How about changing the title to ‘How to sound more knowledgeable’ instead of ‘less stupid’?

So? Nothing like groveling in person.

I’ll take your last question seriously. Freight rail won’t cut it for HSR - you need to lay new track wherever you need to go. That’d cost between $4-10 mil per mile, at least, in 2020 $$$. It’d take probably 30-50 years for a minimal network that covers where people fly now, cost exponentially more than the forecast…

Yeah... kind of strange, isn’t it?  It’s like the priorities are screwed.

That looks great! I’ll have to try that.

That’s nasty, nasty stuff.   

Next week, they’ll establish border inspection stations for new generators...

But that’s not important. They’re saving the planet - and if that means people die without power, that’s the cost they’re willing to pay while they sit in their air conditioned offices. (Which are cooled by electricity generated by unicorn farts, I guess.)

Look at it another way - any problem they say they’re going to attempt to ‘solve’ is not for YOUR sake, it’s to sound good so they can stay in power.

Screwing things up once, or twice - that’s understandable.

Jalopnik is about the only reason I even check the Gawker/Gizmodo constellation any more.  The rest...  Well, there's people that like it -so the lights stay on, but you've got to wonder if they've installed the cheapest LEDs they could find sometimes...

That there are!

*Sigh.* Of course they would do that.

...of course.

This is one of the things that ticked me off about Destiny 2. Thing’s beautiful, no doubt. But yeah, it’s turned into pay-for-play.

Kinda had that feeling. Hay’s NOT that heavy. If it was the same volume of bricks or concrete blocks, that’d be something. But hay?

Yeah, there’s a margin of error there that’s immense.

Darn big pockets, then!

It’s Gawker Media. Come for the headlines, stay for the clickbait.

Just a hint for travelling: When we were taking the Small&Crunchy to see the Grans for the first time on a plane, my lovely bride wanted to have him in a carseat.

Yeah - because THEIR interpretation’s the only important thing. Doesn’t matter whether it’s accurate or not, they’re outraged and you’d better be outraged also, because if you aren’t you’re just as bad as she is!