“The basket building’s handles, which collectively weight 150 tons, are heated during the winter to prevent ice from smashing the skylight’s glass.”

150 TONS!?

As in three hundred thousand pounds!? What the hell are they made out of!? That’s crazy! They aren’t load-bearings structures at all, there’s no reason for…

Lucky you were working on relatively modern hardware. Back in the old days your shit would be completely fried if you did that.

Same with overclocking. These days the thing will just go into thermal over-load protection if it gets too hot. Restart, fiddle with the BIOS, everything is fine. Back in the early 2000's,…

Haha, yea, the proportions on the new 737 MAX are pretty wacky. That fuselage sure has come along way from the ultra-low-bypass (lol) JT8D days:

“I was proud to serve as a loadmaster.”

Much respect. Loadmaster is one of those jobs that doesn’t get thought about much until it goes wrong. Makes me think of that bone-chilling crash of National Airlines Flight 102 in Afghanistan; the most frightening example I know of as to why a loadmaster’s duties are deadly …

A CX5 with the CX9's turbo AWD drivetrain would be fucking amazing. I would totally forgive Mazda for never doing a Mazdaspeed 3 or 5 if they made that car instead.

It hurts so bad that they’ll never do it, they could pull it off so easily. Parts bin special; just throw a couple million dollars at it, nothing fancy.…

Plus one million to this. Going after the pharmaceutical companies and their legions of instantly-replaceable executives is an exercise in futility. There will always be another scheme, there will always be a new drug to exploit. A pharma executive gets fired for shady practices? He’ll just pay his fines and go work…

Kanye has always been talentless. Rhymefest wrote everything that brought him his initial success.

RWD in Denver. What’s not to like?

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Subaru could make the STI engine 1000x better just by throwing a WRX crank in it:

Fucking bingo, my immediate assumption was that he still had a stake in the company one way or another; most likely he owns quite a bit of their stock.

I’d say it’s more likely that he still owns stock in Facebook and doesn’t want to out a dent in his own net worth.

Only the Californian government could focus on radiation as the primary danger from mobile phones. Of course, the reality is that all the danger is in using them normally. From the bad posture you get by staring at them all day to the depressive nightmare that social media can be, even the intense blue light given off…

“Especially if you want to focus on late years genX and millenials who’s primary form of social interaction is participating in a virtual echo chamber while having virtually no influence on society at large.”

OMG, fucking same. Screens in a high-end luxury car look cheap and tacky as fuck. Goddamn microwave ovens have full-color LCD screens now.

Some day, in the near future, a full suite of legit mechanical gauges will be the mark of super-luxurious cars.

Flame suit for what? You’re exactly right. VW totally and utterly screwed the pooch when they cheapified their product line. Some corporate executives got it into their heads that they could (and should) take on the likes of Toyota. That combination of hubris and arrogance was palpable in the products that followed.

Don’t forget the huge, fake, not-round, chrome exhaust tips!

They hyper-rich don’t buy regular-ass supercars like Ferrari 458's and Lamborghini Huracans. They buy a lot more classic cars and crazy bespoke hypercars from the likes of Pagani and Koeneggsegg, or they buy the special projects made by more pedestrian supercar brands like Ferrari and McClaren (F12 TDF, P1, 918, etc).

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White people don’t voluntarily sign up to to join the White People forces so that they can get paid to oppress black people.

Cops, on the other hand, do exactly that. Therin lies the difference.

No. That rich man doesn’t spend his dollars. Not the vast majority of them, anyway. He invests them and hides them away in tax-shelters so that they can grow ever-larger without benefiting a single person other than himself.

Trickle-up economics, only chumps work for their money.