The intro/premise of Idiocracy floats through my brain several times a week - smart, decent people wait too long to reproduce and sometimes aren’t able to have kids at all... while the idiots, hillbillies, and criminals reproduce like bunnies and neglect the kids/drag the kids into lives of crime or uselessness.…

Yeah, agree. You can’t just do WHATEVER you want on your property (although now that I mention it, whatever happened to that lady who was digging a tunnel labyrinth underneath her house - and partially under her neighbors’ houses?) unless you live in the absolute middle of nowhere. You want a custom go-kart track or…

And at least you’d have Gene Wilder to look at! Much more pleasant than Elon’s creepy face and (sorry not sorry) gross flabby body.

My mom and I were talking hypothetically about “cities of the future” (she’s got less than 10 years left in the tank and I guess has been watching sci-fi movies about a world she’ll never see) and she noted that we’ve been promised flying cars for decades now with nothing to show for it. I pointed out that human…

There’s natural-environment loud and there’s “teenagers gunning their motorbikes on quiet residential streets at 1am.” I lived in Queens for a long time and there was a lot more of the latter than the former. If you’re loud on the BQE no one cares, but there are plenty of areas in NYC that are relatively quiet and…

I’m a lady and I do this on my annual 1500-mile round trip road trip. I don’t think gender has much to do with it.

Kesha was recently doing promo for her new single (“Joy Ride”) and posted a photo of her filling up at a gas station. The price on the sign said $7.04 and my Midwestern brain skipped right over it - I assumed that was just the price of gas in California or wherever she’s based, not that her single would be released on…

I had to climb over someone on a flight from LAX to Auckland. It was insane that he didn’t wake up - I tried talking to him, tapping him, straight-up shaking him - nope, he was facedown on his tray table, basically comatose, for more than half of the 13-hour flight. Meanwhile I took an OTC sleeping pill with two…

It’s ONE banana, Michael, what could it possibly cost?

Without reading the study myself, it seems that no one’s admitting that much of this lack of enthusiasm can be traced back to the fact that EVs are bad for dealership revenue because they need less maintenance. I lease my ICE car and bring it in for regular maintenance at the (GM family) dealership even though I know…

I understand why non-Americans misunderstand the 1st Amendment, but Elon’s been here long enough that he should know 1A only limits the government’s ability to punish you for speech (with some significant caveats), not everyone else’s ability to ignore/boycott/protest his dumbassery. His inability to grasp the nuances…

Price, and the fact that I live in an apartment complex that hasn’t installed charging stations. I’ve been leasing ICE cars since 2020 in hopes that both issues would resolve quickly, but no luck so far.

Anyone who is small enough to sit like this already has more space in an airplane seat than they know what to do with.

1000000%. If you can afford first-class tickets, you can afford a Xanax prescription so you can ... *checks notes* tolerate a flight without your cancer coming back. (What a shitty thing to allege.)

That would be such a dumb assumption for dealers/automakers. Someone who wants a tiny car isn’t going to say “oh well I can’t buy a kei car so I guess my next best option is a gigantic expensive truck.”

The Hudson River in NYC is surprisingly clean - I used to work at a college where the biology students would regularly pull samples for testing. The East River, on the other hand... you couldn’t pay me to swim in the East River.

It’s better when the Bailey’s is in the coffee and not on the floor. I have fond memories of sneaking out of work on St Patrick’s Day and having boozy coffee with my coworkers (the only time I’ve ever been glad to be in Times Square at 9 in the morning).

You’re a lucky SOB if the only reason that car is empty is the lack of A/C.

Nah, still too much effort. We’d have to mount small battery-powered fans on their phones.

I got the sense that Vhagar enjoys it... and while that could just be the psychic bond she now shares with Aemond, one could argue Aemond was allowed to bond with her because she was already predisposed to violence (being one of the 3 dragons who helped the OG Aegon to conquer Westeros).