Mr. Nick Beaudrot

124. Rail electrification of conventional lines in Virginia that cannot be economically replaced with HSR, including in particular Washington-Charlottesville-Roanoke, with upgrades to allow for faster service. But they may still require a forced transfer to the Northeast Corridor at DC Union.

RIP Loni Anderson.

Hold up. ESPN actually made "The Ocho"?

Then last week, he told a podcaster that he's looking at paying upwards of $600k because of tariffs. The reason?

He imports equipment and steel to make those knives. Even if you make the machines in the United States, you will pay more.

Many people don't realize how much they import.

Right, in the other direction, the only two months of good weather in the PNW are July and August. There is zero interest in starting more than a week before labor day.

I think Mike Trout's arc (and Hanley Ramirez!) has soured me on "this player is obviously destined for the HoF) though Hall of Very Good outcomes are nothing to sneeze at.

What percentage of Nvidia revenue comes from gaming cards at this point?

There has to be some asterisk here ... Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, and Hanley Ramirez achieved this if you look at their first 4 full seasons (and excluding Ramirez for a 2 PA season doesn't make sense). Surely there are others.

Compared to the on time graduation rates (and goalpost moving as to what counts as "on time") top State admission rates are just NBD.

If you dig into it this is mostly a Florida and California story, which is about capacity at the top schools (and in Florida's case population growth), with UGA and Clemson clawing their way into modestly selective territory.

Stocks v flows strikes again

I think a number of people would pay for transcontinental travel or Chicago to California travel to be a half day instead of a full one?

Maybe, but that wasn't what I had in mind here.

Full time finding a guy to get mad at is probably not a great way to live your life.

I think if the same account shows up in your TL twice quote tweeting or screen shotting conservative ragebait, it's probably worth blocking them.

In a country of 330 million people some of them will have opinions I disagree with! I'm not sure how often I need to be reminded of that.

Yes, hahaha, YES!

Just poking around it looks like a number of flagships are still above 40% and several above 70%? But we've gone from "it's hard to get into UVA, UNC, Michigan, Cal, and Ga Tech" to a wider set of schools.

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I am praying for swapping the tariffs for a Financial Transactions Tax, which has sadly fallen off the menu even though it would deal neatly with a lot of things without banning them (crypto, meme stocks, you could loosen IPO requirements even)

He didn't come out until 1998 though!

What _was_ the relationship between metal and LGBT culture? Several hard rock/metal bands performed at the 1992 Freddie Mercury tribute ...

This was the peak of masculinity at one point in the 1980s.

It's so cool that Ledecky and McIntosh each have a distance where they dominate and are ~evenly matched at the 800m.

(oddly he also has said good things about the antitrust faction which many of the left-of-center abundance crowd thinks didn't really do much)

He seems to agree with certain parts of the deregulatory/permitting agenda but that's been sublimated because Trump doesn't, really.

All of the other speakers the left hates have some policy positions that line up with the abundance agenda’s, but Oren Cass’s whole thing is kinda just tariffs, no?

They are going to play this damn stupid Braves-Reds game at four o'clock in the morning with nobody in the stands - and most people who were wouldn't have been able to see anyway - for what the hell reason exactly? On AstroTurf!

Yeah more generally games moving from "run a bunch of errands" to "repeat the same set of errands over but slightly differently every so often" is ... a choice.