Munetaka Murakami is the first player since at least 1900 with five or more home runs and 20+ walks in his first 22 career games
He’s just the ninth player in that span with 20+ walks in his first 22g and one of two in the last 70 years (1995 Quilvio Veras)
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
John Kruk has been in something infinitely cooler though: Aqua Teen Hunger Force
youtu.be/VcXVtC_AN3o?...
Centrist Dems won’t shut up about how we’re too mean and condescending to Trump voters and how electoral expediency requires us to welcome them back into the fold.
Maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not, but it’s bizarre not to extend the same argument to people who already vote for you.
There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections
I gotta wonder just what the fuck it was he was telling people (based on the op-ed--it's kinda good the disaster happened because we got to charterize all the schools)
the long-reviled "In Chicago, Wishing for a Hurricane Katrina" op-ed from the Tribune several years ago came after the author went to a talk by Mitch Landrieu
a bunch of ppl & institutions knew dual class stock was bad from the get-go and yet everybody crumbled in the face of the most ridiculous argument in the world that these founders were just so smart and special we should cede control of our economy (and retirement funds) to them
i can't remember if it was Jersey City or Hoboken where the mayor actually implemented a Vision Zero plan and just became Pedestrianization Napoleon and like eliminated pedestrian fatalities
scene from 30 rock, altered to change "coffee" to "parking." Dennis: One word: parking. One problem. Where do you get it? Liz: Anywhere! You get it anywhere!
Any time someone moans about a good idea that might reduce a few parking spots in one of the most transit-dense parts of the city
closing off the one-block already semi-pedestrianized stretch of Lincoln for construction was proof that the whole thing could be pretty easily fully closed to cars pretty easily. But the most annoying dipshits in the neighborhood whined about it so now everybody has to put up with this
Just close it again. This person has been waiting for 5 minutes and has jammed the entrance for everyone
I think it's bad that a candidate for Senate doesn't know the contents of the resolutions they talk about
This guy goes exclusively on FOX News and can't even really speak in full and complete sentences. Every other profile or extended news article about him hints that he is seriously thinking about running for president. His wife obviously hates him. He has car crashes routinely. Does he have friends?
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
If you're in Chicago/northern Indiana, the South Shore line is one of the last remaining Interurbans.
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
We used to be ruled by much more competant alcoholics
before they were obsessed with making garbage AI, they made an Oculus Quest VR world. For their regional tire chain.
youtu.be/fXNpehtM-AE
A post on X: Town Fair Tire @TownFairTire When the Reaper knocks, you better hope he's just there for your bald tires .. Don't let your ride give up the ghost. Head to Town Fair Tire for scary good deals that won't haunt your wallet! (image of the grim reaper at the door of a shocked looking old man)
a New England tire store chain has dedicated its social media to insane AI slop ads that don't even make sense within the context of "buy a tire"
always loved Roger Brown's stuff. He was from my hometown and I knew some older people who knew him. seemed like a fascinating guy
pretty crazy how widespread the "Dmitry I was only installed because he was a Polish puppet and he was definitely this other historical figure and he was evil and everyone hated him" story is, even among some Russian history scholars. It's a really outdated nationalist myth
to be clear, the book is pretty good and covers one of Chester Dunning's big gripes (he did not write this chapter) which is basically that the popular historiography outside of specialists in the Time of Troubles is mostly long disproven tsarist Russia-era propaganda
Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax
NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty
people can say "oh they call them bodegas in new york" but people his age absolutely call them corner stores, it's a common term used interchangeably with a lot of other things (like deli) this is "rich guy doesn't know normal people stuff". never gone to the supermarket levels of that.
I think Meg White is a good drummer just by the standards of being a good drummer but I think she’s an exceptional drummer by the standards of having her extremely strange husband come home one day and say that they were starting a band and had to dress alike and also she’s his sister now
wouldn't mind several orders of magnitude more of this
like....there's just got to be a better way to phrase this
line from The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy, describing a Russian skomorokh traveling musician as a "minstrel-cum-clown"
always thought that when writing for general audiences, academics oughta stray away from the Latin "cum" for "also," but this has got to be the worst example of that I've ever seen