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An amazing image showing the under-construction IND 6th Ave Line slicing through lower Manhattan.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:08 AM
An amazing image showing the under-construction IND 6th Ave Line slicing through lower Manhattan.
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Critically, THERE ARE MORE OF ME THAN HIM. KEEPING CATPISSMAN COSTS YOU TEN OF ME. The effect of multiple catpissmen is multiplied. You have two or three playing Lorcana or Pokemon and you had better fucking believe middle class parents aren't bringing their kids there.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Critically, THERE ARE MORE OF ME THAN HIM. KEEPING CATPISSMAN COSTS YOU TEN OF ME. The effect of multiple catpissmen is multiplied. You have two or three playing Lorcana or Pokemon and you had better fucking believe middle class parents aren't bringing their kids there.
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In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers.
"A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.
"A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers.
"A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.
"A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.
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Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
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Newest syndicate dropped (with an embedded interactive map and some new content in the federal/ADA section) www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...
January 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Newest syndicate dropped (with an embedded interactive map and some new content in the federal/ADA section) www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...
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Official mascot of Wisconsin Railfans and Urbanists
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Official mascot of Wisconsin Railfans and Urbanists
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/r/bayarea noticed that @bart.gov is no longer "running trains at slower speeds due to wet weather!" I had been taking for granted that trains have been running well in the rain this season.
January 7, 2026 at 12:57 PM
/r/bayarea noticed that @bart.gov is no longer "running trains at slower speeds due to wet weather!" I had been taking for granted that trains have been running well in the rain this season.
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Every time I visit family here...Im just shocked Holland is the same population as Sun Prairie.
It is wild how much more dense Sun Prairie is in relation. And I wouldnt call SP a dense city. Google map screenshot of the same scale.
It is wild how much more dense Sun Prairie is in relation. And I wouldnt call SP a dense city. Google map screenshot of the same scale.
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Every time I visit family here...Im just shocked Holland is the same population as Sun Prairie.
It is wild how much more dense Sun Prairie is in relation. And I wouldnt call SP a dense city. Google map screenshot of the same scale.
It is wild how much more dense Sun Prairie is in relation. And I wouldnt call SP a dense city. Google map screenshot of the same scale.
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Always multiply the project cost by pi. That way, the budget is irrational.
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Always multiply the project cost by pi. That way, the budget is irrational.
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Context is US courts have ruled that standards organizations like the ICC lose their copyright on codes and standards once they are adopted into law, under the logic that you cannot copyright the law. ICC and others are trying to change that with the Pro Codes Act, which might make UpCodes illegal.
Congrats to ICC on another record revenue year. 🤑
More proof that you don't need a monopoly on the law itself to be extremely profitable. 😌
Full 990 here: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
More proof that you don't need a monopoly on the law itself to be extremely profitable. 😌
Full 990 here: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Context is US courts have ruled that standards organizations like the ICC lose their copyright on codes and standards once they are adopted into law, under the logic that you cannot copyright the law. ICC and others are trying to change that with the Pro Codes Act, which might make UpCodes illegal.
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Time to charge for parking at GO stations and lower GO fares to compensate. Incentivize passengers to save money by walking, biking, taking transit, or being dropped off at their train station. This will be even more critical as GO doubles and triples the frequency but parking remains constant.
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Time to charge for parking at GO stations and lower GO fares to compensate. Incentivize passengers to save money by walking, biking, taking transit, or being dropped off at their train station. This will be even more critical as GO doubles and triples the frequency but parking remains constant.
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Another way to look at it, in Wisconsin, there were 1.1% more births to moms age 25+ than in 2010. Versus a total population gain of 4.8%. Births trail pop. by about 4%.
The census believes milwaukee has lost 5.3% of it's population since 2010. While 25+ births were -9. Births trail pop by 4%.
The census believes milwaukee has lost 5.3% of it's population since 2010. While 25+ births were -9. Births trail pop by 4%.
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Another way to look at it, in Wisconsin, there were 1.1% more births to moms age 25+ than in 2010. Versus a total population gain of 4.8%. Births trail pop. by about 4%.
The census believes milwaukee has lost 5.3% of it's population since 2010. While 25+ births were -9. Births trail pop by 4%.
The census believes milwaukee has lost 5.3% of it's population since 2010. While 25+ births were -9. Births trail pop by 4%.
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COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
Europe: Buy War Bonds!
*EUROPE BOND SALES TOP €57 BILLION IN RECORD-BREAKING DAY
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Europe: Buy War Bonds!
