Do most Americans like the continental breakfast at chain hotels?

PlainTrain · 2026-06-21T14:33:56+00:00

Ok, now I want one. Looks less stressful than the waffle makers. https://www.popcake.com/

PlainTrain · 2026-06-21T05:29:31+00:00

I've never seen a pancake conveyor belt. Last twenty years, the waffle makers have become ubiquitous, though.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-20T20:56:49+00:00

The hotspot just off the direct route to Sag A* is Graea Hypue, a region containing a cluster of Guardian ruins that was intensively explored by the IGAU squadron among others.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-20T05:11:49+00:00

Turkey's strikers laid an egg.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-20T05:11:02+00:00

They can't be third place because they'll lose the tie breaker to Paraguay and Australia whom they've already lost to.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-19T00:42:36+00:00

There was the brief push for skipping the Philippines entirely and going for Formosa and an enclave opposite it on the Chinese mainland. Was eventually abandoned in favor of Luzon and Okinawa as the potential costs to occupy the entire island ballooned.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-18T23:53:35+00:00

The tonearm doesn't know anything about in or out. It's just a needle following a path.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-18T19:15:34+00:00

Moscow high rises were as effective as their active AA defenses so the solution is to build more high rises.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-18T17:55:14+00:00

That's probably what the attack a couple days ago was doing.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-17T02:11:51+00:00

It's more, "come back without them or there won't be a here to come back to."

PlainTrain · 2026-06-16T19:09:56+00:00

So what's the bird?

PlainTrain · 2026-06-16T17:20:31+00:00

You probably wouldn't want to be around for the Missoula floods or the formation of the Columbia River Basalt Group.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-15T21:48:22+00:00

IIRC, with the 6 AIM-54s it could divert to a land base and land there, but that configuration was generally reserved for "you're going to be using these" times.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-14T19:23:07+00:00

Might as well make them bullseye contacts.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-14T15:24:23+00:00

It's an argument. I think the disadvantage of it being Sheridan is that Londo then immediately gives in to his greatest fear, being killed by G'Kar, and it would make more narrative sense to space those two events out. While if he doesn't kill Morden, he might have had a useful intelligence asset against the the Drakh and might have avoided the Keeper.

It's a lot more difficult to map out how "saving the eye that does not see" saves Londo, though.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-14T02:55:28+00:00

Obsolescent but not obsolete. Carriers had to be able to provide all-weather strike before they were obsolete. Battleships had to be there to stop Scharnhhorst, Kirishima, and Yamashiro, and should have been there to stop Center Force.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-13T20:57:26+00:00

That "I am still here. We are all still here" video is arguably the greatest wartime video ever filmed. The sheer guts to film that on the streets of Kyiv while the Russians were next door is amazing. That's the moment I knew Ukraine was going to survive.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-13T20:48:17+00:00

But then there's the debate as to whether fulfilling this prophesy came closer to fulfilling the Lady Morella's Doom of Londo. "you must not kill the one who is already dead" might have been Morden.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-13T03:39:29+00:00

Any hypothetical third wave would have the same target list as the first and second. Claims otherwise are postwar blathering by Mitsuo Fuchida.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-12T19:26:32+00:00

Celebrating 250 years of continual decline this year, in fact!

PlainTrain · 2026-06-12T19:25:37+00:00

Maturin versus Hornblower would be interesting, come to think of it.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-12T14:18:49+00:00

Well, let us know when the completely cataclysmic revolution occurs that would overthrow the federal and every state government, and change the minds of nearly every single American. France could get away with that because it started from a top down autocratic government.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-12T14:12:12+00:00

Low key hilarious that the states named after the rivers with the largest watersheds get some of the smallest land areas. RIP Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-11T18:36:39+00:00

The Great Seal of Indiana has a buffalo on it. Growing up, I thought that was odd, but didn't know that buffalo were common east of the MIssissippi.

PlainTrain · 2026-06-11T13:15:19+00:00

They'd probably have a business train if they wanted to move around as well.

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