On that note: A slightly older friend just posted a photo on FB of her husband taking their tweenaged daughter on “her first date,” so that he could show her “how a gentleman acts” on a date. I avoided throwing up in my mouth, but it was a very close call for a while.

YES. And I guarantee that every #boymom who says “well, my son has lots of energy/likes playing with toy trucks/makes fart jokes” because he’s a boy also uses that justification to excuse behavior that ranges from totally normal for a child that age (meltdowns and tantrums happen), to totally abnormal but justifiable,…

To be fair, there’s always going to be a battle between real vs. fake evidence, and technology to detect something and technology to obscure it. As soon as fingerprinting became widespread.... so did criminals using gloves. If you have a sample of someone’s DNA, it’s basically high school science to replicate it, and…

Will Aston still be around in 20 years? They’re all about branding these days, and licensing the Aston Martin name to make them money

Other than “no-charge-to-student” (don’t call it “free”) college, the only way around this is to prevent parents anyone from “pre-paying” for college.

Throughout their history, marketing departments have always had a... casual relationship to actual data on effectiveness, at best. If companies were smart, they’d just do something like affiliate links in exchange for posts, but of course they’re not so they just live on the hope that someone seeing a picture of a hot…

One of the main drivers of terrible automotive fabrics is fire resistance (along with cost).  Just don’t get me started on whatever godawful fabric they put down by your feet.

How often do you have to condition cloth? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

I think game length and price are definitely a big part of the solution. I also have high hopes that in the next 10 years or so, developer tools will mature significantly in ways that we can’t entirely see now, cutting down on the “grunt” work needed to make a game. That’ll cut down on the total # of person-hours…

Soccer is really just getting a handle on its concussion problems...

It’s worth saying, though it might not be obvious, that the FIFA qualification is easily rigged. It’s not an “average” performance, instead; it’s more of a sum where the more you play, the more points you’re likely to have.

Sure, but what it comes down to is “don’t royally eff up your performance in the Hex.” Mexico ended the hex that year - even with the late, lucky goal - with half the points of the US, a negative goal differential, and well behind Costa Rica and Panama.

I mean, sure, in general, but the other way of looking at it is that you’re just rolling over the debt from one car loan to another, and depending on the timing, that might mean you’re avoiding some significant maintenance costs (even tires are a non-tiny % of the value of say, a 3-year-old car).

Nothing more American than buying a car while you’re still paying off your old one.

Double this, especially since those “basic economy” fares are pretty new on American, and not explained that well on other sites like Orbitz. You might have still been out some of the money, but I suspect you could have had some of it back.

It’s worse than that: CNN, more than any network, was responsible for giving Trump airtime on the so-called “birther controversy” during the Obama administration, and I really think that if Trump doesn’t get to be a talking head on TV talking about that, he doesn’t run for president (or win the nomination. There were…

The space race between the Soviets and the U.S. was remarkable for several reasons, of course, and perhaps most remarkable for the Soviet Union, since that country put the first man in space less than two decades after being devastated by World War II. Each country was starting from zero, but the Soviets started from…

It’s really an anti-consumer move since keeping HDMI would have been a... $3-5 cost? The SoC and everything else still supports it.

Name is misleading since the console doesn’t “Switch.”  Maybe call it the Nintendo Switched? The Nintendo Sub? I don’t know, but seems a lot like misleading marketing...