Teach a man to fish and all that...

“How are we going to get to the Moon if we can’t talk between two or three buildings?”

I buy cars about 5-6 years old with a goal of keeping it for 10 years and 150-200k additional miles . Even then my stress is at an absolute peak for the first year or so after buying. It is the point where I have just put out the most money and I have the most to lose from a major mechanical failure or crash or…

Sorry, I admittedly wasn’t very clear with my quippy postscript. The rich in this scenario that are being subsidized are the rich with their fashion accessory, social status vehicles (EVs) that can’t support the true cost of a commercial charging station and need a municipality to step in so that they don’t run out of…

“Even if Doley’s station winds up failing, it’s still a good thing that it happened at all.”

Depends on if you need roads or not, and great Scott’s right side was currently going where it didn’t need roads. So, it’s ok.

You mistook his statement that public schools are operating ‘as designed’ to mean that they are ‘operating well’. The public schools are operating as designed.

The US Federal Government, in cooperation with the Federal Reserve, is pleased to announce another round of corporate lottery winners, cherry picked from the biggest donor list of friends whose companies need no welfare but dammit they’ll get it anyway, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each!

Oh please, I’m not asking for no ads or anything for free. I’m asking for the primary content, ostensibly the content that the ads are meant to support, to work and display as well as the advertising.

Autoplay videos, pop-up ads, and sponsored posts loading in between actual content just as I am trying to click...all working perfectly.

At that price and fuel economy, why not just get an Ford Flex Limited EcoBoost and fold the rear seat down flat if you only have a couple kids to put in it and you’ll have more storage space than the Edge?

The dash itself is a bit dated but looks alright, that steering wheel though, ugh, why is the airbag bulkier than a comparable era Taurus, in fact it looks more like it was lifted out of a Taurus but from the decade earlier jelly bean refresh in 1996.

That brief moment in time when I could T9 text basically blind, even knowing that you had to scroll once and press ok to get from ‘Them’ to ‘Then’.

You make it sound like they’re flying from LA to NYC by intentionally going the wrong way around the planet. As you briefly mention, if you want to get from Straya to NYC for business or pleasure your other options are...still spending 20 hours in the air but landing once?

I’m not positive, but I think he means that if you disagreed with the regime and were going to subtly sabotage the value (fangs?) of the inevitable post-mission propaganda, this would be one way to do it. It is oddly worded and unclear though.

Had a friend in high school, daughter of two French-Canadians who until she was 16 was still finding out that her parents taught her words wrong. The last one I remember was telling her that spatula is not pronounced spuh-TOOL-uh.  Silly Quebecois.

I admit, levelling Istanbul and Ankara is not a suggestion that I have heard floated before. I have a feeling that doing so would go over much worse on the international stage than just abandoning the Kurds.

I don’t want to sound dismissive, I think there could be a reasonable discussion about it, but no, I personally don’t think they present a significant national security threat even if they reconstituted to their strength a few years ago.

And when he first indicated a year ago that he wanted to leave did they accelerate a negotiated process? Nope. The ‘adults’ are suckling at the DoD teet and chose to slow roll his decisions until he was sick of it and decided to make a move.