Having runoff elections allows for another round of campaigning and the voters can make a more informed choice given the results of the first round. There is some value in that, but personally I'd lean towards instant runoff or just proportional representation etc.

Did you know Biden is almost 1.04 times older than Trump?

you can spend obscene amounts of money chasing marginal weight savings.

Your point stands, but it's all about the "aero" now rather than weight.

34th Rule of acquisition.

fuck monocultures.

I have to disagree. We can't have too many monocultures.

Adaptive cruise control is just "go at this speed, but then apply soft throttle". So you're welcome, I guess?

Maybe you don't. But ancestor post is suggesting to make it mandatory to avoid tail gating and then it had better work properly.

I only git as far as SNCF, the French railway company. Just a transposition and a single pen stroke away.

Aloe Vera now and every 3 hours for a week. Apply lots. Apply it often.

It does more than just help with the pain and partially repairs the damage done.

And thanks for the reminder to reapply on my knees from the surprise sunny bike ride yesterday.

I was just translating an ancestor message, so whatever 🤷🏼‍♂️

so I'm unclear about why they follow EU mandates at all

We're in the EEA which at this point includes EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. We get to be part of the common market and have free movement of goods and people and whatnot. But it requires "harmonising" rules across the market so that you don't get technical hurdles instead of straight up tariffs. And then we have no say in these harmonised rules because we're not in the EU 🤷🏼‍♂️

But imagine the fart sound it could make when you release it!