No, see, he simultaneously realized that he didn’t want to date them, and that he can do better than that, so it’s all good, he’s still batting 1.000.

No way to to the first statement. Horses kill more people than dogs any way you look at it, even though there are way more dogs than horses.

The moomin in the pictures are Finnish trolls, FYI.

Or it implies they could be accused of it, and wouldn’t have any way of proving their innocence. Which, in my experience, is the actual underlying fear.

I know the “real-life” video game characters from the last one didn’t play much of a role in the film, but it’s still jarring to me that the original had actual Q-Bert and Dig-Dug filling out the world, and the new one has “Pictopedia” and “Gügle”.

You got me once, and then, several hours later, you managed to get me a second time with the exact same post as before, for which I will never forgive myself/you.

“Reks”

“Corn-pone opinions.” Brilliant essay.

Paul Ryan agrees with you.

I was wondering how I kept ending up on articles about birth control that I couldn’t remember clicking on. So that’s what’s going on . . ..

PvP nailed it.

When I was in high school, a number of people argued with me online that the earth is round. Some of them got really mad about it. I never for a moment actually believed it was flat, but I sure thought it was funny to pretend I did and watch people get so worked up over something they were so obviously right about.

One of my elementary school friends used it to slick his hair back every morning. We could smell him coming from a hundred feet away, but WD-40 smells pretty good so it’s not like we shunned him for it.

. . . despite its shaky methodology . . .

Those basically were the headlines, depending on where you get your “news”.

The California DMV stated the cars were “not properly marked”, which isn’t citing any specific legal authority, but the revocation could be defended under California Vehicle Code Section 8800, either that the DMV determined operating an autonomous vehicle without a permit made the vehicle “unsafe or unfit”, or under…

I’d love to read more about this, if you happen to know a source off the top of your head . . ..

Oh definitely with you on the “scooping” thing. Just doing my bit to flesh out the article down in the comments!

Witton had a blog post about the paper earlier this week where the jaw was discussed . . . apparently the jaw estimates come from the (2003?) paper by Buffetaut et al.

This is it.