Tom McKay's discussions

You can be both a horrible pedant and correct! Read more

There’s some more details here, but tl;dr yes in a way they claim is safe: Read more

My father is into beekeeping, and I’ve helped him out with some tasks, including capturing a swarm. It’s kind of intimidating becuase there are literally thousands of bees swirling around in a hurricane until they alight somewhere in a big ball of bees, but they don’t really bother you while they’re doing it. You can… Read more

The FBI defines a mass murder as the killing of four or more people at the same time in public place (referring to mass shootings mostly but come on, six easily qualifies by that standard).

Likeliest explanation is someone Italian (or a mafia buff of some kind — there’s a lot of them!) stumbled across the videos and recognized the tattoos from news coverage, then reported it. It’s possible a cop got very lucky looking for how to cook something.

[sniffles, draws pistol] Read more

The password to log into Frank is OORRRRRGGGYYYYY

That's the spirit!

Stupid Kinja bugs. Meant to write: Read more

There’s a well known defect with that series that for an unknown reason — possibly wire corrosion, possibly something wrong with the sensor, could be anything else — the touch screen incorrectly registers button presses that don’t exist (usually changing inputs, which can cause it to cycle between them and repeatedly… Read more

And although the Dell you linked is a nice 165hz monitor, I worry a reader less familiar with high framerate monitors (i.e. a lot of your 1080p content players who this article is directed at) might not realize that’s a key spec that shouldn’t be dropped. Read more

Yeah, though I suspect no one ever used this but for blu-ray and passthrough. I don’t think I can change the receiver up, the speaker connectors are some type I’ve never seen before. Possibly could strip the wires and attach new jacks... Read more

> wait, your computer’s sound system is a blu ray player??? Read more

hm... how much you want for it...

Counterpoint: Larry is a good boy.

Honestly is it really that big of a deal? Read more

D’oh, you caught me forgetting what year it is again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit

Don’t get me wrong, the Q stuff is headache inducing, but I imagine that it’s a little more accessible than asking you to go all in on interdimensional shapeshifters.

I suspect the number of people who actually believe the lizard people are real is far lower than that, and the pollsters got a fair number of jokers, facetious people, and/or “sure, whatever” in their yes number. But I might just be being optimistic.