Anyone still using Twitter knows what they’re signing up for. I downloaded and deleted my account, which I’d had since 2009, on the same day that the board gave in and decided to accept his offer. Turns out I don’t miss it at all.

I am a little white lady who used to work in Harlem. One day, not long after Stop & Frisk was formally halted, I was walking along 125th doing some window shopping, basically walking from my office on the west side to the last east-side bus stop before the bridge, to get my steps in before heading home to Queens. I…

I read recently about a federal bill that’s being planned (maybe already introduced) that would mandate all cars come with a warning system for drivers to alert them when they’re going X mph over the speed limit. Not only am I in favor of that bill - I would find it personally useful - I’m in favor of going a step…

I was just telling a coworker the other day (we’re in suburban Michigan) that the deer are out in unusual numbers for this point in the fall. It’s all anecdotal, of course, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the unseasonably warm weather we’ve had. There’s a carcass at least every 5 miles along the highway.

My guess is that his death was a significant enough moment for her that she’s sort of using it as a fixed point in time. I’m a millennial who was 15 on 9/11 so I typically use that... I also like the very silly theory that Harambe’s death was the moment where we all shifted into a different reality within the…

A thousand percent agreed. It is insane to me that our government has helped this man weasel his way into “too big to fail” status for several of his companies, but particularly SpaceX.

These are all great points, but using Taylor Swift as a specific example - she has two private planes and recently used one of them to transport someone else (maybe her mom or Donna Kelce?) while she herself was not on it. Those two women are not so famous that it would be unsafe to book a first-class seat on a…

“First they came for the socialists...”

Exactly. It’s a pointless function.

I love this as a solution for rude/anti-social behavior, but as Cam points out, that behavior exists because of the terrible decisions (which benefit shareholders instead of customers) made by airlines.

Well, if one person or couple is dropping off an entire family of people at the airport (let’s say Grandpa and Grandma are dropping off their kid, kid’s spouse and 2.5 grandkids after a nice visit) then between getting luggage out of the boot and the hugs we can easily surpass 3 minutes. When it’s just me dropping my…

It really frustrates me when sell-side analysts like Dan Ives fall for his bullshit. I get why hedge fund bros and individual investors get excited about the short-term highs and lows of TSLA stock, but when you’re selling research to said bros AND the (theoretically) more responsible retirement investment companies…

To be fair, Jalop writers themselves are pretty pro-EV. I see the issue more as the news media repeating (especially in headlines) the doom & gloom coming from auto execs without adding any critical context.

I loved that Mustang too. And the fourth-generation overhaul. We used to toodle around the church parking lot in a cherry-red Mustang convertible, blasting Nelly before youth group. If that doesn’t make sense, I’ll add an even more confusing factor: one of the assistant youth pastors was the owner of said ‘Stang and…

I wanted a Lincoln Town Car SO BAD as a kid. Absolutely no idea why, but those curvy late-90s models (not the boxy early-90s models) had a chokehold on me.

I believe that Gene Wilder would both hate and love this meme.

Right? Way more metal than plain ol’ burial at sea. So fitting for a field scientist who hunted freakin’ hurricanes.

I watched video today of people on a big cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico - the waves look crazy and the wind is worse, but most ports in Florida are pretty much closed now so they just have to ride it out and hope for the best. You’ll never catch me on a boat, no matter how big, during hurricane season. I might…

Man, I thought throwing my dry old Xmas tree out my second-story window was bad! We did yell “look out below!” before we heave-ho’d, for what it’s worth. Sounds like you had yourself a proper Office Space moment.

I lived in NYC for a long time and naturally did not own a car, so I rented whenever I went on vacation. I went to Sedona/Phoenix/Tucson back in 2019 and was given a Buick Regal sedan. My only real impression of Buick at that point was that they were a fuddy-duddy brand for old people and attempting to rebrand for a…