Which building can be evacuated faster, a single stair building with 25 people per stair, per floor or a 2 stair building with 250 people per stair, per floor?

The answer is obvious, which raises the question: why didn't the fire officials evaluating this change run that simulation for comparison?

I feel like if I were a billionaire and bought a newspaper, part of the point of the exercise would be to tell the employees to do high quality journalism and not to worry about profitability.

The EU could have demanded consistent cookie functionality from the browser itself, but instead they asked every website owner to nag you separately. I'm still amazed the existing law has survived so long.

We can tell you're making this up because you spelled "Colombian" correctly.

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Another option: pull together a crack team of specialists, each with a unique skill that can unravel part of the puzzle, and who until this week were "getting too old for this sort of thing."

Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid | CNN Thieves have stolen “priceless” jewelry from the Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, in an audacious seven-minute raid on Sunday, the French interior minister has said.

Not to make light of theft, but a shocking jewel heist at The Louvre might be just the mysterious crime the world needs right now.

Fingers crossed that French authorities enlist the services of the country's most ingenious yet eccentric detective (whoever that is).

www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/e...

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

"If elected, I'll put an end to huddled masses."

“Who put this golden door here? Why are you lifting that lamp beside it? What the hell is this place?”

Variable 3 or less becoming northerly or northwesterly 2 to 4.

I haven't seen the film, but as I recall from reading about it at the time, the color scheme was based entirely on the inks available to the original Dick Tracy comics. Colors that couldn't have been on the page were effectively disallowed.

'Chinatown' Was Originally Going To Be a Trilogy—but It Led to 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' Forget it, Jake. Roger Rabbit took over Chinatown.

Weirdly, it's actually a quasi second sequel to Chinatown.

collider.com/chinatown-tr...

You should ask passengers whether they'd prefer the bus be fast or free if they could only pick one. I bet most will say fast. Honestly if NYC established some streets and avenues as bus+bike it would do a world of good.

What do you mean, there's a photo of it right there, taken on Mars during a routine phallic rocket launch. Look at all the things Tesla is doing!

Careful, do not vex Him.

CHATGPT: Besides, Elves already have 4 rings

ISILDUR: You mean 3?

CHATGPT: I think you’re making a mistake many do. Just list them and count them: Narya, Nenya, and Vilya.
That’s four.

ISILDUR:

This is The Mercantile Onion erasure.

Shrimp caught in tariff net as US buyers are forced to shell out more Wholesale shrimp prices have risen 21 per cent since April as Trump imposed heavy tariffs on their biggest supplier India

Also, as an aside, contender for this month's headline hall of fame in the FT today.... www.ft.com/content/3cf3...

If you're heading into Boston, obey way way in advance.

@tmbg.bsky.social

Wow, what kind of camera? And is there some small-time supplier of compatible film?

It might be cheaper to build them hundreds of smaller boats.

You made a cool image for this article and it's a major mistake you didn't also make it a T-shirt for your merch store.

Should We Let Public Transit Die? Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lots of performative centrists currently busy devising new ways to be concerned about conservative speech on college campuses.

Not much of a passage, is it. No wonder Cook couldn't find it.

I unironically think this exact show should happen. The world needs this sort of satire.

It's time for the FBI to get serious about this manhunt and bring in a top tier coordinator to run the investigation, like Sean Hannity or Kid Rock.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.