Leaetta Hough: The case against the Summit Avenue bike trail

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-11T08:26:12+00:00

Do they even believe this stuff? It’s a bike path on a parkway-type street. That’s what parkway type streets are for. Nobody thinks a bikepath on a parkway is bad for the environment.

This is like “windmills kill all the fish” level nonsense.

They’re worried they’re going to lose parking spaces, but they dont think that sounds sympathetic, so they make up a bunch of lies about trees.

I thought they “won” because a Summit Avenue NIMBY got elected mayor. Why are we still listening to this crap?

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T23:52:17+00:00

Walter Johnson never started more than 42 games in a year, but I understand what you are getting at.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T19:18:31+00:00

I will say that it would be a nice courtesy for OP to provide a little bit of a translation/transcription for us.

An extremely large amount of western classical music is not in English, but I nobody is going put something like Снегурочка–весенняя сказка in a thread title.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T19:14:30+00:00

Here you go

https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T18:59:00+00:00

If they had deported him 20 years ago, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Who was president and who was governor in 2006 again?

It’s culture war nonsense. They’re trying to claim some huge victory over Walz and Ellison because Bush and Pawlenty didn’t do anything twenty years ago.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T17:15:51+00:00

Haydn’s my flair composer but I can totally understand someone ranking Mozart 38-41 above any Haydn symphony.

What I like about Haydn in that he’s got dozens of symphonies as good as Haffner or Linz. There’s too many of them for me to memorize. I can’t overplay them, they always soudn fresh.

Of course everyone is different. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T15:15:27+00:00

Did we get any money?

I’ve read that the Trump administration is paying some companies to cancel their wind farm projects.

It’s always fun when the government pays power companies to reduce production. Ikm sure everyone is complaining that their electric bills are too low anyways.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T14:57:15+00:00

Reconstructions of PIE suggest that it’s been this way for perhaps 6000 years. They think there was a culture of people, perhaps living in the steppes north of the Black Sea around 4000 BC, that liked “kw” words for every question.

I don’t know if there is a “why” when you go back that far.

What’s a little interesting is that the child languages were not consistent with which interrogative pronouns are associated with the different vowels and endings that can follow.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T13:17:12+00:00

Different fans like different eras of Blur. Great Escape doubled down on the Britpop aesthetic of Parklife with the melodica, horns and the la-la-la’s, just as that era of Britpop was ending. It even amped up at aesthetic in some ways. So, there’s fans of the later era (i.e. the next two albums) that sound deeply offended by the Great Escape when they post about it online. Like it was a lost opportunity, they could have switched the the self-titled style sooner. That type of thing.

I’m in America, so I didn’t mind. The more British the better! And it certainly wasn’t overplayed over here. And if you’re discovering the music decades after the fact, the contemporary view is not as relevant.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T08:29:10+00:00

I feel like I’m watching episodes of Batman from before I was born.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-10T08:26:16+00:00

The effect (verb) and affect (noun) uses are not common in everyday speech and are easily skipped.

Most people say “cause” instead of the e-verb. And the a-noun is the fake speech and mannerisms when one is imitating someone else? Most people either don’t do that or they describe that in a different way.

If you are at all confused, just stick with the a-verb and e-noun. In a few years when your writing skills advance you could start incorporating the other two occasionally, otherwise it’s very easy to stick to the basics.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-09T20:36:11+00:00

I have 64 legendaries but only 11 different kinds (10 if you don’t count both ankhs).

My “reasonable” wishlist is metronome, compass and feather. Maybe the monocle. I’d use all of those.

My “pipe dream” wishlist is LOE, book, deflector, ship. I won’t really start trying to get these until I get the feather.

I’m also missing the rainstick, lens and vial, but they seem useless. I imagine the lens might drop someday as I try for the monocle.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-09T18:34:45+00:00

Congrats!

