Yep, and I can guarantee you this universally liked idea is the one which will not actually get done. (Partly because of the holy war that is already in progress over which time to pick.)

Yep. The problem is the switch. Forcing the entire nation (minus Arizona) to be jetlagged for a week twice a year is insane. I don’t care what time we pick. We just need to pick one.  Anything.  Throw a damn coin.

It’s the solstice. The sun’s also setting really late that day. There is plenty of sunlight to use.

Hah! Okay, that’s funny. :-D Yeah, I’ve got family in Arizona, and yeah, it’s hot there. Well, less family than I used to. I need to go visit, while I still can. My great-aunt and great-uncle used to have this awesome place in Tuscon, but sadly they’ve both passed. My godmother still lives in Tempe, though. I gotta…

What’s really silly is that Alaska is using DST.  If the Sun is up 24 hours, what exactly is being saved?  :-D

Here’s the funny thing about all the folks who swear that DST is better or worse:

The nights are exactly the same length regardless of what time the clock says.

Usually, the reason the government loans money to businesses, it’s because it’s a comparatively high risk or novel industry such or there’s extra cost (making it unattractive to banks) and there’s some kind of societal or strategic benefit to the nation that justifies the particular investment. For electric cars, the…

Exactly like the one Tesla got! :-D But about that . . . even as you admitted, if Rivian succeeds, they will have to pay it back (and as I undestand it, the factory deal isn’t permanently scotched; they haven’t actually given up yet). It’s really not the free money Ramaswamy pretends it is.

“No wonder anyone with any sense has gone away.”

Precisely.  If he were “in government” he’d have to divest himself, and he’s not in a billion years gonna do that.

I suppose it’s a bit like farming. You work with what you have. You amplify it. You make it more and more and more. And that’s exactly what they’re doing.

It doesn’t need to be fancy, but I’d like to at least be able to tell the state’s plates apart a little.  Something at least slightly distinctive would be nice.  Otherwise how am I gonna be able to play license plate bingo when on road trips?  ;-)

Here’s something that puzzles me: this current trend for (legal, state-issued) black plates. You get them from the DMV, same as the regular plates, the vanity plates, and the special plates you can get that have your alma mater on them or some pretty wildlife picture or “support our troops” or whatnot. Only difference…

And yet, three did. (Well, currently anyway. They did get sent to the hospital, so that is subject to change.) It may have helped that this was a landing, not a takeoff. Less fuel means less fire.

My fridge does hold magnets. I’ve always assumed that was because the stainless was super thin, so the magnets were actually sticking to whatever was under the stainless, but after reading other comments I’m thinking maybe it’s more down to the grade of stainless used.

It probably depends on where you put the magnet. Although much was made of the Cybertruck having an “exoskeleton” of stainless steel, this isn’t entirely true. Much of its load is actually distributed by regular steel underneath the stainless steel exterior, and that’s what the magnet is actually sticking to.

I like to play Pokemon Go while I’m a passenger (my husband calls it “Pogo Radar” because I can tell him if there’s an interesting raid we can stop for), and it does detect your speed and pops up a little message warning you not to play it while driving (which is a scary thought) which you then have to dismiss. You…

I don’t know much about firearms; I was thinking more about smart munitions, which have to decide when to arm, when to release, what is an acceptable target, what are the appropriate parameters for fuzing, etc. But the same principle would absolutely apply. I understand Sig Sauer is currently facing a wrongful death la…

Yeah, I totally go make five-figure purchases specifically to tell the world I’m upset with a corporation’s CEO!