Was that tunnel just a ramp, or was it a big X-ray machine?

Knowing how many tickets you sold, and hooking up an extra car or two to accommodate them seems a pretty easy, cheap fix. The problem is harder for airliners, but trains can be made to carry hundreds more passengers in less than half an hour...

Having used Amtrak to ride pretty much every line other than the NE corridor and silicon valley commuter corridor, I’m guessing those are the only two places this happens. I’ve only once ever been on a train that was even close to capacity, and as long as I booked my trips a few weeks (or months) out, I’ve never had…

Don’t you mean “The Phantom Menace through The Force Awakens”? I mean yeah, we all wish the prequels never happened (besides the scenes with Darth Maul or Yoda fighting), but A New Hope was episode 4...

Since this is all just political theater, the amount of times that Muller stammers and says, “uh...” do more to harm his case than anything either the Republicans or Democrats could do. He sounds like a guy trying to cover his own ass the whole time I’ve listened, and I’m on the side that really wishes his report…

This interior is the physical embodiment of the attitude of every Vette owner I’ve ever met. “Fuck you, this is mine, and I’m better than you!”

Am I reading those pics of the rule right, that those sections were added in 2016 and later? Does that mean they specifically added rules to prevent people from calling Donald Trump out on being a racist con-man (con-man is in the paragraph before the one the arrow points to)?

No, the other guy was implying that there are better things to spend the money on than bombers we don’t need, all of which would make life better for every person on US soil (since we rank pretty poorly in terms of every measurable metric for quality of life, among developed nations), rather than just the shareholders…

Considering the important part of that is the bit after “and”, and that part applies to less than half the people driving on the roads, your suggestion is what...that every single person in the US take HPDEs and be taught to drive like the Finnish? I mean, it’s a nice thought and all, but back in the real world, I’ll…

The thing that always made me cringe, was hearing everyone around Detroit talk about the Lions as if having Sanders on the team would win us the Super Bowl, even though they did sweet fuck all to improve the rest of the team. You can’t go far on the shoulders of one player.

I think their necessity is arguable, since we’ve got the B2, and we’re still flying the B52. Hell, the Russians still fly the Tu-95, and will til 2040 at least - so it’s not like there’s a bomber technology arms race... I’m not sure there is an alternative to the B21 beyond continuing to maintain the older fleet. For…

It’s actually more like $5.38/bomber. There are about 122 million Americans paying federal income tax. You can’t use the full population of a country to calculate each ones share - many of them don’t pay taxes because they’re too young, too old, or too poor. The person you were replying to is still backing the better…

SurveyMonkey is obnoxious, and constantly nags you to sign up or take more surveys - all the while never letting you see the current results (one of the main reasons I like NPOCP; to see how my opinion compares to everyone else’s). If you stick with it, I won’t bother with NPOCP anymore.

Therapist to my girlfriend, sadly. I’d really like a chance to relax and get some gaming in...

I’m glad some people still remember the origins of the word! I put waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many hours into QuarantineMUD (former quest diety there).

Subaru gets the sort of love it does, in the same way older VWs did. People love to work on their own Subarus, and like to think of far more than is (easily) interchangeable, as interchangeable. That, and it’s just fun to do donuts in the snow, and Subarus are dirt cheap compared to most cars you can do that with...

With the smug facial expression, I was kinda getting more of a Paul Ryan vibe...

I was so happy to find it on DVD a few years back. Just watched it a few weeks ago, actually!

I kinda feel the same way I feel about it, as I do the modern Star Trek reboots. If it had any other title than Captain Harlock, I think I could’ve liked it. Instead, they shoehorned in a story written by someone who didn’t get what was good about the old ones, and it knocked the quality down by a lot, to anyone with…

Ugh...The recent Captain Harlock didn’t get any part of the source material right. I’m a huge fan of the old stuff from that universe (Harlock, Emeraldas, Galaxy Express, etc.), and I could barely make it through the CG one...