The idea that this Big Boy was rotting in a parking lot in Pomona, CA for six decades until Union Pacific rebuilt every component to get it working again is actually awe inspiring.

We used to be a country. A proper country.

“The idea was to intervene with the landscape as little as possible. I came up with the idea of lifting up the grass and slipping my building under it.” - Stuart Bagshaw Blue Reef Cottage, Isle of Harris, Scotland

You could be on a deserted island with 100 girls and one chad and the 100 girls would all just share chad instead of a few getting with you. That is female nature

From about 1970-1990, North Korea was secretly kidnapping Japanese citizens and the only people who believed this was happening were a bunch of right wingers that were immediately called schizophrenic. The Left of Japan wrote countless articles saying this wasnt happening.

Lost my$200k SE job on my 50th birthday last year. Took the summer off to hang with my kid, jumped back in the job market in August, started my new gig in September. If your friend isn't finding work, it's 100% a skills problem. And the gap is getting worse everyday because the job has vastly changed over the last 12 months. Been doing this since 1999 and have always needed to update skills about every 5 years. Now with AI, that's about about every 6-12 months. Sink or swim, baby.

The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.

Re: Karmelo Anthony and his defenders: Obviously there is some blind black tribal loyalty involved, but I think there’s something else and arguably worse. The facts seem to be this: Karmelo invaded another track team’s tent. He did this to assert dominance. When asked to leave, he issued threats: “touch me and see what happens.” After repeatedly telling him that he was not welcome, and in response to provocation, Austin Metcalf pushed him, trying to get him to comply with basic social norms. Karmelo, no doubt delighted that he had now received permission for escalation under his own code, stabbed Austin to death. The black defenders of Karmelo believe this is how society should operate: an endless war of all against all to assert dominance, escalating when one’s assertions are rebuffed. They’re mad that the justice system got involved, because in their minds this is the proper way to conduct business: omnipresent dominance signaling, inevitably leading to violence. They genuinely don’t understand that other people don’t operate according to those rules. And they certainly don’t understand that our rules, by drastically reducing friction and needless cost, are the very reason for the disparities in group power they complain about. We are polite internally and can thus exert greater collective power externally. A few Karmelos in the mix destroys this system. But they don’t care that running things their way would be the end of civilization, the end of their cell phones and EBT and air conditioning, because they don’t understand it. They don’t understand anything about the modern world. They are lost here, confused. This state of affairs is not sustainable.

Wow - What a turn out here at Letchworth State Park. Thousands of people are here to get a glimpse of the Big Boy train coming across the Genesee Arch Bridge around 12:20pm.