Take your damned star while I clean off my monitor.

This was a lovely, wholesome comment. +1

My parking pass cost 4x that, 30 years ago. AND it didn’t guarantee a spot, just the opportunity to fight for a place in the garage.

Capitalism isn’t a form of governance. Which is the point.

Yep, this was my thinking, too.  It’s the first car I remember riding in, my Dad’s grey Opel. I guess it’d be a fun beast to wrench on, but $16,500? C’mon, my nostalgia has limits.

“Inconvenience your legislators, not people trying to work and simply go about their day.”

That was my exact response.

The print seized in the projector at the theater I saw it at. Have you ever seen a film melt and bubble in the projector? Well, imagine it that it happened as Maximilian descended from above.

I’m 5 for 5 when sending snail-mail thank you notes within a day. Even when judging only by effectiveness, courtesy wins out.

If you can find Syrian bread, it would work amazingly with this. 

Co-signed, for Moderna. The next day I was weak, slightly feverish, and very thirsty, but only for about 8 hours. The injection site was sore for a week afterwards.

In PA, ambulances are supposed to stop and proceed with caution.  Fire trucks and police can (at their discretion) proceed right on through.

Good early-phase trial design is what answers these sorts of questions.

Star for cleverness.

Adding a bit of miso to the butter and garlic helps amazingly, as well.

Star

It’s a perfect storm of supply SNAFU. Even before this, I was seeing a 6-month lead time for wafer starts for decades-old process nodes.

They are, they just don’t learn the lesson.

^This. And it’s significantly worsened over my lifetime.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with pouring time and money into one’s passions, in my book, and I’m relieved that he can afford them. But he definitely makes enormous investments into quixotic vehicles, and I feel a little guilty enjoying his journeys.