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Accepted applicants then pick up their visitor pass on the day of, at a designated airport area and process through the TSA checkout like a passenger.

I’d rather fly to London or Paris

Jeez. I used to live in Raleigh, and I’ve eaten at Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue. Their BBQ is a perfect example of the North Carolina style. I wouldn’t call the restaurant an institution necessarily, but when you walk inside, even though it’s pretty much downtown, as urban as Raleigh gets, it makes you feel as though…

Count me in—I’d pay that, too. But everyone on the flight has to buy in. Consider:

Here’s an idea, make the seats wider, have fewer seats on the plane, charge enough for the wider seats so that the potential revenue of the plane in the same.

See this page for a story about early 20th-century farm tractors that were steered with reins, just as if the machine were a team of horses.

Cornhole athletes...

There’s Only a 25 Day Supply of Diesel in the U.S.: Report

Thin beautiful people can wear almost anything and still be thin and beautiful.  The rest of us, though...

“That’s a lot of miles driven every day. And it’s not going to be perfect. But what matters is that it is very clearly safer than not deploying it.”

Black Americans have a long cultural history of creative given names with creative spellings.

Yeah, that’s faster than the average 5k pace for most age groups in the U.S. 

No disagreement here, but I will say that this is a management problem. The store ought to have the deli hours posted and have schedules that give enough time for clean-up afterwards.  A lot of restaurants do this.

Have you never met a military spouse or a law enforcement spouse?

I had a job once where there was almost nothing to do, and the in-fighting drama between cliques was outrageous.

I know, right?

Yes, of course you can.

Last year, we compared the simulated performance of the Waymo Driver to the human drivers involved in a series of fatal crashes that happened between 2008-2017 in Chandler, Arizona. The study showed that the simulated Waymo Driver completely avoided or mitigated 100% of crashes aside from the crashes in which it was…

I have a lot of sympathy for socially awkward, lonely, depressed, isolated people... Having said that, I very quickly lose sympathy for them when they externalize their issues as actually being problems with everyone else...