Also trying to imagine Kushner growing a full-length beard. Not working.

I want you all to gather round, shorter folks in front, taller folks in the back.

You’re not alone. My first thought, too.

Quite a series. I stopped watching in the middle--seeing this, I’m tempted to pick it up again. Thanks.

I remember something about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure...

The average American adult male is just over 5'9" tall and weighs 198 pounds. The Miata may not be sized for us, but height isn’t necessarily the relevant dimension. :-)

Not being American, the whole thing is bizarre to me. But then so is the school fetichization that Americans have. I don’t know a single adult in another country that still wears t-shirts or sweaters from the school they graduated from.

And in a professional office environment, you have a work email address—if you’re giving your personal AOL address to someone and they laugh, that’s on you.

You mean... reverse the polarity?

I’ll assert that Senator Ted Stevens’s description of the Internet as a series of tubes conveys some useful intuitions, and it’s not that much worse than the average person’s understanding.

Wow. Thanks for the quotes. That’s newsworthy and thought provoking.

I know this is true because I was once a 21 year old driving an automatic, bright orange, V6 Convertible Mustang. I was not cool and the car was terrible.

I lived in Germany in the late ‘80s through early ‘90s, and I’d occasionally see one of these on the Autobahn. And you’re right! It didn’t really look like other BMWs, which were mostly E30s and E34s. I think it has a toy-like appearance--which is fine, I say as a former Miata owner.

While any Tesla owner with properly updated software can push that little button and request access to be a Beta tester of FSD (though I think it’s limited to those who have paid $10,000 for the promise of Full Self-Driving, but honestly, I have yet to absolutely confirm this), once you push that button to opt-in, you…

I use a variation of “I’m not an expert in this area, but...” pretty regularly. The context makes a difference: I’m in a meeting with colleagues, and everyone in the room has a Ph.D., but we don’t know each others’ backgrounds in detail. When we make a comment or suggestion, sometimes it’s helpful to indicate whether…

Thanks for such an excellent, informative comment.

That’s just an opinion isn’t it?

Awesome! Thanks for the pictures. This is my favorite post in a long time.

but the squishy bits inside may not be so good

We here at The Takeout decided to embrace the occasion to explore how today’s kiddos are hacking their meal plans.