I understand it from the perspective of people who have lived their whole lives believing they were legitimately entitled to a particular place in line, but then seeing that place in line yanked away with no consideration, and no compensation. It isn’t in their ability to comprehend how much that place in line was not…

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

This conforms with my past commuting experience, although that experience is decades old now. The most insanely aggressive drivers were BMW 3 and 5 series owners. Even when I was driving 75-80 mph in heavy traffic (in a 55 mph zone) coming in from the north suburbs of Chicago, those drivers would weave through every…

But you know that if profits decline following RTO, there will be connection made between that decline and RTO. It will be attributed to something else.

Ask the manager at that store if they would order a case of other varieties for you. It sounds like a lot, but it might be no more than 2 dozen packages, and things stay fresh a lot longer nowadays. I used to do that for a specific brand and variety of coffee that I served in my business.

It’s all grease and sugar.

Fast food breakfast: No

Here in Chicagoland we have a number of sugar-free cookie varieties from Voortman Bakery. You might look to see if you can get them near you, or even get your grocer to order some for you.

Track failure isn’t as egregious of an oversight as bad rolling stock. Railroads have had scanners in place for decades to ID bad bearings that overheat and fail, but they don’t want to stop a train to remove the failing car. That was an issue with the East Palestine derailment.

Seasons 52 is part of the Darden Group, which also operates Red Lobster. Make of that what you will.

Jamba is fine for a smoothie on the go, but you have to look closely at each item to make sure that you’re not just buying a fruit-flavored milkshake. Most of their offerings include orange sherbet, which sort of defeats the health aspect of a smoothie.

I started watching the Netflix film Leave the World Behind over the weekend. I’m astonished that Musk has not completely lost his shit over the Tesla scene.

Those internal cameras used to check eye movements can be covered up with a piece of tape, for instance.

It’s going to take a Lac-Mégantic sized disaster before anything that substantial would happen, and maybe not even then.

Yes, the derailments are an “us” problem, generally related to the failure of their rolling stock. But pulling equipment out of a train when the defect is discovered is very time-consuming, and that eats into profits. They would rather toss the dice against a possible failure instead of incurring the certain expense…

I don’t think that you can trust the general public with something as simple as a handcranked horn, either. It would be going off all day long.

The only thing better than having a dog is having a co-worker/friend with a dog that you get to visit.

I see what you did there.

You know, the last batch of Tide Pods I bought just don’t taste the same. They’ve changed the recipe!

I saw this same concept some time ago for brewing coffee. I tried it, and found no perceptible difference.