transit worker for eating on the train in violation of transit rules. Or the little known researcher fired from his job for tweeting a link to an…

Still framing the Gawker demise as “a billionaire with a vendetta financing a lawsuit,” like Gawker didn’t deserve to lose the lawsuit?