Odd.  I’ve only had that happen in a rented Nissan Altima. In all of the other cars I’ve rented (full-sized Chevys, Hondas, and Toyotas), it’s been fine.

The big thing that worked best in live action that didn’t work for me at ALL in the anime was the chemistry between the characters. That’s a big part of why shows work for me or don’t, and why I enjoyed the live-action Bebop a lot more.

Mine used to fill with water, thanks Ford.

You know, if it brings joy to some people who aren’t you, you should just see yourself out.

Seems like there’d be opportunity in making a product that you could repeatedly sell to different customers, once they return it to you at the end of its usefulness to them.

I thought that this was previously done in Runaway, with Tom Selleck:

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.

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…

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.