What are they supposed to do? Be the 10th person standing around and gawking?

“champing at the bit.”

Bland as it may be, I’m starting to envy the Jetsons’ Internet-less utopian future.

I’d have to go with the original Beetle:

police swarmed her with guns drawn at a gas station in early 2021

Well, I’m stupid. Greenland IS part of Denmark. Huh.

Ssssssshhhhh, keep it under your hat, let the dumbing down of the population continue, perhaps in time they will take all of themselves down. Idiocracy is real.

Alcohol may be alcohol but what you are drinking, unless you’re drinking everclear, is not absolute anhydrous ethanol. Unless you’re drinking vodka it’s not just an ethanol solution either.

this is unrelated to anything, but I know the reference you’re making with your user name, and if we ever meet in person, I’m giving you a righteous high-five

And on the flip side, the amount of flour in 1 measured cup can vary greatly depending on how packed the flour is. So you’re better off to go by weight than volume.

What’s your industry?  I think it’s bullcrap that the guy was fired for this.  Unless this was the straw that broke the camel’s back in a long line of mistakes, I think it’s too harsh.

Next on LifeHacker: How to save on your power bill by turning off your main.

This totally ignores the value of your time and wear and tear on a vehicle.

The .72 caliber Brown Bess Muskets fired a HUGE projectile (relatively speaking) and are just as deadly as the AR’s 5.56 cartridge. The AR has greater range and is more accurate. But make no mistake, both will leave you just as dead with just as grisly of a wound.

“They had muskets with single-round magazines.”

Lol, wait until there is an emergency braking situation. You’ll be glad for friction.

the adoption is very slow because of a pretty unfortunate issue: it doesn’t work for the vast majority of cases.

maybe they’re gonna be forced to go electric for the one place where it works (the sorting yard) if cities start cracking down with emissions regs inside their borders but like yeah for mainline you just…

Way back there was an article here on bollard testing. It was for government facilities against terrorism.

Dollars per gallon isn’t a good comparison against dollars per hour.