Only quasi-related: one of my favorite places in Indianapolis is a park built in a peninsula of land between I-70 and I-65 downtown where you can sit and watch the traffic go by. The air quality is garbage but it is weirdly beautiful. www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-i...

Indiana had started building a loop road with state funds, and tried to incorporate it into the Interstate system, but they'd failed to properly control development along those roads so there are several places where 465 does weird little jogs because they had to bypass the bypass

It was originally going to be even less of a circle than it currently is -- the little segment in the northwest corner that runs between Eagle Creek Park and what is now I-865 wasn't supposed to exist, so it would have started and ended at two different places on I-65

This is one of those "government regulation did a good thing" situations where we regulated water use, and through improvements in both detergents and dishwashers managed to produce an appliance that cleaned better while using 25% of the water they used to.

If you're interested in watching hours of dishwasher content, he's talked about them quite extensively, including cutting a hole in the side of one so he could film the wash cycle. For the most part, they are recycling the water throughout, not actually filling with new water except once or twice.

The inimitable @techconnectify.bsky.social would say yes! Most dishwashers use <4 gallons of water total per load, while a kitchen sink can use 1-2 gallons every minute. For all but the tiniest of wash-ups the dishwasher is almost always more economical. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP9...

The late-00s airline merger bonanza was a bloodbath for airline branding. American lost their logo and iconic polished aluminum planes; United lost their iconic tulip logo and replaced it with Continental’s generic clip art globe that looks pulled straight from Microsoft Publisher ‘97

He also famously said in 2017 that AA would “never lose money again,” as if tempting the fates to create COVID which would result in them losing money for two straight years www.forbes.com/sites/daniel...

That would be Doug Parker, former CEO of America West and US Airways, who hollowed out AA and replaced it with the soul of US Airways. Doug never saw an airline he couldn’t make terrible

Mmm fair point. (And since Culver’s also serves cod, furthers the Most Protestant Restaurant hypothesis)

Culver’s is perhaps the most Protestant restaurant. You can get a Sensible Meal of pot roast with a potato and a vegetable all day. They add a second fish to the menu during Lent, but it’s a freshwater fish. (I can’t explain it, but freshwater fish are Protestant and saltwater fish are Catholic.)

It’s gonna be in central time; most of them gain an hour anyways :)

The stuffed animal situation at IKEA has improved in recent years to be competitive with some of the world’s finest purveyors of stuffed goods

A few weeks ago I had to drive around Plainfield just after evening rush hour and every second of it I could feel my soul being slowly destroyed

My current parish is Anglo-Catholic af so the Oxford Movement is looming just out of frame at all times

I bought them on a lark while perusing the Costco freezer, fully prepared for them to be extremely mid, but I've actually repurchased them twice! They make an excellent lunch