if Rip Van Winkle isn't a true story then why is there a bridge named after him? checkmate, atheists

Spooglid sucks though because it isn't compatible with Pluple. you can't use it with Moomity, unless you proxy it with Qimpit, but that introduces a dependency on Pumpernickel, and nobody wants that headache. I'm gonna stick with Shiggy, at least until Binkly adds support for Skvbgldr

my favorite genre of tech ad is when it advertises as a replacement for something you've never heard of. "wish Fumple® was more flexible? try Spooglid™!"

revelation has more giraffes than the serengeti

asinif.com/giraffes

as president, I will instruct the national oceanic and atmospheric administration to construct accommodations for a reconfiguring climate, to be known as NOAA's ARC

what's getting me through right now is faith that the Beast, whose number is -2, will be vanquished by 2028-07-20

replacing the current firefighter memorial statue, a new statue stands outside the pool in the memorial courtyard, spraying water from their hose onto an abstract metal framework within the pool

I'm envisioning this as the Memorial, with specific, figurative memorial murals in each recess, and a bigger, more general, abstract mural on the space between

the courtyard is filled with chunky concrete planters, some of which have small trees but most of which are empty. some have wooden benches attached. a big circular fountain, currently not running, is in the middle. to the right, the stone parapet of the plaza hovers over a dark glass wall. To the left, a chunky white marble building. ahead is the aforementioned blank wall of the neighboring building

a building that is not part of the plaza shares a wall, windowless for the first few stories, with the current vietnam memorial courtyard. there are angular recessed spaces in each bay, just above eye level, and below the first set of windows

it would be more in keeping with the modernist tone of the empire state plaza  to eliminate the cop, firefighter, ems, corrections/parole officer, crime victims, and vietnam war memorials and combine them into a single generic Memorial

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Law & Order: Internal Affairs, a show about why all the illegal and unconstitutional shit cop show cops get up to all the time is illegal and unconstitutional

country folk: I love being out here for the clean air. not like in the city 🤢

also country folk: how can you possibly want to ban cars from the city?? 😡

new york/newark isnt confusing enough. that's why I'm proposing renaming hoboken to Noirk, jersey city to Nerk, and yonkers to New Yonk

it is stories like this that remind us that AI optimists are not just delusional — they are dangerous.

This is functionally no different than putting a puppet on the stand and making it say everything you want the deceased to say, *except that the judge thinks it is real*

Albany is getting $400M from the state to spend on downtown and they want to build a soccer stadium. that can't be used in winter. right next to the existing enclosed stadium. but hey some politician will get their name on it so it'll be worth it

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

option for an adjacent barge pier for an easy connection to European origins via the container ship terminal in Newark

container from China arrives in LA. world's best freight rail network (existing) carries it to Selkirk. it's then taken to Hudson Freight Yard. new high line above 34th St carries it on autonomous electric trams from there directly into department stores like the Target and Macy's at 34th & 6th

there's a surface parking lot at the north end of the high line, right where it ducks underground to meet the empire connection. is it enough to build a yard to pull containers off trains from Selkirk and onto electric runabouts for local delivery?

it probably didn't make sense to keep the High Line open for the quantity of freight it got. it probably is better as a park. but part of me will always wonder what modern Manhattan freight rail might look like today

1929: there are too many trains on the streets of Manhattan. let's build a High Line and lift them off

1980: trains are stupid let's just use trucks instead

2025: there are too many trucks on the streets of Manhattan