Every task you do - balancing your checkbook, building a new addition to your house, washing your dishes, fixing your car - can (and should, in my opinion) be done with your children. It’s how they learn to do these things themselves, and gives them an example of “working hard” so they don’t grow up thinking life is…

3d touch seems like one of those features that only work in a lab, or when used in the relatively narrow focus I suspect Apple’s testing teams have. Touch pressure is likely to be damned difficult to manage when in motion, whether running, driving, or biking.

Would daily-drive.

Truth. I drive my Wrangler without roof or doors all winter, and people look at me like I’m insane, but the look I give them is the same: what’s the point of moving around if you have to be inside, in your little cocoon? I think they’re as mad as they think me.

And I totally understand the people who want to make that trade. I drive a vehicle that’s about one bad decision away from tipping over and killing all of the people, and my tires throw rocks at everywhere, and not everyone thinks 31 inch tires squealing is funfunfun like I do, and I understand when people want to…

So people being dicks on the internet are the same as drone strike operators murdering people in villages.

AT&T must be thinking that they had to use the OBD II port, because asking novices to wire this thing into their switched accessory power would be too much (or, as others have suggested, as a means of collecting your driving data) but let’s count a few of the reasons this won’t work for a variety of people:

Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever thought of it this way, but I’ve had an inline-6 for almost a decade now, despite having 6 different cars in that time: a BMW e30, and then five different Jeeps. I definitely did not need a foreign car to get an inline 6.

You’re definitely not alone - you’re in good company with Mr Jezza Clarkson, for example - but certainly not everyone agrees with you. Most informed people agree that there will come a day when human-driven cars are outlawed, or grandfathered in with limited exceptions, and a lot of enthusiasts are excited about that…

“Imagine how frightening it must be to be bitten by a snake—to feel the pain and venom spread through your body—knowing it may kill you and there is no treatment available or that you can’t afford to pay for it?”

“Gunnar” is a reasonably common Norse name. Clearly the same doesn’t apply to “Pistol,” and I, too, think it’d be rather odd for someone to name their child thusly, but the inclusion of Gunnar is either ignorant or intentionally misleading.

Is there an epidemic of door-dinging going out there that I’m just not privy to? This seems like a solution in search of a problem, but maybe I just don’t take my cars to the right places.

Is it not possible for people do to these things as ends unto themselves, rather than due to any desire to impress others? Can’t you be a minimalist just because you don’t like having a lot of things, not because you want to lord it over other people?

Impractical, and ineffective. There are people who need guns to survive or to protect their livelihoods (most of them in rural areas where gun violence is extremely minimal). No ban would be particularly effective, as it would simply create an underground economy in guns, the fabled “only outlaws will have guns”…

This is actually good, but...

Probably fairly difficult, if they’ve been designed and configured correctly (always the hard part). Brief research suggests they’re using the AeroVironment Qube, but time doesn’t permit me to find out what sort of encryption - if any - they’re using. This is, and will continue to be (probably basically forever) an…

We have 12 pets, 8 of whom have fur of one kind or another, and in my experience, there really isn’t a shortcut. However, the basics apply:

This definitely goes for bigger “tools” as well, like welders and air compressors and the like. When you compare the “new” cost of a Harbor Freight or equivalent to the used price of a well-maintained Lincoln or Hobart, it often turns out to be worthwhile to get the used high-end tool or equipment. It’ll be of better…

To be fair, Plimer is a Professor of Mineral Geology, and the owner of some mineral exploration companies, and not a climatologist or student of volcanoes. He’s...kind of infamously unqualified to make the statements he does. While he certainly knows more about geology than I do, he’s like a neurosurgeon talking about…

There’s a bucket of water. Every hour, a machine spits an ice cube into it. The environmental conditions surrounding the bucket are such that the ice melts at a rate of about one cube an hour, so you have equilibrium.