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Mic nerd here (also worked with a guy who was on Regan’s audio team when he was in the navy). For about 60 years, presidents used a pair of Shure SM57s (one live, one backup). Trump changed to a single SM57 with a custom clip. This looks like a straight on view of Trump’s standard single mic setup.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Mic nerd here (also worked with a guy who was on Regan’s audio team when he was in the navy). For about 60 years, presidents used a pair of Shure SM57s (one live, one backup). Trump changed to a single SM57 with a custom clip. This looks like a straight on view of Trump’s standard single mic setup.
Denver hasn't done so bad for a cow town. Denverinfill hasn't done a multifamily residential project summary since 2018 but most of the under construction and proposed units in this graphic were built - 20,000 some odd housing units within 1.5 miles of downtown.
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Denver hasn't done so bad for a cow town. Denverinfill hasn't done a multifamily residential project summary since 2018 but most of the under construction and proposed units in this graphic were built - 20,000 some odd housing units within 1.5 miles of downtown.
The pattern of settlement on the plains was based on steam train transportation. With agricultural productivity up 300% over the last 70 years and the invention of trucks, it's no wonder young people leave. There's still money in the farms but they don't need enough workers to support the towns.
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The pattern of settlement on the plains was based on steam train transportation. With agricultural productivity up 300% over the last 70 years and the invention of trucks, it's no wonder young people leave. There's still money in the farms but they don't need enough workers to support the towns.
This would be the one if only the W.F. Smith was good at his job:
September 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This would be the one if only the W.F. Smith was good at his job:
Today it looks like Casper, WY is the place you don’t want to be.
I assumed I lived close enough to the ADS-C at Buckley to get fried in a pure counterforce attack but according to NUKEMAP my window might not even get broken, dangit.
I assumed I lived close enough to the ADS-C at Buckley to get fried in a pure counterforce attack but according to NUKEMAP my window might not even get broken, dangit.
September 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Today it looks like Casper, WY is the place you don’t want to be.
I assumed I lived close enough to the ADS-C at Buckley to get fried in a pure counterforce attack but according to NUKEMAP my window might not even get broken, dangit.
I assumed I lived close enough to the ADS-C at Buckley to get fried in a pure counterforce attack but according to NUKEMAP my window might not even get broken, dangit.
I have a history of derailing family and friend’s vacations by making everyone visit civil war sites. Was especially proud of this side trip in upstate NY this summer, though.
August 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I have a history of derailing family and friend’s vacations by making everyone visit civil war sites. Was especially proud of this side trip in upstate NY this summer, though.
Go the other way is crazy too - it’s hard to convince boomers that consumer appliances are basically free now:
May 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Go the other way is crazy too - it’s hard to convince boomers that consumer appliances are basically free now:
Same people that can’t tell the difference between this and Rome
May 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Same people that can’t tell the difference between this and Rome
Very easy to see on a satellite image which parts of Missouri are the Midwest. I call the Ozarks the South but it’s really its own unique thing. If FDR hadn’t built roads there I think they would still be speaking French in the lead mines.
May 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Very easy to see on a satellite image which parts of Missouri are the Midwest. I call the Ozarks the South but it’s really its own unique thing. If FDR hadn’t built roads there I think they would still be speaking French in the lead mines.
I don’t think there was really a need for new cars after this myself:
April 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I don’t think there was really a need for new cars after this myself:
Yes. Same area in 1933:
March 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yes. Same area in 1933:
By the time Union Station was redeveloped the thru running tracks had been gone for 20 years. They should not have been removed in the first place, but planners had a very different idea of how Denver's real system would be laid out in the late 80's than they did in the 2010s.
March 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
By the time Union Station was redeveloped the thru running tracks had been gone for 20 years. They should not have been removed in the first place, but planners had a very different idea of how Denver's real system would be laid out in the late 80's than they did in the 2010s.
Not a single one of these buildings except the historic station existed in 2000:
March 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Not a single one of these buildings except the historic station existed in 2000:
tfw you, a revolutionary, are knee deep in guano in the saltpeter cave because all the guns are on the blockchain:
March 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
tfw you, a revolutionary, are knee deep in guano in the saltpeter cave because all the guns are on the blockchain:
It’s very small, too:
February 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It’s very small, too:
Denver accidentally did the opposite, it wasn’t until day 3 of the 2020 protests that they realized they left a giant pile of window smashing rocks downtown and had a poor RTD employee cover them up with dirt in the middle of the protest (this is labeled the “Wu Tang Memorial Gravel Pit” on Google:
February 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Denver accidentally did the opposite, it wasn’t until day 3 of the 2020 protests that they realized they left a giant pile of window smashing rocks downtown and had a poor RTD employee cover them up with dirt in the middle of the protest (this is labeled the “Wu Tang Memorial Gravel Pit” on Google:
Been thinking about this since I grew up in the Rust Belt and spent Christmas in the Youngstown area:
- It's been 40 years since consumer goods manufacturing was no longer viable in the US but there are a lot of other kinds of manufacturing that still occurs in the US and in fact output is very high
- It's been 40 years since consumer goods manufacturing was no longer viable in the US but there are a lot of other kinds of manufacturing that still occurs in the US and in fact output is very high
January 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Been thinking about this since I grew up in the Rust Belt and spent Christmas in the Youngstown area:
- It's been 40 years since consumer goods manufacturing was no longer viable in the US but there are a lot of other kinds of manufacturing that still occurs in the US and in fact output is very high
- It's been 40 years since consumer goods manufacturing was no longer viable in the US but there are a lot of other kinds of manufacturing that still occurs in the US and in fact output is very high
The front range is either Kansas or infinite sprawl. This one is unfortunately infinite sprawl:
December 26, 2024 at 7:30 PM
The front range is either Kansas or infinite sprawl. This one is unfortunately infinite sprawl:
Echos of the Mystery Airship flap of 1896 - and William Randolph Hearst calling out "fake journalism":
December 18, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Echos of the Mystery Airship flap of 1896 - and William Randolph Hearst calling out "fake journalism":
Isn’t this the whole game? These people are geographically distributed in a way that makes them enormously politically powerful under our current system, the economy collapsed where they live, and rather than moving they now vote for fascists. Example - Youngstown:
December 17, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Isn’t this the whole game? These people are geographically distributed in a way that makes them enormously politically powerful under our current system, the economy collapsed where they live, and rather than moving they now vote for fascists. Example - Youngstown:
The UFO mythology in American media and culture predates TV and even radio. For instance - from the “Mystery Airship” flap in 1896 we get this editorial from William Randolph Hearst:
December 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM
The UFO mythology in American media and culture predates TV and even radio. For instance - from the “Mystery Airship” flap in 1896 we get this editorial from William Randolph Hearst:
Someone pointed out (in r/UFOs of all places) that this may have all started because there was a surveying plane flying over NYC and NJ multiple nights last week.
December 14, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Someone pointed out (in r/UFOs of all places) that this may have all started because there was a surveying plane flying over NYC and NJ multiple nights last week.