Standard airline procedure is to carry special insulated bags on flights. If some passenger's device overheats, usually a power bank, it is dumped into the bag and sealed off. The problem on this flight is that the device was inaccessible when stuck inside the seat.

The government, state and federal, gets special permission to file suits against inanimate objects when it wants to exercise its special theft privilege, called "civil forfeiture." If the DHS decides to grab your only at the airport, for example, it legally takes the form of a suit with a title like "United States v. Two thousand Dollars."

It just feels...totally normal. It's exactly as though there's a driver, but there isn't. Waymo does't operate in my rural area yet, but I had the opportunity when I attended a conference in Tempe, AZ.

Now I just have to hope this proliferates everywhere by the time I can no longer see well enough to drive.

And when I come over that hill where I look down on Palm Springs, all I'll see will be a lake of magma?
Now that I know there's a geological explanation, I won't't have to wonder whether it was caused by something Hollywood did.

I had that pathetic illusion drive me around in the big city (Tempe, AZ) just last week.

It's the 95% who are that he has to fear.

Crypto jocks are known for thinking they can invent a whole new economy of their own. Now that they think they can invent a whole new moral system by which it's okay to steal, a world-ending rug pull has become inevitable. Popcorn!

Nine if the old men have tentacles.

If you draw the Lawn card, you have to leave the game.

I for one am concerned that we are culling our bueeaucrats before researchers have had a chance to find out more about their life cycle. For example, it has been observed that when a male bureaucrat selects a mate, his fellows report him to HR rather than promoting the idea of forming a relationship, as in other social cultures. Such anti-cooperative behavior would appear to violate natural section.

I can remember a time when all the best comics (Bruce, Sahl, Carlin, et. al.) were leftists. They loved satire and used it against the stodgy, humorless, censorious right.

How times have changed! The left abandoned honor when it turned its sensitivity meter up to eleven. They dare not risk stepping on someone's delicate little toes.

I opposed genocide on October 7. Since then, I've been supporting fighting back.

Back in the 1900s, I would read about some hot new book and tell myself I might want to r get hold of a copy myself. But by the time I happened to be in the vicinity of a bookstore (remember those?) I had usually forgotten about the reference. Meanwhile, over the years as my vision has declined (I have AMD) I moved over to ebooks, because I can still read those easily. I'm reading more now than ever before, because getting books is so frictionless. Yesterday was an example.

I was reading o my online Wired and came across their rendition of the Rolling Stone story. I opened up an Amazon tab and grabbed tCareless People right away. What I immediately thought of was the author's legal problem: if this "arbitrator" acting in lieu of the real justice system decides t ban the boook outright, will Amazon have to claw it back from all the purchasers, as it notoriously did with an edition of 1984 a few years ago? I'm reading it now, in case that happens.

Another bullshit case bites the dust, just like the phony legal battle against the Houston Children's Hospital whistleblower.

Free speech lives. And this just in, seconds ago: - Elon Musk just got his astronauts to the ISS.

Then they encounter their first business cycle recession. Lesson learned.