The team coupled electric-field creating material to the circuit, allowing its superposition to transfer over to the crystal.

Oh, the irony! I can’t handle this much irony!

Ah, but their god is allowed to abort whomever He so chooses; He works His will in such mysterious ways and all that.

As is so often the case, it may well be that all of the parties involved were in the wrong in some way. I will grant, though, that the only ones who seem to be definitely at fault in this altercation were the tow drivers, who were at least incompetent, if not worse.

Good condition, yes; clean, who cares?

Question:

No.

Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley, NC:

I can tell you if there’s salmonella in your chicken. Ready?

Tipping.

Ah, an infantile temper tantrum. The hallmark of a well-reasoned argument, presented by a reasonable person. TBH, though, I expected you would just copy/paste your twice-used screed in a third time.

How has it been waking up from that coma?

If you’re merely going to repeat your previous statements that I’ve already rebutted, I’m merely going to ask you to read my rebuttal again.

Why are you presuming any of this is being done in good faith

How is letting six hyperconservative, unelected people who serve for life, rule the country by judicial fiat any better? How exactly is facilitating rule by a conservative judicial dictatorship that can’t be removed going to turn out in my favor?

So this moron doesn’t know that “titter” is an actual, perfectly cromulent word all by itself, with a meaning that has nothing (in particular) to do with tits?

Then why isn’t the baby in the hospital now?

To be fair, when pronounced “correctly,” oil is a one-syllable word. Methinks that Southerners are not the only ones stretching that dipthong into a hiatus.

Once the balloon was discovered, it was no longer a threat of any kind. Therefore, the non-zero threat of damage to human or animal lives or to property (even while over the “thousands of empty acres” you incorrectly posit) outweighed the zero threat to lives, property, or intelligence while the balloon was in the air.

Some might say global thermonuclear... (insert appropriate Matthew Broderick pic here)