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To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection – just a little further and you’ll get there – but you never get there, and suddenly you’re old, and find yourself in a permanent state of imperfection, which you must reckon with.
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The rather extreme omission of any kind of media system in the car is jarring, but it, too, has secondary benefits.
“Seventy percent of repeat warranty claims are based on infotainment currently because there’s so much tech in the car that it’s created a very unstable environment in the vehicle,” Snyder says.
Eliminating infotainment, the theory goes, necessarily boosts reliability. And reliability will be key because Slate is taking DIY to new extremes on the maintenance front, too.
nydailynews.com
He was told the area was restricted and he couldn’t go through. Ignoring the request, he instead drove off at top speed into the rocky terrain of the restricted area, making sure the military officials weren’t following him, according to the site.
Leray told the UK’s Sunday Times that he had travelled around Africa about 10 times so knew the region well. But before long, his he crashed the car into a rock, rendering it unable to drive.
So… genius, or not?
nytimes.com
Belle’s and Preston’s mother, Portia Moore, said that while her children don’t fully understand the magnitude of having a photo with the former president, they’ll be “sharing it forever, for their entire lives.”
cbc.ca
Huddleston even built an additional, mini-scale version of the project house to sit within the Lego build itself.
nytimes.com
Mr. Sielaff said he was denied a translator and had trouble understanding what was happening to him. Ms. Brösche’s friends said she was kept in solitary confinement for nine days. By their accounts, both were flown back to Germany without a clear understanding of why they were detained in the first place.
nytimes.com
The devoted fan (including this one) is left with many unanswered questions, as well as that greatest of adult freedoms: the space to think through multiple meanings for ourselves, with no answers imposed on us by the storytellers.
This is as it should be. And this is how it should conclude.
Agree, on this and many other instances. We need more ambivalence and opportunity for self-thought.
nytimes.com
A video circulating on social media on Wednesday showed a woman in a hijab and white coat being surrounded on a sidewalk, handcuffed and led away by masked plainclothes officers driving unmarked cars.
nytimes.com
“This is my best story,” he added. “The day the Grateful Dead freaked out Led Zeppelin.”
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The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502. Based in milliForth for x86.