Once upon a time, I said heated seats and steering wheels were utterly pointless bells and whistles reserved only for the most decadent jerks on earth.

You’re definitely not wrong.  

I think this just highlights a whole different set of criticisms for these hearings. That they consist of a team of interns writing questions for a Senator who then reads scripted talking points for the camera with the same intelligence as Anchorman. 

I am all for calling out misogyny whenever and wherever it happens, and I don’t want to make an excuse for a guy who probably is a bit of a misogynist. But I think this guy *might* have had a set of questions prepped, either on paper or in his head, that he was going to ask, and made a brain-fart mistake. And he…

To be fair, I think this is common practice when a CFO or chief accountant resigns within a month of earnings. I’ve seen other companies do this exact thing when their CFO gets a new job (or is fired) and it’s not a huge deal... except when it’s the canary in the coal mine for a slowly collapsing company.

The problem is these Boeing execs almost certainly fly on private planes.  Make ‘em fly in their own jets and see how fast these issues get fixed.

If I learned anything from Vine (which I never used), the kids  will find a new platform and everything will be pretty much exactly the same, only with an inexplicably-dumber name.

they seem to be asserting that an ‘active snowmobile trail’ is some sort of legally protected entity.

Seems like a case for the property lawyers. Who owns the land, who’s got what rights to pilot what vehicles there, etc?

I’m not normally one to argue in favor of nationalizing a business rather than regulating it, but if this man was murdered to stop him from telling everyone how they skirted the regulations...

I will do no such thing.

Repurposing things to accomplish wacky things the manufacturer wasn’t anticipating is a time-honored tradition in research and development labs. I myself have Rube Goldberg’d many an experiment in a research lab.

I’d like to say that I wouldn’t, but I would.

A garage, but mostly the house that it came with.

How is he not facing weapons charges?!

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Whatever, I’d still ride it. The bike, I mean.

XKCD has a thing for that. Behold!

Instructions unclear; farted in my coffee.  

2019 Mazda Miata - The proximity key and it’s auto-lock mechanism, hands down. It’s intended to lock the car automatically when the fob gets far enough away after shutting it off, i.e. when you go inside. It doesn’t always work, and it’s a little inconsistent. If the trunk is open, it doesn’t work. Sometimes if you…