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I think every Ivy kid acquires a specific brainworm that makes them think that networking is infinitely preferable to critical thinking.
January 7, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I think every Ivy kid acquires a specific brainworm that makes them think that networking is infinitely preferable to critical thinking.
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A tribute to how fucking stupid Bari Weiss is that her iteration of the CBS evening news instantly became a laughably partisan joke, when the obvious better strategy was to play it straight for at least a few months and keep it as a legit-looking sleeper cell to activate before the election.
January 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
A tribute to how fucking stupid Bari Weiss is that her iteration of the CBS evening news instantly became a laughably partisan joke, when the obvious better strategy was to play it straight for at least a few months and keep it as a legit-looking sleeper cell to activate before the election.
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My God what happened to quirky OK Cupid quizzes? This is just encouraging everyone to engage in toxic over-optimization (and falsification), which is the whole fucking problem with the dating apps we know and hate.
January 7, 2026 at 4:37 AM
My God what happened to quirky OK Cupid quizzes? This is just encouraging everyone to engage in toxic over-optimization (and falsification), which is the whole fucking problem with the dating apps we know and hate.
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Worth noting: ABC World News Tonight offered a full report on the J6 anniversary, including one rioter’s tearful apology to police, a statement from Pence and a note that the WH website today repeated “the lie” that the election was stolen.
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all
Tonight on the CBS Evening News, the 5-year anniversary of January 6 got 15 seconds of coverage 25 minutes into the show. The only pictures shown: Pardoned “defendants” marching through DC as Dokoupil said Trump accused Dems of “failing to prevent” J6 while “Jeffries accused Trump of “whitewashing.”
January 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Worth noting: ABC World News Tonight offered a full report on the J6 anniversary, including one rioter’s tearful apology to police, a statement from Pence and a note that the WH website today repeated “the lie” that the election was stolen.
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all
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The other reason why I suspect that it's probably more the birth rate crashing out with the specific demos in the city, than the migration thesis is that if migration was a dominant trend, you'd also see a crash out of the birth/6 year later first grader ratio. But that's been fairly stable.
January 7, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The other reason why I suspect that it's probably more the birth rate crashing out with the specific demos in the city, than the migration thesis is that if migration was a dominant trend, you'd also see a crash out of the birth/6 year later first grader ratio. But that's been fairly stable.
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Sure. It's tough to flesh out. I agree. Especially where there's a fair amount of indicators that things are moderately stable. Labor force is flat, unemployment is low, just the eye test on retail footprint of those large decline corridors, not exceptionally more derelict than 8 years ago.
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Sure. It's tough to flesh out. I agree. Especially where there's a fair amount of indicators that things are moderately stable. Labor force is flat, unemployment is low, just the eye test on retail footprint of those large decline corridors, not exceptionally more derelict than 8 years ago.
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Anyway, all that is to say, my incling is that the birth rate has more to do with relatively poor young women having fewer/no kids than 15 years ago, than a shift in the shopping patterns of milwaukee area middle class families over the same period.
January 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Anyway, all that is to say, my incling is that the birth rate has more to do with relatively poor young women having fewer/no kids than 15 years ago, than a shift in the shopping patterns of milwaukee area middle class families over the same period.
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I think migration is part of the birth rate story in milwaukee, but it seems pretty subordinate to the age 24 & under births completely crashing out.
January 7, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I think migration is part of the birth rate story in milwaukee, but it seems pretty subordinate to the age 24 & under births completely crashing out.
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ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke
or
be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am
or
be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke
or
be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am
or
be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am
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“Can a journalist tell the truth about January 6 without consequences? Increasingly it depends on which media company the journalist works for.”
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 AM
“Can a journalist tell the truth about January 6 without consequences? Increasingly it depends on which media company the journalist works for.”
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honestly i think it's just gender. military history is boy-coded for some godforsaken reason along with military strategy and it leads to some very stupid takes
Is it the culture?
As a military brat, I always associated a fascination with the military as being right wing coded, and therefore never engaged with it.
It wasn’t until following you that I’ve come to understand the importance of military politics/theory.
As a military brat, I always associated a fascination with the military as being right wing coded, and therefore never engaged with it.
It wasn’t until following you that I’ve come to understand the importance of military politics/theory.
January 7, 2026 at 2:32 AM
honestly i think it's just gender. military history is boy-coded for some godforsaken reason along with military strategy and it leads to some very stupid takes