Yes, legend has it that thinking-machine Erasmus was so annoyed by Serena Butler’s wasting time putting together her interminable slideshows with her newborn baby pictures, he literally threw out the baby with the baby water... from a great height... (guess Erasmus was a bit of a Paranoid Android)

The point of affirmative action, which very often does not come across, or is just obscured by unfounded accusations that it is mostly a way for admitting mediocre students and meeting some diversity quota, is to try to balance out socio-economically disfavored students that are very underrepresented in some fields of…

Michelle Obama has a well though-out response to this decision, if utterly futile given the ultraconservative majority in this SCOTUS that keeps trying to wrestle this country to go back to the 1950s and before. 

If by “size” we mean deadweight tonnage, meet the Seawise Giant (which also dwarves by its length of 454 m just about everything else that floats, except for movable drilling barges, apparently). It was capable of displacing 564,763 tonnes. Would not make for the most comfortable cruise ship, though.

Andor is probably the most anti-fascist show of recent memory. and I'm sure it's not unintentional. 

Yes, Stellan’s quasi-soliloquy concluded with that thunderous “Everything!”, plus these lines from Nemik’s manifesto:

The hybrid tech approach here is a new implementation worked with the AMG F1 team, fairly complicated, and Moto-man does a decent job trying to explain how it works. Other than that, the primary innovation is that this is the first ever S-class to have the star in the middle of the front grille along with the vertical…

Andor was actually quite good, if you manage to make it past the first episode. I was bored to death at 30 minutes and gave up on it for a couple of months before reading and hearing a lot of good things about it. After painfully finishing that first episode, the rest was surprisingly excellent, a much better told…

I’m down with AOTC and ROTS (except for how quickly Anakin turns to the dark side because of a single conversation with an obvious Sith Lord that he ridiculously failed to recognize despite all his years of Jedi training), but really found that Jar-Jar was coarse and rough and irritating and got everywhere in TPM.

The best thing about the general lack of industry regulations and certification in the US (except for the size and shape of tail-lamps and headlights, which NHTSA took incredibly seriously for 60 odd years) is that when the inevitable catastrophe they would have prevented eventually happens, the news industry makes…

This is the only XM worth looking at

If it was a head-on collision at more than 40 mph, I assume the Dodge Shadow was not left in the best of shapes...

Palate cleanser (yes, it’s spelled this way):

From a certain angle, you’d think that America had given up on religion.

So utterly gorgeous and so utterly futile. Love it!

That’s great for Texas.

About 9 years ago, Stephen Hawking expressed the fear that Humans will become extinct when we reach Singularity, the point where AI can design itself, but the combination of AI tools and Human tendencies for evil might break down civilization well before we reach Singularity, if we will ever reach it.

I kept what I had, a Mazda MX-6 that was already 9 years old at that point, and when I got my second more established job, I treated myself to a 17000 mile 3-year old Infiniti G35 6 MT that I cherished and loved for another 9 years. If you have college loans to pay, better not go splurging on a car until you have a…

Because they always seem to have interior colors that are blacker than the Satan’s heart.

I always have to mention one of my rental Chevy HHRs because barbs in the plastic surrounding of the door and corner mirror angle actually made one of my fingers bleed. The design is the usual anodyne fare from GM in the Naughties, but the quality and finishing of the materials was truly appalling. And the visibility…