If it hasn’t blown up after 75 years, it’ll never bl.....

I tried to get quotes at around 50 (so 5+ years ago). My wife qualified and it was something like $30k. As for me, since I take BP meds and have a history of pain procedures, they wouldn’t qualify me. I had been thinking about it because my mom looked like she might need long term care and it was too late for me to…

If you have a hole on your property you have to cover it. That’s the law. It really doesn’t matter where it is or if you consider it “remote”-which is a vague and not legal term. Was there any signage indicating there was a hole there? Was there any no trespassing signs indicating that section of the property was off…

I know this dude wasn’t an employee but what the hell is the company doing with an uncovered 8' hole.  Like the fact that you can’t leave a hole uncovered should be obvious.  There are also pretty clear OSHA regulations about it:

In my profession , any hole over 6" deep needs flagging, over 18" needs a taped perimeter, and over 36" needs a fixed barricade. Excavations over 4' have stepping requirements to prevent/mitigate cave-ins.

Torts professors everywhere are elated at this perfect new final exam question.

It’s absurd to comprehend how using one part of an app, in this case UberEats can somehow affect your rights if you are involved in an accident riding in an Uber drivers car.

At some point

Mandatory arbitration clauses aren’t a bad thing when they are negotiated between two sophisticated party. If Corporation A’s team of lawyers agrees with Corporation B’s team of lawyers that their contract for 1,000,000 widgets should be subject to arbitration, that’s a net positive. It keeps the dispute out of the…

I mean, you can deny reality if you want, but it happens. All the time.

Would you like a 10-year cruise where the entire crew dies? The Odyssey may be for you.

I don’t think you’ve been watching the news... lol.

I look forward to repeatedly trying to avoid these cars being sold by shitty dealers a few states away.

Money == speech, so it’s not a bribe; it’s just a conversation.

Just going to throw this out there - but Rush was clearly dismissive of government regulation and government warnings. The typical, libertarian, businessman who felt that needless bureaucracy cramped his style.

Yeah. All fair. He wasn’t really a snake-oil salesman, in the sense that they don’t really believe the bullshit they’re peddling.

The fact that he took himself out is the only thing I find surprising. Usually these people are at least a little self-aware and avoid putting themselves in any real danger.  He clearly also bought the bullshit he was peddling - because he made a number of dives in that death trap.

With so many people telling you it’s a deathtrap, you kinda have to delude yourself into thinking you know something they don’t before you can really start convincing strangers that you’re right. Especially if you’re going to be getting on board the thing.

Imagine living in the mountains of western North Carolina and getting hit by the remnants of a hurricane...and in some ways harder than Florida got hit. What a bizarre turn of events. I feel terrible for the people whose families, lives, livelihoods, communities, etc simply got washed away with little to no warning.

There’s a reason they use mules/donkeys in places like the Grand Canyon, can carry a decent load a long way on very narrow paths. Not the coolest and fastest but the best for the job at hand. It really sucks, beautiful area, feel bad for the people dealing with the ongoing disaster.