This is all due to poor supply chain planning and a religious devotion to just in time manufacturing to appease Wall Street because excess inventory looks bad on a balance sheet.  So many industries are suffering because everyone thought it was 2008 again and it isn’t.  The bonkers thing is that older IC’s aren’t that…

My niece and nephew (6 and 8) were playing around in my ‘97 Ranger, enjoying the novelty of the fold-down rumble seats in the extended cab, and were just completely flummoxed by the manual windows. Just amazed.  Then the niece’s eyes lit up as she connected the dots and said, “Oh, so that’s why they call it rolling…

Listen here, kid. I’m gonna need you to grab that feeler gauge over there and set the points gap while I drain the rear diff.

Tracy is going to grow up to be some wide-eyed kid’s weird uncle. I mean, the kid is going to go to school, and he is going to have stories.

That depends on whether the explainer does, or does not, support Brexit.

I agree that DIY skills will take care of most of life’s problems, and we can apply that to really anything, cars, homes, boats, small-motor yard equipment.

Who knew that when your country depends on cheap foreign labor, and you close the border, shit hits the fan?

Oh yay, found the contrarian Republican who is simultaneously pro-war and anti-war. Or pro-whatever-Trump-tweets-on-any-given-day.

Rowling has donated money to anti-trans hate groups, used her expensive lawyers to bully trans activists into silence, and spread anti-trans rhetoric so successfully that her words have been quoted by far-right politicians in both the US and UK when they’ve tried to pass anti-trans laws. The fact that she wraps her…

Yeah, I think at least part of the issue with Rowling is for some reason this seems to be the hill she wants to die on.  She won’t let it go, and each time she returns to the subject she does seem to double down on it--this wasn’t just an opinion she stated once.

This whole controversy started with a series of tweets wherein Rowling:

I’m not sure how claiming that allowing trans women to use women’s bathrooms will be dangerous to children is anything but comically obvious transphobia. 

100% agree. It’s not a blanket age, it’s the individual. Ben Platt looks like a 37 year old youth group pastor who plays acoustic songs about how alcoholism destroys family life.

I’ve been in an 8 year battle with the lead of my company’s QC department over the Oxford comma. Every time I move clients, I find a way to get the client to request it so I can overrule the QC standards and make that comma standard for the team. I will likely die on this hill.

Danny Pudi as Abed on Community should have got at least a nod. One could argue his performance was one note, but it was the way he played that note that made him so great!

“actor snake oil shill Mayim Bialik ”

Boomers live for this shit. And sure, I’m stereotyping, but I can think of many fathers (including my own) where going out and finding that “deal” was the weekend hobby (instead of the things that lazy, poor people do, like go for a walk, or play golf).

My grandfather was an eye witness to a high speed head-on crash in the early 60s where a passenger went through the windshield and face-planted into a tree. With rather unappetizing results. He was a *devout* seatbelt wearer from that day forward, as were his kids and grandkids. Though my grandmother generally REFUSED…

In all seriousness, Stroll can be a decent driver and the reason for that be because his dad had the money to guarantee him spots and cars and sim time and personal trainers etc. Racing is not a meritocracy and Lance is an example of what any normal person could achieve with an unlimited budget and the drive to do it.

H…

One of my best friends wrote a letter to the seller of the house he really wanted. It was an older couple selling, and they’d gotten tons of offers way above asking price and he just couldn’t afford to go much higher than a few thousand above asking so he couldn’t beat those bids. The couple ended up choosing his…