The panels may not care about noise, but the pilots might care a LOT about ‘visual interference’ from all those panels.

One version, at any rate. Previous editions of the TTRPG seemed to position it in San Francisco or Monterey, and I think the console game actually had it rise from the ashes of San Diego.

I lived in the Bay Area for many years and never once got anything resembling a cogent answer to why BART couldn’t extend a spur north across the Carquinez Strait and bring Solano County into the ‘system’. There’s absolutely no technical objection, given that we’ve got the friggin’ Transbay Tunnel already in existence.

Possibly. The problem with far too many rich people’s thought-processes regarding ‘the housing situation’ is that they flat-out refuse to accept rent-control or other rational responses to the problem, because that would affect their ‘score’ (read: their personal net-worth, apparently the sole foundation on which they…

It’s a textbook example of persuasion by emotional manipulation in the near-total absence of objective facts, precisely because most of those facts directly oppose the ‘favored narrative’. Republican POTUSes make the deficit and economy worse, Democrat POTUSes clean it up but take flak from Republicans in the House…

Never in my life have I been so grateful to be socially disconnected, to the point that I am invariably that last one to hear any such rumors; by the time they get to me, they’ve been thoroughly debunked.

Now, now, one should not wish ill upon another, even an ideological opponent. Having said that, I do think that she should investigate CBD oils for mood-regulation. Whether she’ll go down the ‘slippery slope’ of ‘antheogens’ is another matter entirely, though I must admit a certain morbid curiosity as to whether a…

It’s showmanship, more than anything else. They’ll use these kinds of shenanigans in their presentations to other pharmaceutical companies, to demonstrate the kind of “mud” storm they can and will stir up if the company being feted (read: blackmailed) doesn’t toe the Republican party-line.

There hasn’t been a Republican office-holder with a college degree worth the paper it’s printed on since the Reagan Administration, and “Saint Ronald” did his level best to run those out of the club. And it really seems like the last two decades have borne witness to the GOP-ers leadership realizing that their…

Hee hee hee... Young Gaetz needs to be careful about flinging that particular insult at women so often...

As delightful as the sentiment may be, that still requires a thorough legal analysis.

Agreed. It’s been the GOP’s strategy at least since the Great Re-Seating after LBJ (a Democrat) passed the Civil Rights Act; the dyed-in-the-wool white supremacists infesting the Democrat party of the day abandoned the party en masse and tried to form their own “Dixiecrat Party”. That failed badly enough that they…

I have nothing but the greatest respect for RuPaul as an artist, an enterpreneur and as a person.
I would not be able to endure spending five consecutive minutes inside his house without breaking down in tears and begging to be let out. How in the name of all that is sacred and fine can anyone string together coherent…

Chalk it up to an utter lack of true understanding of what “zen” is supposed to mean, carefully cultivated by the gatekeepers to make sure that the ‘conspicuous consumption’ lifestyle remains at the forefront of cultural awareness and desire.

Re: Hillary Duff’s expectation of ‘no framed photos’ on the wall.
It’s not that hard to believe. I know nothing about her family life, but let’s just say I know a few people who would sooner set their just-bought homes on fire than hang framed photos of some family-members on their walls. And others simply have a…

I recommend sekanjebin; it’s simple enough to make at home, but serves as a very versatile base for different flavor combinations:

Yeah. It’s not like Herr Drumphfehnfuhrer has never been sued before. His problem is that he overestimates just how effective ‘running out the clock’ is as a legal strategy when the number of lawsuits active against him at any given moment, never mind the number of litigants, exceeds the population of rather a lot of…

Given the decline in academic standards within the American *cough* “Educational” system, I’m not surprised. Ms. DeVos may have exacerbated it, but I lay the blame on Nixon, who arranged for college tuition to skyrocket and the creation of ‘educational tracks’ (i.e., ‘management’ = good little obedient Republican…

**deep, hollow voice of despair**

It’s a relatively straightforward ‘emotional transaction’. She gets the kind of attention she wants, from the people who think she is better than them, and ‘shielding’ from criticism.