sick public transit, gloria

this precarity is why there is a fringe right-wing conspiracy, including by ex-President Yoon Suk-yeol, who believes there is a huge oil/gas reserve in the East Sea/Sea of Japan that is being untapped for myriad reasons bsky.app/profile/seun...

that was quick. but it's still +200% YOY even after the worst single day in Korean stock market history yesterday lol www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/a...

Lifechanging book you should all do yourselves the benefit of reading. It’s the Bay Area’s Power Broker and our Railtown and nobody has ever heard of it.

So I love researching a good mantra or catchphrase, and “unleash Chiang” is right in my wheelhouse. It turns out “unleash Chiang” is something the anti-communist China Lobby and John Birchers would say in the 1950s after the US “lost China” in their narrative: www.google.com/books/editio... 1/4

We rolled out new fare gate tones today!

The new “chime” tones play when riders hold their fare media (Clipper card, contactless bank card, or mobile payments) on the reader for an additional second and are intended to inform blind and low-vision riders that the fare gate is open to pass through.

there was a time when Seoul Metro management and local politicians balked at the idea of installing platform screen doors because of its cost. they pointed to the New York City MTA as an example as to why NOT install platform screen doors

Orinda and Lafayette yaaasss

I know intimately well why PSDs at BART can't happen now and why it may not happen for a very long time, but that has nothing to do with my vision that we will ultimately get PSDs and we will then talk among ourselves, 'well, this was super obvious'

read in the papers an unleashed dog went inside BART tracks to cause a major delay and had a flashing vision that one day we will get Platform Screen Doors in the Bay Area too and we will ask what took so long for something so obvious

wait no lol manager is a different Ryu

team Korea wanted to save arms in their final WBC exhibition match vs Orix Buffaloes so they hired two Japanese amateur pitchers from the Tokushima Indigo Sox. they pitched the eighth and ninth inning.

baseball is awesome

m.sports.naver.com/kbaseball/ar...

South Korea Baseball Team Tops Orix Buffaloes 8-5 in WBC Evaluation Manager Ryu Hyun-jin's squad showcases KBO talent with standout performances from Kim Do-young, Ahn Hyun-min

RESPECTFULLY NOTICING

A reconstructed land-use map of Edo, with gridded categories including rice paddies, upland fields, tea fields, villages, samurai land, Edo castle, temple/shrine land, etc...

Rice paddies, upland/tea fields comprise just over 48 percent of the land use. way more agrarian than I had imagined!

we will be legion, and we will be unbearable 🇰🇷🇰🇷

baseball, and Australia’s got a half-decent baseball team!

if they lose to Australia(!!!) and gets blown out to Japan again, these mfs are swimming back home

not saying Korea will beat Japan in Tokyo in the World Baseball Classic on Friday...but if they do, watch this space

respectfully noticing Korea's WBC team tied Hanshin Tigers and Japan's LOST to the Orix Buffaloes, a team which finished 11 games behind Hanshin, in their exhibition matches

Hongkongese developers to Nicaragua: just one more lane bro

one more lane should fix it (Strait of Hormuz)

I think the loop you describe is a truer analogue to Yamanote but due to game choices I've made it would taken far longer to complete. It can be done faster if I intentionally build out most of the lines and interlined the loop line (maybe I'll try at a time TBD) bsky.app/profile/seun...

does the US remember how much of a cluster it was to deploy these things into SK in the first place???

funny that the longer and more carfree my life becomes the more I think and like to read about oil

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve may be able to provide 1.4 million to 2.1 million barrels a day... That compares with 20 million barrels a day that normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. reserve is roughly equivalent to 20 days of domestic consumption.

China has been loading up on cheap, sanctioned oil...China could slow down on its purchases if oil prices spike, providing a cushion. But the opposite scenario is hard to ignore: An escalating conflict in the Middle East could spur even more hoarding behavior by Beijing.

Why Oil Markets Can’t Shrug Off This Conflict There isn’t enough cushion in the system to absorb big oil disruptions.

But the current crisis is on another level: U.S. is no longer just playing hardball with Iran’s leaders; it is pushing for regime change. “Iran has no reason to hold back its most capable and powerful weapons, which includes its ability to disrupt the oil and gas markets” www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Why Oil Markets Can’t Shrug Off This Conflict There isn’t enough cushion in the system to absorb big oil disruptions.

"And while the U.S. is the biggest oil producer in the world, shale isn’t considered spare capacity, which by EIA’s definition is production that can be brought online within 30 days and sustained for at least 90 days."

something something my shirt something something asking lots of questions already answered by shirt

somehow more diversified than Japan, which NHK reported 90% of imported gas comes thru the Middle East lol

TIL 70% of crude oil and 20% of natural gas imported to Korea comes through the Strait of Hormuz n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...