Intriguing as that is, doesn’t it seem unlikely that the plane would be that intact 16.4K feet down? Wouldn’t it have broken up, or been crushed by the pressure?

Cool, but it would take quite a while to get here from South Korea. Can it even fit through the Panama canal?

As a current example of removal from reality, I just looked at a post on Nextdoor (I know, I know, but I was bored in a waiting room so I clicked through) that shared a piece from Forbes naming Illinois as one of the safer states to live in. Nearly every respondent totally dismissed the Forbes piece as fake, and…

As an example: Lindsey Graham. He is not a stupid man, but he sees which way the wind blows, and lacks sufficient ethical basis to refuse to go along.

As an example: Lindsey Graham. He is not a stupid man, but he sees which way the wind blows, and lacks sufficient ethical basis to refuse to go along.

So anything at the moment that brings on a bunch of views for a time, however brief, is game

I think that a lot of white men can recognize their privilege. They just don’t want to admit it out loud since that would call into question how they got to where they are, and it would imply that they “owe” something to those that have been held back.

Yes, they should be able to accept the reality of the world they live in, but it would be easier to accept that reality if the world admitted that something real was being taken from them. Even if they never deserved that thing in the first place. 

This is causing fear

As interesting as the idea of Apple buying Fisker for the IP is, I now understand why no one will touch it. It’s impossible to do due diligence on the acquisition.

Conservatives are in favor of controlling the behavior of people but not businesses.

I don’t think that he’s deliberately driving them into the ground. He foolishly thought that the dedicated readership would remain loyal despite the diminished content. So many excellent writers left all of these sites, or were kicked out, in an effort to improve the bottom line. The problem is that we all came here…

I’m not sure about Radio Shack, but Toys ‘R Us was simply the product of the private capital two-step: Take over a well-established but poorly performing business, polish up the books by slashing expenses (usually labor), get in a couple of good quarters before the cuts affect the bottom line, then load the company…

The failure of the government is that the bridge lacked protective islands around the pylons

For what it’s worth, a similar act of terrorism was part of John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, written in 1968.

The general notions of property rights here in the US would preclude anything as restrictive as residence requirements, but I certainly think that local government should be allowed to establish registration, inspection, and taxation policies around STRs.

There is a no sugar added version of Sweet Baby Ray’s.

Here in the Midwest, I still occasionally run across a Sunoco station with pumps that let you choose from about 5 octane levels.

These were added to the new Sunshine Skyway bridge after the original bridge was damaged in the same kind of incident:

But this failure doesn’t seem to be the result of overlooking needed repairs, like ignoring cracks or penetrating rust in steel girders. It’s a failure to protect the bridge from a foreseeable threat.