“Fully laden, its displacement was 657,019 tonnes.” Displacement is the actual weight of the boat, not a volume calculation…that’s 6.5 supercarriers.

200 per can (I’m using that metric rather than per 12/16/20oz, cuz who doesn’t just drink a whole can) is kinda middle-of-the-road for the current crop of drinks. Reign is 300mg per can, and it’s actually tasty – hazardous.

Your points about vetting the charity and the company claiming they donated is fair, but the actual fraud accusation kinda falls flat. Yes, companies do flout the law all the time, in a very open “what you gonna do about it” way; I trust them about as far as I can kick them…but there’s such a naked paper trail with…

False. Please stop spreading online misinformation. “Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.”

You could probably get that at Cracker Barrel; the loaded hashbrown casserole would be the base you were looking for and they definitely have the meat, gravy and eggs lying around.

Boom still has a website, they're claiming Mach 1.7 with zero net carbon so I'm not entirely sure about that. Just a bunch of renderings, as far as I can tell.

Uh, passenger jets absolutely cannot supercruise (anymore). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercruise

Wut? Yeah, the Singer-Williams DLS über-911 is pricier, but they start at a piddling half-mil and I haven’t seen many break the 7-figure mark at auction.

Welp…here in good ol’ America, there’s long established precedent that pigs “do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens”, i.e. they don’t have to respond to a call if they don’t feel like it; the most she can do is make a lot of bad noise and hope the department does something. If she…

Minor correction: McDonald’s added automatic geofencing just recently. Been using the app for years now, and it’s always refused to finalize the order unless you’re within range of the restaurant. The only difference now is that it does it automatically; previously you’d get a screen saying “You aren’t at the…

Uh, I’ve seen a Panda Express inside the perimeter at pretty much every major American airport I’ve been in. And, Indian places, and any one of a number of other dishes that would be, ahh…questionable on planes. There’s a pho spot, an outpost of MOPHO as a matter of fact, inside New Orleans; imagine what kind of a mess…

Funny you should say that…kudzu “leaves, vine tips, flowers, and roots are edible; the vines are not. The leaves can be used like spinach and eaten raw, chopped up and baked in quiches, cooked like collards, or deep fried. Young kudzu shoots are tender and taste similar to snow peas.

Er…you do know there’s restaurants inside the checkpoint? That very possibly sell fried rice?

Pêche is hardly a random seafood joint, it’s a Donald Link joint…the Beard award winning guy who does Cochon, Cochon Butcher, and Herbsaint. That was opened by (also Beard award winning) chef Rebecca Wilcolmb.

Russian dressing + pickle relish = 1000 Island, so you can just cut 1000 Island with mayo. Me, I usually just use the dressing straight – it’s not quite the same but it’s close enough most of the time. I do have a slightly more complicated, much tastier recipe based on the one from the McD’s corporate chef (https://the…

Test markets are chosen mostly for demographic reasons; the more varied an area is, be it socioeconomic, generational, ethnic, the more diversity the merrier, the better to get a feel for how a new product will work nationwide. It’s why Columbus, Ohio is the test market capital of America. https://www.thrillist.com/new…

I have gone even farther and done some comparisons, freakin’ Duncan Hines canned frosting is measurably healthier than Nutella. Get some good OG gianduja if you’re into the hazelnut thing, it’s sooooo much better than any of the spreads.

The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. No other race like it on Earth; it’s the only one that’s on my absolute bucket list.

One can have the highest standards in the world for tires, PSC2s & Blizzaks or nothing, but when you’re picking up a car in rural central Louisiana, and the day before your 1300 mile drive home your FIL says the tires are “old, but they’re real good, Michelin, and still got plenty of tread”, and you look at them and…

My understanding is that royal folx are generally used as a shield against Perpetuities because they’ve historically been one of the only classes of people with precisely and publicly recorded birth & death dates. Times have changed, but why mess with what works?