Nassar underwent a Title IX investigation, which cleared him of wrongdoing.

Colleges are the absolute *last* entities that should be investigation sex crimes.

“It has significantly less energy per mole than gasoline.”

A mole of hydrogen weighs a hell of a lot less than a mole of gasoline. On a *mass* basis, hydrogen blows gasoline away.

Hydrogen has a really shitty volumetric energy density. That’s why big rocket first stages (like Apollo) typically use kerosene: the tank structure for even cryogenic liquid hydrogen is huge.

Compressed hydrogen at 10,000 psi has an energy density of just over 9 megajoules per liter, which is way shittier than…

It relies on fossil fuels because producing it through electrolysis is really expensive because it takes a lot of electricity. Simple thermodynamics dictates that it’s going to take more energy to split hydrogen out of a water molecule than you’re going to produce by burning that hydrogen with oxygen. So nobody does…

In this thread, woke feminists explain that miscegenation is wrong.

Why the hell does it need to tell the Pentagon? Then Pentagon works for the White House, not the other way around, and international diplomacy (for whatever value of diplomacy you want to use) is a Presidential prerogative.

It is really sloppy and terrible writing.

They just don’t want it to compete with funding for their ridiculous pipe-dreams of high-speed rail lines.

EMALS is a shitstorm because the lessons that should have been learned by the F-35 were not:

Concurrent development is an awful idea. If you want a fancy new system that does X, then get that working *first*, *before* you start trying to integrate it into a useful platform. The time to develop a new electromagnetic…

It is also going to cost huge amounts of time and money to improve the reliability on EMALS by a factor of *ten*. Or alternately, to live with it as a garbage system and seriously curtail the capabilities of the carrier class.

The correct thing to do is not “get EMALS working no matter what it costs,” which is what…

They’re in front of me.

No. A trademark protects in the mark *in a particular trade*. Microsoft has a trademark on Microsoft Windows. This doesn’t mean they have to go after Pella Windows, Andersen Windows, or Home Depot for offering to install your windows.

“What’s so wrong with neighbors trying to maintain their house prices?”

Nothing, if you’re doing it by improving and maintaining your property. If you’re doing it by trying to dictate to your neighbor what he does with his, you’re a tool. If you wanted to live apart from others so that you wouldn’t have to deal with…

Race is even more of a non-biological social construct than gender is. Gender at least has something to do with sex, which an objectively biologically-determined thing, but race is purely a product of social perception and awareness. There’s no “black gene,” genetic variation within a race is greater than the genetic…

I’ve always wanted top open up a combination topless joint and truck stop called the Mansfield Bar.

“can they really??”

Nah, ApplePlay still sucks.

1. Doesn’t show my album art as anything other than a blurry backdrop.
2. Apps that compete with Apple offerings aren’t allowed to show up on ApplePlay so who gives a shit. Can’t use Waze with it, must use Apple Maps. No thanks.
3. There is no. Fucking. Reason. to force the iPhone display to…

If the problem is that console controllers suck for fps and people want to use mouse/keyboard, then the solution of just allowing standard USB inputs that allow anyone who wants to use one to use a $10 mouse and keyboard with their gaming console seems pretty obvious. The tool isn’t suited to the job, so why even…

The antecedent of “it” is “each of [the parties.]” The party invoking Article 5 does not get to determine what necessary action the rest of NATO must engage in. Once article 5 is invoked, each Party determines which action is necessary.

When we invoked Article 5 after 9/11, we did not get to therefore state which…

How do you link to Article 5 and still misrepresent what it actually says?

“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the…