I don’t think that there is one, but there are laws prohibiting the private (non-medical) purchase of human body parts, as well as laws prohibiting intentional dismemberment, so I imagine lawmakers thought they had all angles of a possible situation covered.

So are we gonna have this same kind of lawsuit in 10 years when someone decides they don’t like Tesla’s monopoly on EV charging infrastructure? Because there was an awful lot of hullabaloo last year about how great it is that Tesla is opening up its network, breathless gasps every time an automaker decided to adapt,…

When I fly in or out of NYC (LaGuardia specifically) I try to pick my seat so I have the best view of Manhattan as we head up the East River. I lived there for a long time but it still gives me a little thrill to see it from the air.

I think my main question here is, why was the camera installed in the first place? You can have conversations with your neighbors about doorbell cameras and privacy, but this particular camera was “mounted on a pole across the street” so it’s not clear whether it was a neighbor’s camera or installed by the city or…

I don’t even want him as a PASSENGER on a plane. Ban him from the air. He can swim home from Scotland. (Do retired pilots get the same free-flight perk as current airline employees? Delta can at least block him from that if they decide not to terminate.)

I don’t even think it’s that bleak. You gotta do everything you can to counter Big Oil’s election-year raising of prices that’s already started. It’s pure pragmatism and I’m more than ok with pragmatic behavior from Democratic politicians, since it seems to happen so rarely. 

Having lived in NYC for a long time (and ATL as a child, but that’s irrelevant here) it sounds like the airport needs to do a much better job of posting signage & videos saying “do not talk to people who solicit rides from you, go to the taxi stand or use a trusted rideshare app.”

I agree, I’d like to see the full video... but either way, she does say “pilot” at least 4 times in her introduction. Was he not listening (because wimmin be talkin) or does he have some sort of cognitive issue?

I almost got hit by a diplomatic vehicle during UN Week in New York. I had the light (full “white man walking,” not the flashing hand with countdown) and this fucker either accidentally takes his foot off the brake or intentionally starts to roll forward. I realized that if anything happened to me he would get off…

Agreed on all counts, especially your last line. I’m loving her takes on Autopian!

“The father-son duo [...] were saying ‘penis’ over and over for no particular reason.”

I’d say the CT applies to both categories!

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.

Mm, disagree. TikTok is at least on the same level as (if not better than) Twitter in terms of access to both journalists’ coverage and first-hand accounts from civilians. Neither platform is perfect by any means, but I was a Twitter user from 2009-2022 and I tend to prefer TikTok now (again, specifically for news…

Why are you still using X?

I downloaded an album on Limewire that had a voiceover in the middle of every song, basically a watermark, with the name of a company or radio station that released the bootleg. I played that album on repeat all summer, and even though I now legally stream that album, I can still mentally hear the spots where those…

Because capitalism/“the free market.”

Call in the orcas! Or see if Hvaldimir, the Russian-trained beluga whale who escaped (defected?) to Icelandic waters, would be interested in a California vacation & recon mission.

Tighten the regulations AND end the terrible practice of “self-monitoring”/ “self-regulating.” And we should all be voting for the party that doesn’t want to axe every single safety regulation on the books.

It’s sub-optimal, yeah, but even LESS sub-optimal is allowing a terrorist to fly into a skyscraper and kill thousands of people. I’m very grateful that I chose a line of work where this sort of decision will never ever be in my hands.