I’m not arguing because I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I’m curious what the criteria for “going to space” should be.

Oh, I totally agree. Every time I visit my parents, I’m charged with re-pairing their phones to the car’s Bluetooth, and since their car doesn’t allow fiddling with the settings while in motion, I always race to get it done (from the passenger seat, of course) while stopped at a red light. I wish I could assure the…

The pathetic “I really am over 18 the passenger” confirmation button indicates that Tesla really wants the video games to be available to the driver.

One of my greatest regrets was when, as a kid, my parents asked if I wanted a SNES, and I chose the soup.

I would pay real money for the opportunity to attend one of their concerts.

“Michiganders”

The Ikea nearest to me is arranged such that their cafe is right by the loading zone. There is no better entertainment value than grabbing a soft ice cream for about a buck and stepping outside to enjoy it while watching people try to load oversize items into their vehicles. I’ve witnessed the “tied my own door shut”…

They’re not concerned about such things, or at least they’re not looking for them. In fact, those examples weren’t cited in the links to the TSA site in the article (the coffee thing goes to a listicle from Readers Digest, and the cash one goes to some other uncited listicle blog).

The bargain basement price surprised me as well.  Seeing at least one skilled technician (two for parts of the procedure), plenty of specialized tools, and some sort of petroleum-based coating, I expected it to be a lot more expensive.  I guess they save money on PPE.

The exact differences between various underbody treatments — wax-based versus tar-based versus oil-based, and the different application methods — is something I’ll get into in a future article.

In the US, there is a tradition for parents to create increasingly complex tableaus based around an elf doll. While the doll ostensibly originated in a children’s book, children are not involved in this endeavor, rather, it is done for the entertainment of the parents’ adult friends on social media.

My pre-coffee brain read it as “genital ranglia” and now that’s my new band name.

Do you frequently find people sitting on the floor, crying, and eating entire sheet cakes?

Sure thing. To be honest, I wasn’t much of a gearhead prior, but I enjoyed the writing of so many of the authors so much that it drew me in. Then nearly all of the good ones left and they started bringing in some scrubs, and the place isn’t the same.

At what point is variant so unique that it is considered a whole new virus? There’s a different flavor of the flu dominant every year, but we still call them all “the flu”, but shingles is apparently different enough from chicken pox to merit a different name. 

FWIW, https://www.thedrive.com/ is a pretty good Jalopnik alternative. In fact, it’s where most of their better writers went when they jumped ship, so there are familiar faces over there.

That is exactly the whistle I was given before I donned the red shorts and ascended the tall chair.  Cool to know it’s top of the line!

I attempted to barter with the animal. I had a can of tomato sauce-covered fish in my van, so I proposed an exchange