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New comment by ourmandave in "Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880"

ourmandave — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:40:50 +0000

Yeah, that's on Derek Lowe's list of things he won't work with.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-tou...

New comment by ourmandave in "Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok"

ourmandave — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:16:31 +0000

Recent studies have shown that performing mental gymnastics could delay the onset of dementia.

New comment by ourmandave in "SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef"

ourmandave — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:45:55 +0000

Ironically, Whirlpool.

New comment by ourmandave in "Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline"

ourmandave — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:17:44 +0000

Does it count if I have a bird feeder with a movement detection camera that saves to the cloud 100's of terrible blurry images I look at once a never?

New comment by ourmandave in "Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone"

ourmandave — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:58:28 +0000

Countries don't have friends, they have interests. Spying on allies has always been a thing.

New comment by ourmandave in "Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca"

ourmandave — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:41:41 +0000

Does this mean we get a new season of Ancient Aliens on the Discovery Channel?

Ancient Astronaut theorists dressed like Indiana Jones pretending to be archaeologists.

New comment by ourmandave in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

ourmandave — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:03:26 +0000

There's a website dedicated to Elon's predictions.

He tweeted back in 2019 there would be a flying roadster.

Promises made, promises kept?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1083095876392964096

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1083128521801822213

Broken clock, etc.

https://elonmusk.today/#flying-roadster

New comment by ourmandave in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

ourmandave — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:51:17 +0000

Sorry, I'd only heard a 0 to 60 mph in 1 second and assumed. =[

I suppose the Fast and Furious guys are work shopping a scene around this.

New comment by ourmandave in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

ourmandave — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:44:41 +0000

Wasn't it purpose built for the Hot Wheels demo?

Insane acceleration to get up the ramp and enough fuel to land safely.

Unless you have a giant ramp or a penchant to drive off cliffs who is lining up for this?

New comment by ourmandave in "The Haunted Toys R Us"

ourmandave — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:01:12 +0000

This is different than the "haunted" toy store that randomly appeared in an empty lot near my house.

They had super discounts on Chucky Dolls and sets of steak knives.

I guess all sales are final since it disappeared right after I walked out.

New comment by ourmandave in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

ourmandave — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:57:40 +0000

There was a horror story of scammers running a dentist office where they told parents they needed to extract all their child's teeth for some bogus reason.

They did it to several children before enough people caught on and shut it down.

Paid per child's tooth needlessly pulled is next level evil.

New comment by ourmandave in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

ourmandave — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:54:11 +0000

And I upvoted and replied. Great.

New comment by ourmandave in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

ourmandave — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:43:53 +0000

"Nightmare" program is right. When the wifey asks where I was last night and can check my story with the ICE app.

New comment by ourmandave in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

ourmandave — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:33:12 +0000

The starting people will have top secret security clearance. =(

New comment by ourmandave in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

ourmandave — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:29:51 +0000

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK, and commonly known as the Cheka, was the first Soviet secret police organization.

New comment by ourmandave in "Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?"

ourmandave — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:35:46 +0000

... and smelt tin

I'll just order my crucible and tongs off Alibaba.

Wait a second...

New comment by ourmandave in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

ourmandave — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:36:03 +0000

It really is mind boggling to watch a months long committee investigation of Jan 6th and then Merrick Garland just nopes out.

New comment by ourmandave in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

ourmandave — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:53:02 +0000

60 years of dissecting fluffy orange kittens is a lot of fluffy orange kittens. =(

New comment by ourmandave in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

ourmandave — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:44:40 +0000

Why not the State of NY instead of just the city?

IL has had click-to-cancel since 2022. (Actually 2000, but updated in 2022, with continuous amendments being put forward all the time.)

New comment by ourmandave in "Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait"

ourmandave — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:17:55 +0000

The tell is so obvious. All the GOP candidates distancing themselves from Trump and saying data centers are bad.

Normally that would earn you a 2AM all caps tweet labeling you a RINO or worse, and getting primaried. Instead, not a peep.

Which tells you its a ruse and he's in on it.