It remains to be seen whether Exxon is really going to setup lithium production or if this is just some more greenwashing to give them cover while they continue to focus their real energies on oil and gas. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear in a couple of years that “further studies” show that pumping the brine isn’t…

No, it’s not a new phenomenon. You could argue that every religious prophet in history is an earlier example. Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles, etc., are all current examples, although it doesn’t feel like those people ever rose to quite the level that Swift has reached. I just wish that human nature wasn’t so willing to…

This continuing obsession with Swift is really disturbing to me. Not her specifically, she seems to be a genuinely good person. But the tendency of people to lose their damn minds over someone, no matter how good or evil, is a frightening trait. It just makes it so clear that we as a species are way too susceptible to…

Snake Pliskin says Hi.

Or to demand a refund.

AFV is still only about 40% nut shots, max, with the remainder cute kids and animals doing funny things. Jackass was still kind of on the periphery. But now things like Fboy Island is moving mainstream with content crafted to appeal to the basest of our nature.

Just one step closer to Ow! My Balls!

Toxicity is the dose

I have to defend haystacks. Not because they represent baking in any sense, but because they are a pretty tasty cookie-adjacent treat. It takes some practice to get something that looks appealing, but if you get that worked out, you wind up with something that will get snarfed down quickly on a cookie buffet.…

I love big tubs of stuff emotionally, but I’m also aware of how much big quantities of consumables can drive consumption. It’s a lot easier to keep chowing down when you mentally think that it will never end.

I also have a fuzzy recollection that the chips would be delivered to your home, sort of like milk back in the day.

Yes, and because of that period in public domain, for some of us it’s unnecessary to stream it. We have the entire film pretty well burned into our visual cortex. I remember sitting around at a Christmas Eve family gathering one year, playing a game of seeing whether I could keep a TV continuously showing a broadcast…

An equally surreal drive is I-90 as you head west from MI, across IN and into Chicago. You pass the USS Steel Gary Works. Around dusk, the view of the steelyard is absolutely something out of a Renaissance painting of Hell. It’s especially striking on an overcast evening, where the effluent rises from the smokestacks…

Chicago downtown is great for parking, with lots of underground space beneath Millennium and Grant Parks. Neighborhoods are a vary different story.

Tell me you wouldn’t be psyched about a 508 Peugeot Sport Engineered coming to the U.S. as a Chrysler-badged performance PHEV sedan

Not only does the cover pale in comparison to the original, the song doesn’t even make sense when you gender swap the principals. Is Combs supposed to be riding in his girlfriend’s car, dreaming of getting away to a better life, only to realize that she’s not going to be able to hold up her end of the bargain? Or is…

Good on you for your precautions, but it sounds like you are actually in IT. Plenty of good parents can barely keep a router running, much less configure the domain and assign privileges the way you have. And even if they do, kids are remarkably adept at crafting ways around parental restrictions. Then there’s the…

Why the whole uniform?

Have you met 11 year-olds? Parents don’t have to let their kids access video chat. They have to work damn hard to keep a motivated adolescent away from all of the bad things on the net. That said, anonymity is the worst part of the net, and randomized anonymous chat, video or otherwise, is guaranteed to devolve into…

How is vodka not on this list?