You missed a few things which any old trucker could’ve told you. First off, in trucker parlance, these are called “Maxis”, as opposed to the non-spring brakes, which were just called “cans”. On your typical 18-wheelers, you’ll find maxis on only the last drive axle and the 2 trailer axles, never on the steer, and…

Great post as always David. 

Yeah, I’d reckon most pageants in the South and Midwest have racist as hell roots. But I’m not going to blame kids and socially-obligated young adults for participating in something that lost its racist overtones decades ago.

Yes, this. The State of Oregon was founded on White Nationalism. Blacks were not allowed to live in the state and, even after the exclusion act was repealed, ethnic minorities were forced to pay an annual tax. After living in Portland, I can say that the vast majority of residents of Oregon are unaware of this and I…

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that someone who was crowned “most fuckable of her barely legal peers” by a bunch of old men was probably not thinking hard about any of the implications involved. 

“I looked the group up on Altavista AND Dogpile, and all I found was their address and phone number.”

“Sorry! I should have asked Jeeves about it!” -Ellie Kemper

So she entered a pageant and/or attended some weird debutante event. Is there any indication that she was aware it had a racist history? It may be hard for some on here to believe, but googling the damn thing wasn’t an option in 1999.

Absolutely use CamelCamelCamel myself as well - it’s turned up some good deals on items that I actually want, and not on Prime Day or Black Friday. In fact, it helped me to buy a filament dryer box over the weekend, having seen the price drop from $65 to $40 (and it was something I actually needed now, for some 3D…

The answer to your issues is Pi-Hole.

Because, let’s face it, while most of us will shake our head and say “Amazon, bad”, when we see a shiny gadget at a great price, we take out our credit cards.

That’s where our robot masters get great deals on human subjects.

I’m starting to think that media corporations PROBABLY aren’t the moral pillars they paint themselves out to be...

The empire of man has risen and fallen, our species as we know it no longer exists in the deep unrelenting vacuum of space... yet PRIMEDAY persists.

And let me just crack on over to Kinja Deals now and see how many Amazon deals are listed, from which they “may get a small share of the sale”...

So...Here’s how I look at Prime Day:

If there’s something I have been looking for already (say, for example, my Kindle is old and won’t hold a charge anymore, and I am planning on upgrading it), or I am looking to get some new Lightning cables (my mom wants a 10 ft one so she can sit on the sofa while charging her iPad…

The whole “Click on my article about the evils of consumerism while I collect the ad revenue” is a pretty bold stance to take. Gizmodo et al. are getting hard to read anymore with all the ads that insist on loading up.

Oh god, what a vivid, grim, and believable vision of the future.

I’m no psychic, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be long gone before I need to worry about Prime Day 20201.