Preventive Vet has a short checklist to help you select safe toys to try out.

Pissed? I’d call the cops. They just stole your car.

I mean, it looks kinda sweet, and there’s some nice detail work there, but I can’t get past the fact that there’s no belt on that alternator. He’s got a non-functioning alternator sitting there in his shoulder just taking up space performing no discernable function.

1) Lane assist, especially if it tries to correct for you. I appreciate the idea, but DO NOT take steering control away from me. Ever. For any reason. Either be entirely self-driving or not at all. Had that in a rental Ford Escape once. Had to pull over to turn that nonsense off. And heaven forbid you hit construction…

General tablet advice I give to family/friends who ask:

General tablet advice I give to family/friends who ask:

An episode written by Steven Moffat, so the quote should be attributed to him, no?

Fair point. But ‘cool’ and ‘functional/safe’ are not strongly correlated in vehicles.

Definitely. I’m old and from a relatively rural area. Lots of gravel roads and unpaved driveways around when I started driving. ‘Driving off road’ these days is pretty much what we just called ‘driving.’ Our Driver’s Ed even had a requirement for a certain amount of instructional time driving on gravel roads. In a…

This is clearly in the, “What did they think was gonna happen?” category, to the point where the only reasonable conclusion is that this is exactly what they intended. You cannot convince me anyone thought this would go down any other way.

Good example of the difference between trading and investing. We unfortunately conflate the terms because they both happen to involve stocks, but they are very different things. These guys are trading, not investing.

“Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.” —The Doctor

It irritates me that the English language is being re-written by people who damn near flunked English class.

Absolutely. Unfortunately, ‘literally’ just one more word that can mean its opposite, depending on context (e.g., sanction, seed, dust, cleave).

Your question is a good one, and a common one. I would simply caution against the slippery slope argument that “rules evolve over time” means “there are no rules.” Just because something can become correct doesn’t mean nothing is ever incorrect. Not every typo or malapropism represents an evolution in the language.

Fine, but where do we draw the line?

I think that when you wedge ellipses into texts, you unintentionally rob your message of any linear train of thought.

Exactly. Language means what we collectively decide it means through usage.

Sounds like the little ‘92 Ford Festiva I had when I lived in Chicago: simple (manual everything), efficient, reliable, easy to park and maneuver on tight Chicago neighborhood streets, handled snow like a boss, and I wasn’t super tense about it getting little dings.

A stale observation, but even more chilling after yesterday: Imagine if these clowns were competent.

You can’t really bowl ... after knocking back several drinks.