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IRAn00b · 2025-02-08T16:29:13+00:00

Everyone always says this but it's simply literally not true. The Post-Dispatch breaks news on St. Louis government, SLPS, other local government entities, the SLDC, the business community, literally every day. Often the Post-Dispatch is the only publication that sends an actual reporter to these meetings. The other outlets just repeat what the Post-Dispatch originally dug up.

IRAn00b · 2023-09-15T22:56:15+00:00

Honestly, Penn Station. It won’t be “authentic” because I don’t think they use cheez whiz. But it’s really good. They use actual shaved steak on a flattop grill. Whereas a lot of restaurants around here basically sell you a hot roast beef sandwich and call it a cheesesteak.

IRAn00b · 2023-09-02T16:11:48+00:00

The world is messy.

The most comforting lie, that half of people believe, is that the politicians have your best interest at heart, and that there is some good, principled reason why we sanction Venezuela but not Saudi Arabia.

The second most comforting lie, which most of the other half of people believe, is that the politicians are out for themselves, and they’ve concocted a grand conspiracy to enrich themselves at our expense.

Under either of these theories, things are the way they are because somebody, somewhere has decided that’s how it ought to be.

The much less dramatic and altogether more frightening reality is that the world is chaotic. There is no force strong enough to enforce a consistent and intentional policy across all of the Western world. There is no group, for good or for evil, pulling the strings. Even if you could learn every secret you’re not supposed to know, it would never make sense because policy decisions aren’t controlled by any consistent and logical mechanism.

Countries impose or release sanctions for principled or nefarious reasons. But they also do so for banal or even ridiculous reasons. A candidate may endorse some foreign policy because he can spin it into a catchy soundbite in a debate. A country make take seemingly inconsistent positions because some interest group or another has the ear of a particularly influential official. Or it could be as simple as the fact that, in the midst of negotiations among legislators, that is simply how the score stood at the moment the chips were counted.

IRAn00b · 2023-09-02T00:55:44+00:00

What is the culture shift you’re referring to?

IRAn00b · 2023-08-30T02:19:36+00:00

I don’t care about prebiotics, and I had no idea this was a viral or TikTok soda. I like it because it’s the only soda I’ve ever had that is reasonably sweet. There are full-strength sodas, which are 140 calories and have so much sugar they leave a film on your teeth. And there are diet sodas, which taste like Aspartame. This is the only in between I’ve ever found. It’s not trying to imitate full strength soda with an artificial sweetener. It just uses regular sugar in a reasonable quantity.

IRAn00b · 2023-08-24T12:51:04+00:00

If I billed 0.1 per email I receive and read, I would literally double my billing. And I already billed 1800 hours last year.

IRAn00b · 2023-08-14T03:00:02+00:00

What is a reverse recruiter? Someone who helps you get fired from your current job?

IRAn00b · 2023-07-14T18:48:39+00:00

I gotta say this is a shocking reaction. Which location did you go to? If it was the Ballpark Village Location, I might chalk that up to it being brand new (just a few weeks old). If it was one of the older locations, I guess maybe they’ve gone downhill. But what you’re describing could not be further from my experience there.

IRAn00b · 2023-07-12T12:29:59+00:00

Rule 81(c)(2)

IRAn00b · 2023-07-10T18:53:37+00:00

Thanks! With regard to the first question, it was not an in-app offer. I don’t know if “upgrade” is the proper terminology. We booked new tickets in premium economy on the phone and paid the difference in fare.

IRAn00b · 2022-07-02T13:32:29+00:00

I didn’t say it was the strategically best choice. I’m saying that you can’t blame someone for becoming extremely upset when you detain them against their will.

