Yes, The A/V Club and The Takeout were sold recently.

Yes, The A/V Club and The Takeout were sold recently.

Zach is also the creator of the online comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a comic that I read everyday.

Anyone who thinks setting up an outpost on Mars (or the even Moon, for that matter) should take the time to read A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. It’s a serious (although amusing) look at what it would take to do it, both physically and politically. It’s not going to happen in my lifetime, and probably…

I expect that are enough levels of shell companies between this ship and its true owners that liability will be limited to a couple of bankruptcies, and any insurance payouts will be litigated for at least a decade. What I find more appalling is that the bridge was left so vulnerable. The Sunshine Skyway disaster four…

Yes, but if you drive it slow like it’s meant to be driven, it is absolutely breath-taking.

the key is to buy beach front property ON A FRICKIN LAKE...

It’s also the case that there are very few roads running east/west across the mountains, so you can wind up having to backtrack ~60 miles to get to one of those when you can’t proceed past a blockage or washout.

Given how readily sitcoms will kill off wives, I don’t think it would take much to write around Richardson’s absence. And it’s easy to recast kids as grown adults.

Yes, but ships are made out of thick steel since weight is not a concern. Planes are made out of thin aluminum for weight consideration. I would think that it would crush like a beer can.

at the project site there is basic housing, schools, and medical care for the workers and their families

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.

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.