I hate mud. When my mom bought five acres of land for us to live on, she didn’t have the cash for a proper driveway. We used the dirt path cut through the trees for the power lines as a makeshift driveway to get to our house on the back of the property. Every time it rained, that path was 150 feet of pure mud with a…

If you’re passing through Texas, get a bag of popcorn and a bag of Beaver Nuggets. Something salty, something sweet. If it’s a long trip, you better get several bags.

You are correct, but you are also wrong. All GPS uses trilateration, not triangulation, to calculate your position.

And that’s why I bought the WRX instead of the STi. The STi I drove were teeth rattling. The one with the after market suspension was  designed to cause spinal fractures. 

Yes, but as a writer, your entire livelihood is based on one simple fact: words have meaning. When you ignore the meaning of words, you become a hack and might as well be replaced by a room full of monkeys. 

It’s all about being “disconnected“ from the ground. Once the connection is lost, the fear goes away.

Many of the cars in the U.S. that are wrecked or traded in and sold at auction end up in Mexico. We see them in Texas on their way south.

Louisiana inspection was what eventually did my truck in. The problem? A cracked windshield. It was long, but it was a single crack. My wife wasn’t willing to put in another $400 for a new windshield in a truck worth $500, so I ended up with a new car.

An important part of explaining complex ideas is putting ALL of the caveats into terms understandable by the general population. Sweeping the pressure issue under the rug leads to people mistakenly believing that the technology is just around the corner. Most people have no conception of pressures that high. We’re…

No dying here. In fact, this conversation would have ended long ago had you not come to his defense. Why the need to defend a blogger for his mistake?

Yes, I already have, thank you. That still doesn’t let him off the hook. This is a basic editorial issue. Gizmodo staff are well known for making mistakes like this.

I am quite aware of this. The link he provided requires press credentials.

First, why would you link to an article that requires press credentials to read? (https://press.nature.com/login?redirect_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.nature.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Ffiles%2F2019%2F05%2F41586_2019_1201_OnlinePDF_300Eremets.pdf)

Again, good luck. Eminent domain is used only when someone with wealth and power stands to make a lot of money. This is more than just an Environment versus Progress situation. There’s a middle ground in there somewhere and this is all about finding the compromise. 

Well said. It fits with my point exactly. No matter what logical argument is presented, people will always appear out of the woodwork to say, “not in my back yard!” Every time a new technology comes out that they support, they will eventually turn on it because of some negative impact that is discovered after the new…

I caught part of a television show where they fed the sketches of D.B. Cooper into facial recognition software. They claimed a 90%+ match to one of the suspects from when the case was active.

“At least the majority of birds killed by wind turbines got old enough to fuck and do eggs before slamming into a turbine, and their eggs aren’t laying in fucking poison.”

Good luck with that one! Every technology generates its own set of problems for people to complain about and use as a basis for keeping it out of their neighborhood. Nuclear has been “bad” since the ‘60s. Wind power, although good in some respects, has been bad because wind turbines kill birds. Large solar power…

And the materials, if shipped to those areas, pose a risk to every community in-between.