Napoleon wasn’t short. Neither are you.

(In all seriousness, though - it’s a decent paper. Yes, it leans right, but not all the way right, and their reporting is factual and properly sourced. Pieces like this don’t help their image, but their desks do good reporting.)

on US domestic airlines

That sounds like an over-reaction.

So where do we draw the line between that and just letting the kid not ever do any homework again, ever?

Did you even read that?

This is true! Impossibility of fact is not a defense for an attempted crime. If this happened in the US, and it was real, a prosecutor could charge each subject with attempted murder and not even blink twice, or come anywhere near crossing an ethical boundary.

you kind of have to play the game as it stands

a literal war criminal

Can we define our terms?

No.

Can confirm. I hate every single Taylor Swift song when it first comes out, then by week two I know every word and by the time the next song comes out, I immediately hate it because it’s nowhere near as good as the last song she put out.

I know the feeling! Insurance + car title due the same month. Do you get biweekly paychecks? I do, and for the last couple years I’ve placed that twice-a-year “extra” third paycheck that happens in some months into my savings account just for that kind of buffer. Maybe you could try that?

Speaking of which, you also mention high-yield savings accounts as a place to stash a tax return. Are those even real these days? I could start a CD ladder to get maybe 0.2% - but that’s still a joke compared to what banks used to offer in money market savings accounts pre-Recession.

I like the other way better. That sounds forced.

io9 used to be fine - i was there for years and never felt uncomfortable in the comments. Now, however, it is atrocious.

32 with AdBlock.

Give us an ad-lite version? Your sites are so bad without adblocker.

I also enjoy staring directly at the security camera mounted in the ceiling. Really turns the tables on the security guy.

Baghdad.