If Puerto Ricans voted to secede do you seriously think that the USA would try very hard to stop them? The reality is that Puerto Ricans would rather have an even closer relationship with the USA.

Mexicans, as a population, have a much higher proportion of indigenous DNA than Americans. This is basically the reason that Spaniards are “white” while most Mexicans are not. According to recent estimates, 47% of Mexicans identify as white while >50% identify as either indigenous or Mestizo.

Since when has Jalopnik as a whole been anything other than excessively opinionated? I’m not sure what you expected when you came here.

As a fan of video games, I’ve played PLENTY of them with gratuitous violence, and I can name a few off the top of my head that are awesome games with great characters and stories.

The most practical real-world necessity that I can think of is automated plate-scanning, especially for parking enforcement. While this could easily be replaced with a tiny RFID chip, plates are like the 3.5mm headphone jack of the car world: technologically obsolete but so much investment has been made into the…

Flash point is the temperature at which a “flash” is observed, while Fire point is the temperature at which a fires can be sustained for at least 5 seconds in the test apparatus. Some materials have a flash point but not a fire point, such as ethanol diluted in water.

Air superiority is, in fact, one of the F-35s intended missions. The F-22 may be better at this mission but there aren’t many F-22s to go around.

Phenylalanine is a breakdown product of aspartame. They aren’t adding it directly, your body is breaking down the artificial sweetener and Phe is a byproduct.

Mass-market companies can always use advanced technology. It’s like trickle-down but for cars.

The USA has at least one broken arrow at the bottom of the sea, if not more.

Drag doesn’t care what kind of motor is under the hood. If it benefits range on electric cars then it will benefit fuel economy on ICE cars as well.

Miller does contract brewing for PBR; around 4 million barrels’ worth.

Tell that to Canada, with their actual mountains of sulfur out in oil sands country.

By that argument, homeopathic remedies must have at least some amount of the “active” ingredient.

Have you considered that Panera Bread actually makes money off of the people running their office in the dining room, and that their interior design is especially accommodating to these people? That is kind of their thing. You’re not profitable enough for them to care about your needs.

When a repeat customer comes to me for my services, I don’t demand cash up front to talk to them. I treat them respectfully with the expectation that they are a bona fide potential customer, and that my initial accommodation will lead to a purchase order (and if not, that’s just the cost of doing business). If they…

Owning politicians won’t help them any if they can’t attract the talent they need to grow their business. This project was never going to go to a city that wasn’t already a technology hub, it’s simply too many technology jobs for a smaller market to absorb. It’s not a coincidence that technology hub cities are…

Amazon needs mostly highly-educated employees to fill the available positions at their new satellite HQ office. One of the big selling points for Amazon to NoVa was a $1 billion investment in technology education (independent of the Amazon deal, ostensibly) focused on NoVa university campuses and community colleges.…

Refineries get most of their process energy input from furnaces, where they can burn waste products supplemented with natural gas. At many refineries electricity is generated on-site at cogen plants that also produce steam for process heating; by rejecting much of the waste heat into the refining process rather than…

In the USA it will mostly be natural gas providing this electricity, at the moment. However, the biggest advantage of electric cars over other renewable fuels is that they don’t care how the electricity was generated. Biofuels are the closest equivalent for vehicles with combustion engines, but these still have a…