Alex Schieferdecker

How long does it take?

Sure, but any client who needed a feasibility study to kill this idea was dumb.

It's not an interesting observation but Benny is the only serious character in Rent.

To be clear: this was immediately obvious to anyone with *any* kind of transportation expertise.

(This understanding did not preclude large engineering and design firms, such as my former employer, from accepting money from gullible states to conduct "feasibility studies" of this risible concept.)

A funny thing I've seen is people using Hannibal crossing the Alps as a canonical example of the difficulties of mountain warfare, except... he did—in fact—cross the Alps! Successfully! Then won a bunch of battles including Cannae! The Fabian strategy that wore him down was not reliant on mountains!

With gas prices spiking and likely to stay high for a while, the accidental timing of this is incredible for Sound Transit.

The American King Goes to War This is not what the Founders intended.

“America has been at war for nearly a week, but the president who started the war can’t explain why,” Adam Serwer argues:

Jurassic Park at 8: Omnomnomnom

Jurassic Park at 16+: Oh my god, ahhh

Every accusation is a confession, or in this case a roadmap

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

No Quarter And not one more inch.

We obviously need Trump to be removed from power. Short of that we need the world to know that the majority of American citizens, and their representatives in the opposition party, can see that this is madness and are trying to stop it. www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarter

To stop this senseless war ye see, ye must answer these riddles three

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

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Anthony Edwards dunk
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We are going to have to be answering for what these people have done in our names for decades.

Many of us will not see the shame washed off for the duration of our lives.

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

Is that a promise?

University Ave. and 4th St. in Minneapolis Project - MnDOT University Ave. and 4th St. in Minneapolis project resources and contacts

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“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Our media has implicitly accepted the personalist framing of Trump's presidency, and one clear indication is how they don't seem to regard his constant deceptions about his agenda as a political problem of any kind. The implication is that Trump voters were voting for TRUMP, not particular policies.

That’s so cool, what has been accomplished so far?

Mr. Bump, please unblock my friend @fiveburger.bsky.social, he enjoys your posts when I share them with him and is regretful for causing you offense sometime in the past

Has anyone actually been able to get Trump or someone smarter to name the eight wars he's supposedly ended? Even my most generous count, which includes a war he *joined* (Israel/Gaza, Israel/Iran I, India/Pakistan, Rwanda/DRC, Cambodia/Thailand, and Nagorno-Karabakh) I get six.

Fin-de-siècle Vienna / Début-du-siècle Chicago

Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

I saw it too, but I don't know the answer.

The cameras are only catching speed violations at the moment. Violations are sent to the vehicle owner and they don't capture any personal identifying info. Not sure about any more beyond that.