I’d like to buy a vowel.

Biggest mistake of 2008 was not holding people accountable. Second biggest mistake was bailing out the banks.

The government should have enforced collective bargaining to keep people in their homes, and cap ARMs at 3% APR, and make the maximum payment of a mortgage no more that 25% of the owners annual income, and capped the term length at 30 years. Bank’s can’t make money on those terms? Fuck’em. We should care more about people being able to live in their houses than we should care about a billion dollar business’ bottom line. Investing comes with risk, accept the risk that if you build a system that topples the economy and forces people out of homes due to predatory loans, that you might lose some profit.

cries in sciatica

Don’t even have to invest. In my area, a 100% renewable supplier was about 30% more per KWH, all of that extra overhead was paid to keep old unprofitable coal plants online. That’s capitalist efficiency for you.

Got any examples of liberals saying it’s not okay to be a white man?

Edit: the silence is deafening. The whole position is made up fee fees by far right agitators.

I have a bunny named Felix. He likes to lick things, so I called him “Licky Bun” for a bit, that turned in to “Felicky”, which turned into “Licky” and finally “Licker”.

When I come downstairs to work in the mornings, I when I walk by his enclosure and whisper “lickerrrrrr”. The other day my partner told me they hear this every morning, and it’s like an alarm lock.

Tell him loudly that he doesn’t know shit and to shut the fuck up. This is the year you let it all out. You’ve been building a dam of tolerance for this person, a dam which he’s been trying to undermine because he’s too fucking dumb to understand the extreme restraint you have shown against the potential flood right behind those walls.

Let him have it.

Snake yawns are the most cute of yawns and I will fight every one who says otherwise.

I’m cool with it, as long as the next President makes trump’s photos his mugshot, and signed naked woman letter to Epstein.

Yeah, I think we are pretty closely aligned on whether or not the analog clock face is necessary to daily life, and we just differ on if we should bother to teach it in school.

Also, I got a kick out of this…

Nobody would add an analog clock to a microwave

For the longest time, my grandparents microwave had an analog clock in it, and you literally turned dials to set a mechanical timer which ran the microwave.

…which by the way is just reading the number the freaking shadow points at…

And how do you read an analog clock? By looking at the number the arm points at. Learning how to read the clock is not just “what number is it on” but it’s getting familiar with the clock face so you can read it quickly. It’s like the difference between spelling and reading.

Eh, we don’t teach them how to read a sundial or make a fire anymore either. I don’t see a problem with removing old technology from school instruction.

I should do a video on the bad UX in the Mach E.

Big ma, moth.

I have seen someone back up in a roundabout because they missed their exit, and I’ve also seen someone enter a roundabout, and go the wrong way to make a u-turn.

How do you operate a car with multiple wheels and not understand how a circle works?

Hope you like corn and soy beans. We grow a ton of that and no other country is buying it from us.

Sometimes. The SR-71 has red paint on critical leading edge pieces to emit red and infrared radiation more effectively to keep the surfaces cooler in flight and awww I’m just fucking with you.

Nah, you need more than afterburners. The SR-71 had some very advanced nozzle inlets for its engines which allowed the plane to move and bounce the supersonic shockwave around in the engine inlet to generate extra compression and to keep the incoming air from just building up and flowing around the engine instead of through it. If you took a F22 and pushed it up to those speeds, it would flame out and stop working long before it got near the SR-71’s too speed.

Shoot, this has been on my brain a lot lately. I’ve been thinking about a modern one-time pad scheme that uses USB drives. Wanna send your friend 16GB of encrypted messages? Next time you hang out, give them a cheap USB drive. Or, possibly have your phones generate and share a one-time pad using NFC.

Unfortunately, I think phones and USB drives are too vulnerable, but it would be a fun little project to build.