“BREAKING NEWS: four new moons found orbiting Saturn. Publishers rejoice!”

Thus answering the age-old question...

Interesting. I’ve seen the exact opposite: watch a badly intoxicated guy roll up in his pickup to a pizzeria. Call the cops. In the time it takes the police to respond, the guy has gotten some food, and is sitting in his still-running truck “eating” (really, only half the food is getting into his mouth, the other half…

I’d say the Sixth Amendment has been more eroded than the 4th. But really, I think we can all agree that all the Amendments related to criminal justice have been badly gutted in the past 25 years.

All completely true...but I’m sure the officer’s perspective was that he had probable cause (some sort of traffic or noise violation) and/or was in “hot pursuit” (because the driver didn’t pull over immediately once the cop hit the lights).

No, but it does constitute enough evidence to allow an arrest for suspicion of DUI (presuming, also, that you’re behind the wheel of a car).

The mythology of the Blues Brothers’ magic car, writ large.

God damn commie toys.

I’ve been having that issue off and on for a couple weeks. It’s weird, it comes and goes.

Neutral in a Tesla is not reliable enough to use in many cases, so the owners manual explicitly suggests Transportation mode in those situations.

A long time ago in Earth years, but only a little over a year ago in Saturn years.

To me, it looks more like it’s going to shape-shift into an LA police officer and stab John Conner’s foster parents.

Use cornstarch packing peanuts. Cleanup is easy. Dissolve in water. One good rain, and...

Isn’t that the state motto?  Should be...

Why do you hate immigrants?  That’s racist.

WaPo, the NYT, and most other media outlets are too busy enjoying the smell of their own farts to do any long-form investigative reporting.

I had a cop pull me over for speeding when I wasn’t. He went on a huge power trip, told me “he could arrest me for driving to endanger and impound my car, and I should be grateful it was only a speeding ticket”... for not speeding.

At consecutive intersections yesterday, I was almost nailed by

Oh yeah? Well, this time I’m switching from Windows to Ubuntu. And unlike the last seventeen times I’ve said it, this time I really mean it!

Was forced to use a Mac for work (software engineer/manager). Took practically no time at all to give up using the MacOS UI and do everything through XTerm and the bash shell.