it was very generous of the federal government to allow the house to turn over last year. They must have done that to maintain plausible deniability. Probably explains the lack of a veto-proof Senate all these years as well

So very Hayekian.

I’m so glad I got my DUI crashes out of the way before bodycams were a thing.

@George-K said in BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions: Later in the article: "We thought that we would provide an extra service to the customer by offering the chance to activate that later, but the user acceptance isn’t that high. People feel that they paid double, which was actually not true, but perception is reality, I always say. So that was the reason we stopped that," Nota told Autocar. That's one perspective; another is that BMW was absolutely double dipping with heated seat subscriptions. The company started down that route to reduce production costs, making each car cheaper to build by streamlining the process. Fair enough. However, those reduced costs weren't then passed down to buyers via lower MSRPs. Customers were technically paying for those heated seats anyway, no matter whether they wanted them. Then, BMW was not only charging extra to use a feature already installed in the car, but also subjecting it to subscription billing, even though seat heating is static hardware not designed to change or improve over time. tl;dr "We're a bunch of fucking assholes"

@LuFins-Dad said in Proud Boy leader sentence to 22 years for Jan 6: @jon-nyc said in Proud Boy leader sentence to 22 years for Jan 6: @LuFins-Dad said in Proud Boy leader sentence to 22 years for Jan 6: @Mik said in Proud Boy leader sentence to 22 years for Jan 6: Not sure I saw anything that day worth 22 years. Well Torres wasn’t even there that day.. He was in jail for defacing a BLM monument… Do it wasn’t about what he did, it’s about what he said he wanted to do… Seditious conspiracy is an affirmative act. You didn't do it, I didn't do it, he did it. By the way his sentence was light according to the guidelines. Y ah, but I’m pretty sure actually blowing up a vbomb in the Senate is a little worse…. Maybe. You know the saying, a bomb is temporary, sedition is forever! That is a saying, right?

@89th said in Nancy's in!: When Mitch McConnell was asked for comment, he remained silent. 555

@Jolly said in Trouble in Paradise: But you have a huge problem when it's so expensive to live in a town, that the people who work in the town live 40 miles away because of the price of housing. Seems like a natural equilibrium will be found. If there aren't workers, salaries will rise until there are.

Who will be the first white guy to take a knee during the black national anthem?

Brenda bait….

@Horace said in See? This is the shit that has me close to violent revolt!: This is what happens when an entire mainstream culture is so convinced of their righteousness, that they think nothing of convincing kids to lie to their parents, just in case their parents are one of those people. Truth

@Aqua-s-Sister said in Beer tanning - waste not, want not: “Why in the world would you want to put something so sticky and messy all over your body?” LOL Snort…

@Mik said in $275,000,000: @Doctor-Phibes said in $275,000,000: Is he best at the throwing, the running or the kicking? I was thinking of giving my son some career advice, and it would be nice to know which bit he should focus on. Well, I don't think the quarterback is allowed to kick anybody.... Ben kicked a lot… Link to video

I did not discover my true smoker self until I was 13.

Seagate markets NAS HDDs too, so not something unique to Western Digital.

I hope she tells him to take a shit on a plate and mails him a silver spoon.

Pence would be a good president administratively. He just doesn't have the personality on the stage to win everyone over. I suspect he's much different one on one.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Speed Kills: @89th said in Speed Kills: We had some great planes entering the scene just as the war ended. It's also mind boggling to think of how quickly the country responded to the engineering, production, and distribution of so many warfighting needs. Mrs. Phibes' grandfather was in the team that developed the first radar to go into a Lancaster bomber during WW2. He was a truly brilliant man, but when he told us about the development of it - he said they really had no idea what they were doing, they tried all sorts of weird experiments, and then somehow they managed to get it working in an unbelievably short period of time. Sometimes, you just run across something that works. The interesting story of how we forgot to make FOGBANK... https://m. Link to video