Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
Okay now that pictures work again:
Armed standoff on the 405
Idk, 30 minutes is unacceptable to me just to travel along Artesia. If they wanted to do real sub 10 min headways then we'd be talking (lord knows that along the Gardena stretch at least there's plenty of room for dedicated lanes, too)
If you had to bet, would you bet that beach cities area transit is designed to make it hard to get the beach without a car? I know I would.
The problem is this post-Moses trend in treating the "community" as if it's monolithic and knows more about transportation planning than the experts. We as a society can say "more transit good, road expansion bad" and ask locals to weigh in on where staircases go, not "should this even happen?"
Of course this guy disables QTs so his dumb fucking ass can't get roasted bsky.app/profile/soca...
LA's proposed SB 79 standards have dropped...
For 1/2 mile from a T2 transit stop, they allow 10 units with 2 FAR, with max height of 2 stories.
It's physically impossible to fit 2 FAR in 2 stories.
In fact, with setbacks, it's impossible to fit 2 FAR in 3 stories!
Brant Hurter...in the bullpen
my son is also named Brant Hurter
"Chinamaxxing romanticizes things that feel structurally out of reach at home — compact, affordable-looking apartments; public transit that works; streets safe to walk at night; multigenerational households as an antidote to loneliness; communal meals as an antidote to atomization."
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
A really fascinating microhistory is @boston1775.bsky.social's The Road to Concord, about the cannon smuggled out of Boston that was part of the reason for Gage's march to Lex/Concord in the first place
It goes where the tracks go.
Though I'm obviously a biased observer (having grown up in Concord, my parents still live there, etc.), I always describe it as Lexington may have been the first shot, but Concord was the first shots back
Wow, leaving Concord out of the title, massive Atkinson L
Threads: the place for Big Beautiful Brain content
I love that Lord Adonis was minister for... Transport, and not love or seduction or looksmaxxing
Kelsø Grämër
Her crew perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in all this
[whispering to someone dressed head to toe in Vuori athleisure at the Blue Bottle on Beverly] did you hear Runyon has become a violent hellhole
Unless you're Mahmood Mamdani!
I know this is @davidjroth.bsky.social's bit, but no quote has ever sounded more like a coach who's 2-8 (1-7 in conference) whose starting QB is already in the portal and whose entire defensive backfield is liking and reposting videos of him tripping over his headset cable
"The same mechanisms that make autocrats durable, like purging elites or controlling discourse, also open them to catastrophic miscalculation. The same entrenchment that produces regime resilience produces the capacity for what Freedman called 'self-evidently stupid' decisions."
[Jeremy Irons voice] Jool of the fits
"Social media" was a mistake.
Is MMT a ZIRP, greatest thread in the history of forums, locked after 39,120,101,094 posts
How many horsemen of the apocalypse are we up to
Being alive rules so much
“During the 2022 men’s World Cup in Qatar, official ticket-holders received free access to Doha’s metro system throughout the tournament. Similarly, at the 2024 European Championship in Germany, match ticket holders also had access to free public transport on game day in host cities.”
