Basically, yes, as far as native speakers are concerned: Canada’s entire population is less than California’s by itself, Australia’s entire population is considerably less than Texas’s alone, New Zealand is about equal to South Carolina, Ireland has fewer people than Alabama, Jamaica has the same as Kansas, Guyana is…

This is just my friendly reminder that the United States enjoys by far the most advantageous strategic position vis-a-vis its contemporaries of any significant nation in the history of Earth, and no other country in existence is even remotely capable of projecting transoceanic power on anything like the scale required…

Honestly, the only Rockstar game I’ve completed is L.A. Noire, largely because the controls mattered so little. I still remember playing GTA IV, and the very first song on the radio I heard in the first car I stole was an Aphex Twin jam from Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, and it just about blew my mind, I was…

“Very disrespectful,” Wizards coach Scott Brooks told reporters in a separate interview. “Philadelphia is better than that.”

Wait, somebody out there wants Driveclub?  

Well, let’s keep it local to Georgia and construct a Colossus of Rhodes-sized statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, above the Braves stadium, teabagging it and all its occupants.  It’d just be some friendly historical education, ya know?  

My favorite thing about Ayn Rand is that she was able to overcome and become an uberfrau despite having to surmount incredible obstacles early in her life, such as the Bolsheviks paying for her entire secondary education at Leningrad State. She’s like Joan of Arc and Tomyris and Maggie Thatcher all wrapped up in one…

Life of Black Tiger’s publisher didn’t issue a sweeping unilateral proclamation concerning refunds without ever even bothering to first communicate with the platform operator about it. Most corporations are not overly fond of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-type antics, or of having another corporation’s problems…

I have never once in my life even heard of switchel before, but as someone with chronic kidney stones who burns through lemonade like a rocket does propellant and craves some variety, and who has a physical aversion to insufficiently adulterated vinegar after forcing untold bottles of it down my gob over the years,…

I have a cheap Frigidaire window unit that I paid less than $250 for, and it’s fine for my 1000 sq. ft. house. That said, I live a few hundred meters from Lake Superior and am so miserly when it comes to energy costs that I have effectively abandoned the upstairs portion of the house by sealing the one staircase off,…

They’re also demonstrably completely unreliable for narcotics detection and can be made to respond to or “hit on” almost anything at the slightest cue from the handler, and so they are cynically used as cover to violate citizens’ 4th Amendment rights, as the pigs (and DA’s offices) know full well that most judges are…

TF2 is shocking, if that’s still up; it wasn’t even that popular at release, everyone hated the port as a botch job relative to the 360's version of Orange Box. That said, what first-party Sony PS3 games are still up other than the Naughty Dog titles, and apparently the LBPs? Looks like the overwhelming majority are…

Refurbished earbuds seem like a lot worse deal if you don’t already own the autoclave. On the plus side, I guess getting one would allow the buyer to progress to other bargains like Goodwill underwear...

Refurbished earbuds seem like a lot worse deal if you don’t already own the autoclave. On the plus side, I guess…

This is wrong, wolves are obligate carnivores (or near as makes no difference), but dogs on the other hand are in fact omnivores. Close to a third of the genetic differences between wolves and dogs specifically involve gastrointestinal processing, with dogs producing substantially longer-chain starch digesting…

Same, my mom sent my brother and I to summer school in the neighboring town just to get us out of her hair (and to reduce the time we had to inadvertently re-enact Lord of the Flies out in the forest), and the classes were all fun stuff like tennis, basketball, various art courses, etc., though I do remember taking a…

Bud is bad enough, but Tecate?!  Jesus wept.  

Could be worse, when we were kids a cop pulled over one of my younger cousins for biking along the wrong side of the road. It was along a 200-yard stretch, between her house and our grandma’s, of decommissioned state highway in bumfuck rural northern Wisconsin, and probably didn’t see more than 3-4 cars an hour on…

Ok, but hear me out: what if you’re, like, Gheorghe Muresan and you remove the front seat and telescope the wheel all the way out?

Hmm, I’d think it was more of a Tenet situation and that the future was attacking the past.