Connor Crowley

Ooph, bring airco.

Post was removed but as always, Demolish shitty old things and build better new things.

Merz is displeased.

Don't worry, the European demographic crisis will solve this one way or the other!

Meh. Land acquisition costs, demo costs, and then construction costs.

Only started to pencil at 200%.

No wonder European productivity is stagnant, the most productive moments are wasted sitting, people watching.

It's a linear rail corridor that is centered on arguably the wealthiest city in the world.

At one end is arguably the ed. capital of the world.

The other end is the most powerful city in the world, inclusive the largest military base in the world.

+ Philly and CT asses.

The value is there.

bart simpson is sitting at a podium giving a speech while a man in a hat stands behind him Alt: bart simpson is sitting at a podium giving a speech while a man in a hat stands behind him

The current coalition plan of the newly formed Dutch government makes two things very clear.

The generosity of the welfare system is getting significant cuts.

Taxes are getting significant increases.

Demographics and losing the American defense subsidy make a brutal reality.

My current plan...

This is why NYC switched to an intermediate fare system, the token!

Because the mechanical act of switching from nickel to dime collection was expensive and supporting multiple coins/changes with each fare increase was also expensive!

Yeah, quick math legitimately brings it to sound about $1000 an hour.

I don't know what the real spend it but I am sure it is insane.

insert "It's one tower crane crew Michael, what does it cost? $1000 per hour?" .gif

looked up latest schedule out of curiosity.

They are there it is just the fault of the greedy developers who refuse to pay the fair prevailing wage to the poor millionaire operators.

It's about €60 to cover a similar distance between Amsterdam and Antwerp. Or €33 between Amsterdam and Maastricht

The lost technology of bus catenary...

YouTube video by NOS Chaos in Utrecht door nieuwe bussen

Apparently Utrecht's bus system is falling apart.

Made the decision to switch from diesel to all electric.

Failed to:
- install enough chargers.
- buy enough buses for added downtime.

In Dutch tradition, 1/5 drivers are now burnt out from the stress from the change.

youtube.com/shorts/h5rDK...

It is almost as if Amtrak is completely wasting the most valuable rail corridor in the world.

In one of my countries I am a republican and show up to no kings protests and am disappointed.

Original post deleted but in summary "mRNA vaccine development halted because without release in the American market there is no hope of profitability."

I think Dutch anti-Semitism can best be described as "What happened to them is terrible, but good thing we don't have to live with them, so strange."

"We placed a gold stone in front of the house we expropriated, btw they owe us property taxes from when they were in the camps."

Well it is all there in writing.

I have made a good career from the suppression people but I question that America's implementation has a good return (acknowledging a nebulous worth of lives calc), given the data I have seen about failure (plus costs) vs. fire initiation.

I never disagreed that one is less dumb than the other lol.

But also the primary asphyxiation cause in a fire, and use case of suppression, is combustion of contents not structure (although stopping one also stops a lot of the other.)

The 1 hour of resistance that standard sheetrock provides (plus door closed) is typically good enough in multifam fires.

That doesn't contradict anything I wrote?

My engineering view that both solutions are fundamentally dumb, with a higher failure rate than life saving rate does not preclude a different rate between them.

The "value" of those lives saved vs. total install and upkeep costs is the point.

I don't read anywhere we are in disagreement.

My fundamental statement stands that sprinkler systems in general are a pain in the ass, have a higher failure rate than life saving rate.

I do tend to agree they are simply not worth it, but that depends on what value you put on a human life.

One being stupid doesn't preclude the other from also being stupid. Trading less pressure for more corrosion. Both have a high defect activation rate.

Nitrogen is the only "smart system" but, come-on...

I don't have access to specific numbers anymore but the activation rate due to system fault was significantly higher than for fire surpession.

Stagnant water under pressure is always a engineering problem.

This is technically not true, at a minimum a wet system will have a flow detection switch (I used to be an exec. at that company).

But pressurized sprinkler systems filled with stagnant water is just a stupid system.

Interesting implication that other healthcare systems are underspending on healthcare as a % of GDP rather than just the USA overspending.

It is a (d)ucking amazing looking menacing building.