I know it’s Tenessee but damn that’s on the nose. (“These black folk don’t know how money works, unlike those white folk who were efficient in their fraud!”)

NEUTRAL: this explains John Travolta’s performance in noted ‘90s classic “Broken Arrow”

Electric Last Mile Solutions is a SPAC-backed startup

Yep. Fish is the worst. I had a colleague in grad school who would bring a tin of tuna and a sleeve of crackers and just eat it all through a three-hour seminar. I tolerated it for three weeks and in week 4 I reached my limit and told him he had to cut that shit out. The room fucking stank so bad, it was…

I had a colleague that ate canned vegetables with a fork, straight out of the can. Asparagus. Green beans. Peas. Nasty.

Toyota. Not only are 90% of their vehicles painted in some shade of vague, when they try to be “fun”, their either derivative or just wrong somehow.

For instance, this color. I’m sure Toyota meant it to look militaristic, like a Gulf War Humvee, or like a desert pre-runner. But it does not look like that in person -…

Funny, my employer does not explicitly prohibit work-from-home on Mondays and Fridays, but it is discouraged.  The idea being, of course, that people are tempted to slack off and basically take 3 or 4 day weekends while “working” from home.

Plug the Leaf in every night in the garage. Solar panels on the roof and we are about $300 ahead Production versus usage

Spot on... yet the Sacklers roam free.  Their opioids are a big reason the addiction problem is where it is...

It’s been going great for years. I had 22 solar panels installed on my roof in 2015, and bought my first electric car in 2018. I had three solid years of free driving due to the surplus I generated in 2015-2018 that was stored on the grid. I’ve still got a few years left on the home improvement loan I used to fund the…

My ‘15 LEAF has me feeling pretty good (dare I say even a bit smug?) about this latest hike, like it did with the shortages not too long ago as well.

There are 100 left.  3 of them have DUIs.

to be fair, that’s just a small portion of them. half of them are busy polishing up their chrome wheels to take their gal to the diner for the early-bird special

Articles like this one remove all doubt for me that I have become An Old. Mostly, I don’t get the allure of heading out on St. Patrick’s Day (or Cinco de Mayo, or NYE). You head out to a bar, pay a fortune for what are almost always shitty drinks, spend hours in a crush of drunk people whose goal mostly seems to be to…

The pearl clutching faction is probably more likely to raise a daughter who won’t feel comfortable saying no to unwanted sexual advances and a son who won’t be concerned about his partner’s active consent.

Sex ed at age 13-14 is waaaaay too late, you need to talk to kids about sex before they start getting interested in it. Once the urges kick in, it is too late to talk about restraint. Parents need to stop talking about preserving innocence, and start taking responsibility for education out of it instead. The latest…

Luxembourg is sending 15 military tents. And two pistols. I have no idea where they got the second pistol from. 

About $200, but it was 1988.  I had just gotten into medical school and treated friends.

The Chicago Tool Library is pay-what-you-can and doesn’t store any credit card information for that exact reason. Tool libraries don’t get government tax dollars like public libraries so they need to do something to support themselves.

One of the idiot commisioners in our city council tried to literally dismantle the library. Our library shares resources with two other counties, which means that if our library doesn’t have something, one of the other two can ship it to ours within 2 business days. It costs the county NOTHING, but this fucking choad…