Holding hands implies they’re trying to have sex. A penis, in a vagina? How do I explain that to my 4 year old?

Costs will go way down next year because the president x’d out hurricanes. All better now.

In other news, car crash injuries are up because seat belts keep saving those pesky survivors. The stats were better when corpses didn’t count.

Look under any RWD IRS passenger vehicle and you’ll find nearly every single example uses CV axles, not u-joints. U-joints have famously irregular speed variation as the angles change in steady rotation, so the constant velocity joint is far more common for the half axles

I don’t know what’s more appalling, the number of antivax nurses or the number of people who reference their antivax nurse friends as authoritative sources. They are not doctors. They are not pathologisists. They are not immunologists, biologists, chemists, neurologists, or any other relevant ologists you can think of.

I don’t trust the Jiffy Lube oil change tech to diagnose my car’s power loss, but I guarantee they’ll have some anecdotal ideas because they “hear” about things all the time. I don’t trust an experienced mechanic to give a proper statement on reliability, either, because a mechanic will only see cars when they’re broken, biasing the sample.

So how do nurses become the voice of fact on this? I mean, I know why. It’s confirmation bias. This is more me screaming into the void, fuckin why?

How do you figure dual front motors would alleviate any of what you said a front diff would need? Dual front motors will still be rigidly mounted to the chassis, requiring flexible couplings. The rear is also independent, requiring the same flexible couplings whether it’s a diff or motors. CV axles all around. Non-steer wheels still have vertical travel from the suspension.

The year was 1992. Chevy Astro vans were decked out as Explorers for kid-hauling duty. The more car-like minivan hadn’t quite hit it’s prime and the crossover/SUV craze hadn’t taken foot in suburbs. I could see this monster making some sales. I mean, the Pontiac Trans Sport/Chevy Lumina Van made some sales and could be stylistic cousins

Surprised it’s not Chinko. They even mentioned China. Chinko me dayo

Which means it doesn’t seem like the limit has been hit yet. For standard devices, the general market has not moved to the current physical limitations

Only if storage density out paces storage demand. Eventually, physics will hit a limit

Coming from an LS2 and going to a Shoei RF-1400 was a larger improvement than I thought. Same for my wife going from a Sedici to an Arai in the same ~$600 range as my Shoei. Comfort, quietness, fidelity of external audio

In different words, I think we have a similar idea. I said completion, you said mastery. I said no way to apply the new knowledge, you said not enough room to house other topics of interest. So if you want to continuously expand your knowledge to a sufficient degree but don’t want to reach the end, what is the goal?

Lego is great. It gives you literal building blocks to skip the creation of building blocks and go straight to synthesis and assembly. It’s like if you made a painting with a book of stickers of common brush strokes. They’re limited in certain ways like being a square grid for the most part, but build until there’s a physical limitation. Either use some hinges, or start getting involved with other build materials.

General art is something I’ve enjoyed creating but my skill isn’t great. I’ve currently focused on building utilitarian things with a new home. Wish there was a shelf unit of these exact dimensions? Sounds like a trip to buy lumber then. Could be the perfect little monitor riser deck. You could say I’m bad at building things but I prefer to say I’m good at building bad things. They work, they’re just a little ugly.

But back to the main topic. While I certainly promote educational pursuits and productive use of time, if it causes this much stress every time, I think you should consider it might be some type of anxiety. I know the immediate goal is learn more, but where does it go from there? What’s the real underlying goal? It may not be obvious to you. Is it to create success in your career? To establish superiority over your peers? If it was purely a joyous pursuit, I don’t think you’d be posting about it like this. Don’t stop learning, but beware of burnout as well as be considerate towards yourself when you reach some end point in a topic.

The party of states rights (in areas they’re losing federally) makes yet another federal commandment in areas they want to gain ground on

What’s bad about performative actions in the form of executive orders applying rules to situations the president has clearly demonstrated he doesn’t understand?

AI instructions unclear, brass instruments coming right up

Ska intensifies

While I knew your answer, I just went through a similar thing with a Costco jacket. It’s a winter jacket with a false fleece liner. As in, there’s a 2" strip inside the jacket, just behind the main zipper, that just zips up. While it can offer an extra inch of belly room after too much hibachi, the main benefit seems to be that it starts about 3" higher than the exterior zipper. It’s pretty good for driving in that mode.

What times were these meetings? Was he sundowning?

I could see Trump being average among the atrocities of prior presidents. I see absolutely nothing wrong with hyperventilating at each and every one of them, though. Average doesn’t mean acceptable.

A few XKCDs had made me cry laughing. This was just a regular cry.

It’s not just duped kiddies, it’s the liberals that didn’t vote for Harris, too. There’s enough single-issue voters on Palestine to make a difference.

It was probably engineered that way. There’s at least a dozen popular single-issues that can completely flip/prevent someone’s votes. Abortion, taxes, guns, Palestine, transsexuals, original flavor queer, non-Christian, non-white, non-male, vaccines, net neutrality, and communist/socialist label are the 12 I submit today.

As Hemphill got to know the women, he convinced them to confide their past sexual traumas, which he then deliberately reenacted as he assaulted them, Curzer said. He took advantage of some victims’ inexperience, the prosecutor said, or crossed boundaries that victims had clearly articulated

I read the whole thing along with the other… Character issues. Pretty sure he’s well beyond what I’d consider fixable.