I have no doubt that the Trumpists will be claiming today that “clean fakes” is the actual phrase and always was, and using it as much as possible.

At first, I thought the headline was a parody. But as I read the article it became steadily less funny and increasingly unnerving.

This whole take is ridiculous. If I wrote this, I’d be ashamed to put my name on it.

Taping your mouth shut when you’re on an xPAP is entirely reasonable, although if you’re getting a sleep study you’ll generally have to get permission from the doctor so that the RPSGT monitoring you will let you do so.

Before a recent budget hearing on the National Science Foundation … Rep. Vernon Ehlers happened to bump into a Republican colleague. He informed Ehlers of his intent to whack the appropriation, grumbling, “NSF has no business funding automatic teller machines and gambling.” Fortunately, Ehlers, whose doctorate in…

This is just one of ten million examples of the amazing complexity of duties the government performs that get no glory, no PR, no credit but are really important. And yet we have people that want to eliminate the government, it’s boggling.

If you really want to hurt him, make him watch but not film...

Over 60 years ago, I was in a small town whose only two stoplights had a somewhat similar situation. Drivers on the “busiest” street saw a normal light pattern, while drivers on the cross streets saw an inverted pattern with green on the top. I was told that this was because the lights were all in one housing, instead…

Just install a giant, spring-loaded boxing glove on the thing

I remember the Planetary Society’s Planetary Radio podcast had an interview with one of the NASA solar sail guys from a few years back, and he said they initially thought the challenge would be in unfolding them - but it turns out they can unfold them pretty well.

Special prize for the first person to graffiti tag a drone.....

As an indie mechanic (shop is at my home, but is also a licensed LLC, I have insurance, and also got ASE certified); I will go out of my way to not change the station/CD - will only turn down the volume if the job requires me to listen for some sort of noise.

I will leave the mirrors alone, but will be upfront that…

How much of it is corporate purchased housing?  Likely the same percentage as the shortage of needed housing.

It’s not just disgust, it’s also fear.

16 million empty houses in America.

Part of living in a society is having to do things you don’t 100% agree with for the good of everyone else. Getting vaccines. Wearing a mask when you get sick. Wearing your seatbelt. Wearing a goddamned helmet when you are riding a motorcycle.

My favorite story about these guys: The FL attorney that pushed FL to repeal its helmet law died in a motorcycle crash. And it wasn’t even someone else’s fault; he lost control of the bike while slowing down.

Is it just me, or did anyone else see the “hood open” picture as the car was somehow buried in a tree?  

No idea about the Norwegian wood. But I do build a lot of things out of Swedish chip wood. They hold up ok, as long as you don’t move it from where it was originally placed.

There’s Norway they didn’t properly Finnish the job. Investigate, take names, Denmark down all the engineers who OK’d it and banish them to Greenland.