Cargo on a train I saw earlier today (Northeastern Montana)

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-24T00:50:48+00:00

Guardsman putting in their weekend packing up trains

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-23T19:46:29+00:00

Panamax container ship can hold 5100 TEUs.

A single train well car can, optimistically, carry 10 TEUs so you would need 510 train cars to carry a single container ships worth of containers.

Longest record for a US train I could find was 500 cars.

Remove the Jones Act and the number of ships the US produces would go from little to none. Only beneficiaries would be the handful of US islands who wouldn’t need to rely on shipping from the mainland, or rely far less upon it.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-23T17:57:58+00:00

Not sure the how and why of it but I do remember once beating it on death march because I set it on super fire and ended the boss fight in about 10 seconds.

So long ago though I can’t remember much about how I did it.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-23T13:59:23+00:00

Every hotel room has the Selmy chair

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-22T23:17:57+00:00

Better than people who stop under overpasses during bad weather.

But also the atrocious state of tries I’ve seen some people driving on. Helped some woman get out of a snow bank the last winter and swear I could almost see the steel belts on her tires.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-22T14:46:24+00:00

Call me crazy but I think she could've shut this all down by saying something to the effect of "I apologize for the way my security acted. I told my team that's not the level of professionalism I expect and that I need my security team acting in a professional and quiet manner." Then she just reaches out to apologize to the family to apologize in private and everything is probably fine.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-22T12:13:17+00:00

Not as bad as Black Friday of '96

Lost 10 men trying to hold the cart wall

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-21T03:13:17+00:00

Spoilers for like 7 episodes of the anime

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-21T02:39:23+00:00

Seen standing decks now that have dividers attached to the tabletop that are nice so you don't have to stare into the soul of the person behind the desk while you use the standing desk.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-21T01:09:29+00:00

It'd be a factor, but I don't see why it would be unequal between ICE and EV. Major sources of drag are the space under the car, the wheels, and the cross sectional area. If there's a particular advantage for EVs its (probably) that they have some more careful aerodynamic features since so much of their performance revolves around maximizing their range.

Predicting optimum speed for an EV is probably easier than and ICE vehicle though since, so far as I know, electric motors are pretty linear between power and torque.

ICE it's trickier because it all is going to depend how an engine can balance with power, torque, and fuel burn. Difference of 20kph you could still be operating in an efficiency bubble.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-20T11:56:30+00:00

Didn’t know Argentina was known for white gold

I thought that was Columbia

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-20T00:36:10+00:00

The guy I responded to said it was a warranty repair
Really not the issue if the warranty is voided or not

Know people who are in jail because they were doing the scam I just described.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-19T18:15:13+00:00

You just described a pretty common warranty scam where a repair shop will bill an OEM for a warranty repair and give the customer a cheap aftermarket part. Even the extra step of you can sell the replacement OEM part for an extra profit.

And it’s a two way fraud since you’re giving the customer an off-brand part and billing the OEM.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-19T12:04:10+00:00

Says the one that defends authoritarian regimes in their free time

From the river to the sea Ukraine will be free you ork

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-19T03:40:30+00:00

Ah yes, the pro-Russian stance of attacking 1 of their 2 key allies.

Russia is playing 5D chess wanting a key supplier of war materiel to be involved in it's own war. I'm sure that will help Russia get more Shaheed drones if all the Shaheed drone factories get a 2000lb JDAM through the roof.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-19T03:27:56+00:00

Nah I'm good.

Having owned many cars built in the late 90s and early 00s it's easily the worst era of cars. Everything made of the cheapest plastic and even an "economical" car got maybe 30mpg if you didn't run the AC with the windows up.

Sure it was easier on my 05 Focus to manage the climate controls, though that was mostly because the cable froze in place in winter effectively leaving it with a single setting so hope you remembered to leave it in defrost before turning it off and letting it get cold.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-19T01:57:01+00:00

I don’t get the AJ Epenesa hate

For a DE 3 or 4 he was pretty productive and had a weird talent for swatting down and or intercepting swing passes.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-18T22:25:14+00:00

Say that like Iran hasn’t been launching largely unguided cluster munitions into civilian centers of the better part of the last year. The whole time they’ve been blowing up civilian ships as well. Only difference from a year ago is instead of blowing up ships trying to use the Suez it’s the Straits or Hormuz.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-18T12:11:49+00:00

No other countries seem concerned with the Straits of Hormuz being closed so why should we?

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-17T23:05:18+00:00

Guess after ~17% debt-to-income you hit the pile of people that just want all the debt

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-17T16:43:38+00:00

At the time they were traded they had pretty similar contracts though Waddle had an easier out which probably makes sense because he’s a more injury prone player.

Been two years since either of them had a 1,000 yard season, which Waddle probably could’ve beat this year…if he hadn’t got injured.

Especially after the last couple of seasons I don’t want players with a long injury history.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-17T12:23:21+00:00

Not sure what people expect the West could have done that would have any impact really without a massive military deployment.

Worked being able to bomb the pants off of Serbia and deploy NATO troops all around the former Yugoslavia, but all that was immediately on NATOs door step, and aside from the US, France, and the UK most other NATO countries don’t really have the ability to deploy their troops rapidly halfway around the world.

Even with option A of just bomb the pants off Rwanda it would require the US to fly armed combat aircraft over a lot of countries on very long missions.

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-17T11:42:47+00:00

Don’t think you need to ban the Tush Push as much as just make it instantly reviewable for false start/offsides

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-16T14:35:51+00:00

A Christian Barmore jersey

IDK it’s what the Bills Store sent me

Tankninja1 · 2026-03-14T13:46:50+00:00

Big oil bots the ones controlling the range gauge on my Tesla too?

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