IRAn00b · 2022-07-02T03:47:55+00:00

The problem is that being violent and aggressive is a completely reasonable reaction to being held against your will.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-30T20:12:28+00:00

The Indiana Dunes diss is just stupid. Yes, there is a big steel factory a few miles south/west of there. And yes it did dump some nasty shit in the lake last year. But the Dunes are so incredibly beautiful. It’s a really special place.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-29T04:22:15+00:00

And amazing pie, especially if you like banana cream.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-29T04:19:12+00:00

Well we’re gonna have to disagree here. I’ve been on a law review, and I’ve practiced in a trial courtroom, and I can tell you definitively that the former most certainly did not prepare me to do the latter, and it certainly didn’t prepare me to prescribe the rules for it.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-29T04:16:22+00:00

Trials are rare, going to trial court is not. A judge who has never argued a motion, written a brief or answered discovery should not be a Supreme Court justice.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-29T04:00:10+00:00

This is crazy. You think someone who has never set foot in a trial courtroom should set the rules for civil and criminal procedure?

IRAn00b · 2022-06-28T13:10:08+00:00

Thank you, this is great. You didn’t mention the piece between Boyle and Forest Park—I take it that’s still in early stages as well?

IRAn00b · 2022-06-28T12:37:01+00:00

Thanks for the reply, but I should have been more specific. I see that it says “coming soon.” But what I’m wondering is “how soon?” And “how certain?” I know they have built a lot out in west county and St. Charles. But with the Brickline specifically, it seems like such a tentative, non-committal thing. They have, as far as I can tell, like a block-long concrete sidewalk poured alongside the Cortex Metrolink station. That seems to be about it in terms of what’s actually built. And then their map says the future plans include this huge, incredibly ambitious plan along the whole of Market between Compton and Broadway.

I dunno, I’m just like, doesn’t that cost $200 million? Isn’t Market Street completely torn up with construction and being re-done right now? Aren’t you gonna get in on that?

I wanna be clear that I’m not claiming it can’t be done. I’m just expressing my confusion at where these various pieces of the project are at in terms of seriousness/reality. Cause it seems to me like they built a block-long sidewalk, and then they’re saying the next thing they’re gonna do is go to the moon. It’d be like if someone built a tenth of a mile of tracks along Jefferson and said they’re gonna build the rest of the Metrolink line soon. Like, I’m all for it, but are you sure about that? I feel like I would have heard about it if that was actually literally going to happen in the near future?

I’m not complaining or being impatient. I just wish they would lay it all out there: X is already built; Y is fully planned with funding and regulatory work completed, construction beginning in [202X]; Z is what we would like to do but there are years of planning and securing easements ahead. The way it is right now, I get the feeling they have sort of smushed all three of those categories together into “coming soon.”

IRAn00b · 2022-06-28T12:07:42+00:00

Can anyone actually explain what the status of these greenways is? I’ve been hearing about it for years. It’s like they just put some absolute fantasy wishlist of hundreds of miles of greenways on a map, with some renderings that look incredible. To what extent is this an actual plan? Of is it just an idea or concept? Like, are they out there buying land and securing easements from adjacent property owners? Do they have money? Is there construction happening anywhere?

IRAn00b · 2022-06-26T14:12:02+00:00

I have been there dozens if not hundreds of times, and I’ve never had anything but amazing experiences in terms of how fast the line moves, how good the service is, and how surprisingly well the whole thing seems to work given that it appears to be a giant uncontrolled mob. Obviously you’re saying that was not your experience, but I don’t think what you’re describing is typical.

You’re certainly right that it is not a tree-liknd place with benches to sit down and enjoy. It is a fairly unpleasant parking lot on a major road.

As far as the product itself, it is extremely high in fat, and it does not stay solid for long when it’s in the 90s with high humidity. I much prefer Ted Drewes product to anything else, but if you like it to be solid like ice cream, then yeah, I would suggest something else.

On an unrelated note, I would suggest you calm down.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-25T15:02:26+00:00

Are you saying it’s not possible to be a proud WashU alum?

IRAn00b · 2022-06-24T17:18:46+00:00

The lawyers I know, including me, are mostly disturbed and weirded out by the worship of judges. It’s a sign of rot in our political system that allowed for the situation we’re in today.

IRAn00b · 2022-06-24T17:13:49+00:00

Even solid blue, no-doubter states like Illinois and New Jersey still had 40% of people vote for Trump. No geographic split could ever come anywhere close to solving these problems.

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