I work in technical support in IT. People assume I know a lot but, I don't. I just read the fuckin' manual and use search engines. I know how to use F1. Anyone could do this, really, if they just took the time to read things and be unafraid to experiment and play around with their machines.

I'm a software engineer, I swear no one who works here has the first fucking clue what I do.

I predict that predictions made in 2025 about the present day will be accurate!

Dear Kinja,

we should copy ontario. their electricity grid is like 20% hydro and 50% nuclear. they are cutting down on fossil fuels and increasing renewables but leaving nuclear untouched. once fossil fuel is zero then we can talk about replacing nuclear with renewables, if ever

NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation. The units mismatch prevented navigation information from transferring between the Mars Climate Orbiter…

here's why the notion of "both sides" is dumb:

Both sides of the debate

I do not think you understand what science is.

There are not "two sides." There are science educators advocating for national science-based science standards, and there are superstitious nutbags who think a supreme being revealed the secrets of the universe to a bunch of stone-age goatherds in the desert. That those stone-age goatherds and their spiritual…

Darwin will catch up to this fella eventually.

Can you do the length of sideburns in big/small screen history next?

I dunno, when I drop a glass of milk on the floor, I typically clean up the glass and milk before I leave the room. Seems like a sound practice but apparently it's not common sense.

I'm a gearhead. I'm a civil engineer. And I'm something of an environmentalist. These can be weird things to reconcile.

Oops, I happen to be Chinese ~~~LoL All that I'm thinking after reading this is "what an awesome venue for paintball!"

Maybe it's going to be rear engine/front wheel drive? WHO KNOWS.

...sensors can see two football fields...

* Thrusters 2 x 10 hp

I saw this reported somewhere else - the talk of superhuman strength to bend the top of the door away is.... exaggerated somewhat. Anyone that has tried to get their locked door open with a wire coathanger knows it is surprisingly easy to not only bend the top of the door frame open, but also a bit TOO easy to bend it…