obliquely explaining that the company has become too “founder-ied,” which he believes is “severely limiting” Twitter. Why? Who knows.

“A natural product of North Andover, Massachusetts”

export sales rose ... fueled by the pandemic ... cooking at home and using local products.

Delete. Never mind.

Wait. These guys actually used the exact words “cancel culture” in an official submission to the UN? Were they able to provide a precise definition for what it means? Jesus, what a bunch of knobs.

When JFK Jr. failed to return from the grave for the Nov. 1 rally, Protzman led the crowd to a Rolling Stones concert in Dallas, where he claimed that various band members had been replaced by Michael Jackson, JFK Jr., and Prince in disguise,

Waiting for Godot?

That’s why you put the opening behind the wing.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that…

I’m actually in favor of blood drawing. Just do it at your friendly neighborhood blood bank. They’ll be ever so thankful you came by.

Their website ends in .org instead of .edu. So, not a real school?

She was only caught when another metallurgist noticed inconsistencies in Thomas’ records

I’m not 100% sure, but I think they’ve gotten out of the consumer products business already. As another poster said, their appliance division was sold to Haier. They also had a materials division making plastics (e.g., Lexan) and silicones, but these have been divested long ago too. Sabic (Saudi Basic Industries…

OK, I just looked it up. The locomotives division was sold to or merged with Wabtec (the “W” comes from Westinghouse) some time ago, but apparently still keeps the GE branding and is now called GE Transportation.

Do (or don’t) they still make locomotives? If they do, where would that fit under the aviation / healthcare / energy division?

That’s why I said “better correlation” originally. If we’re going to have a standard, it’s better to base it on something we can measure objectively. The result may not be perfect, but better is better. You’re free to disagree, of course.

Because if the clock says noon but the sun has barely risen, then something is wrong. “But clock time is just an arbitrary number and we can adapt,” you say. Of course we can, but why should we. Ever since the first person to poke a stick into the ground and make a sundial, humans everywhere and throughout history…

In 1966, US law stated that DST would run from the last Sunday of April to the last Sunday of October.

Damn right. Make standard time permanent, not this DST nonsense.

Everybody hates having to change their clocks twice a year, sure, but I don’t understand why people think the solution is permanent DST. No, make standard time permanent, dammit, not DST. Then at least you’ll have a better correlation between what the clock says and where the sun is in the sky.