Ok as a Bears fan: Bears trading away next year’s first and another pick (I guess one of the 2nd round picks?) for two firsts this year, then using both on offense anyways.

Just create the least Bears team in recorded history #1 offense in every metric and dead last on defense.

But the blockade of iranian ports is still on so the strait is still closed.

“Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s overall job performance, down slightly from 38% last month.”

“Down Slightly”= if the sample is representative each percent is on the order of 2 million people so 5% is like 10 million people.

More often than not these highly specialized intersections actually do pretty badly in practice. Huge disconnect between what the Traffic Models say should happen and how actual people drive.

Note that it’s not even road engineering, it’s *highway* engineering. We actually have gotten pretty bad at building normal roads and streets.

The thing to understand about American transportation design/engineering is that all the resources other countries spent for the past like six decades on doing every major mode pretty well has, in the US, been shoveled into highway and airport engineering and pretty much nothing else.

Every so often Sean Duffy pops up hoping he can be the Villain of the Month and like no. You’re not Noem or Miller or whiskey Pete or even RFK Jr nobody cares about you threatening Operation Bongo III.

So, to recap: Midnight Hammer was a complete success, destroyed Iran’s nuclear ambitions completely and permanently anyone who says otherwise is a traitor also in February they were mere weeks or possibly even days from having a nuclear weapon anyone who says otherwise is a traitor.

Yes. Silly.

We’re on bluesky shooting the breeze about train stations. We’re not exactly in the middle of drafting up a technical report are we? We don’t have to be precise at all.

Nobody actually says “node”. Walk down from 43rd street to the concourse.

It's certainly possible that LIRR could have pursued other options instead. If anything, that it took so long not just to get it started to open it speaks to probably some internal lack of interest in it.

Just to be clear we are all in agreement it's deep I was just making a dumb joke of being overly literal with "closer to the center of the earth than the sky". We do not need to dig up your (trying to be polite) meticulous stopwatch analyses...

Seven stations' worth of riders is not a "major project" constituency. And let's be real, those communities would change their tune the moment MTA said "ok, so we're interested, now let's talk about substation sites".

They just hate changing trains at Huntington sometimes and diesel noise.

I have my doubts (not about GCM depth, we all agree it's deep). Things get built get built because "the stars aligned" of political interest, funding availability, etc.. If LI had the kind of interest in Port Jeff electrification that could see it built, it wouldn't be an "on again off again" ask.

Sort of hard to evaluate atm. LIRR is intentionally limiting their PSNY service to at most ~19tph to accomodate the ongoing East River Tunnel Rehab project.

So there are a bunch of trains going in to GCM that LIRR probably would rather be sending to Penn but can't fit them in Lines 3 and 4.

I mean it's not *that* deep, my dude.

but in any case, things rarely get built because they are the most rational, sane things to build. There isn't some alternate reality where instead of ESA, LIRR built some better more sensical thing. The alternative is they would have built nothing.

Well that's fucking ominous.

Anyways I'm sure removing bike and bus lanes when gas is at $4 a gallon (and probably about to go higher) is a great idea. No notes.

The fact that this keeps working is a damning indictment of our whole society from top to bottom.

Hot take: replay review in general was a mistake and it makes games worse.

Yes, human referees and umpires make mistakes. Such is the human condition.

Now they can just have a baseball game end on “the robots decided to have it end”

"Iran must re-open the strait of Hormuz how dare they close it we're closing it we closed it first I am in charge, not them, I tell other people what to do they don't tell me what to do I am in charge I am in charge I am scared of the idea that I might not be in charge."

chicago is in the midwest. Or, let me guess, you have some different definition that excludes specifically Chicago but not any of the other large cities.

I grew up in the midwest, lived in DC for some time, moved to NJ in my mid-20's where I've been for a decade.

Midwest is not even close. Yes, there are diners in the midwest but they are just this occasional thing you encounter. In New Jersey, the diner is the default experience of eating out.

you get half the diners in hunterdon or warren county. But even then it's all the same DNA - you are still walking into a diner in New Jersey. The difference mostly amounts to the menu having fewer omelette options and a lot more pancake options.

It’s funny when card like this has two things going on but nobody even remembers one of them because the other is bonkers.

I’ve literally just been in games where the entire table just forgot about Mirari’s wake’s first ability and the math for combat damage was all wrong.

Autism has left westfield no autism in westfield you heard it here first.

It sucks. it really sucks.

And it’s not like it’s something that NJT wanted - being turned into “FIFA Transit” for a whole summer.

And bear in mind this is all going to be going on the middle of what amounts to a construction site vis-a-vis Portal North.

Impossible. I dispute this in the strongest possible terms.

Sorry what were we talking about I just saw you said NJT has a point.

This stat is even more impressive when you factor in that the Dodgers have only played 16 games. But that’s just how crazy good Shohei is.

MAGA is negative-sum. Just look at the long-term trend of Trump’s polling; it’s a slow, steady bleeding away of support. It may ebb and flow slightly but the trend-line is down.

Every little 1% decline in his approval is another ~2 million people he is probably never getting back.

I mean fwiw he followed this 1 minute later with an ai-generated image of a gold-plated tower on the Moon with his name emblazoned on it.

So…yeah. That’s a thing I guess.