The Spirit of the Dingbat

Plenty of that across industries, there’s this pervasive belief that President Trump could never make a catastrophic mistake, or if he did, it could be reversible by the omnipresent “adults in the room”. That is, American biz genuinely believes the WH could never break something they couldn’t fix.

Given that we have terrible as-built data I wonder if a lot is not knowing where conflicting utilities are located. And then we pay someone to design it and then we pay for change orders.

Stonks meme except a construction worker in front of construction with the word "bild" as in "build"

YIMBYs only want one thing and it's disgusting.

The president has lied about the school bombing. This kind of bypasses the rest of the conversation about intent, negligence, risk, collateral damage, etc. The president lied about it. Apparently standards are out the window. Take the man at his word for once. He is in charge and he doesn’t care.

I really hope that the California Apartment Association endorses Bass.

That’s right

I remember being a kid and learning how torching the oil fields was evidence of Saddam Hussein's evil nature.

Going to kill the Iranian revolutionary guard in the upcoming midterms

I don't see Iran backing down. All they have to do to strike a gigantic blow to Trump is hold out for a month.

It's not like they have any other option. We just attacked them for the second time in less than a year, killing their senior leadership during negotiations. Why negotiate again?

Remember all that snow that fell from the Carolinas to Boston? I bet you assume this has been quite a snow season overall. Well, for the Lower 48, this is the least snowy season (through February) for any year since at least 1940-41 when looking at all years through February. Thanks humans!

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

NIMBYism is on the menu

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

Haha yep!!

Texas getting all these weird fragments of 69C, 69E, etc… sad reflection of the power shift in America. Back in the day Caltrans got the 238 designated as an interstate, now they don’t even bother to try with the 210.

I mean… I guess it is because it’s going be!!

It’s two ramps short of being the worlds only (to my knowledge) fully directional five way interchange, that’s what it is.

Why Are Highways Numbered to Satisfy Road Geeks? In the US, we generally sign three different kinds of numbered highways: interstates, US routes, and state routes. In some states, there are also signed numbered county routes, but we’ll ignore the…

Hello fellow highway numbering enthusiasts

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I would love to see them irl, I swear I probably first noticed them on maps when I was like 10 (in the early 90s)

Is there a city with more overbuilt freeways than Hartford? Maybe Youngstown Ohio?
(And Hartford didn’t even build half of what they planned) www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/ha...

Thor Peak (last picture)… just unreal. Not sure if that’s Belcher Islands but they are also wild topography. We also must mention Cirque of the Unclimbables.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Zev is right

To be clear I meant that many people in the state say this and move on, but not Max! I know Max has dedicated a lot of time to making things better!! 😊

I know Max; that’s very much not his thing! My tweet was a little vague but I meant it about a lot of people in the state but definitely not Max!

You might as well save yourself the trouble and block me too then :)

Yes I know, I realized afterwards that it could be taken the wrong way! 🤦‍♂️