A tariff would help, I mean, Trump suggested it would work against the Canadian wild fires.

Determined to finish the Greeks once and for all, Xerxes amassed a massive army. He planned to cross the Hellespont using a bridge he had constructed. When his forces reached Sardis, however, a violent storm destroyed the bridge.

When his men reported the disaster, Xerxes was furious. He was enraged both at the sea for demolishing the structure and at the architects for failing to make it strong enough to withstand the storm. Resolute, he determined to punish both the waves and the workmen.

According to Herodotus, Xerxes commanded his men to scourge the sea with a monstrous whip and to cast heavy chains into it, symbolizing both his defiance of its power and his determination to assert control over it.

As for the men who had constructed the bridge, which had proved incapable of withstanding the force of a winter storm, Xerxes ordered that every one of them be beheaded.

The story of Xerxes and his extraordinary decision to order his soldiers to punish the sea by whipping it was viewed by Greek historians and later thinkers as a symbol of imperial arrogance and the illusion of absolute power, portraying the king as a god.

At 32 out of 35, with only 3 not cheating, ...

Completely off topic, but you gotta love the English language. Inflammable is a perfect synonym for flammable.

Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

The EU isn't really a republic. It's more like something between a federation and a confederation.

Tariffs are the largest transfer of wealth in US history. You pay them, then the courts strike them down, and companies collect the refunds. Oh, and the prices aren't going back down to pre-tariff levels either.

Extend Life of Out-of-Gas Communication Satellites

They presumed it dead because no one (in the scientific community) ever looked at it, even when it was "first" discovered.

Like Waymo, Tesla typically introduces robotaxis to a new city with a safety driver behind the wheel. Unlike Waymo, sometimes Tesla moves that person over to the passenger seat with access to a kill switch should anything go wrong. The company has been inconsistent in how it rolls out its robotaxis to new markets. The numbers go up and down, with zero explanation from the company as to why.

Which manuals are more efficient than Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive?

You can tell he's aware of the fact that stick driving results in more distractions, otherwise he wouldn't have typed out a whole paragraph with an irrelevant anecdote trying to convince himself otherwise.

Stick driving might make you feel "connected to the car" but it does distract you from the road.

Results: Subjectively, participants report being more attentive while driving in manual transmission mode. Objectively, participants drive safer in the manual transmission mode.

Conclusion: Although in need of replication, this pilot study suggests a behavioral intervention to improve driving performance among ADHD adolescents.

Teenagers with ADHD receive more moving vehicle violations (in particular, speeding tickets) than their non-ADHD counterparts. ... [but] ...

There are studies demonstrating that driving with a manual transmission is more stimulating than with an automatic transmission. One pilot study involved 10 adolescents with ADHD who drove a virtual-reality driving simulator in both the automatic mode and the 4-speed manual mode at 8 pm and 11 pm.12 These participants reported being more alert when driving in manual mode; objective measures showed they drove more safely than with an automatic transmission.12

The pilot study was preceded by clinical reports of adolescents with ADHD who said they were less able to daydream when driving a manual transmission. For example, an adolescent reported, "If I don't pay attention to what I'm doing, the car will jerk and stall, and, boy, is that embarrassing."

The CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible.