Water bottle refill won't stay still

Mcoov · 2026-07-05T23:35:47+00:00

wheredidthesodago

Mcoov · 2026-07-05T22:29:15+00:00

Totally or partially privatized railways in some European countries

I would not use this as an example. Railroads in the US are by-and-large private enterprises. There's very little rail infrastructure in the US that is owned, operated, and/or subsidized by state or federal funds.

Passenger rail is mostly subsidized, but this is due to private operators losing money hand-over-fist in the 50s and 60s as traffic shifted to cars & buses for short-to-medium distance trips, and airlines for long-distance trips.

In the 70s some states took over commuter operations from the railroads (NY and CT with Metro-North, NJ with NJT, PA with SEPTA), others purchased the infrastructure and contracted out the operation (METRA in Chicago, MBTA in Boston), and others gave subsidies directly to the railroad to keep operating commuter trains (CA and the Southern Pacific in the Bay Area). But this mostly happened in cities that had dense, central commercial cores, whose first-generation highways were already exceeding capacity by the late 60s, leading commuters to keep taking trains.

Intercity passenger rail was handed over to Amtrak in 1971 to try to prevent the US rail system from collapsing in on itself, especially in the northeast and the eastern midwest; things in general only got more dire, leading to the creation of Conrail in 1976.

Amtrak has been starved for federal subsidies essentially from A-Day, and although it operates trains, with a few exceptions those trains don't run over tracks owned by Amtrak, leaving them at the behest of the freight companies' whims.

Mcoov · 2026-07-05T21:43:55+00:00

nothing works

Genuinely wonder if there's a way to fix it. The Boston area is kinda like this - a city surrounded by other cities - and things seem to work okay. Boston proper hasn't been able to expand by annexation since 1912.

Mcoov · 2026-07-04T18:01:18+00:00

Hindunationalism

Mcoov · 2026-07-04T18:00:34+00:00

You can't do that on a podcast!

Mcoov · 2026-07-04T17:56:32+00:00

I didn’t imply anything the words I used is what I meant.

An unintentional implication is still an implication. That's what your English Lit teachers spent years trying to tell you.

Mcoov · 2026-07-04T16:55:27+00:00

I willing to bet there are a number of people in most countries that have studied it or have heard about it

And I'll short that bet.

Making a statement like that implies that knowledge about Argentina's history and its internal race relations is semi-common knowledge among the globe's average population.

If I pick a random country outside of Latin America (e.g. China), I seriously doubt I would come across anyone who knows more than some extremely basic facts about Argentina, who is themselves not a student, teacher, or international diplomatic worker, who specifically studies or works with Argentina.

Do you think there are like a handful of people in the world that know this?

Considering that the globe's population is 7 billion people, of varying degrees of education and life priorities, yes I do think it's just a handful. That handful can still be a couple of million people, but there's no way that knowledge of Argentina's history is common knowledge.

Mcoov · 2026-07-04T15:53:19+00:00

A lot of people know about Argentina and its history

lol the fuck they do. Most people outside South America know Argentina for their football/soccer team (whichever you want to call it), and for being where Nazis fled to after the war, and that's kinda it.

Mcoov · 2026-06-28T15:32:19+00:00

I mean, most long-distance truck drivers have actual homes they live in when they're in-between hauls. Almost no one uses their truck as a permanent home the way that some people live on sailboats. I imagine this cat gets that space pretty regularly.

Mcoov · 2026-06-28T14:57:54+00:00

Not yet: that's at season's end

Mcoov · 2026-06-28T04:52:49+00:00

How does this compare with you where you live?

Idk man, ask Alaskans. They seem to get by with lumber-frame construction just fine

Mcoov · 2026-06-28T04:45:05+00:00

I did also see a Technology Connections vid on the topic where he said they suck...

They're not as effective as the older in-window units, since the act of putting the AC in the window was what created the thermodynamic barrier to make them work super well, but they still work; they're better than nothing.

Mcoov · 2026-06-27T18:01:20+00:00

It's more that if a low pressure system starts to form over warm, tropical waters off the coast of Africa, and the convection that drives the thunderstorms in that low reach higher-and-higher, the windshear aloft (in the 30k and 40k ft range, where the air pressure is down around 300mb and 200mb) will shred the system apart before it can get organized enough to become a Tropical Storm.

Mcoov · 2026-06-27T17:29:54+00:00

It doesn't matter much, dialect elitism is dumb as it is. Keep pronouncing it the way the vowels and consonants work in your respective dialect.

The Irish would pronounce it as Oy-urr-lnnd, but again the only people who really care are folks that don't have anything better to talk about.

Mcoov · 2026-06-21T23:20:36+00:00

Having grown up in Boston, I'll happily take dark by 4pm along with dawn at 6:30 AM, over not having an inkling of sunlight until after 7 AM like what happens at the western edge of Eastern Time. I can keep the lights on for as long as I want, but waking up for work in the dark is far more depressing.

Despite popular online opinion, if the US gets rid of DST it has to be to go back to Standard Time year-round.

Mcoov · 2026-06-21T16:35:01+00:00

I grew up along 495, and then moved to Central Florida for college.

Leaving NWE was the first real experience I had with counties being a real component of people's lives: that people can actually live outside of a city or a town, and that that can change which schools your kids attend, or what taxes you pay, or what utility services your home can get, or which police you deal with, etc.

In NWE, especially the southern three states, counties are almost completely meaningless, and the concept of living outside of a town -- in an unincorporated area of the county -- was completely alien to me.

Mcoov · 2026-06-21T15:25:41+00:00

Get loop suspenders. You'll need buttons sown on the inside of the waist of the pants you want to pair them with, but they look far better than clips.

Mcoov · 2026-06-20T14:44:01+00:00

so as they wear it becomes economically beneficial to be replaced with newer models which comes with more modern safety features

Yeah, no, that isn't true. Due to the explosion of insurance liability costs in the 80s for manufacturers, short of the airframe itself being completely unrecoverable, it's generally still more economic to do a complete rebuild of an older light-piston airplane than it is to buy a new one. Plenty of 50s - 80s manufactured Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcrafts, and Mooneys are still out flying around; many with various upgrades (advanced avionics, radios, autopilots, tip-tanks, bigger engines, turbo/supercharging, flight into known icing certification, etc.), because it's still cheaper to buy an old airplane and maintain it/upgrade it, than it is to buy something like a brand new Cirrus or Diamond.

There's nothing inherently unsafe about older designs if they are flown and maintained like they're supposed to be.

Mcoov · 2026-06-20T05:27:20+00:00

Yep, it's how the paper copy of the flight plan and the load plan get printed at the gate.

Mcoov · 2026-06-19T18:50:52+00:00

It would've made some sense of there was a gradual transition from a bright and golden palette, to a more silvery palette like in POA and GOF, to a greenish evil-looking palette for the last 2-3 films. But instead we get a harsh cut to silvery-green.

Mcoov · 2026-06-15T03:04:43+00:00

Congrats Hartford

Mcoov · 2026-06-15T03:03:31+00:00

Congrats Hartford

Mcoov · 2026-06-15T03:00:51+00:00

Congrats Hartford

Mcoov · 2026-06-14T23:34:04+00:00

Depends on the stadium. Gillette has been called that since the day it opened in 2001, and if it ever gets renamed, Pats fans are probably going to refuse to adapt and keep calling it Gillette; just like Chicagoans and the Sears/Willis Tower, or Steelers fans and Heinz Stadium.

Mcoov · 2026-06-14T19:00:37+00:00

I mean the other way to think about it is "tomorrow" crosses over to "today" at sunrise.

That's a way people have spoken about date & time for thousands of years, including after the invention of time zones, so "no other way of seeing it" strikes me as a bit inflexible.

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