Roger Filmyer

Brown dog is Orion, black dog's name escapes me

Yep, that's my interpretation as well

"As an exception, it is possible to solder rails of different grades of steel, keeping in mind that in order to make said solder you must use the charge corresponding to the **lesser** grade steel between both rails, following UNE-EN 13674-1"

Lots going on in Perry Park (Somerville)!

Same with Burlington/Plattsburgh for Montreal. Very aspirational for ROC.

Senator, do you regret your vote confirming the primary instigator of this war, Marco Rubio, to the post of Secretary of State?

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

Gene's owner sold the restaurant about a year ago and it has noticeably slipped as a result.

You also have to have the Dutch outlook on food (which roughly resembles a 50-year-old Midwestern man)

Soy farmers are based because our trade policy is entirely oriented around soybean exports

They say this just as Waymo is rolling out, repositioning them (and Uber) as dinosaurs

Should be extra fancy tonight, it's the first night of "Carmen"

Vito Corleone says, "Look how they massacred my boy."

I thought they were talking about the Bonus Army March!

Aeroméxico has a wholly-owned regional (which flies E190s). Canada has AC Jazz and Rouge, but they have scope clauses as well (Rouge has aircraft and route restrictions)

The bug is that they're E175s and CRJ900s instead of E190s and A220s, because of US/CA scope clauses (restricting the size and capacity of aircraft flown by the regional airliners).

Systematically in the US we see outcomes where a bad status quo is selected over an imperfect improvement because the failures of a bad status quo cannot be laid at the feet of any specific person.

Branford NIMBYs are B tier only because CT is an S-tier state. Obviously they aren't building any housing (why do you think all your tradesmen are commuting from Bloomfield?), but they aren't also disrupting a major infrastructure project. They should consider putting chicanes up on I-95.

anyone working in security knows
that tools can be used for good or for evil
but dont forget they are often used for stupid

It’s funny how the woo woo people said for years that big pharma was holding back a cancer cure because treatment was more profitable, and then they went and created those conditions through their own death-drive idiocy

Mr. Powell, I've been very good this year, can I get a lower rate please? 🥺

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal"

Isn't the alerter standard on a lot of trains?

An attempt to map out GGW/David Alpert's sci-fi rail map connections between the US and Canada in the northeast, highlighting several gaps in the map - between Buffalo and Toronto, between Albany and Burlington/Montreal, and between Maine and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia

It's so transparent when guys like this are working on a map that only shows the US (and then Canada stuff gets filled in later), because how is a connection to Europe higher-priority than a connection between Buffalo and Toronto?

The back side of the old CARE office in Petionville, Haiti, showing windows made of little strips of glass

A house in Florida with windows made of slats that opened up

Common in the tropics, especially in places without consistent AC. The last place I lived in in Florida had ones with insulation on the edge.

Real average hourly earnings for all employees, with the trends for the 2013-2019 period and the June 2022-current periods shown. The level is priced in 1982-1984 dollars.

Real average hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory employees, with the trend for the 2013-2019 period shown. The level is 2019 $

Real average hourly earnings for managerial employees, with the trend for the 2013-2019 period shown. The level is 2019 $

It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses.

I buy it. All of those bitcoiners probably still have tungsten cubes lying around, might as well put them to use.

Tweet from Carlos Mucha (@mucha_carlos): It’s odd no one in ICE busts wears raid jacket. I reckon they are all federal agents (1811 criminal investigator is job category) but only a minority are ICE agents. WH has seconded 1811s from all over govt to ICE but parent agencies don’t want their names or agents’ faces on TV.

From the CATO institute: "ICE Agents Routinely Mask Up When Seizing People—That’s Wrong" by Walter Olson I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to hide his face, seized two men at the Charlottesville, VA, courthouse. The sequel, as reported by the local paper, the Daily Progress, was that an *unnamed* (!) ICE spokesperson threatened to prosecute two persons at the scene who challenged the action and asked the agents to identify themselves or show a warrant. The headline read: “ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted.”

Another @carlosmucha.bsky.social banger theory on Twitter/X:
The White House has the authority to force any federal agency to detail their 1811s (Special Agents) to ICE.
Agencies don't want their agents to be seen participating, so no jackets and yes face coverings.
x.com/mucha_carlos...

Doesn't explain why the US is the largest air travel market in the world