I had the misfortune to live in Massachusetts when they passed a law like this a few years ago. I just rainx’d everything so I didn’t have to use the wipers unless it was a downpour. Usually the auto headlights would come on before it got that bad anyway. 

And maybe “wust.”

Welcome back. Hope you had a good vacation.

I was more commenting on the level of rudeness. Perhaps a better example would be you buy a movie ticket and then someone comes and sits in front of you with a 5ft tall cowboy hat. There is not rule against wearing a 5ft tall cowboy hat, but it is quite rude. Technically, you paid for a seat, not the airspace in front…

No. If they advertise that you should be able to use it, then it is an implied service. If you bought a ticket to see a movie or a show and your seat was behind a wall where you could not see the screen, you would complain. Technically, the ticket for the movie only guarantees the seat.

Actually, do to limitations on federal funding, I am required to buy the cheapest seat possible whenever I travel for work. 

Airlines advertise that you can use the tray for laptops, advertise power supplies and wifi for said laptops. Every flight has an announcement that it is OK to take out laptops at 10,000 feet. So yes, the implication is that they are selling you a ticket which they advertise as giving you access to these amenities.

Interesting. How come there are regulatory limits on the seat bottom, but not limits on how close the headrest can be to the face of the person behind?

You could make an economy seat that does it too. Instead of the back going back, the head rest would stay in position and the bottom seat would move forward. The person reclining would lose leg room, not the person behind. That would at least be fair.

My laptop agrees with your knees. 

The main argument is you pay for a seat with space to use a laptop or have a drink on the tray. If someone reclines to within 6 inches of your face and you can’t open your laptop or use the tray, then you feel like they are taking away the space you paid to use.

If you are in the industry, why not develop a reclining seat that doesn’t travel backwards. If lazyboy can do it, I’m sure you can. That way, the person is free to recline at the expense of their own leg room; however, they do not occupy the space other passengers pay for.

Reclining the seat is equivalent to a healthy person not offering their seat on the bus/subway to a pregnant woman or physically challenged individual. Like sitting there watching a one legged man try to balance on a subway while not being able to simultaneously hold his crutches and the bar above and not offering…

Good to know.

I knew a guy in highschool who told the class his father breed dogs for a living. Then, for some inexplicable reason, he explain how they got the...material...to do it artificially.

The engineering on that gif checks out.

Cans? That’s a noob move. I buy by the gallon. You can put in spray bottles or just dunk the rusty object into it. 

Since you mentioned you drive a Tesla, do you see this performance drop in daily driving? For instance, if you pushed it hard on the way to work, would you not have as much power in the evening commute?