> Anyway, it’s the end of the year, and I’ve been asked to make a slideshow

Thank you for your insightful contribution.

3rd Gear: Palladium is very VERY interesting though. When heated, hydrogen passes through it like a sieve, allowing near-perfect purification of hydrogen for industrial gas production.

Recent quarterly reports have pegged this as larger meat producers exerting their pricing power to increase profit margins. Like, several times their operating cost percentage increases.

Yep, that joke existed.

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