Is it not? Is “waterfall” a euphemism for something? Oh, dear, just finished reading the article... Sorry.

That is a lot, though I did know one guy who did maybe half that... still a lot. He’s dead. (also smoked, tbh)

If our timeline goes fully dystopian fascist, it makes sense to me that “messianic Jews” would be appointed “protectors” of Jews. And any Jew who wants to feel safe would start to wear a new piece a jewelry: a cross with a star of David somehow embedded in it. Look at the history of conversos.

Well, I like the dada part.

Costs me $1 to charge my Prius Prime. That’s 25 miles for $1, which would cost $2 if I used gas. n=1, I know.

Very interesting discussion, which we’re having in our home right now. We’re building an ADU, and my wife, a very serious dedicated cook who has always used a gas stove, is suddenly considering induction for the ADU. Not for the reasons of leakage etc. First, our very expensive (gas) Wolf is crap, with ignition…

On board for Kraven ONLY if he’s driving the Kra-Van.

Here in Southern California, I can get “pastured free-range” eggs for about $9/doz at Whole Foods. If I go to the farmers market, I can pay more, but I’m supporting a local small farmer and I believe the chickens really are free-range and pastured (i.e., free to roam about the farm and eat anything they want off the…

My local dive, the Lost & Found, has a subtitle: “Cocktails & Dancing”. It is the last place in LA I would go for a cocktail, and I’ve never seen any actual dancing there. I would only order a bottled beer, and I’d wipe off the neck with my own tissue before drinking. But it’s a great place, and I’m glad it seems to…

Whatever. You have to love the teeth.

>seasoned drillers are not impressed with many of Musk’s proposals

Right. I don’t see a private company sending 44¢ postcards anytime soon.

Where do you even get bootstraps these days? Happy Solstice! May the Sun return.

Wonderful book related to this idea, The Light Ages by Seb Falk. It’s about the scientific pursuit of precise time measurement and the astrolabe during the Middle Ages.

That’s a sensible take. I also suspect that there’s a big division, as with Democrats, between those who have some notion of what the “base” (whoever that is) wants and those who want to appeal to a wider audience. Not that either side (of either party) actually knows what the base wants, or even who they are, or how…

Yeah, agreed. The state being able to kill people under color of law is too dangerous.

My favorite line of argument on the right is that lack of moderation will result in some kind of ancient Greek agora, with “debates” where people challenge ideas. Like, I suppose, the notion that 5G signals will activate the microchips in my vaccine.

The Checker. My favorite version was the station wagon. Then they had the stretch station wagon. And of course the Marathon, which I think was the taxi version.

Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud (1970). I saw that when I was 14, and the female masturbation scene (under a blanket, but still) baffled me for a long time.

The McDonalds experience in France is a fascinating one. Of course, countries other than the USA have much more stringent food purity and safety laws, so in France a burger is made from French beef and is high quality. But also, politically, McDos in France has become beloved by the Arab-descended population for their…