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Especially given where it came from, the parking-bag check-TSA-gate processes at PHL have been dramatically streamlined. The wayfinding and user experience vastly improved. People bitching about the airport experience here are remembering something else.

NoVa vs. East Bay went exactly how it ought to

Megans are load-bearing features of America, we must protect every Megan, Meghan, Meagan, Meggans, Megs for our future

lesbians > desbiens imo

If it were me, I'd ask my friend Joe, I'd ask my friend Jake.

normies: more Olympic hockey overtime!!!! so exciting

hockey fans: once again we are subjected to The Great Travesty

Saw in 2004. Not necessarily because of the film (which sucked then and sucks now, I will not budge on this) but because I was on a first date and she was NOT having a great time with the gore

I think you can time it just so that you get from NoVA into easternmost WV (think Charles Town or Harpers Ferry) by 11:57pm, exactly enough time to slam a Modelo in your tenth state

what if we kissed by the smallest land border between two U.S. states? 🫣🥹

yeah what on earth, it was only ever a few dirtbags and they were incredibly annoying

Delaware is our Zaza Pachulia. I will not be explaining this further.

Here in No. 12? We're doing fine, we're holding our own. Western PA and the general debauchery of New York are the Splash Bros. of our dynasty.

No. 6 is the '92 Dream Team, but I am curious about No. 3--I cannot imagine the cowboys of the Inland West are thrilled about being forced onto a team with Utahns. (Also that Alaska + Texas No. 4 is the Midnight Run of tag teams)

Happy Fasnacht Day! To be clear, the official ranking is:

1) Powdered sugar
2) Cinnamon sugar
3) Plain
4) Granulated sugar
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5) Filled (not a fasnacht!)

oh nooo sorry to hear!

Let's say you go to a corner store every other week for a snack or whatever. When you go to pay, you donate two quarters to the Make-a-Wish jar. Congrats! As a percentage of your worth, you're more charitable than the richest person to ever have lived

Assume you make $40K a year (not getting into "net worth" but let's use 1/2 the US median income as a proxy). If you have donated $26 cumulatively in your lifetime, you have been more philanthropic than Elon Musk

Simply summoning the ancient Aztec serpent-bird god Quetzalcoatl to inflict the equivalent of a tummyache to Sephiroth

these are the kinds of reviews high schoolers need to hear about Moby Dick

The incomparable Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart, dressed to the nines, sit in a car as they drive toward the Redwoods of the Marin County forests as featured in the superlative film Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock.

It's Kim Novak's 93rd birthday, and you should definitely watch Vertigo if you haven't before. Or even if you have! It might be *the* ideal film to watch on a Friday the 13th right before Valentine's Day.

Let’s hope you never have to test that hypothesis

FWIW, we are all ~40 years old

I text almost every day with friends I've known since second grade. Sports is a really excellent chat catalyst!

I did spend a few weeks in Minsk in the winter of 2002 and I cannot think of a less erotic city

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) dir: Werner Herzog

Spider-Noir (2026) dir: Harry Bradbeer

#InformedImages

a Hamilton watch from Lancaster, Pennsylvania bayybeeeee. it has Masonic symbols instead of numbers for some dumb reason

Are you really living if you're not obsessing over how many Masonic Hamilton watches you can collect

this tracks with the dramatic increase in the urban/rural split for deaths (59% urban in 1975, 84% in 2023!)

I thought data would slice differently but no, the cohort that's seen the largest decrease in deaths is children < 13 (down 93% since '75!) and the second-largest is ages 13-19, down 71%.

Not clear to me if this is teleological--kids safer bc they're told to stay indoors, not that outdoors is safer

You could do a whole week on Lancaster County controversial foods. Let’s get folks angry at my people’s chicken pot pie and chicken & waffles. Show em the horrors of hogmaw and cup cheese. End with a battle royale with Maine over the rights to whoopie pies

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