engineerthefuture
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engineerthefuture

is suffering from Rhabdomyolysis,” a one of the various dangerous muscle conditions popularized by Crossfit

Igot it free through work and quickly learned it's mostly garbage. I suppose I save maybe 5-10 minutes at some airports, but there's been a few where I skipped the clear line because it was going slower...

Guns were caught before 9/11 too. The search for guns has nothing to do with making me dump out my water bottle, take off my shoes, and remove electronics from my bag. That's just security theater.

Certainly. There are a lot of zip codes where I basically described a $500k “starter house” once you swap the garage door for a regular door. When I was living near Seattle, the dirt under it would go for $200k. 

I knew I was forgetting something. Full plumbing included too.

What’s Your Perfect $100,000 Garage?

I wonder how soon before Fox exclusively uses the last slide video for their “reporting” on this...

*All funds to be used in the prison commissary, which is (probably) funded by tax dollars.

It’s a bit odd that the Titan is so unreliable when I’ve read mostly good things about the reliability of the QX80/Armada twins. I figured those would all use the same stuff under the hood. 

sounds like she went a bit...postal

Are there seminars at DOT conferences on how to safely prep the road after a spill?

I’m a 90s kid and remember these being pretty cool for what they were, but the Japanese tuner market of the era overshadowed them so badly that it’s hard to imagine these having any real following. I’m sure there are a few dozen who love them, but almost anyone nostalgic for this era probably has a list of cars ahead

I’ve seen some rural schools that are like that in different states. Usually, the road is a 55 or higher, the school is one of the only buildings nearby, it is set way back from the highway, and there is a really wide shoulder that cars use for pick up lines and merging back onto the roadway.

I think many cars of that era would qualify and be nominated today. Being a young’n, they all seem special to me, but I’ve heard from many boomers that actually experienced those cars who criticize them for being so expensive now compared to how commonplace/disposable they once were. 

Becoming & being PE is arguably an unhealthy amount of my personality, so that would probably drive me a little crazy. I stamp anywhere from 200-300 traffic control plans alone every year, not counting our other stuff. I’m currently one of our only PEs in a few states though, so that certainly affects those

I took the FE my senior year of college and IL changed the rules a while back so that I could take the test without my 4 years, so I got the PE test knocked out within 2 years of graduating. Nearly all of my company’s executives are PEs who transitioned from designers to management over time, so it is a top-down

There needs to be 9 figure fines for a derailment. Once the fines got really high for natural gas explosions the market for inspectors became great. As you said, it takes a special personality to handle a traveling job like that, but good inspectors are worth huge money by stopping mega-million fines from ever

As Bowling for Soup pretty eloquently said: high school never ends

I wonder if that is also only 1 way. So if you manage to nab the ticket to fly somewhere, are you back on a lottery to fly home whenever something out of that airport is available?

It also doesn’t help that the Pheonix area has been steadily growing by ~80k people a year for the last 10 years. Increasingly hot summers plus that many more cars, new roads, and people who may be new to these kinds of conditions. I wouldn’t be surprised if that crowd includes increases in retirees.