They would be!  I’d line-up for those.

Stupid people continue to be stupid. What a fucking surprise.

German engineering:  why make it simple when you can make it complicated.

“After a 30-minute wait”

Vichyssoise

“Vichyssoise has, as its name suggests, distinctly French roots, but its soul belongs to Manhattan. The dish was created by a chef named Louis Diat, who modeled it after a beloved leek and potato soup his doting mother made him as a boy growing up in Montmarault, France. In 1910, the 25-year-old Diat moved…

Why does anyone ever use this platform?  It has a plethora of downsides for the very few upsides.

I briefly took control of a duck boat in Boston Harbor. (With permission!)

In fact, we now have a huge contingent of people around the world who do contrarian things simply for the sake of being a contrarian, to the extent that they do things that harm themselves or their descendants in the process.

Nose, say goodbye to face.

How does a glorified screen-scraper technology replace a human being?

The “AI” that is being bandied about does nothing novel.

A nuclear device-dredged sea-level canal across Nicaragua is the only way to do it. The Panama Canal uses an insanely ingenious method of lakes and rain to lift and lower ships through all the locks. But it depends on a consistent natural rainfall cycle. Oh, well.

I think the only motorized bits are the “mules” that…

2015 VW Sportwagen 6 spd turbo diesel.  $28K for $18K, 5 years 0.0% financing.  Not quite at 30K miles, 0 faults, paid for, 45 mpg around town.

The tension is what makes them ridiculous, because no one in history has been subjected to such contrived nonsense.

Mad Men is enjoyable because it is SOOO over the top.  Put your characters in a pressure-cooker and watch them pop.

Yeah, because landing by an unmanned Surveyor probe from years before, taking components off of it, and returning them back to Earth isn’t precision.

The only thing holding this show back is that the stories were terrible.  Not just weak, but BAD.  They took a really fun crew and premise... and just wasted it.  I wanted this to work and it didn’t.

This brakes my heart!

I think that’s the right take. I have a 2015 VW “Cheating diesel” wagon, and I have a charger for it, since I don’t drive it every day.

Keep the machine topped-off and even a sludge-burner will start on the first try.

Electrons just don’t flow well in extremely low temperatures

But that’s the point - high speed tracks shouldn’t have on-grade crossings.

Let them run at insane speeds. but not on the level.  Look at Train à Grande Vitesse.  No crossings at all.

Who?