Shohei Ohtani has now reached base in 52 straight games. He occasionally pitches too.

He’s running

I am enjoying this basketball game very much.

A crowd of spectators haven't yet pointed their phones towards the finish line outside the Boston Public Library.

Congratulations to John Korir for breaking the Boston Marathon course record by more than a minute, (!), and I'm so glad I was there to watch you do it.

my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it

yep: one of the reasons i want to nip the "stabbed in the back" myth now is that it gets Americans an excuse to avoid reining in the boys in Tampa in CENTCOM

The conclusion we should actually be reaching is that there is precious little worth investing in in rural America and we should build up our actually productive and innovative areas, so we can grow our way out the worst debt burden since the aftermath of WW2.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

That's right

This was the message that united the Hungarian opposition against Orban. Conveniently, it's a radical message that economically or socially moderate people can be comfortable forcefully expressing.

And, let's not forget, Tisza's campaign message was "We are a nation that revolts against tyrannical rulers", and then they demonstrated that they could put crowds of 100,000 people in every bumfuck nowhere provincial city at once.

There were plenty of Tisza moments in Hungary that ended in ignominious defeat over the past 16 years. The difference this time was that Hungarian voters had sufficiently touched the stove, both socially, economically, and geopolitically.

*Under 16s. Oops.

That was kind of the point I was trying to make - it'd be less discriminatory and problematic to ban/limit social media consumptipn for everyone than it would be to ban it for specific kinds of people (under-18s).

Scrappy Doo found dead in Kash Patel’s Las Vegas Penthouse

I am going to break my rule about reading the article first again to make the point that OF COURSE Brooklyn chose the most Brooklyn-looking man on earth to be its (His? Her?) historian.

Commercial projects keep your shipyards going while naval procurement slacks off, give them real commercial incentives to build efficiently, and have massive benefits for your merchant marine.

There's a line from Mahan about how if you don't build commercial ships in your shipyards, your naval procurement will inevitably rot on the vine, and this is why.

Bulgaria: National parliament election today:

➤ Eligible voters: 6,575,151
➤ Polls open: 6 AM-7 PM CEST (7 AM to 8 PM EEST)
➤ 24 lists are running for 240 National Parliament seats
➤ Threshold: 4%

➤http://europeelects.eu/bulgaria

#Bulgaria

PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Supreme Court is our primary litigation engine for the most controversial points of policy of the day, just as the Founders intended

Superman is one of the best characters, supporting cast, and narrative setups in comics. Love that guy. Can't wait until he's fully back in the public domain where he belongs

I adore railroads. I think we should be re-activating a lot of the lines we abandoned over the course of the 20th century, and that a lot of those lines should have electric wires over them! But we shouldn't idolize the 1920s equivalent of the Juciero.

Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad - Wikipedia

They only existed for a few years, when credit was cheap enough that if you put "railroad" in your company name, people would buy your stock. Lines were built in the middle of the woods that served nothing and went nowhere. Others vastly overpromised (see below)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago...

And interurbans sucked and were bad vaporware that never made sense.

Your phone wants you to look at it 17 hours a day. It is a parasite that eats your attention to grow and it has evolved into ever more advanced forms to do so. It has figured out the best way to make you look at it is to make you very sad or angry.

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

Shinkansen “Dr Yellow”, soon to be retired

BART legacy trains in the all yellow Zoho ad wrap

An old Rio Grande locomotive in yellow

If you give an inch they’ll take a mile. Never give up your yellow trains

this is fucking nuts: