I disagree with your last paragraph. The US is simply too big to support economical high speed train travel. Air travel is cheaper and quicker.

oooh time to bust out one of my favorite quotes. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne 

The essential oil people are THE WORST.

Took my wife’s grandfather to breakfast one cool morning in our Mazda3s GT. Had the seat warmers on ahead of time before I picked him up because the cold really bothered him.

A couple blocks after picking him up, he kinda moves around, puts his hand on the seat under his leg and goes, “OH! It’s heated!? I thought…

If only there were a way to combine a homogenous-charge engine with a hybrid drivetrain…

I’d argue that the difference is that Diet Coke tastes like liquefied dog shit and Coke Zero tastes pretty close to regular Coke.

I’d argue that the difference is that Diet Coke tastes like liquefied dog shit and Coke Zero tastes pretty close to…

1. The movie literally says the plane sequence is only one hour via a title card.

Interstellar was an imaginary story. This was an actual event that occurred to actual people, an important chapter in one of the most significant events in the history of the world. it shaped the world you live in now whether you realize it or not. Does that give it enough conceptual angle for you?

This is not at all like Saving Private Ryan. The plot thread here is get home on a ship that doesn’t sink. The rest of the movie is a non-stop avalanche of catastrophe. You don’t really catch your breath or get a moment of peace as you do with SPR.

I live in a rural area near a race track. Some new farmettes popped up, and people moved in and immediately started bitching about the noise. The noise they were fully aware of when they moved there. Local officials told them to fuck off. Shame that not every area can stand up to the professional whiners like that.

If you’re gonna move to our neighborhood, you’re gonna conform to our way of life. Not the other way around.

That is the best part of living in the red river area! Your proximity to the night life venues. Who the fuck moves there for a quiet retreat?!

I don’t live in Austin, but seriously fuck these people. People who move into an established neighborhood and then complain about what’s already established are the worst of humanity.

No, but they sometimes do illegal things. If I drive without holding a valid drivers’ license, am I driving illegally, or am I an “undocumented driver”?

Wow, he found some real clarity in his life. You can’t bag on someone who has that level of self awareness. Not to mention a great capacity for kindness to the people be cared for. I’m impressed.

Oh jeez, here come the cool witty atheists with their flying spaghetti monster jokes...

But why couldn’t they shoot the trigger off his gun instead?

I’m not sure if you can grab the ABC 7 live feed, but that’s the one I was watching... They had a much more zoomed-in camera on dude getting shot before cutting their feed. But the guy definitely took a gun out the bag and appeared to shoot at the cop that shot back at him.

Ok I’m going to assume this is the case of the author not writing the headline because there’s some serious lede burying going on here.

I live in swizerland, this is the standard issue assault rifle every active soldier gets to take home. Every year they have to show that they can still operate it and have to go to a shooting range and score a high enough score or they will have to go to a 1-2 week training course. This is the only time a soldier can…