Exactly.  Even at slow speeds (construction, ice, etc.) there’s often less than a car length between riders in the thru lane.  I’m convinced we’d save alot more lives and accident damage if we spent more time and resources pushing for better space cushions ...education, enforcement, dashboard tech, etc.

Zipper mergers work on paper just fine, but on a real road, most drivers don’t leave nearly enough space between cars. I’m totally convinced we could up speed limits on highways across the board, if only we could trust people to not follow too closely.

They didn’t mention a currency or what sort of internet connectivity was involved...so are they *sure* it was a crypto mining operation? or that it was *only* crypto mining? I’m just saying, Ukrainian cyber criminals have other lucrative schemes they could apply that level of computing power to, if the perps are even U…

Throughout the terraforming video, I kept thinking “this has way too many steps” and “why are they moving so much material around?”

Gotta put a plug in for CURLING. As somebody not particularly athletic, I attended a beginners’ open house at a friend’s curling club a couple years ago and was pleasantly surprised to see 1) I’m not terrible at it, 2) I’m not the oldest to try my hand, by far, and 3) It’s kinda fun...oh, and there’s usually plenty of…

Yeah, we need a multipronged approach: figuring out how to make the products last longer (right to repair?) or create them with modular/interchangeable components, getting better at recycling or repurposing components, and manufacturing methods that make them easier to recycle/reclaim at end of life. There are also…

China’s lax environmental regulations and poor worker safety protections should be looked at as a form of government subsidy. Any other country in the world would be working on improvements in either/both areas, and cutting into margins in the process.

Insurance companies need to start giving drivers discounts for using a dashcam. Improper lane change isn’t supposed to be an arrestable offense in the first place, so there wouldn’t have been a reason to get her out of the car.

This could finally be the weak link in the chain here: Trump (&Co’s) total disdain for the little guy, including those dedicated poll workers, election judges, and other local-level folks who make the whole election process work. I get the effect of threatening an elected official with bad press, or campaigning for his…

The real story is these schmoes showed up en masse with homemade shields, used at least one incendiary device, and then rode away in the cargo compartments of rental trucks, but the Philly PD didn’t intervene.

Maybe I’ve been misled, but I thought a hairpin turn was nearly 180 degrees?

IIRC there’s a law about making money off a criminal act. Maybe DOJ or DC can use that to go after whoever is making these “Babbitt Hero” products, and unravel some of the QaNut financial structure in the process....just a thought.

At least in the case of Michael Brown, you omitted the small, but important word: “allegedly” since the sole eyewitness account directly contradicts the murderer’s responding officer’s testimony.

no. Larger departments may have a longer break-in period, where rookies are attached to a training officer during their shifts, but any meaningful training is over when they swear their oath and get a badge number. If you believe even half the stories, that ride-along period is at best indoctrination into whatever…

Of that meager training time U.S. cops get, a sizeable chunk is squandered on firearms techniques and tactics.

This family is surrounded with handlers, publicists, stylists, personal assistants and domestic staff already, and presumably Caitlynn has at least a barebones campaign staff, and yet nobody is proofreading or focus-grouping (or even reading) any of her statements or talking points before she goes live??

The internet doesn’t deserve the details, that’s for sure, but it would be nice to get some reassurance that tipsters didn’t just return this girl to an abusive home situation. I mean, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time an influencer manipulated their followers or exploited their reach for skeevy purposes.

For appliances and fixtures just be extra careful checking the specs...sometimes commercial equipment uses plumbing or electrical hookups that are not residential standard (e.g. a commercial warewasher will need a water hookup of a specific size and psi, and a commercial oven or microwave may need to be hard-wired,…

Typically only if a) there are sales tax issues or b) there are liquor issues.

Police killed about 1,100 people in 2020 alone (just over 1,000 shot, the rest via other means)...there were only 18 days of the year where a cop didn’t kill somebody, which means most days of the year cops killed a couple people. Only about half the states even have a death penalty any more, so we’re talking about…