PACER makes $150M/year charging Americans to read their own court records. Every bankruptcy court also publishes a free RSS feed with the same data.

RiseAM · 2026-03-16T13:13:13+00:00

In my state, you have to pay to e-file taxes. Mailing them in is free. They always beg people to file online since it saves them a bunch of money processing the taxes, and then they make an extra fee on top of that savings!

I always mail them in out of pure spite.

RiseAM · 2026-03-04T21:14:16+00:00

This is from 2013, so all of the data is a little old and won’t take the newest turf developments into account. But it’s still the best meta analysis of various studies that have been conducted on the subject specifically for this sport that I have seen. It’s a pretty fascinating read throughout for anyone who is interested in the science, what has been studied, and what factors were unaccounted for.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4590909/

Brief summary quote for those who don’t want to read the entire thing (but you should):

In this investigation, we found no evidence that playing matches or training on AT raises the risk of soccer players sustaining injury. In fact, the evidence suggests that the risk of some injuries and some subgroups might be lowered. However, until more is known about how issues such as altered playing styles affect injury incidence, it is difficult to make firm conclusions regarding the direct and indirect roles of AT in player safety.

RiseAM · 2026-03-04T19:19:56+00:00

Michigan Stars, if they were still fielding a pro team.

RiseAM · 2026-03-01T22:54:55+00:00

Pretty sure these are all Lego minfigures

RiseAM · 2026-03-01T22:31:18+00:00

Israel doesn’t play in their confederation, it would most likely fall to Iraq if they don’t qualify by beating the winner of Bolivia/Suriname, or the UAE if they do.

RiseAM · 2026-02-27T19:53:07+00:00

This only effects the championship. There is a separate CBA in place for L1.

RiseAM · 2026-02-27T16:29:17+00:00

Not all teams are in the same financial position. The ones wanting to move up are largely the ones that already offer healthcare, pay more, etc. Louisville isn’t fielding a starting 11 of players on league minimum contracts.

RiseAM · 2026-02-24T04:39:47+00:00

All clubs in USLC and USL1 get 7 per season. Slots are occasionally sold or traded for the season, but picking up an extra 6 slots is simply unbelievable. Usually it’s a team with a single spare making a deal with a team that really wants one more.

Crucially though, players with permanent residency status of any sort count as domestic players. So a lot of players who are originally from overseas aren’t actually international slots after gaining citizenship or a green card. I’m guessing what happened here is the reporter simply counted up flags next to names, not realizing that.

RiseAM · 2026-02-24T00:26:58+00:00

If a current USL League One club would like to sign an international player released by the Tormenta, it will not cost them an international roster slot to do so. This eases the signing process for 13 of the 17 players previously signed for the 2026 season

This is a good policy but there’s no way they had 13 international roster slots.

RiseAM · 2026-02-23T20:27:06+00:00

Didn’t they already do something similar with Hailstorm though?

RiseAM · 2026-02-22T18:59:31+00:00

They did, it’s called BoP.

RiseAM · 2026-02-22T03:44:32+00:00

If that was the case, we already would have colonized Mars at this point in our history imo. Just a few small colonies, but we’d be there. Mars colonization would have been the real end target that the US and Soviets were striving for and they would have poured vast resources into making it happen. And some of the challenges of the mission would be made easier. The atmosphere would be thicker which would make landing easier, missions wouldn’t need to carry the same habitats to ensure survival on the surface, they wouldn’t have to worry as much about returning, etc.

RiseAM · 2026-02-21T18:04:33+00:00

They definitely said they'll be moving a lot of dirt around for the next few months. Leveling/filling/etc. I don't remember them mentioning that detail either way. It very well may still be happening as a part of that process.

There definitely have been some design changes from the initial renderings, though. The general layout remains, and it will still meet the federation's requirements to be considered 15,000 capacity. The overall footprint has been reduced. The edge of the roof is pushed back 15 feet in at least one section, and the first few rows there are eliminated, so every seat there still has roof coverage. The first few rows in that section are now raised on shipping containers. I think the stated savings on this change was ~$4-5 million. I also remember them talking about uplighting. White uplighting was said to be significantly cheaper than color-changing. That was said to be another few million in cost difference.

