I rather enjoyed LW&W. But since I’m Jewish, all the Jesus stuff went completely over my head when I was nine.

Thanks for the correction. I wasn’t aware.

It’d be a very difficult task to teach Americans that an EV battery pack is a consumable on par with tires or a 12-volt car battery.

Though it was released in 2015, “December” sounds as modern as ever...

Story could have used a little editing.

Star Trek transporter or GTFO.

Excellent. Thanks!

Sanford, NC, is a little town outside the Raleigh metropolitan area. People from the area know where it is, but it’s not like Durham or Chapel Hill or Wake Forest. It’s more like, “Oh, on the way to Pinehurst, for golf,” or “Not too far out of the way to get to Fayetteville, if you’re military.” That was my take after…

Or maybe you’re standing around with your crew in the parking lot of the local 7-11, your windows down, your car stereo pumping—and you can control it from a distance. How cool is that?!

Here’s one scenario in which I can imagine buying this car (assuming I had the money):

I think it’s mainly a matter of custom and aesthetics. We can imagine a similar question having been asked a thousand years ago by a European in pre-fork days: “The food will taste the same if I eat with my hands and my dagger, right?”

Thanks for your explanation!

Disabling Apple’s Find My network can stop your phone from reporting the location of nearby AirTags, and third-party bluetooth scanning apps can report if any new devices show up near you.

What an excellent story opening! Good luck.

Yeah, Buzzfeed observations are pretty basic. And often not even on-target.

Nicely argued. Thanks for the perspective.

I sometimes eat Andy Capp’s Hot Fries, because that’s what the vending machine in the basement of my apartment building has. Where do they land in the ranking? Or does Andy make them too déclassé?

IKR?

From a newspaper, national data for the visual folks.

Right. Another issue is cost. It’s estimated that 9/11 cost about $40 billion in insurance claims. I know nothing about the airline industry, but I expect companies are perfectly happy to leave it to the feds and not to assume responsibility for security lapses, along with the attendant costs of insuring against them.