Or poverty food. As a grad student, I *might* not have turned this down.

If the design were already laid out and tested, and GM had the stencils for the design, it could be start fab within a few weeks. But those are two large caveats to begin with, and I highly doubt that GM owns that particular IP.

What is the remedy when police refuse to do their jobs? That is as much a cancer, causing the rise of vigilantism, as anything. I have heard (secondhand, of course) that there are crimes being ignored specifically because police are low-key protesting oversight.

All I can comment is that I commiserate, having once hit an airborne turkey at night, when going 70 in my Solara.  It was like a bag of bloody feathers exploded.

I have biking friends who have been hit by deer running parallel to them on trails...until the deer decided to run perpendicular for Just A Little Bit.

If you soak the Haribos overnight in vodka, bourbon, or other spirits, it’s another kind of preservation I endorse.

This is the correct insight.  Happy Halloween!

May I offer you a Snickers?

Not exactly what I was thinking when I saw Dallas and ICE in the same sentence. XD

This is generally not possible when working typical business hours.

Yeah, it is.  I find that I tend to rise with the daybreak. This is especially annoying when I want to sleep in on weekends. XD

Absolutely.  I have a wake-up light alarm clock, and it makes a big difference as well!

For those who are affected by the lack of sunlight, vitamin D supplements are a godsend. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a thing, give me my vitamin D gummies! 

We have different definitions of palatable. There’s a local burger joint that offers weekly specials on unusual meats—think bison, elk, ostrich usually—but one week they did camel. I’m often one to try something new, so I did.  Not only did it taste bland and slightly oily, but 24 hours later, the results were just…

Americium-241 is the radionuclide that smoke detectors use. It’s an alpha emitter (and a weak gamma emitter), so the penetration depth is very low. The Cesium-137 is comparatively worse, with a 662 keV gamma. The real question is how much of these materials are in the nuclear gauge. I’m betting that it’s a pretty…

I wonder what their oversight practices are. Or if they even exist.

I’m wondering if that’s why I’m seeing a lot more Deeres for sale around here--planned obsolescence.

Also, not all engineers (or other exempt employees) are supervisory.

It’s an excellent way to lose engineers, is what it is. If you think that engineering isn’t currently an occupation where workers will absolutely leave bad management conditions, I have news for you.

Not all maintenance issues are severe, though. The article says that those issues were ones that the pilots reported to maintenance. For all we know, the tire pressures may have been a little too high or too low for their preference. That doesn’t necessarily rise to the level of premeditated murder.