This seems likely to be used purely as an excuse to hassle minorities. The fact that they didn’t include any kind of objective standard is very telling.

Funny, although as someone who takes it I feel the need to point out that lithium is a mood stabilizer, not an anti-psychotic. ;)
(It *was* sometimes tried for schizophrenia back in the day, but it doesn’t work very well for it; it was just that they didn’t have anything else back then.)
Fun fact: it’s been used as a…

I also think whenever a white guy says “we’re not making enough babies” you can insert the word “white” before babies to get the real meaning.

I always say that every child beyond 4 greatly increases the odds that someone is some kind of religious nut.

I wondered about that too. If the Cruise isn’t at fault why didn’t GM release the video?

The Plymouth Prowler is notable as a concept car that somehow managed to carry a lot of its concept features into production. I’m not going to say it was a great car -- among other things, it retained the concept car proportions of its windscreen, which meant I would have only been able to drive it if I never put the…

I laughed, but it was a bitter laugh, because I know so many artists who’ve had NFTs minted of their work without their consent, and who will never see a dime of the money those NFTs sell for.

You could argue the gold standard was imaginary for the same reason, because while gold is tangible, it doesn’t have much utility for most people and its industrial uses alone couldn’t support its price. You can’t eat it, or build a house out of it. There’s nothing inherent about it that makes it a stable store of…

In Houston people do this just to make their marriage proposal go viral.

People will pay for an emulation console if it’s portable, and well-executed. But you’re right, a set-top-box emulation console is a hard sell when it’s pretty easy to set up a Raspberry Pi to do the same thing. With a portable console you’re paying for the execution.

I wasn’t dehumanizing you, I was pointing out that the “it’s represented digitally therefore it’s not real” argument is a silly one.

He would have been unable to wear a helmet or a HANS device, which are both required for nearly every professional racing series.

I just want to make sure that you’re aware of the irony of posting on a web page about your commitment to disregard the work of Berners-Lee because you disagree with him on a topic. Perhaps telnet might be a better venue?

“Web 3.0" seems based on the idea that what people really want is decentralization, but I’m not aware of any evidence that that’s true. I mean, a lot of people like the idea, but faced with actual decentralized products they never do well, because decentralized stuff is hard to use. For example, it used to be email…

I’d say Star Citizen didn’t start out as a scam, but they’re rapidly approaching pyramid scheme territory -- especially given that at this point it’s arguably more profitable for them if they *never* do a final release. A final release might disappoint people. As it is they can keep people buying expensive ships based…

I’ve concluded that you, too, are pretend, because you’re represented as a series of colored lights on my screen, which are in turn represented by 0's and 1's in a computer’s memory somewhere. Therefore you cannot be real, no matter how many people believe in your existence.

I think they ported Supra Mayro Kratt to it. What more do you need? ;)

I was going to say “Toy Commander.”

It’s early days. Right now it’s driving the wrong way up one-way streets at 15 mph. Once it can drive the wrong way at 40 mph it’ll be qualified to be a cab driver in San Francisco.

So here’s a puzzler I’ve been turning over in my head. Why is it the NV van looks so awkward while the Suburban, which followed the same plan of a full-length pickup hood on a van, looked fine?