I can’t understand how any venue would ever consider sustaining normal business hours when the conditions outside pose a legitimate health risk to people in a matter of minutes.

Track day switches notwithstanding, I’d generally agree with GM. The airbags functioned as intended. The problem is that he exceeded 1.25 lateral g’s when he hit the pothole (you can see the meter max out). I’m not an engineer, but that seems like a lot particularly with the abrupt change. I’d want my airbags to…

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw that, but I’m probably the only one.

Am I the only one who thinks that center airbag in the console should scream when it deploys? 

Maybe it’s just me, but I want to say it’s engineered obsolescence. Like the single attachment point in my 350z’s central console door (which is also made of plastic) it’s designed to fail. It could have been remedied with a metal part, a metal bushing in my case, but someone felt they could save 1/10th of a penny on…

Companies that sell prepared food seem to think they have to protect me from myself. I’m well aware that a hot dog isn’t the best choice for lunch or a snack. I am however old enough to make my own choices and intelligent enough to understand the consequences; besides, they’re great and I want one.

I think “inadvertently” crushing a few high-value impounded cars would be a great motivator to foreign diplomats to pay their parking fines. Not that they couldn’t obtain a similar vehicle rather quickly, but more that they’d have to either walk or drive something mundane in the interim.

It’s worth mentioning that rather than hiding games from your library (they go into a special page that requires a few extra clicks to get to) you can minimize categories too so you only see the category’s title. Just click on the minus sign to the left of your category.

And here I was all ready to rant at the city for saying it would have to tear the entire street up just to fix the damage done by the Chad.

I’m sure a lot of people know this one, but you can make a quick scrambled egg in the microwave:

I’ve always felt that a UBI should be based on the amount of income you have earned up until that point in addition to it providing a guaranteed minium. This is somewhat akin to what Social Security was except you could elect to start receiving it at any time. In my view, a person could “retire” at any point and…

My wife has some obvious mobility issues. I really hate it when the hostess tries to seat us somewhere it would be blatantly problematic for her. For example, when we request a table, and they try to seat us at one of those high bar stool tables. I’ve had the occasion to actually mention, ‘your booths are a little on…

I was around for the introduction of purple horseshoes. I also recall how they were introduced, Lucky got kicked in the head by a horse, which come to think of it explains quite a lot.

Dear Elon, whilst I applaud your commitment to doing crazy shit, I’d also like to point out that you just successfully wasted enough money to both pay off my house and put me approximately 15 years closer to retirement. Thanks!

My missing things are always in the first place I look, I just invariably start at the wrong end.

This sounds like the car I just bought and why you need to pay attention to all those line items. They tried to charge me $100 for Nitrogen filled tires. I politely told them 78% Nitrogen was acceptable.

I still think the movie Demolition Man had the concept of autonomous cars correct: A wheel that simply retracts when you don’t want to drive.

At least in the US, there are two very simple methods for dealing with additional unwanted emails and phone calls from local companies. For phone calls, the standard response of “Add me to your do not call list.” should be sufficient to remove calls. Once you’ve established a relationship with a commercial company,…

Dear Sir,

Does anyone else find it amusing that many of these burned out husks seem to also contain every ounce of ash from the fire? It looks like someone swept this car into a dustpan and carried it to the junkyard before depositing it, and all of its detritus, onto the ground.