Next step will be cutting off trade. Let’s see if they can eat cash.

The Gulf wars were practically favors done by the Bush family for their Saudi friends, the bin Ladens (who had kicked out their disagreeable relative who was the core of the 9/11 attack.) Keeping Saddam Hussein tamped down was the primary goal, but then he made too much about building WMDs and the Saudis knew who he…

They used to use pneumatic tubes for delivering mail all over Paris, apparently for around 100 years. If it’s not working at CVS they just aren’t getting the right repair guy.

The engineering is pretty simple - it’s the amount of money required that isn’t.

Doors require the train to stop in exactly the correct location, not 3 feet to either side of it. It’s also possible for people to get smeared between the wall the door is in and the side of the train if sensors fail.

“We’re gonna have our voices heard and let them understand this is only the tip of the iceberg.”

A boatload of cars just got a Viking funeral, so they are already waiting.

Freshly Smoked Lamborghini. Lamborghini Jerky. Lamborghini Fricassee. Lamborghini Flambé. Lamborghini Aventatertots.

No one ever thinks of the sidewalks or parks or parking lots. Once the decision is made to run, any level area is considered an escape route.

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

China: Sanctions don’t work as well as prison camps do.

Texas did.

border.

It would be helpful to have the guard have a sign on the bridge side that says - “proceed through this gate NOW or you will die.”

Wait for the first shipment of AI controlled self-driving cars to be in a ship that has a fire - crowding the freight elevators in a desperate attempt to escape, smashing against the closed cargo doors, loud horns honking plaintively and then fading as their speaker surrounds melt and then the cones burn, silencing…

All of them, then none of them.

I just missed the cut-off for Pan Am offering reservations on orbital flights.

Wouldn’t it be nice not to design every possible component with a microprocessor in it? I watch the South Main Auto YouTube channel and it gets to me the way car companies seem to maximize the amount of failure potential with their wiring and electronics.

In the summer the driver often dives head-first into murky water because what could possibly go wrong?

Generally it was. Airfares are much less expensive and there are many more flights. It was terrible for many airlines, but more for their workers. A lot of pilots and flight attendants either lost seniority when they went to surviving companies or had it so down-graded it didn’t matter.