No, it's back, it just only shows up in specific places. For example, you can get sugar-free tonic water made with it. In that case, the quinine completely covers up the taste of the saccharin. For the same reason, I predict that stevia will enjoy widespread use in root beer and ginger ale, but not in lemon-lime soda or in cola. In the former cases, you can barely taste the leafy aftertaste. In the latter, it's all you can taste — at least, these are my experiences, and they jibe with those of my lady.

So what you're saying is that it's okay to use it as a mixer? That's what I'll tell the cops when they catch me tipping up my flask. "Well, it's part of my weight loss program..."

Which is part of your body.

...but it's not calories into your mouth-hole, it's calories into your bloodstream. The ones that come out of your ass don't need to be counted. As they say, you're not what you eat, you are what you don't poop

Well, no. You also have to know how many calories you're going to take away from what you ate, which is not just different for everyone, but which varies not just from food to food but also from different samples of same. The carb content of chicken is always nil but two different strawberries can be off from one another by a factor of 100% or more.

Have you ever actually looked up the numbers? In a Super Size (etc.) meal, the soda has more calories than any other single element, and they are all from sugar. Cutting it out might not make them svelte, but it's the single biggest improvement they can make in that "meal".

Anyway, the problem is that they're not just eating one meal. What got me to stop going to McDonald's was going in to get my one sausage biscuit with egg and cheese and standing in line behind a woman who was so fat she was having clearly audible breathing problems. She got the diet soda, too... and two McGriddles. Now I see her looming there, breathing louder and faster than Darth Vader, every time I think about eating at Mickey Deeznutz. Also there's the Pennywise/Ronald meme to keep the idea fresh. Mind you, I'm still pretty fat. I may be 6'7", but 275 is still fairly tubby. I only have so much room to talk... But then, I could have put on her sweatpants, she couldn't have got into my jeans.

It's actually dumber than that. It's putting in the wrong HID bulbs. You can get ones that put the arc in the right place, the same place that the halogen filament would be.

I use the phone to call the cops on people who activate a white light on the rear of their car while proceeding forwards, because it's dangerous.

If you don't want people behind you, pull your slow ass over. That's what I do when I am driving the minivan over the grade and someone inevitably catches up to me. I just get the fuck out of the way, both because that's what I would want them to do for me, and because what do I want them back there for anyway?

If you won't get out of the way when someone wants to go faster, you're not just part of the problem, you're the whole problem.

What? Who told you that? The landscape is complicated for all but malaise-era cars due to the existence of multiple technologies both in production and the aftermarket, and it's about to get a whole lot moreso with the proliferation of LED headlights, active-aiming headlights, and headlights like the ones discussed in TFA with other active light modulation technologies.

Audi provides those, too.

The only company with more self-driving tech on the road than Audi is Mercedes. Tesla is supposed to come right up to speed with an upcoming software update, we'll see.

Mostly the gassers, and mostly by becoming more like diesels. I'm not complaining, though; far from it. I'm looking forward to the trend proliferating. After all the time I've spent cursing FoMoCo, it feels odd to be singing their praises now, but Ecoboost has got me doing that.

What I want is a diesel PHEV Impreza. We don't get any diesel Subarus here yet, though. Motortrend suggests that the world may get a PHEV diesel successor to the Tribeca, perhaps by 2017 Subaru will suck it up and do what it takes to offer diesels here. But I want the smallest vehicle in the range, not the biggest...

Eh, you can clean all that stuff (plus oil, too) up with fungus and diesel fuels are actually hilariously biodegradable if they don't have funky synthetic additives. It's the synthetic oils that are a bitch to deal with. They persist in the environment for orders of magnitude longer, nothing eats them. But if you just leave diesel fuel in your tank too long, you'll grow algae in it. Diesel fuel is only environmentally problematic when introduced to waterways... but so is the average bottle of shampoo.

I don't know that's true. You'd have to add charging infrastructure, and charge trains while they went down the tracks. You'd have to be able to insert a charging rail every 80 miles or so. It seems feasible, if you could charge (and run off it) the whole while the train was crossing it. That seems like something which could be done.

In my imagination, the bogeys are all motorized, and the cars get batteries. That way you could split up trains in motion, strip out every other car or whatever you wanted. And it would make a scheme like this more viable. You'd need a new standard for connecting air brakes. You could connect generator cars and run them over long hauls which don't yet have charging infrastructure installed.

People keep saying that, but it's not strictly true. The hybrid system does improve economy. It's true that it also improves 0-60 times, etc. But you could throw shitloads of motor at the problem and do that. You would just have to burn more fuel.

To which charging cycle does this apply? TFA didn't specify.

An educated person would not have purchased a Toshiba tablet to begin with. It's true that Apple users don't have to educate themselves, but that's only because there's nothing to learn. They can buy in and take their chances and deal with whatever problems crop up and however Apple chooses to deal with them, or they can fuck off. An Android user has the option to become educated so that they can make a better decision. Before buying a Moto G I looked into how Motorola treated modders (voiding their warranty, which is sleazy but standard, otherwise accommodating them) and into how the community treated Motorola devices (quite well) and now I have excellent aftermarket support, with many ROMs to choose from.