Diagramming sentences? That just triggered a flashback to 7th grade English in 1980. 

As a Detroiter, fuck you.

This! Nothing quite like seeing an engineer getting pulled away from an Audi’s subframe components by his ankles :D

NAIAS was awesome on industry day. Seeing everyone running around with measuring tapes and cameras, benchmarking each other, disassembling things as far as you could get away with. In 2019 I did laps of the floor trying to do a survey of which supplier’s seatbelts each OEM was using

This style of racing (Nascar restrictor-plate racing) only happens at Daytona and Talladega. Because of the size of the tracks, the cars would reach speed upwards of 220+ mph if they weren’t using a restrictor plate that reduced the flow of air to the engine. Because all cars have this restricted air intake, they…

Okay, cool. Now bring back Pontiac as an electric performance division of Buick.

Albanese Gummy Bears/Worms

Albanese Gummy Bears/Worms

You’re not wrong.

Couple notes here:

Speech is a complex action - lots of muscles involved, and they have to be contracted in the right order to the proper degree. He may have simply lost the muscle memory to produce articulate speech while still carrying on an interior monologue.

I’ve known Jessi since grade school. She was equal parts daring and enjoyable to be around, and we’ll miss her light in this world.

They go into cardi-yak arrest.

I thought I saw one of these, once. But it was just an optical ilyushin.

What the hell happened to this man? The freakin’ Pointy-Haired Boss would have enough sense not to dive into a literal massacre for self-promotion.

Joule thief!

Because shut up, Kyle.

NOAA has a wonderful student lesson (that’s actually pretty meat & potato-y) on positive feedback loops - or thermal runaway, if you were operating a petroleum refinery - or runaway greenhouse effect, as you said above.

Holy Moly Grail

Back in the old days a 25" TV was as large as a tank, looked like a piece of furniture, weight 3 tons and sat 2 inches off of the floor.  And when it broke you just put a smaller TV on top of it until you could get new one.

From an American perspective retaliation against Russia for a strike against Europe is highly illogical. To make MAD credible it’s paramount that at least some European nations has nuclear arms and that the US has troops, and lots of them, stationed in Europe. The possibility of a European (French or British)…