It’s literally just me spending money with the sole intent of making people upset. And I think that’s just great.

It may be small comfort, but anyone who wears a latex fat suit or a latex muscle suit will be a target for mockery.

What a wonderful story! Thanks for the pointer.

Professional wheel designer here...

Mission accomplished.

I missed this QOTD, but I’d have put in this entry: I wasn’t quite a kid (I was in my 20s) when I started reading Car magazine from the UK (I was living in Germany). For some reason, the Renault Alpine V6 GT caught my imagination as a maybe-achievable aspirational supercar. This was in the mid-1980s, and I don’t think …

I’ve done what are called “human subject experiments” and submitted proposals to my university’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), which might elsewhere be called an ethics committee.

Suspiciously well!

The term “artificial intelligence” is sort of a misnomer, too. It’s not “intelligence” as we understand it, that a computer can possess, even in artificial form. It’s a simulacra of intelligence, a lot of brute-force if-then-else conditionals (that’s oversimplified, but not entirely untrue) that give an effective…

Right. It takes intelligence to understand what I mean when I ask someone to do something.

Having reliable transport with some comfort helps when picking up dates too, assuming you don’t plan on being single all your life.

...if we would have just have elected David Tracy back in November.

Jim will show us the aftermath.

I used to have “FOGHAT” plates (Ohio). I picked them up for 1 year on my van right before it turned 25 and I could get the “lifetime” historic plates.

Thanks! I did not know this.

Wow!

I contributed to Quora for a time, answering questions in areas related to my Ph.D. Sometimes others’ answers got much higher ratings, which seemed to be due to the popularity of the writers. That’s fine, except that some of those answers were simply wrong. I argued a couple of cases in comments but was disappointed.…

Yes! That sounds like the most important factor. Thanks.

I was trying to think of sports more dangerous than this. Thanks, you’ve come up with a couple.

I’m in the same boat: European on my father’s side, Asian on my mother’s side. As an adult I generally pass for white, though as a child I looked much more Asian (so people have told me). Oddly enough, mixed-race people are the most likely to ask me about my ethnic background, judging that I’m not entirely one or the…