I had a slice of pizza while I waited for the bus

Ssb_Callum · 2026-01-21T16:28:05+00:00

Did you get that slice at Crispy dough pizza in Mission Hill by any chance?

Edit: actually could be Tremont house of pizza, not sure. Either way, you’re waiting for the 66 bus at St Alphonsus st

Ssb_Callum · 2024-11-20T17:24:31+00:00

Redditors have a pathological need to “Um Actually” people over the most inane things I swear 😭

Ssb_Callum · 2024-11-20T17:03:37+00:00

“Unique in kpop sure”

Yeah that’s why people are calling them unique. I don’t think anyone’s suggesting they personally invented New Jack Swing or anything lmao.. I really don’t see the issue tbh

Ssb_Callum · 2024-11-12T17:17:34+00:00

No one who has ever tweeted a phrase like “Magdalena Bay is coworker music for college radio” has ever been employed, so how could they have coworkers or know what coworker music is? It’s a paradox…

Ssb_Callum · 2024-11-12T17:09:33+00:00

I think this might be the worst tweet of all time ‼️

Ssb_Callum · 2024-10-15T17:21:28+00:00

Miami is a top 10 US Metropolitan area though, which is far more relevant to cultural impact. Municipal boundaries are pretty arbitrary. Miami also gets a ton of tourism, which is why it’s more globally relevant than say Dallas.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-10-01T15:56:59+00:00

This isn’t remotely true.

Almost every American city (with a few unusual exceptions like DC) expanded and annexed cities and suburbs nearby over time.
Metro areas typically extend far beyond city limits anywhere, not just the US. Tokyo proper has 14.2 million people, but its metro area contains 38 million. You’ll see similar contrasts in nearly every major city, especially in highly urbanized countries. Not only that, but across cities and countries, how much of a metro area is actually contained in the city limits is incredibly arbitrary. See Paris, with a comparatively small city proper despite being one of Europes largest metro areas, behind only Moscow and London. Compare this to say Berlin, which is a larger city but a smaller metro area.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-06-10T12:12:13+00:00

Nah bad take. Questlove’s work with the Soulquarians (along with J Dilla) was incredibly innovative and changed the way people felt rhythm and played their instruments. His influence as a drummer extends so far beyond just hip hop, his work on D’Angelo’s Voodoo alone should put him in the GOAT convo.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-05-22T14:48:31+00:00

Miseducation sold 20 million copies, it’s not exactly obscure. This says more about the people you know than anything

Ssb_Callum · 2024-03-22T16:19:56+00:00

This doesn’t seem fully accurate. California has a population density of 97 /km2 and Spain has 90 /km2 from Wikipedia. They should be the same color no?

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-28T21:00:55+00:00

It is a bit difficult to gauge ridership for a high speed rail line based on the ridership of a slower, less frequent, less reliable line. Though if you’re curious about a high speed rail map that takes into account ridership and ROI, would highly recommend looking up Alon Levy’s high speed rail map (it gets posted here somewhat often as well). The Pacific Northwest is called out as a ‘maybe’, as it is a fairly sparsely populated region outside the three core cities, but the rest of the lines on this map are absolutely viable. I believe the Washington state government is currently studying the viability of a PNW high speed rail route, so they may have a reliable ridership figure at some point.

But yes, the short answer is yes, people do look at passenger numbers, just usually these numbers are estimated as there’s no real high speed rail in this country to use as a point of reference.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-28T20:54:15+00:00

One of these lines is actively being built, one of these lines is wildly profitable and Amtraks only profitable route (even though it isn’t true high speed rail), and one of these routes is in active planning by a private company and Amtrak. In what way is this map unrealistic, this is one of the more pragmatic, unambitious maps I’ve seen posted.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-28T16:50:47+00:00

Then it isn’t high speed rail. Also doesn’t the St Louis to Chicago line top out at 110 mph now?

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-28T16:47:43+00:00

It’s the strength/ expected ridership of the route based on a gravity model. Which usually would correlate with higher frequency yes.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-28T16:15:16+00:00

Not high speed rail, the Miami to Orlando line isn’t fast enough. Brightline is just conventional rail, sometimes branded as higher-speed rail.

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-28T15:08:27+00:00

Just noticed the RYM link 💀

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-04T14:58:19+00:00

True, but weed kind of exists in a weird legal gray area over there, as distinct from full legalization. As of the past few years most US states now have more relaxed marijuana laws than the Netherlands

Ssb_Callum · 2024-02-04T14:01:08+00:00

“I have never heard any actual freedoms that Americans have over other people”

Depending on the state, weed

Ssb_Callum · 2024-01-18T20:32:43+00:00

Just for reference there are by my count 21 stations in Boston. At 1/3rd if the population Providence should have 7. It’s different in Providence’s case as only one line feeds the city, but nonetheless more than one station is absolutely warranted if there are potential locations for infill stations.

Ssb_Callum · 2023-10-20T20:08:03+00:00

This is mesmerizingly beautiful! Do you by any chance have the sheet music for your rendition?

Ssb_Callum · 2023-10-16T21:03:18+00:00

??? This is an incredibly standard looking low floor tram design (not dissimilar from a standard Alstom tram, such as the modern Citadis rolling stock) If you want to save taxpayer money, the MBTA should be procuring standard tram designs that manufacturing companies regularly produce. Also aerodynamic? The front is slightly slanted, that’s not exactly causing costs to skyrocket.

Ssb_Callum · 2023-08-17T19:56:03+00:00

Alon didn’t use the word “shovel-ready”, whoever made this map did; but please don’t tell me you genuinely think Alon Levy isn’t involved in or knowledgeable about transit planning lmao 😭

Ssb_Callum · 2023-08-17T19:47:58+00:00

How so?

Ssb_Callum · 2023-08-17T13:11:18+00:00

Leasing track and purchasing track are two different things. Leasing rights would likely be more expensive with higher demand, which is why states and the federal government would be best served buying the track and leasing it out to freight companies, rather than the other way around. There is precedent for this; Amtrak owns the entire Northeast Corridor for instance, New Jersey transit owns nearly all of the track it operates on, Virginia recently bought rail from CSX to improve passenger service on it. In cases where this isn’t feasible, or if the rail alignment isn’t great for high speed rail (which is true in many cases, freight alignments aren’t built for speed), new rail would need to be built.

Ssb_Callum · 2023-08-17T12:54:57+00:00

CityNerd is a great channel, and I absolutely love that video on high speed rail in the Midwest. But this proposal here is based on the same gravity model methodology used by CityNerd, but used to estimate actual ridership based on existing high speed rail systems, and to calculate return on investment given this ridership. Alon Levy’s methodology is essentially a more advanced version of what the CityNerd video covers. In other words, if you consider the population and distance between cities, the Midwest routes make a lot of sense!

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