dinningwithporthos
Dining With Porthos
dinningwithporthos

I’m having Half-Life flashbacks

...yet governments can’t mandate automatic headlights AND TAIL LIGHTS that turn on when it gets dark.

Because the raw materials needed for most items are not found local to them. Those raw materials have to be shipped from all over the place to a manufacturer. It doesn’t matter if that manufacturer is in Myrtle Beach or Waixingzhu China, you are still having to ship everything at least a couple of times.

I’m super confused with this:

idk, planes keep flying over it like they already do? 

Everyone should do themselves a favour and try a Mexican-made Coke.  It’s made with cane sugar and is so much better than the American crap.  You’ll curse the corn lobby for ruining sodas.

1990-2010 plastic parts in the engine bay. I’m looking at you BMW and VAG and your crappy plastic dipstick tubes, plastic water pump impellers, plastic EVERYTHING.

I think Neeson got a bad rap with that particular incident, although I can’t speak to him vouching for Spacey.

I’m having trouble visualizing how this works. How does a spine compress from a person pressing their entire body against someone else’s back? Compression injuries to vertebrae usually come from impacts like falls or car accidents. If it’s a pinched nerve it makes a bit more sense than a fractured vertebra, but that

Stopping for two seconds is inefficient in time, energy, and morale when there is absolutely no one in sight.

Work Travel: Carry-on only

We really should be putting up yield signs where 75% of stop signs are at

It’s intended to be as neutral as possible for staging purposes so people can envision making the house their own. The issue is that most people lack any kind of creativity or eye for aesthetics so they think that the staged real estate look is some desirable thing.

Until you’ve beared witness to certain levels of wealth, the expression, “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it” doesn’t ever really sink in. This is not for regular people. $2,600/mo is nothing to these folks. Add those other items you mentioned and bring it to $5,000/mo? Still nothing. Buying it outright for

While some on Twitter/X speculated that Taylor-Joy could be hinting that director George Miller was creepy or inappropriate in some way, she was very effusive toward him in the interview.

I really dislike the constant attempts at establishing some sort of dichotomy and incompatibility between carbon-use reduction and carbon capture.  We need to do both, period.  

For sure. Whether its woke folks or incel trolls attacking, it’s cancel culture and Maya’s right that it’s hurting comedy

the comments here proves her point

I think the big difference is that it doesn’t matter what the topic is, it can be clipped and warped to make someone look bad and the clickbait postings that result can be monetized. Doesn’t have to comport with a specific political perspective. And as far as comedy goes there’s definitely plenty of “if this person

Based on the lack of comments for this episode (two so far, one of which says they stopped watching mid-season) and for the preceding ones (five for the last episode, eight for the one before that), it seems like basically no one but the author is watching.