Sadly, he won’t. He’s made himself into that guy at the bar who would TOTALLY kick everybody’s ass if his friends weren’t lightly holding him back.

This is why going away to college reduces bigotry (as long as you don’t go to Liberty or something) and why the trans people are such an inviting target these days. When you meet people with different backgrounds and realize they are just people it is harder to demonize them. The trans population is very small so a…

“Well, I’m a mother too. I know what you’re experiencing, and we’re all very afraid for our children—even if they’re exaggerating,” Casey reportedly told her...

Rarely does one come across a post that straddles the divide between brilliant and racist, between edgy and gauche, between hilarious and cringy so perfectly. Bravo, sir/ma'am.

He has money. He wants power and fame. He wants to be a hero in fictitious Russian history books. Shit like that. Hell, he might even get off on murdering people, both his own and others.

Me three. Keep stuff as long as possible, buy used, recycle, etc. Bike to work, also, and try to commute by bike when not working as well (hard because of summer and shit infrastructure.) But still driving a car with a full ICE, and not a particularly efficient one at that. Sure the next car will be, at a minimum, a…

I feel exactly the same way!

In terms of your own habits, it sounds like you are doing just fine. But it’s also a reminder that personal responsibility won’t get us out of this crisis. Also, keeping a car going through its full lifetime is its own form of efficiency too. Money, but also the materials to build the vehicle.

Crashing people turns them and their vehicles into uncontrolled missiles, so that only increased the danger to bystanders.  It could’ve been a person and not a tree that the guy was splattered against.

This is the exact same logic domestic abusers use when they beat their partner. “Look what you made me do.” Oh, and guess what, cops are statistically overrepresented as domestic abusers. Funny how that works out.

You are being carefully misleading. Prior to the Industrial Revolution carbon levels in nature were roughly static and sustainable and the carbon cycle was consistent.

Every time I’m shocked at how police can get away with killing a fellow human who was not an immediate threat, with the worst penalty being forced to go work at a different police office a few miles down the road.

I’m not familiar with New York law, so maybe they have a law that makes “getting away” punishable by death.

Yes. It is well established that police cannot kill someone merely for running from them.

C’mon Man, this is Gizmodo, not the BBC. 

And Lewis, of course!

There’s a Robert Redford film where he’s sailing across the ocean and runs into a mostly-submerged, floating shipping container that, predictably, puts a new window in his boat.  I think of this scene every single freakin’ time I’m out on open water, now, now matter the size of the vessel.

The shipping industry as a whole has been in quite a state since the pandemic. One of the specifics I remember seeing was that 3x more containers have wound up on the ocean floor than before 2020 because the ports are in such a mad rush, that standard safety checks and whatnot regularly get skipped.

I learned the word fenestration in an architecture class i.e. the arrangement of windows on a building. After that, I always assumed that defenestration was the act of removing windows. ;-)