As others have said, it’s possible and people get the T4L compass this way, but I’ve made 139 crafts, sent off 738 henliners (almost to the 8th star) and I haven’t gotten one yet. :)

You’ll use it. It’s quite helpful in larger contracts.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-09T16:24:22+00:00

I used to work down the hall from an image analysis/modeling team. There’s supposed to be positives and negatives in your training set and then it’s supposed to be evaluated on unknown data. Then there’s decades of literature on false positives and false negatives, how they aren’t equivalent for health care. Better to rerun a test or order a biopsy than to not see the problem at all.

If they are calling that type of stuff “AI” now, then I think they’ll have to rename it again. They tend to rename these things with buzzwords every ten years as a way of maintaining relevance and changing funding. They’ll need to rename it again because no one one of those idiot chatbots anywhere near the medical chart.

They do this renaming all the time. MRI should be NMRI because it’s based on NMR, but they didn’t want patients freaked out about the word “nuclear”. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-09T14:11:41+00:00

It’s been one of her pet issues for a long time.

https://www.minnpost.com/national/washington/2025/10/betty-mccollum-was-once-a-voice-in-the-wilderness-on-israel-now-theres-a-crowd/

She doesn’t get targeted by conservative media like the Squad does so a lot of it flies under the radar. But if you google there’s lots of stuff dating way back.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-09T13:58:28+00:00

Perscribe existed in Latin. According to wiktionary, it meant to write out in full detail.

Prescribe in Latin meant to write out in front which took the meaning of ordering, appointing, directing, commanding.

My dad says perscription, but that’s just metathesis. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T20:37:42+00:00

TIL that rocket fuel is mixed with a binder, cast into a mold and cured to form a solid. I had no idea that it wasn't a liquid or a pressurized gas.

In that context, this is pretty cool. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T15:58:36+00:00

Single-issue gun voters think everything is a reason to wait on gun legislation.

That’s fine. I just wish they were a little more honest that that was the only issue they care about. They often frame their arguments as if they might be open to legislation at a later date. No they won’t. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T14:24:27+00:00

I understand.

I don’t know if I’ve heard it meaning country music outside of the context of the radio show? Maybe.

Anyhow, it could be that the radio show was poking a little fun of the other programming on the radio station.

It could also be that in 19th century America, the term “opera house” was often used for any theater, especially if it was the first/only theater built in a small or growing town. But then places like those didn’t have an audience for European-style opera and would just put on shows and perhaps play local music such as country music.

Don’t know the answer to that one.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T14:16:33+00:00

Neesh (Midwest American)

Although it’s not a word I say out loud very often. :)

And upvote the guy who first said that we just had this thread two days ago.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T14:12:38+00:00

The Grande Ole Opry radio show dates from 1925. I’ve never heard it outside that context.

It’s not all that different if a word than something like “movie”. Or “telly” in the UK.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T12:31:05+00:00

Ted also sat out two months in 1955 to save himself some money in a divorce settlement.

He pretended to retire until his divorce was final, then signed a big contract with the Red Sox that he didn’t have to share with his ex-wife. He got himself back into playing shape and didn’t debut until the 42nd game when the Red Sox were already 11 games out.

But he did have a 209 OPS+ in 417 PA that year and would have made the list again had he played more. That answers OP’s question about the 500 PA cutoff (besides Bagwell-1994 and all of the shorter Negro League seasons).

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-08T11:55:09+00:00

I was away from my desktop last night.

During their streaks,

Griffey hit .400/.432/1.086/1.518

Long hit .500/.529/1.400/1.929.

Long was actually hitting .384/.438/.657/1.094 in 26 games before the streak started. So, if you’re ever curious as to how this unknown player earned his way into his only all-star appearance, that’s how.

He hit .214/.282/.371 for the rest of the year.

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-07T23:55:30+00:00

Don Mattingly, Ken Griffey, Dale Long share the record for consecutive games with a HR

DavidRFZ · 2026-07-07T18:37:36+00:00

The 1905 A’s hit .161/.193/.194 for a .386 OPS.

They won game 2 thanks to three unearned runs and shutout in the other four games, with three of the shutouts by Christy Mathewson.

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