“Unfortunately, I will be away from the station at that time... far away... visiting my parents, on Earth... excuse me.”

Charge you $30 for $27 in credits that are hard to use along with amenities like WiFi that are free at other hotels. Basically a way to tack an extra $30 onto the room fee that doesn’t show up when comparing rates online.

The grift is more and more out in the open

And to think, this is one of the more flattering pictures of Musk on a political stage.

There is precedent for naming ships after living US presidents, but in both cases, the person had been out of office for years and had served in the Navy aboard the type of ship that bears their name.

• USS Jimmy Carter: An attack submarine commissioned in 2005. Carter was a nuclear technician with the Navy in the early days of nuclear submarines, and died in 2024
• USS George H. W. Bush: an aircraft carrier commissioned in 2009. Bush was flew torpedo bombers in WWII and died in 2018

“Ambassador! While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?”

“What is this?”

“An ant.”

“Ant.”

“So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transports it's hard to keep them out.”

“I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, ‘What was that?,’ how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They're vast, timeless, and if they're aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried, and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.”

“That's it? That's all you know?”

“Yes, they are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there alone.”

I think this is a Chekov episode. (Mind War)

Meanwhile, ULA may one day try to recover just the engines of the Vulcan.

Will this even affect Flock’s bottom line? Who pays to replace a broken or stolen camera, Flock or the local police?

Man is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He doesn’t want to make this election a referendum on abortion, because as we’ve seen in ballot measures in the past two years, he can’t win that fight. However, his base won’t accept anything but a hardline stance. Must suck to be him, couldn’t happen to a worse person.

At least. If you work an 8 hour day, a 0.5 hour commute each way adds an extra 12.5% to work time commitment each day, and it’s considered unpaid time.

Why does Broke Don keep getting special treatment?

The airlines can end this practice pretty quick by charging less for a direct flight to the connecting city than they do for a two-legged flight though it. We prohibited the railroads from doing this sort of thing back in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act.

Why is he so against feeding the poor?

Let’s be honest, if he dressed in a bathing suit they’d be on his case for dressing inappropriately for his office.

I love how, despite Musk’s best efforts, 3/4 of the internet still calls the site Twitter.

Air BnB is destroying the housing market in my area. That said, it’s exposing a demand for something that doesn’t otherwise exist. In addition to hotels, people also want to be able to rent larger spaces, with a kitchen so they don’t have to eat out every night, and multiple bedrooms so the adults don’t have to go to bed at the same time as the kids. Hotel developers should be taking notes.

The last 747-400 passenger plane rolled off the production line in 2005. This is either going to be a maintenance issue or the engine ingesting debris or a bird, not faulty construction. Boeing doesn’t even make the engines, it’s either GE, Pratt & Whitney, or Rolls Royce, depending on the original owner’s preference.

The fact that a majority of voters did not want Trump to win makes me simultaneously feel happy (that I’m not surrounded by idiots) and more depressed (that the Electoral College has screwed us AGAIN!)

Honestly, how is the average person supposed to tell the difference between a federal raid and gang activity?