“Holy shit.”

“Who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve?”

no smokers allowed in my car. Even if a smoker isn’t actively smoking in the car

It appears to be working. Cat thefts have dropped substantially; not sure about other metals.

In my city, there was a 500 per cent increase in catalytic converter thefts between 2020 and 2021. It continued to be bad into 2022, until police arrested three guys who had been doing a nice business stealing and selling cats to a crooked scrapyard. After the arrests, cat thefts dropped by 95 percent. They were some…

Similar regulations were adopted in Manitoba, Canada last summer:

Wut? It’s a direct quote from the subject of the piece, summing up their thoughts on the matter.

Oh, I flag them all the time, not that it seems to do anything. But for the reasons in my original post, I’m through ignoring them. They need to be called out and kicked out. 

Can something be done about the fake Dr Lizardo account and others like it, please? I have a pretty high tolerance for black humour, but the shit these trolls get away with is not fucking funny. People are getting killed by people who share their intolerance, but they find safe harbour on this site. It’s becoming hate…

Damn, I really need to not read these articles. I’m not naive, I know what’s what in our capitalist world. But it’s always so striking to me, when I see these people and their houses, not only how many insanely rich people there are, but also how little they apparently had to do to acquire that great wealth. The people…

pilots and crews are trained to handle this kind of thing when it comes up

That’s interesting. So, it’s more a matter of head up or down rather than moving pictures vs static print triggering the motion sickness? (Asking as someone who has tried to find ways to reduce motion sickness in his passengers, not because I have an unhealthy interest in what makes you vomit.)

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.