they didn’t “deny it” they very carefully phrased it “we are not currently planning to”

Eventually, the vast majority of it will. It’s in LEO. That’s deep inside of Earth’s gravity well. Nearly everything that goes up in that well comes down. Eventually. (I guess if it hit an angle to skip, it could break off some small pieces that could get enough energy to escape the gravity well so thus the term…

Well, I never doubted it can return to earth. I just wondered where it would land and in how many pieces.

I’m no Buccees superfan but my girlfriend is, so I’ve stopped there many times in FL. I’ve never had to wait for the restroom, even when they are packed, and they are as clean as advertised. Their gas is always cheaper than any other neighboring station, and about on par with the membership only places like Costco and…

IDK why Buc-ee’s has “drunk the Kool-Aid” with respect to those engineering disasters on four wheels.  If driving those rolling bombs is your thing, hey, more power to ya, literally, but it rankles me that MY tax dollars subsidize a politically correct “toy” for folks typically of better than average means, the same…

Do you know how new it is? I live a couple miles from a Buc-ee’s, and there are several more in my metropolitan area, and I’ve never seen it that crazy. Is it new? If so, maybe there was still some novelty factor. I’ve certainly never seen bathroom lines, as mentioned in the article.

A couple of times a year, I leave civilization behind and travel to Beaumont, TX to visit my mom in a nursing home and avoid my grifting drug addict brother. Just try booking a flight, hotel, and rental car with Beaumont’s Jack Brooks “airport” as your destination. E-commerce technology has yet to reach the…

I’ll take issue with the one on Southern gas stations close to the Interstate. Stopped at a small one off of IH-10 in south Louisiana and they had some local folks making fantastic Cajun food / snacks in the attached convenience store. Mmmm...boudin.

Every time I’ve ever been in a Buc-ee’s, its been absolutely packed with people...but I’ve never seen anything close to a line for the bathrooms.

This only makes sense if this person’s only experience with Buc-ee’s coincided with the buses of the Allen, Texas, high school marching band (700-1,000, depending on whether it’s their halftime or competition show) stopping at the same Buc-ee’s at the same time.

After decades of not stopping at South of the Border, I finally decided to stop in last year while driving by. It was mostly empty, except the steakhouse was packed and had almost an hour wait, so we went to another restaurant there that wasn’t as busy. Outside of that, everything was like a ghost town. Walked through…

Agree with NW Indy (and let’s just be honest, the entire state) having a 3rd world country feel to it.

And the AV Club is doubling down on green face paint being a scandal. Is this the new Ellie Kemper Participated In a Ball a Long Time Ago?

It is complicated, but the point is that any Director who says “I’m going to charge a lower price because I don’t care about shareholder value, I just want to run this business like a charity” would get sued into oblivion.

There is an important cases every law student reads in Corporations (Dodge v. Ford) regarding the BJR, in which Henry Ford wanted to end special dividends in order to advance “social causes” of full employment. The court sided with the shareholders, and basically said director’s main goal is to maximize shareholder…

The general public believes the average company makes a 36% profit margin, when the actual average is about 8%. Yes, there are huge salary gaps that sensationalize the issue, and yes, executives are also incentivized to maximize profit. But most CEOs aren’t Martin Shkreli, thankfully. The truth is generally somewhere…

In a free market, using open and honest practices to maximize profit is a company’s job, as the author points out. To an Exxon shareholder, it’s an expectation. Considering supply and demand can result in higher profit, and most corporations aren’t engaged in deceptive practices, price gouging, etc. (monitored by…

I wonder if Darwins contemporaries considered him Woke 150 years ago...

Charles Darwin’s fundamentally flawed theory of evolution

“Charles Darwin’s fundamentally flawed theory of evolution”