Self-driving Uber car kills pedestrian in Tempe, AZ

"I had a dream that we bought a 1980s Lancia..."

I have bad dreams - horrible sometimes. Shall I blerf them here?

A very nice mechanical engineer at Oak Ridge Nat Lab was totally silly for Lancias - few other cars make Fiats seem car-like.

Yes all this plus PriusChat being bombed by nonsense-Chinese posts clearly indicates that Matrix seams are a-rippin'. We need not even invoke p45's flippin'

Food, I say. Food is our last refuge.

 

Please do. Just not the erotic ones.

My Dad had a Lancia Beta.



He bought it when it was two years old. By the time it was three years old, the tops of the front wings had rusted through so completely that, if you were tall, you could see the front wheels from the driving seat. (If you were small, you could see them through the footwell if you lifted the carpet.)

Which nonsense-Chinese posts? I'm intrigued.

 

We tend to call them front fenders.

There has been a lot of Chinese SPAM postings hitting the site for the last few days. It keeps the moderators bust deleting new accounts & their posts.

 

I knew there'd be an American word for them, but I couldn't remember what it was.

I hadn't noticed the spam postings: the mods must be doing an excellent job.

 

I noticed them starting about 9:30 PM EDT last night,
There were also some SPAM postings of just numbers (Thread Title "45" with Posting "56", for instance

 

sorry, fast forward.

 

I learned that it helps to have something that can create higher vacuum for flavor penetration when sealing the pouch. My foodsaver method was just OK, but better than the no-vacuum put-it-under-water-and-push-the-air-out method. Also, having a decent thermal immersion circulator helps rather than just a warm water bath (for better temperature control). One day I'll shell out for the PolyScience, but it's hard to justify since I don't use it much.

Sometimes you can get a reservation at Alinea in short order if you put your name on a waitlist for people who cancel. It only took me a few weeks to get a reservation (this was pre-renovation, though they had already received their Michelin stars at that point). I have the cookbook, but the recipes are pretty hard to prep since you need the specialized equipment (I mean: I don't even think I can rent an anti-griddle). You can do sphereification with sodium alginate at home super-easily though.

 

Ah, thank you kind sir! This new knowledge brings interim peace to my previously troubled mind. I can now continue with my assuaged life!

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Oh yeah! Please sign me up for some of that spearafication spectacular or whatever!! And 6 months to eat somewhere! Hey, me and da Prime, we's going to Jacque in ze Boxe today, for some truly fancy Frog Culinary Delights!! Har, har! No miserable road kill kangaroo or vacuumed up grub for me; just your mystery meat on a couple of drying slabs of well greased, gluten-rich carbo-covers, processed by some hepatitis C-carriers!
Now that's the life of adventure for me!!

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I agree federal oversight should have been from the beginning, but our government is dysfunctional. Some in it even want to privatize air traffic control.

 

I can see that now.
The minimal safety needed to maximize profits.

 

That's what's happened to the British and their railway system.

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I was shocked when I heard this.

 

Well, no. Margaret Thatcher decided competition was essential, and that was why she privatised it. And it worked brilliantly.

Now, if I am unhappy about the price or service provided by a railway company I can instead vote with my feet, as can happen in any competitive market, and take my custom elsewhere.

For example, if Northern Rail's service between Blackpool and Leeds is expensive, unreliable or slow, I can say "Well, Northern Rail, I am going to a competitor. In future, instead of travelling from Blackpool to Leeds on your service, I shall travel from Norwich to Ipswich on Greater Anglia! It offers much better value for money."

(Blackpool to Leeds is red; Norwich to Ipswich is purple.)


Hooray for the free market!

 

Interesting, since a few days ago, I just watched a series regarding all the British railway problems on The Newshour, with conclusions that they were hoping for a return to government control. Privatizing inevitably leads to priortizing of profit over service, which is why the experts interviewed, stated the government needs to step in.

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this sheds some new light on things. i think uber may be going down the rabbit hole on this one.

 

Wow. Any relation to Cory L?