I want to know what he was doing all day. Did he have a real job at the Best Buy in the next town or something?

Is it even worth it to the republicans to fight this hard to unseat Manchin? That motherfucker’s such a DINO. I don’t know anything about the strategy but if I had limited funds to spend I’d be looking to spend them somewhere else.

I don’t see how it would be fitting. John McCain has spent his entire career acting in the exact opposite way to what one might expect a victim of torture to act. It stands to reason that his last act will be to vote ‘yea’, because fuck other people.

They charge just as well with ambient interior light. I’ve been using mine in my decently-lit office (125 lux) for about a year with no hiccups. I’m pretty far from natural sunlight. Anything north of 100 lux and it’ll stay 100% charged.

They charge just as well with ambient interior light. I’ve been using mine in my decently-lit office (125 lux) for…

Totally off topic but my eyes cannot un-see in the image above the halves of two men, or perhaps the same man on two different days, smushed together along the sagittal plane. The one on our left is wearing a blue-grey suit and the one on the right is wearing a just-grey suit.

This is somewhat tangential, but that graph up there is pretty telling about self-styled “independents.” Their vision of themselves is of rugged individualism, of refusing to hew to party lines, of being above the political fray and being for common sense. In short, both-sides-are-bad-ism.

Does anyone know why the clearances are still pending? Maybe I haven’t been reading closely enough, but does it generally take this long? Can we expect Jared and his ilk to eventually be cleared, or is something lurking that’s preventing this?

*I think this packet was written by clueless, ignorant people and not intelligent, thoughtful people so they definitely didn’t intend what follows.*

In Boston? I’ve never heard of a single case of either.

Same up here in Boston. You take 93 or 95, but when you’re on 93 or 95 south of town it’s THE Southeast Expressway. You’d take 90 to get to New York, but 90 is THE Pike.

I think might disagree on your last point—the T will probably never pay for itself with fares, and it’s a choice some cities make whether that matters or not. I happen to think its utility outweighs its need to be self-sustaining. The roads don’t pay for themselves either with tolls; they’re heavily subsidized.…

I’d be okay with some ability to modulate the amounts going to road vs rail (and in limited cases, coasts). In a city like mine (Boston) we have limited need for new highway projects. Plenty of roads to straighten and bridges to fix, but what we really need is about 90% of the take going to our mass transit system.…

What I loved about reading these as a kid is that after a while I knew the expedition was going to lose some of those supplies, and by setting it up when they leave in the beginning you knew exactly how screwed they would be. Something always got washed down a river or they had to abandon some things to make a quicker…

Grabbed a tie and a pair of socks for $11, good looking out!

Grabbed a tie and a pair of socks for $11, good looking out!

Yes, let the states conduct a grand experiment! Maybe a state only wants to guarantee a quality education to white kids. What a worthwhile, victimless experiment! Maybe in some, only men can own property. Maybe in others, they’ll slash all but nominal taxes because nothing bad could happen! And if you don’t like the…

Giri you gotta write more music reviews, this is just high quality writing.

I think I got the point and missed the point at the same time:

That wheelbase is very wacky to me. The front doesn’t seem to be of particular concern because only the driver is up there but isn’t there a lot of weight in the back, even if the fuel cells are in a skateboard configuration? (I don’t even know if hydrogen works the same as electric battery packs).

lol so the same people who are opposed to having trains anywhere near them are going to be fine with an elevated tube shading their property at all times? That’s why people love highway overpasses right?

This is a literal, actual pipe dream. Maybe “tech startup” has become synonymous with “let’s fuck around with impractical ideas and waste resources instead of offering improvements that actually help people” but it doesn’t have to be.