The garden bridge wouldn’t have been a bad idea, if it had had proper planning and wasn’t earmarked as a privatized corporate space instead of a truly public one. It was doable. Well, it would have been doable without the Boris Johnson factor involved. Ironically, his bridge across one of the shallower parts of the…

I would like it on record here. I did not vote for this dangerous idiot.

Here’s something I was taught in medical school that you definitely want to know, and definitely don’t want to know:

Stop feeding the troll. Their pose of objectivity is only there to give deniability. Then they can try to feel superior and condescend to people who call them out for being a jerk. I've seen this type and I prefer the trolls who spew filth and go on crazed rants. More honest, less pathetic. 

I can’t control how you ore anybody else reads written text.

For the record, I have a similar story, and degrees to show for it. I just don’t think that my path is necessarily a path to success for everyone, or that it’s as easy or simple as “just be like me”. You are not everyone, everyone is not you, and lots of people have gone through much harder shit than either of us, I’m…

Both of them seem to be skating on “well, they’ll vote for us anyway” sheer brass balls.

That’s exactly true. And even more, Many of the performances were merges between several takes IN ONE SHOT. You’d have the actors head/face from Take 4, their body from Take 7, and the left arm from take 9, only the arm from that take was a little late, so retime that footage before you paste it in.

Oh god, you’ve just inspired someone in Hollywood to do the remake...

this is 100% what I thought would happen and am bitterly disappointed now

I think it’s less that the film predicted Trump, and more that both resembled Hitler’s rise to power.

There’s no way Lyft/Uber could sustain a business solely on drivers like your buddy. And if the bulk of their drivers only worked on that kind of casual basis they’d have no way to match demand with supply. This is a hopelessly naive take.

As a rent and return maybe. 

eventually you’ll be able to buy a “one or five gallon” battery pack at any convenience store to do the same thing for EVs

If you’re ordering Taco Bell to be delivered, then you’re obviously too high/drunk to go get that $5 box on your own. Either pony up or plan better.

Here is what most people seem to forget. Uber/Lyft/DoorDash/etc. were never designed to be jobs and/or business; they were designed to be gigs. They were designed to be add-ons.

Taiwan is near China, and China has called “dibs” on it, but that’s as “part of China” as it gets. It’s a completely independent nation.

OK, my dad has that model of Transit and I can tell you it is absolutely awesome for gear hauling and for light offroad driving. He uses his for camping and takes it everywhere, His friends with big ol’ trucks are constantly amazed that the Transit will go pretty much anywhere the f-150s go (as long as it’s not…

Actually the older I get, the more I understand the Iranians. They really have been screwed continuously by us, first via the Shah, and then when we didn’t like their revolution because they didn’t like our allies.

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