Fentanyl is like getting shot with a gyrojet, it actually gets more dangerous the further it is from the person taking it

I mean, if you aren’t already scared of Fent because it will ruin your life, erroneously thinking it will kill you on contact probably isn’t going to stop you. Remember back in the 80s when school kids were just bombarded with total lies about drugs? Oh, LSD will make you jump off the roof! Marijuana will make you…

Eisenhower also machine-gunned veterans instead of paying them and dumped a boatload of Mexican dudes in Sonora to die of exposure, so maybe we should take his advice with a grain of salt

The A-10's close attack capability is largely useless. During the Gulf War, when the A-10 had its best overall showing, the vast majority of its kills were with missiles and bombs. The F-35 is very capable as a ground attack plane, it just can’t tank armor head-on, but it doesn’t need to - and realistically, neither…

I mean, they probably let him do it because he wasn’t supposed to be driving

I’m in favor of the model most Scandanavian countries use, where you are ONLY allowed to campaign using allotted tax funds. No self-funded candidacy, no donations, no PACs. Just demonstrate you have a credible campaign, and you get the same small stipend as everyone else. I also don’t think we do enough to limit…

I guess we should be greatful, with AV club gone, Quartz being entirely sponsored content, The Root peremptorily disabling comments because they publish exclusively bad takes, and Kotaku turning off comments because their EiC is a loon, Jalopnik is the last one of these things where we CAN talk about how bad the…

At this point, Jalop writers are probably leaving errors in to reassure us they aren’t generative AI. As opposed to before, when they just weren’t being paid enough to care.

I mean, you could make a very legitimate argument that Republicans have been purely an opposition party since Vietnam, defining themselves only by arguing against any other tractable perspective. And when there IS no opposing viewpoint - as in the case of the AIDS crisis - their solution is to do nothing whatsoever.…

It can’t be a coincidence that Reddit bolted down control of, and access to, private subreddits, and then a year later Google trots out a horrible AI search aid that seems to ALWAYS reference Reddit, to the point of scraping highly specific jokes and troll posts from it. And while Reddit was probably an appealing…

My hot take is that a star wars themed hotel would have been way more successful. 

I just did a search for “How many Congressmen have contracted Kuru” and got the “no AI response available” notice; since then i haven’t gotten AI results. Have they started blacklisting IPs that ask questions that might trip it up?

Archaic war was WEIRD. A lot of battles were fought with mostly blunt instruments between groups of a few hundred men, and fighting simply ended when enough dudes on one side got their asses beaten too bad to keep fighting. But then you have things like the Battle of Salamis, where the presence of more professional…

First, we analyzed Homer’s Iliad and combined the information that we extracted with physiological and biometeorological knowledge to create an 11-hour combat simulation protocol replicating the daily activities performed by elite warriors in the Late Bronze Age

Millions of incarcerated people and their families: “We want penal reform!”

I’m sort of torn on this. On the one hand, no morally decent person has a private jet, and anything that upsets scumbags like Elon Musk and Kenneth Coleman totally rules.

I had a Plymouth Voyager, and eventually the rear windows stopped moving at all, and the little ventilation windows in the third row stopped latching. Later on I had a Jeep Liberty, and eventually EVERY SINGLE WINDOW REGULATOR broke. I replaced the front 2, then replacement parts got too expensive so I gave up.

I don’t get RVs. They’re a horrible hybrid of cars and tents that aren’t good to drive and aren’t real camping. And like, the low end price for a new motor home is 50 grand, how many nights in actual hotels could you afford JUST on the interest for that?

Yeah I had a Chrysler and a Jeep and hard pass from me too. I like windows that close.