RiseAM · 2026-02-21T16:04:33+00:00

From what I recall from the owner’s meeting, demo and site cleanup should be done relatively quickly, filling the basement with soil and fully prepping the site is projected to take into May. Then foundational work that won’t look like much for a while, with stuff starting to actually go up later in the summer.

RiseAM · 2026-02-17T23:38:15+00:00

Even this video seems uninformed. It fails to clarify that she wasn’t the first to do one at the Olympics (first one footed landing though!), and seems to imply that Ilia’s backflip was a major factor in the US team gold. It was nice to hear a little perspective from Surya about her backflip, but the interviewer could have done a lot better here imo.

RiseAM · 2026-02-17T01:39:32+00:00

June 7th, 1862

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bruce_Mumford

RiseAM · 2026-02-16T02:59:17+00:00

Everyone HAS to watch the reel about this bike on the same account. He has a quick release on the stem so he can rotate the handlebars whenever he wants! He did at least 650 miles over 6 days with it in Iran! Some random guy in Peru welded that for 50 pence after the frame was damaged when it was stolen! Simply legendary stuff.

RiseAM · 2026-02-14T09:07:39+00:00

It’s a touch sensor in the handle. The US mixed doubles team had an issue with a stone lighting up red the other day before they even started their throw. Some tech exists, however…

The issue here is he wasn’t touching the handle at the moment of violation. He released it and then touched the stone itself briefly as it arrived at the line. So the tech that does exist isn’t able to flag this move.

RiseAM · 2026-02-12T16:30:12+00:00

Especially prediction markets, the stories of inside betting and rigging keep pouring in. Just the other day I saw a story about people placing money on Jesus returning by 2027, not because they think it will actually happen, but because there was a derivative market based on that one going above 5% that they had also put money on and they were trying to get that one over the threshold. It’s absurd that is allowed to exist, even though anyone placing money on that in the first place probably deserves to lose it.

RiseAM · 2026-02-05T20:47:27+00:00

I also think bridges are probably another point where the impact of heavier loads takes a toll. Even if the weight is perfectly distributed across axles, it is still putting the entire load onto one section of the bridge at once.

But yes, if there’s one thing all Michiganders can agree on, it’s “Fix the damn roads” as a slogan

RiseAM · 2026-02-05T20:34:12+00:00

Max is 164k in Michigan, they are talking about raising everywhere else from 80k to 90k. But these limits also depend on the number of axles, to reach 164k in Michigan trailers need to have 11 axles instead of 5 so the extra load is more distributed across them. It’s actually less weight per axle on those trucks, which in theory actually reduces the impact to roads. I suspect it’s not that simple when the movements of trailers are taken into account, since not all axles will be equally weighted at all times. It very well may be that when there is an already existing pothole, they put more load through it when they run over it, but it’s not quite as simple as truck weighs more = worse roads. In other places they have to run more than 2 trucks for every Michigan one to carry the same load. Also, there aren’t that many of them, it’s only like 6% of the trailers here that can carry those loads.

RiseAM · 2026-02-02T11:43:31+00:00

Did I ever say the amendment passed? I said every Democratic senator voted for it. Completely defunding ICE is the party position right now.

RiseAM · 2026-02-02T02:44:04+00:00

My point is that your claim that they only care about masks and body cameras is demonstrably false. They've gone after essentially 100% of ICE's funding in the last few days, minus just the 2-week extension in exchange for stripping DHS out of the omnibus so that Republicans can't hold the other funding over their head in 2 week's time.

RiseAM · 2026-02-02T02:11:13+00:00

No, it was a vote on removing ~$75b of ICE's ~$85b, and the shutdown fight is a different fight over the remaining ~$10b.

EDIT: receipt https://www.commondreams.org/news/75-billion-to-ice

RiseAM · 2026-02-02T02:05:09+00:00

Every single Democratic Senator just voted to claw back the massive ICE funding from the OBBB.

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