Chicagoan here. The trouble with tomatoes most of the year, they’re being trucked hundreds or thousands of miles on the hopes that they’ll “ripen in transit” which never really works out, and the corporate farms are all trying to grow tomato varieties that have been bred or engineered with those logistics in mind.

Halon will displace O2 and suffocate anybody trapped inside. Argonite is a blend of Argon and Nitrogen that accomplishes the same fire suppression, but supposedly maintains enough breathable O2 to escape.  Still, I imagine an overbuilt system could displace the air fast enough that it would still be dangerous.

I dunno so much about financial ruin...the kid’s got enough white-wing donor/backers lined up for his legal defense fund, he could probably afford to run for Congress.

I feel like there was some degree of collusion from the prosecution also. They weren’t very strenuous in any of their objections... there were a couple opportunities to go for a mistrial or change of venue that they just let slide. It looked alot like just “going through the motions” for the sake of appearances to me.

Yeah, more than 3 changes to the standard recipe, and you’re basically making something completely different anyway. I’d also propose an upcharge whenever your drink concoction customizations exceed the size of the drink you’ve ordered. A grande hot chocolate in a venti cup with extra extra whipped cream and drizzle…

Yeah.  Turns out, the markup on sugar and ice is even more lucrative than the markup on coffee.  Who’da thunk?

Have you tried an Americano? People in a hurry (unwilling to wait for a pour-over or a french press) could always get an Americano for the same price as drip if they were unhappy with the drip o’ the day being served. And if you do have time, upgrade the pour-over to a french press instead, it’s well worth it, you get…

First off, I hope McDonald’s or the local franchisees are taking good care of this guy. Say what you will, but this kind of brand loyalty is rare and precious.

This.  Smoke the glass....or the shaker.

Seeing alot of these show up on social media and in text, I have to conclude many of them are caused by using bad voice recognition or lazy pronunciation...and then simply not looking at the output before hitting “send/post/publish”. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one left who proofreads his text messages before…

The Biden administration can’t to that exactly, but they could call a pow-wow of insurance executives and urge them to raise premiums or copays on people who don’t have proof of vaccination, and they could do something to the same effect with federal funds for medical programs (like the VA or tri-care recipients). As…

It’s worse than a COVID ward: no nurse in the civilized world is going to be trapped in a room breathing the same air with 30 patients for the whole day, every day.  Alot of older/poorer Florida schools don’t have a central HVAC system, they’re just recirculating room air from a glorified window unit, just like…

It’s not just Florida’s problem, unfortunately, and never has been.  Unless we can set up a blockade at the border and shutdown flights, as goes Florida, so goes the rest of the U.S.  The people popping back in forth to their timeshare, Disney, to see gran and gramps, taking cruises, etc. keep adding fuel to the fire…

So whoever put that in a report can get pinched on filing a false police report, and whoever presented it to the grand jury will get charged with perjury...right? I mean that’s how it works for all us lowly work-a-day law-abiding plebs, so shouldn’t law enforcement get held to the same standard?

At the time I thought Contagion was well-researched...this last year, I realized that research involved either a virgin priestess huffing subterranean vapors, or time travelers.

I tend to binge laundry (i.e. wait until it piles up enough and then do several loads in a row) and have found that if I clean the dryer lint filter in the middle of the cycle also, fluffy things like towels and sweatshirts at least, dry noticeably faster.

Think of REEF as the franchisee in this case. The kitchen equipment, ingredients, procedures would all be the same as a traditional Wendy’s, minus any of the dine-in facilities. In theory they should be able to run leaner and more efficient, so should be able to pass that savings on to the consumer...whether they do…

In theory, strategic ghost kitchens should help that problem, by being able to better optimize routing. Right now your driver either waits in the drive-thru queue with everybody else, or parks, walks in, and waits in that queue, or the restaurant is slammed with walk-ins, and so your order is farther down the line.…

I know a couple people suggested ejector seats, but a couple seats designated as “time out” seats set aside (or maybe in place of the flight crew jump seats) with proper anchor points and a set of locking belts/straps (e.g. psychiatric/humane restraints) seems prudent and easy enough to put in place, especially on…

Here’s two high-profile in-flight incidents (the drunk groping frat douche) on busy routes within just a week(?) ...where are the air marshals?