It’s small consolation that the axle can’t drop if the axle and differential can rotate in ways that the driveshaft can’t accommodate. Brake lines probably wouldn't handle that gracefully either. Portal or not, any axle that’s free to rotate will cause major problems.

It’s true that the complete lack of something is not its opposite. That’s why it’s not how opposites are defined. To use your love/indifference/hate example, “indifference” is the line that “love” and “hate” stand on opposite sides of.

To avoid trademark infringement with Microsoft’s XBone.

It obviously wasn’t enough words if that’s what you think I was trying to do. Evil isn’t exclusive to terrorism. It’s perfectly possible and actually quite common for people to be evil without also being terrorists. It’s even possible to kill a lot of people without being a terrorist. That doesn’t make those people…

Yes, Boeing has done a sterling job of proving that as of late.

The point is that it’s like cutting the speedometer cable on a car. It’s going to be detectable almost immediately, and doesn’t prevent a competent person from safely operating the vehicle in a pinch. But unlike a car, pitot tube obstructions mid-flight are common enough that A: Pilots are aware of and need to account…

True, but there’s no point in counting tiny, sparsely-populated nations like India.

Given how frequently my food problems are diagnosed as “being a baby”, I can absolutely believe that men with eating disorders are severely under-reported.

I feel for you there. I don’t think my problems with food are severe enough to warrant the diagnosis of an actual food disorder, but it’s amazing how many uncomfortable situations I’ve ended up in. I hate all the arguments and embarrassment I’ve had to deal with over the decades, but my digestive system doesn’t care…

Some of us were quite willing to go with option B. I certainly never had any expectation that I’d get a substitution. In my case, stress kills my appetite, so getting into an argument over food I couldn’t stand in the first place just guaranteed I wouldn’t be eating.

I don’t have ARFID, but as a picky eater I can confirm this effect. I’ve had foods forced on me that I kind of likd. Because I had to eat them so often even when I wasn’t in the mood for them, they stopped being appealing, and now I can’t eat them. Combine that with trying to sneak known hated foods into everything,…

Shouldn’t they be worried about false positives though? If I were going to do an end-run around the 2nd Amendment, taking advantage of a system that could be progressively manipulated to make everyone ineligible to own firearms would be a pretty handy alternative, especially if it’s a system that gun advocates lobbied…

The media. They glamorize the crap out of violence. I remember when their news reports were literally giving the D.C. Snipers ideas for potential targets, yet they still insisted on their rampant speculation. Beyond that, their rumor-mongering also helped ensure people were on the lookout for the wrong vehicle,…

According to the indicators you use to test whether someone is an IC or employee I don’t believe number of hours worked is a specific factor. Fine, limit them to a certain number of rides or miles driven then – if someone is an independent contractor to me I should have the right to be able to tell them how much of…

That’s true. So if having a workforce consisting of part-time employees offers all those benefits, why is that not good enough for Uber and Lyft? Why do they need these workers to be classified as contractors?

I don’t see how that will help. Employers routinely limit their employees’ working hours—often to avoid overtime for full-time employees, or to avoid paying full-time benefits to part-time employees. Controlling the maximum hours a person can work would likely reinforce the argument that rideshare drivers are…

That’s not necessarily true. Right now we’re in the middle of an ongoing political disaster, and I see no problem with other countries making fun of the US over it, even though the half of the country that voted against the disaster tends to get lumped into the mockery.

Are you saying that 147 people who weren't murdered should result in a bigger outrage than 3000 who were?

There are two simple solutions. The quick method is to avoid federal-level prosecution and stick to state-level or below. Trump can only pardon federal-level offenses.

I come from an era when the typical Castlevania game would not have qualified as a Metroidvania. To me, treating Metroid-style exploration as a signature feature of Castlevania is like saying that the side-scrolling platforming and melee combat of early Castlevania games is a signature feature of Zelda. It’s just…