Oh, man, I'm glad the first comment is an umakshully. Made my day. 

Linking through to the study in your second link, overall tobacco use by youths has dropped by 300k since 2011. So drastically more are vaping than before, but that's just the same thing as saying 'fewer kids are using tobacco, and drastically fewer are smoking cigarettes.' I get the need for studies of long-term use,…

so there can be more than like 5 or 6 sentences of content in one place?

Agree w/re Kid A and Aeroplane over the Sea.

this Chicago institution was a huge shock to me when i moved here from the northwest. once i realized that most bars in the midwest are at least sports-optional, it made a lot more sense. A Lot of People want to be able to follow the game without having to put up with dudes wearing jerseys and screaming woo every 5…

There’s a few methods, actually. The first being just having a regular reactor heat up the propellant before its shot out the back of the rocket instead of using chemical combustion to heat up the propellant gasses. The second is as an electricity generator for something like an ion engine. Then there’s wacky things…

Now Here’s a Car for James May

I spiked my beer in the middle of my floor then angrily went out to smoke when, after 5 full years of assuring everyone it wasn’t purgatory, they ended up in purgatory.

i drove an ‘84 242 for 15 years, so the whole cabin area just gives me uncanny valley vibes.

Or - men experience the flu *slightly* worse, because of reasons, but we whine about it way worse, because we’re a bunch of whiny babies.

Cotd

What an absolute moron. Whats next, privatize Hanford and reclassify its waste-storage tanks as public hotsprings? Charge admision, bring the family!

I lived with my folks for 2 months after having to move out after a bad break-up. The thing that really got to me was not knowing at any given moment whether they would be treating me like an adult with his own life who was staying with them for a while or a 17 year-old who was expected home for dinner.

false imprisonment requires confinement. a traffic jam because alternate routes are blocked by is not confinement. being stuck between protestors blocking your preferred path and traffic behind you that won’t move is not confinement. From Restatement of Torts (2d)

Its newsworthy if the FBI was conducting an independent investigation. Its newsworthy if the FBI had independent corroboration of accusations that were never brought to court. Its newsworthy if it would have come out in any lawsuits that would have been filed had he lived. Its newsworthy. Acquiring and publishing…

thoughts and prayers

sounds like somebody’s had a recent trip to HR for sleazing on a coworker...

Are you using hangouts as a standalone app? It is in the same spot as gchat on the side of my gmail inbox.

nice