i would gladly champion embarking coasties on every USN ship that will be conducting VBSS so they can do all of them. it seems cool right up until you do an all-day search then come back to the ship and stand the midwatch

the Navy routinely conducts visit, board, search, and seizure of foreign flagged commercial vessels in support of sanctions.  without any USCG presence.  source: I was the VBSS officer on a DDG

I’m sorry but it was immediately clear to me that Cap’s reaction in Ultron after making it move slightly was that he could have picked it up but chose not to.  He let the shaft slide through his hand and a 2nd attempt was clearly for show.  It was so obvious that when the final battle came in Avengers and I saw the…

so does anybody else think Rhaegal maybe isn’t dead? three reasons:

fuck this guy

i’m lol’ing at what I imagine your reaction would be to a guy trying to mansplain women’s fashion to you.

The differences are slight.

put a rubberband on the stick and let that thing do the oval to farm money

wait till you find out that the people at the call centers for your bank or credit card company not only know where you live, but also everything you’ve bought.

russell wilson wouldn’t have made a dime of this without 5 years of free education, training, and development in college.  he would probably be bobbing between AA and AAA baseball, setting strikeout records.

-a miata of any year (except the one year you did buy, like an idiot)

a friendly reminder that manning stole as much as possible without regard for content and dumped it on wikileaks out of spite, not out of any sort of altruistic whistleblowing.

I couldn’t get over how awful the Ascent’s 3rd row/storage situation was. For a company who is so smart about their brand and family connections, i think they blew it big time.

the counterargument is that anyone who has driven a minivan and then a crossover kn0ws that crossovers are in no way, shape, or form a replacement for a minivan. they do everything to about 50% of what a minivan does.

this is stupid. i’m sorry, but it is.

time sensitive shipments already go by plane.  there’s literally nothing expedient about a truck that travels at 65mph and has daily limits on hours of operation.

the same way thing happened before the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which deregulated trucking and caused a boom in the usage of semi trucks. you could allow short-haul transportation from hubs and distribution centers, but ban interstate long-haul trucking.

because a massive increase in the amount of goods traveling by rail would require the companies shipping via rail to make big investments in the infrastructure or face crippling disruptions to the supply lines. unline roads, where they can just ignore infrastructure since the public uses it more than freight movement,…

it’s already pointed out here, but i absolutely love using the train for DC-NYC. Acela or regional. It’s more comfortable and, all things considered, even the regional takes just about as much time as a flight when you consider you’re landing at MSG and not LGA.