I think there are two issues here; safety and transparency. First, there is an issue of minimum safety, both in terms of being able to exit the plane in a reasonable amount of time given the average size of passengers, and also other health effects like DVTs and such. Airlines need to follow standards for this - no…

“Built like a linebacker (cause I was one)”

Well supposedly they are significantly quieter. I don’t know the physics, but at the very least higher pitched sound doesn’t travel as far, and doesn’t penetrate windows/walls as well.

If that happens again, remember that New York City is more than just Manhattan. La Guardia is about half an hour from Museum Row in Manhattan, but that’s only if traffic is cooperating. Its a lot easier to get to Astoria or Flushing Meadows Park in just 15 minutes. Plenty to do in both of those areas, and plenty of…

Ever since my kid started eating solid food, I’ve kept a squeeze bottle full of pancake or crepe batter in the fridge. I make a batter with 1 cup milk and 1 cup flour and it’ll make 3 or 4 days worth of pancakes/crepes. It’s so much easier to make pancakes that way, and also allows for making fun shapes.

Which, despite the fact that Ryan seems to think it’s a fantasy, already exists is many major markets. If electric vehicles make that kind of thing safer, quieter, and more environmentally sustainable, that might be a good thing. It’s probably not going to be cheaper any time soon, which while that means it’s not…

Not gunna lie; I’m a cascatelli convert. My family refuses to eat any other kind (with bolognese). Obviously different pasta for different sauces though. I’m also a fan of campanelle.

This is some lazy fucking journalism. I ran across an article of the exact same title and content while researching my comment to the original article. I used to think it was “management” that ruined Jalopnik, but now I realize it’s to the bone.

I don’t know what “ethical oil” arguments are but I’m about as far from them as one can get. I was there cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which soiled my home state and the fisheries that put me through college. My point wasn’t that cruise ships should be given a pass, it was that they’re an easy target when…

I don’t think the review is giving enough credit to the 500H or maybe they don’t actually drive it. Not that I have either, but 366 horsepower in a midsized SUV seems like it would make for pretty sporty drive, especially if that electric motor gives it some low end grunt.

Is it, though?

That should be her epitaph then; “at least I didn’t go all Belgian Congo!”

Not by choice 

But she represents the empire, and as much as that has yielded to a mostly democratic state, she maintains both the figurehead and the wealth derived from that empire.

I’m always amazed at how obsessed Americans are with royalty. Didn’t we have a whole revolutionary war to fight these fuckers?

Nothing says “stuck in the past” like a gas-guzzling colonist icon knockoff SUV produced by a resource extraction and petrochemical pollution company.

I guess that makes sense. I wouldn’t put a hamburger patty in a tortilla so obviously texture matters. Just seems like “loose meat” would just fall all over the place. But at least it’s not going to make the roll soggy like a sloppy joe, which I think we can all agree is the worst.

You’re going to have to explain a little more, since I don’t recall smoke shops selling food. There were some hookah bars during the Giuliani years that had some strange policies though. Not many.

A loose meat sounds terrible. Why would that ever be better than a hamburger that even if served plain, at least holds its shape.

No I got you. I was just temphasizing your point which is that nobody wants to move to these cities, whether from other parts of China or from other parts of the world because China has made it a very inhospitable place. And yes these “ghost cities” are a problem, and even more so, indicative of the much deeper…