Yes - being an anti-semite is, and should be, controversial.

Remember also when Michelle Obama encouraged people to drink more water (rather than soda) and the Fox News pundits all starting bleating about the three cases in human history of people dying from drinking too much water?

It’s been a number of years since I consulted at Medibank, but they had (at the time) outsourced *every* aspect of their IT systems. I remember being in a meeting with 25+ people in a boardroom at Medibank offices in Melbourne as we were trying to design security architecture for a set of new systems. It became…

And with the strict seniority rules followed by all of the big three US carriers - as a new hire you will always be behind anyone who was furloughed in terms of preference for “moving up” to the mainline crews.  

My understanding (which may be outdated) is that there’s a big salary difference between the mainline pilots and crew (United / Delta / AA branding and full size airframes) and the regional carriers (United Express / Delta Connection / American Eagle flying RJs). The latter are nominally provided by third parties and…

So stop for a cup of coffee or some lunch / dinner half way while your car is charging.

They need to be sentenced to the same prisons they used to work in.

Stopping once every 5-6 hours for 7 minutes is not a normal use case for most humans.  There’s no need for electric cars to try and meet this completely unrealistic scenario

The key in my planning is Medicare not Social Security. I’d retire today if there were single payer available, but I’d be paying >$15,000 a year for shitty health coverage if I did that. So I’ll keep my good job and health coverage, keep maxing out my retirement savings, wait till medicare kicks in and then figure…

Considering congress is 75% geriatrics and people over 60 are by far the most reliable voting bloc, I think that’s less likely.

We live in an almost 200 year old house and the challenge we face is that most “professionals” don’t know about or care to learn about adding efficiency to buildings that old. It’s been six years since we moved here and I’ve yet to find a contractor who will even show up to look at the attics and give a quote for…

I bought a dash cam a few months ago - uses mini-b for the power attachment, but uses micro-b to connect to a computer. Crazy - had to special order a mini-b to A cable.

Unfortunately that’s what you get when you have a county run entirely by Republicans in a state run by Republicans. They were probably “researching” whether storm surges were real on YouTube and Facebook.

It’s also a consideration on the Cessna 402s that Cape Air fly now. I’ve seen them weigh passengers if they don’t believe the person quoting their aspirational or college weight.

And if you are a big guy you often get to sit in the co-pilot seat.  I’m 6'2" 225 and most of my flights on Cape Air have been in the “don’t touch anything” seat.

If only there were some other way to accidentally charge someone for something other than scanning a barcode?

I 100% guarantee that the people who put up that hideous wallpaper in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s thought theirs was “timeless” and “stylish” too.

If only there were other ways to heat your home?

Agree with all you say except the last part. The Acela and NE Corridor is the *only* profitable part of Amtrak. They make plenty of money and most trains are sold out the majority of the year (and a functioning ownership would look at that and add capacity, but that’s not how Amtrak is run)

Yup - five at-grade crossings on the “Acela” lines within a ten minute drive of my house. Never going to have true high speed until those are addressed.