To add to what others have said, the reason you want to spread things out is that slow freezing means big ice crystals which destroy cell walls and make things mushy. That's also why you dont want to thaw and refreeze foods cause the texture just gets bad.

Celery probably doesnt matter, though, if you just end up using it for mirepoix where you end up cooking it down anyway.

Okay, here is one with tires that go beyond the fenders.

https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/jeep-wrangler-wrangler-unlimited-3-6-v6-rubicon-auto-gasoline-white-cat_ma38mo1807-a109f1af-470c-479e-a373-77d12b35ca3b

Dishonorable mention to this one, which I think technically is within the lateral bounds, but definitely not covered enough otherwise.

DOT is in charge of CAFE regulations. The original law specified standards that were for "passenger vehicles" and "automobiles which are not passenger automobiles".

DOT interpreted that as trucks, which made sense back then. Unfortunately, every manufacturer just declared their cars to be trucks (invention of the SUV) and the DOT let them.

Then they made it worse by scaling fuel economy to vehicle size, so manufactures just made cars have a larger footprint to be allowed to have worse fuel economy.

Then how do people do things like auto racing on tracks if they can't buy non-street-legal cars? Or off roading? You can definitely buy plenty of Unimogs that look effectively the same as this.

Not legal in DC, either, but unfortunately that doesnt stop people

https://www.arksen.com/products/arksen-u1700-vehicle

https://www.expedition-trucks.com/products/iveco-eurocargo-140E24-4x4-expedition-truck

https://expeditionmeister.com/

Looks like there are plenty of places selling similar vehicles in the UK and EU.

Must be nice, lol. Unfortunately, in the US, most rules around the road legality of a vehicle are enforced during inspections, which not every state has. Even the states that have them have a really low cost on the inspection, so mechanics who do them are incentivized to just rubber stamp them.

Other than that, lots of problems are considered a "secondary offense", which means you won't be pulled over for it, but you can be ticketed for it if you are pulled over for another reason. Broadly, I dont think that's necessarily a bad policy, but it does have the effect where they end up being effectively unenforced unless the cop has a reason to want to hit you with the book.

I've had this conversation recently. People focused on wanting to live somewhere with the lowest possible taxes. Like, okay, you save 5% of your money on taxes, but then you spend 25% more on driving places, trying to get decent healthcare, finding any worthwhile, enjoyable activities to do, and inevitably having to move back closer to civilization when you do have to give up the car, except now you are moving to assisted living and not just an apartment or little house in a walkable neighborhood.

Even if it all goes to plan, and they endure living somewhere crappy, and they do save money, so what? You die with extra money?

Don't want to blame boomers necessarily cause I think the propaganda of being hyper aware of taxes while ignoring all the other costs (and what the taxes get you) has hit people of all ages, but boomers are just the ones at the age where it makes them make dumb decisions.

Yeah, for some travel, I'll bring an aeropress and a hand grinder, but that only works if I'm somewhere i can heat up water. I'm not going to carry my setup down to a hotel lobby or something to get hot water. Likewise, I'm not going to cary that extra weight backpacking when a packet of instant coffee is like 5 grams, and my grinder is 100 times that.

Backpacking/camping, all kinds of other travel where the only other option might be hotel or crappy office coffee.

their operating systems could send sensitive information to Beijing

Cool. So let's pass legislation that prevents any auto manufacturer from sending sensitive info to anyone unauthorized by the owner of the car. Just because you buy a car "assembled" in the US doesn't mean that your data isn't being harvested, stored improperly, and sold to all bidders.

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Elbows have always been allowed on the table. The rule for fancy dining was that you couldn't have elbows on the table during a course, i.e., when people are actively eating, but before/after, it's fine. That's a reasonable rule to be considerate of space.

The real reason behind all the gelatin salad abominations is that after gelatin was first discovered/isolated, it was very costly to produce, but new technology made it much more affordable.

Isolating gelatin requires long cook times (which require lots of fuel) at ideally fairly low temperatures. Then there needs to be some level of filtration to make it as flavorless as possible, and then dehydration to sheets or a powder.

Finally, to actually make one of these "salads", you need refrigeration.

Production of gelatin was industrialized to make it much cheaper, and refrigerators became normal household appliances. You went from gelatin being only really used in "fine dining" to something you could do at home. In the same era, pineapple went from being a fruit that only the rich could get to something anyone could, so it went through a similar explosion of popularity.

The alternative funny answer is that the company that sold gelatin, Knox, was run by a husband and wife, and all the crazy stuff didn't start until the husband died, so either he was holding her back, or once she lost her husband, she thought everyone else should, too.

That's the whole point of how any aid works in most situations. Especially with the US's military-industrial complex. Ukraine gets munitions, US industry gets the money. The point is not to build a military industry for Ukraine.

The infamous "government cheese" was given to the needy in the US not because poor people have a dire need for cheese, but because the government wanted to give a lot of money to wealthy dairy farmers.

To suggest that lawmakers don't understand that that is what they are doing is crazy.

If i recall correctly, it's because Illinois considers taking a roadkill deer to be "hunting", so it actually uses up your deer permit which is insane (especially considering not all roadkill occurs during deer season).

People delinquent on child support are not allowed to hunt cause you could theoretically subsist on hunting and not have a job that produces money.

All concussions are traumatic brain injuries, not all traumatic brain injuries are concussions.

Tbh, I tend to do that sometimes. The number of languages I can somewhat understand outnumbers the number of languages I can attempt to speak.

Especially when it comes to reading: it's a lot easier to see a bunch of cognates and understand the jist of the sentence than it is to come up with those words and conjugate, order, and pronounce them correctly.

On multiple occasions, I've tried to use my limited knowledge to order food or something in another language, only to have the person on the other side look at me confused until I restate myself in English.

I like to think of it like Star Wars where everyone just speaks and responds in their own language.

Congress being so bad at legislating has basically forced the Supreme Court to legislate. I obviously don't agree with decisions like ending Roe v. Wade, but abortion should never have been up to them in the first place. Those kinds of decisions should be up to congress to make clear laws.

You ever wonder why the other billionaires with space companies have actually flown on their companies vehicles and he hasn't?

I bet he doesn't let his car autopilot him either.