By lard you mean that stuff you strain from your frying pan after a round of bacon, yes? It's possible that I've used it to fry eggs or potatoes in, in the past, but I've never spread it on toast, I swear.

Uh, guys, why are we spending any money on something like this — as long as your TV is new enough to have a built-in digital converter, some cheap old thing off Craigslist or a thrift-store score could be good enough, no?

Not installing this, just as I'm not installing Facebook Messenger ever. I just won my Battle of the Newsfeed – blocking shares from clickbait sites (Upworthy, Viralnova, 9gag, boredpanda, ...), silencing the noisy self-promoters and news-story-johnny-come-latelies – and I'm not about to refight the same war in a…

So you were working in an Amazon Fulfillment warehouse then, I gather?

Cigar galaxy? Bill Clinton approves.

"worked closely"

This orange star-like thing may well be a relatively nearby star in our own galaxy that just got caught in the frame. A cosmic photobomb, if you will.

I don't see why you need to jump down his throat. The linked story clearly states this:

Just goes to show ya that the best photo opportunities don't care for anyone's schedule...

Your satire detector may be broken, but your fake outrage engine is firing on all cylinders. Brava!

Where are you getting this notion that Uncle Sam put $1b into BD from? My read on BD was that they're systems integrators — making the software systems that control the mostly off-the-shelf parts which they bolt together — with <100 engineering staff.

Funny thing, I always thought the Internet was a big truck—something you just dump something on...

NOPE. The Longyang Road terminus station of the airport Maglev is somewhere useless, nowhere near the centre of Shanghai. You gotta exit the faux-futuristic transfer station you put up a picture of, pay a separate fare, do the x-ray machine charade and then get on the regular slow and crowded Shanghai Metro to…

For the GLB crowd there's Grindr; it's been around since 2009.

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That's very much like own reaction, at age 21: "Is this it? ...... Wow!" (I was really into the Strokes then.)

It's really too bad Cabintaxi never took off or people movers in general.

When flies invade my apartment, my cat deploys into action and usually ends up eating a few after trapping them against a glass pane. The rest of the time he stows himself away in a box, like so:

Pot Psychology is solely responsible for my continuing addiction to this site.

THIS. Also, it feels like the mainstreaming of geek has lowered the threshold to geek-dom — all it takes these days is the right pair of Warby Parkers, having a read comic book sometime, and once dressing up as a zombie for Hallowe'en. REALLY?