I'm just gonna start and stop with your very first statement: the purpose of the fast lane, by the letter of the law, is passing. No one has the right to travel slower than the driver of the car behind them wishes to go. It's just the law. You do not have the right to impede traffic in the fast lane. Even if you are…

I don't do most of the stuff you mention, but I do flash my brights at anybody who is blocking the fast lane and can reasonably get out of the way but won't, and I will pass them narrowly eventually if they make me after reasonably waiting for them to do the right thing.

What are you responding to?

Uh, where am I defending coal mining? It ruining landscapes and watersheds does not suddenly make the Chernobyl or Fukushima exclusion zones disappear from reality.

I completely understand it, it's just wrong because it's based on a misunderstanding of facts.

The wiki that, according to you, proved your point:

If your personal scale puts Communism and Fascism on the same side of the spectrum, you might want to go pick up a book and recalibrate your scale. Communists and Fascists throughout history were pretty much hell-bent on exterminating each other, and in their purest forms one favors the absolute authority of the…

Uh, what about pretty much every other major branch of Western Christianity?

If companies really wanted to make the all-purpose smartphone remote control happen, wouldn't the simplest way by far be to make phones with tiny IR emitters built into them and give apps access to the IR emitters? Then TV's, thermostats, lamps, lights, motorized shades, garage door openers, car doors, ignitions, etc.…

In my experience as a male, this mostly comes down to the adjective/noun distinction. When talking with friends about gendered experience or observations, I do find myself both hearing and saying things like, "When I'm talking with my female friends .... whereas when I'm talking with my male friends..." but typically…

- guy who thinks people use to words to "sound smart" and not because they are the most precise way to communicate the meaning intended, and has serious issues about status and identity as pertains to educational background

"I've been selling to the wrong people...!"

That's kinky.

Jesus, that is fucking interesting. Thanks for posting this.

I can see why

Great. Rare for me to be able to try to give someone information on a Gawker Media site and not end up in a vicious feeding frenzy of character assassination and insults (which I freely admit is at least a full half because I am an abrasive dick), so I appreciate that!

I unlocked my phone. I found the right home screen. I opened the Wink app. I navigated to the Lights section. I toggled over to the sets of light bulbs that I'd painstakingly grouped and labeled. I tapped "Living Room"—this was it—and the icon went from bright to dark. (Okay, so that was like six taps.)

I'm definitely not an expert, but I grew up with a medical professional in the house so I've heard the basics and read about it out of curiosity myself. Color blindness is related to how the light-wavelength-detecting cones in the retina perceive light and the neural pathways by which they send it to the brain. It can…

That's not what color blindness is.

- guy who has no idea what the physiology of color blindness is.