I love this dude. Born in 1914. Still sharp of mind and mobile. We should all be so lucky.

“Alternative” is a euphemism and a generic catch-all term that, in this context, might as well be interchangeable with “barely,” “quasi” and “not really.” In short, we use the term “alternative” charitably because it’s easier to spell than the sound of muffled laughter.

I enjoyed watching the shred of frozen stretch more than room-temp stretch. As for the latter, that clean-up has got to be a royal PITA.

One part of the article said some of the panels were dented before the incident

The article mentioned the car being hit with a bat prior to the murder rage. Tao is calling BS on that attempted excuse.

All currencies are a construct of human perception. The value of gold, paper money, this lint I have in my pocket, it’s all relative in value to what we can (for the most part) agree on. Bitcoin is no different. Its more abstract and newer therefore harder to establish consistency and uniformily agreed upon value… I…

What do you mean semi-citizens? Anyone born in Guam is a citizen of the US, end of story.

And DDT was replaced by much more dangerous chemicals.

And the Dr. who caused it to be pulled off the shelves says the reaction was overblown. The banning of DDT caused hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of deaths from mosquito born illnesses.

Faster, cheaper, cleaner, more convenient etc etc.

OK, curious. A pizza delivery site might be one of the times I would allow a website to get location. I’ll be entering my address on there shortly, anyways, unless I don’t want delivery.

In assessing the rationality and credibility of this person, well...

This is the only site that asks me over and over to “white list” it.... I know I am not helping by using ad block... but man when I turn it off it feels like I am being vomited at with add’s. No I will not white list. Rather pay a patron than get a sub par experience. So yeah. Pop ups are annoying. Also fix your site.

Cool. Now how to I stop Gizmodo from repeatedly pestering me to disable AdBlock?

Props for having this level of ondemand bowel control.

Criminals have plenty of guns here, it’s only the law abiding citizens who have to jump through hoops to get one and then are forbidden from carrying them.

Set up crowdfunding page for prosthetic-arm-needing tough guy.

In before people complain about vertical video. This is a problem phone makers should have solved years ago.

I work there (here).