A picture from Bojack Horseman of Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter. It reads "I had a James Ball missing $600-700 worth of flights and underline ball I dont know why this is so hard." It's because I'm not taking him seriously.

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A lot of good recommendations in here. Community input is important but it needs to be early, representative, and include real consideration of trade-offs.

People for some reason when they learn that making the already cost advantageous form of transportation marginally more cost advantageous doesn't change people's decision calculous all that much

unbelievably childish

a lot of center-left types are 100% correct when they diagnose a lot of left-wing dysfunction as the result of using politics as a battlefield for petty social media beefs

but too many neglect to realize they're part of the problem

US DOT's new "Freedom to Drive Initiative" focuses on addressing congestion by:
—"Building new roadway capacity"
—"Recover[ing] roadway capacity from other purposes [e.g., biking & transit] to support driving"

[There is no evidence that either of these strategies work to address congestion.]

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Doing this video with a painting of Washington in the background is a level of irony that even he’d probably cross the Delaware again just to get away from

truth nvke

Reasons for treason by Chinese generals during World War II include being passed over for promotions and knowing good officers who had already defected to the Japanese, from Xinyu Fan, Gary Richardson, Zhihao Xu, and Sicheng Zhao www.nber.org/papers/w35069

this is A Lot for a public survey !

The Minions provided substantial material and financial support for the Japanese occupation of Korea.

A T shirt model who has no idea he’s been photoshopped into a “mommy’s little Railfan” tee on the official NJ Transit store website

Really need to know how many adult “mommy’s little Railfan” shirts the NJ Transit store has sold

I think the American social contract includes, or should include, emotional divestment from old country border disputes

going to call this dr. mel king thought (it's the baseball patient/clipboard scene)

youtu.be/roKk4ox1B8s?...

this in part has been my galaxy-brain take on downtown saint paul: that the area (and blocks) are compact enough that it is a better candidate for walkable revival/mixed-use urbanism/etc. than downtown minneapolis

There are lessons here in disaster response, where similar things play out under tighter time constraints and often more visibility. basically: a decisive executive is useful when they make good decisions, & awful when they don't. some indications that decentralized decision authority is better but

"Canada reviewing F-35 plan"

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

Makes you wonder: is the biggest solution to getting things like this done just the mayor—or whatever policymaker in charge—putting their foot down and deciding?

Is that why Trump seems to get so much of what he wants? He just resists the decisionmaking paralysis of leaders like Biden?

Contrast to how civilians put themselves in true danger for each other within minutes during the ICE raids these past couple months.

I just fundamentally do not see a resolution path forward that isn't:

*A) Full ground invasion committing us to Iran for years
*B) Trump bitches out and gives the Iranians everything they want

This is not a war that can be won through superior air power! Even if we do All The War Crimes!

I would be surprised if you couldn't find five volunteers within the same timeframe, armed only with hockey sticks, to act more decisively than the police here.

Encouraging gas consumption in a global shortage while starving alternatives. Managing crises is my passion

thermostatic backlash + the current recruitment pipeline for new republican politicians = further disaster

I remain confident that Trump himself will fail, but what comes with the next republican to take back power is likely to be just as bad

what's interesting is that UBC's move out of the central city is a significant element of its historic lore magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2015/fall-20...

The thing about Vancouver wanting a world class art gallery is we already have one.

The Museum of Anthropology combines two of the greatest visual contributions this land has shared with the world — West Coast Modernism and Northwest Coast Art — into a singular expression of this region.

God, the modern world is so bad. Back in the day, everyone was roughly 2x taller than me, someone would always make my meals, and way more time was spent watching cartoons. The modern world is so much worse somehow despite technological progress

the Pyongyang "Arch of Triumph" is also notable in that it commemorates a fictitious victory -- Kim Il-sung's guerilla band did not, in fact, come down from the mountains to liberate Korea. Perhaps there's something to be said about spurious monumental arches from first principles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