I always think the same thing when I see comments like that. Even if the wifi was flawless, how is watching a movie on a tiny phone screen preferable to reading a good book? I guess I will never understand.

I was caught off guard in the early 2000s when the term “mid-sized” lost all meaning in the car rental world. Years of booking “midsized” cars had never failed to provide just that. Then in 2002, they told me my “midsized” ride would be a Toyota Echo. I told them that it absolutely would not. “But, but...the only…

I’m sure the new name has nothing to do with the fact that Travis Scott has a line of Air Jordan sneakers he’s always hawking. Nothing at all. Because the kid’s name has an ‘e’ and all; clearly no relation to the shoes.

I would argue that the biggest problem is not victims impact statements, but the criminal justice system’s reliance on random citizens for everything

I think the fault lies with the practice of consulting family members of victims about sentencing in the first place. Family members of murder victims are the absolute, extreme opposite of unbiased or disinterested parties; so, for one thing they are simply incapable of making a reasoned recommendation. At the same…

You’ve found some good ones. Lyre’s makes some good NA spirits for crafting interesting cocktails, and also some premixed ones that are quite good:

This submersible misadventure has all the elements of one of my worst nightmares: trapped in a small, dark space and running out of oxygen.

Well, it’s clearly a place that harbours artists (eww), so there you go.

it got to a place where the only way I could play this role was if it’s something completely different from who I am. And I can distance myself from that character. I wanted to make sure he looked nothing like me, acted nothing like me, just a totally different person.

Wow, where have you been? When she began her political run, the world was pretty much introduced to her as “the gun-themed restaurant owner from Colorado.” One of the main selling points is the fun fact the staff are all strapped as they go about their food service duties.

He’s suggesting that the writer’s take is “well, half of Canada might be on fire, but the upside is NYers don’t have to move their cars!” (While the hed kinda implies that, the rest of the piece doesn’t.)

Basically, everything but Toyota and Honda. Got it.

Wow, what a total buzzkill you are. (You are also correct. Wisdom is recognizing that those two things very often go together in life.)

I guess I’ll be that guy and point out that the douchebag wasn’t trying to “hock” the parts, he was trying to “hawk” them.

According to the full article, there are no humans present in these cars, so I would call that driverless. When the companies say “a driver is ready”, it appears they mean that they will send a human to the site and try to make things work. From the full article:

This year I did my winter-to-summer tire switch in my driveway, using the lug wrench and scissor jack that came with the car. I timed it at a lightning-fast turtle-like 23 minutes flat. In your face, NASCAR crew!

You’re right on the first part. However, the “stand your ground” laws explicitly state that the requirement for a person to remove themselves (if possible) from a dangerous situation is gone. So people are free to kill someone on their front step even if they were fully able to just go back into their damn house.…

Wash it? Oh, you poors. One wear and it goes in the bin, mate.

Well, that’s obviously stupid, but the shirts have a little more going for them than it appears at first glance. I thought it was just a screenprint special, but those flowers are individual pieces that are layered on, and there are beads and crystals and shit on there as well. So, I would definitely pay $20 for it.

“The Constitution was divinely inspired and the rights within it are God given and so cannot ever be changed, ever, for any reason, no matter how good, logical, or rational those reasons might seem. It is to be taken literally and not subject to reinterpretation in a modern context. (Except for that “well-regulated”…