Michael Caley

Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tail, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in Downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury can be as small as 5 inches. I was simply 5 inches too tight on my line when my right arm hooked inside of the gate, twisting me and resulted in my crash. My ACL and past injuries had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever. Unfortunately, I sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.

While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets. Standing in the starting gate yesterday was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself. I also knew that racing was a risk. It always was and always will be an incredibly dangerous sport. And similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don’t achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is the also the beauty of life; we can try. I tried. I dreamt. I jumped.

I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying. I believe in you, just as you believed in me. ❤️LV

A photo of Lindsay Vonn mid-air

Lindsay Vonn gives her first statement since her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill

either that or they wrote something barely grammatical and fed it through a chatbot to clean it up

this press release has the distinctive rhetoric of an LLM but with the vocabulary of one of the white house staff groypers

gatorade is owned by pepsico but it's the coca cola of the sports drink market. powerade in turn is owned by coca cola, but it's unquestionably the pepsi of sports drinks. this should be plainly obvious to all

EPL Puma Ball 25/26: A Qualitative Report – 6YS Blog

Updated timeline with McGinn quote. Asked if Morgan Rogers is experiencing the Diego Forlan effect. Added footnote on value of qualitative methods. More to come in due time.

As a logistics nerd, I just eat this stuff up. Do you have *any* idea how tightly choreographed and practiced all these movements had to be to get the scene set in one commercial break of time?

Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!

this feels more like a joke from the Josie and the Pussycats movie than a real thing

in the final -- pretty flawed! -- Hitchhiker's Guide book Arthur lives on a planet with herds of "Perfectly Normal Beast" and late in the book he learns that the reason the native population calls them that is that they blip into and out of existence inexplicably, anyway, that's stuck in my brain

yes this is the tone, yes

and in particular it could be something very specifically Trump aligned or something completely out there which is mostly just a function of some cia folks doing whatever because there's no oversight or government or somewhere in the middle just no idea whatsoever

y'all need to read theory www.ir101.co.uk/wp-content/u...

a very effective red flag I have found is when someone highlights that a political figure or organization which has no meaningful foreign policy relation to Israel or Palestine is a "Zionist" or not

it concerns me that they

-care
-know
-think it explains anything

After he retires we can remember some guys who remembered some guys.

I would say the locals are allowed to be completely insane about pronouncing their own city in unintelligible ways. I bet ancient Syracusans had some real nutty pronunciations too we just don't know them.

I mean this is the pronunciation you're describing, they're just doing standard British pronunciation not something ostentatiously fancy or, you know, intellectually justifiable

ancient pronunciation is more in the range of soo-rah-koos-ai / see-rah-koos-eh

ok I looked this up and the British have their own insane way of pronouncing Syracuse which is not based on either classical Latin or Greek or on modern Italian, is just some real tacko shit

The cameraman was savage for cutting to De Zerbi

there's no "correct way" because the pronunciation of ancient Greek changed a lot over the centuries and surely had regional variations we don't know much about, and on top of that it was a Roman city for a long time

If you do cap planning/long range ops planning/urban planning/activism in NJ, Philly or Chicago and the surrounding regions, let's talk.

My DMs are open. Shoot me an email at nolan(dot)hicks(at)nyu(dot)edu

Our goals:
- Create a positive vision of what investing in transit can deliver for Jersey, Philly and Chicagoland, delivering much faster commutes and much improved connectivity
- Illustrate how it opens the door for modern interurban service that extend beyond the megalopolises to nearby cities

Very excited to say that the stars have aligned and NYU Marron/Transit Costs Project have landed a grant that will fund a second edition of Momentum, which will apply the high-throughput framework to major regional rail networks beyond the NY area.

Our three big new cases:
- NJT
- SEPTA
- METRA

Factories Are Becoming More Like Data Centers Large electricity users that employ few workers are not what America’s reindustrialization dreams are made on.

Many Americans dislike data centers because they use land, water, and electricity without creating many permanent jobs.

There’s just one wrinkle: Modern factories increasingly fit the same description.

I wrote about it for @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/energy/facto...

no!

I know you remember how humor worked in college in the late 90s lol

I made fun of it a lot. What did I really think? I don't even know tbh

and the five year governing majority thing means they had a pretty crazy amount of runway to try things with longer term payoffs and that's precisely what they refused to do in permanent campaign mode

it's true this is not easy mode but it's not like they didn't know this going in

they could just have their majority not do that and it would be trivial to organize because a huge percentage of the members would lose their seats, but can't write off the possibility of pure death drive I guess

yeah "permanent campaign" is a profoundly stupid idea, that's the core of the problem I think