Poster I quoted isn't the only one posting this, and some of the other posts about it highlight how actual button function, if any, is variable and opaque to the average pedestrian

For elevator buttons it's often more programmatically complicated: sometimes door close buttons work in normal service, sometimes only in fire mode or other special operation modes. Sometimes they work in normal operation but they're pressed before the minimum door dwell time and therefore ignored.

Beg buttons that do work usually activate an optional pedestrian phase/sub-phase in a light cycle, but because the average user doesn't count light phases it feels random. Also beg buttons often don't get maintenance, so a button that's supposed to function may break and not get repaired.

As a systems/tech person it always irks me that both beg buttons and elevator door buttons aren't obvious to the user.

Some beg buttons don't do anything, *but* some are like elevator door buttons: they do something under some conditions - the outcome isn't always the same when you push it.

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Red Line south to Alewife via Codman

Marathon Monday train

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

(This train car is rated for operating at 125mph, the reason it's slow is because it travels on CSX track and CSX doesn't care about passenger trains)

Currently sitting on an Amtrak Amfleet II listening to someone a few seats away explain to someone else that the reason trains in the US are so slow is because they aren't aerodynamic enough

Large-format advertising banner in a train station from SurveyMonkey: "Do your direct reports hate you?"

Undermining self-esteem to sell product: not just for beauty brands anymore

(I agree that it is shortsighted in the literal sense, but I think that if the current status is not stable enough, trying to wait out the eventual demand isn't always feasible.)

While US bike demand is growing, I think the combination of unstable import tariffs and R&M being a more premium bike make committing to the overhead of keeping a whole regional sales and maintenance structure tough.

"They smiled criminally at me and I was scared" is the most cop description of an interaction

I'm not sure which I prefer personally but the serif version feels more intentionally designed to me for some reason.

I wonder if "guy who writes long software book that is full of wisdom but also very dated to the era the author was working" will still be a viable path

In the MBTA's partial defense, that trip is on commuter rail, not metro service, and normal tickets are around $20 round-trip, but it is still a major markup, even if not from metro ride pricing.

View of the ISGM courtyard from the top floor of the building. In the foreground a lighting technician leans out through a railing to work on a light suspended out of a window.

Huh that place looks kinda familiar...

A large white 80s sedan parked in a warehouse with lighting and grip equipment placed around it.

A man sits in the driver's seat of the same car, in the foreground the screen of a camera showing the shot through the windshield.

Today's office is Poor Man's

Not to be confused with a really long carpentry project, 1.232x10^35 plank lengths

It's a straight line now! You just face north-northeast and walk down two escalators until you see fare gates! (in front of you, not the ones behind you)

Gone are my days of finding all the tourists staring confused at the maze of "Red Line" signs pointing every which way to explain that it's a long route and they can just follow me

Folding sign inside a station reading South Station with an arrow pointing to Commuter Rail/Silver Line/Red Line

A new escalator going down in a newly built station building with signage of a down arrow point to Commuter Rail/Silver Line/Red Line

Looking down a new, clean escalator at glass doors below

Glass doors on a train platform with escalator up and signage reading Bus Terminal

It's been years waiting for this escalator and it's finally open!

Black bird with red wing accents on a stick along the edge of water

Some birbs, no AI

The best ones are when they sit on the tile/hardwood to barf onto the edge of the carpet

Pro-genocide, just very against Caterpillar Inc personally

You're not supposed to take joke complaints as feature requests!

(But thanks, I'll check it out soon!)

this is IFR, too me,

did you know? the google forms share icon has a stray pixel in its corner

why? because the icon spritesheet has a massive black triangle overlapping the icons

what is that triangle? it's a giant out-of-bounds hat!

There's inevitably a moment each year where I really want to file taxes as a way to avoid something else I should be working on but I don't have all the documents yet so I have to talk myself into having a little patience.