You mean I can blast those idiots who text during driving into oblivion? Ok, that would take out approximately every 5th or so driver in this country. Ah - traffic congestion solved.

It’s a bit more complex than that. Look at the history: The thirty-year war in the 17th century had already left a trauma, then came the Napoleonic wars that re-shaped the continent, some local conflicts, then the two World Wars... It shouldn’t be surprising that, over time, a certain antipathy against violent…

Ha - I’ll jump lanes, and weave, Italian-style, between them. That’ll teach their platooning...

Needs more Greenpeace bumper sticker!

pfft - needs more yellow running lights. And I want free-standing headlights on top of the fenders!

You forgot that beverages in cup holders are replaced by salt popsicles, as well.

Wonderful.

In short:

The only drawback is that the Swedish Chef on board is a bit noisy.

"So, move to Texas and pray for good weather."

Suuuuure they do.

Can't, or doesn't want to reveal its capabilities?

Nice info! I love that: we don't use Morse code here any longer, but it's significance is carried on by something like this.

That's an insulating thing to say!

And in the end - it's still a GM.

Shortly after 'fascinating' was supplanted by 'mesmerizing'...

Actually, ATL isn't that bad, once you've figured out that you can go through the (usually less crowded) 'north terminal' security, even if you have to go to the south terminal - both areas join after the security checkpoints, and you can go wherever you need to...

Twohundred-friggin'-what?! I'll be damned if I ever buy jeans that cost more than $24.99!

Your example illustrates nicely that there's what I call a pretentious element about 'lifehacking': your relative just does it, because he thinks about how to make stuff work (basically), but we give it a grand term, and make much ado about it. One always has to 'lifehack' in a way, or, in other words, live using…

Good on you! Wish more people were exposed to that language through secondary education. Excellent training in structure / logic / systematics, and it helps to learn other languages.