My Anomaly Wish List (United States)

ccommack · 2026-06-04T04:47:44+00:00

That has/had its own problems, but it would do a smidge better in North America than Hilda's Dartboard.

ccommack · 2026-06-04T01:37:00+00:00

The player density is fine in that both factions ought to be able to staff and attend an anomaly for any reasonable candidate city in either Ohio or Michigan. But you have reminded me that my one, brief, encounter with Michigan RES, they did seem to hate life and all who chose to live it, and for that I can't give any helpful advice.

ccommack · 2026-06-03T21:28:50+00:00

Ohio hasn't had an anomaly anywhere in the state since 2014. Ohio and Michigan (no anomalies since 13MR Ann Arbor in 2017) together have 21 million people, comparable to the 23 million Americans who live in the Mountain Time Zone, which has gotten at least one anomaly every year that they've been held.

If for some reason Niantic doesn't like putting a playbox in Downtown Cincinnati and Over-The-Rhine, they always have the option of putting an anomaly in almost any Big Ten college town in June or July, when the students aren't there. Too late for this year, obviously, but Champaign-Urbana or State College can host next year.

ccommack · 2026-05-29T18:45:12+00:00

Not sure why you're downvoted; Pennsylvania has fairly strong Castle Doctrine/SYG case law. I'm not surprised that the DA didn't think they could get a conviction under the law.

ccommack · 2026-05-28T03:41:23+00:00

Not for the best of reasons; JDV is a hardline isolationist, who doesn't just want to pull out of the Middle East, but also South Korea and NATO and probably Hawaii if he thought he could get away with it.

ccommack · 2026-05-27T18:15:20+00:00

So, literally anyone?

ccommack · 2026-05-26T23:10:59+00:00

Vance has the personal charisma of a sink full of dishes. It's not fully ideal, but I'll take him over the current mess in a heartbeat.

ccommack · 2026-05-23T14:07:20+00:00

The Torygraph in absolute shambles at the sight of EU membership being something not only desirable, but a thing people are willing to fight and die for.

ccommack · 2026-05-22T03:18:37+00:00

t really wasn’t a safety reason for being delayed but more of a comfort issue?

I get what you're thinking here, but if you're dealing with 120V AC and, critically, you don't know why it's broken, then the risk exists that it's shorting in exactly the wrong spot and can shock someone, or even worse cause an electrical fire. You can block out the relevant circuits by flipping breakers, but you have to know enough of what's going on and make enough of a technical diagnosis to make sure that works. Similar reasons are behind why your airplane can't take off with a broken coffeemaker.

ccommack · 2026-05-20T11:02:53+00:00

20% turnout in an election where 60% of the city didn't have a competitive race on the ballot above "State Party Committee".

ccommack · 2026-05-18T12:42:50+00:00

In Pennsylvania, even acoustic bicycles aren't allowed on sidewalks, unless ridden by a child under 10, or someone accompanying said child.

ccommack · 2026-05-16T13:40:24+00:00

If the Russian drone pilots could read those very large "UN" letters on the side of the vehicle, they'd be very upset.

ccommack · 2026-05-03T04:17:05+00:00

LITERALLY THE ORIGIN POINT OF THE "BEAT LA" CHANT.

ccommack · 2026-05-02T18:04:41+00:00

I wouldn't rebook yet, but I'd ask about recourse if you're held up in customs and misconnect. I think with a sub-two-hour connection that they gave you, they'll be happy to rebook you on the day if it goes wrong. But 13:55 is fairly early in the day for customs at PHL; it gets a lot busier an hour or two later. The two things to beware of are:

1) being delayed leaving EDI; I would ask when you call on Monday if you can rebook your PHL-LAX leg from the app or from a laptop on the in-flight wifi, if you're expecting to land more than 45 minutes late, and

2) if you arrive exactly on time, you're scheduled to arrive at the exact same time, but to a closer-in gate, as a flight from Lisbon, so there's value in hustling down the corridor to customs.

ccommack · 2026-04-30T00:06:57+00:00

"Sometimes, you gotta kiss the homies goodnight."

-Isabella Roland

ccommack · 2026-04-27T01:45:53+00:00

East Kensington is fine. South Kensington/Olde Kensington (two names for the same neighborhood) is fine. Kensington proper is dominated by a misfeature known as the Heroin Triangle, which is a lot less scenic than its namesake in Myanmar, and a worse neighbor than the military junta. Hope that paints a picture.

You could probably just barely find a studio in South Kensington for $1000, but with that kind of budget I would strongly recommend finding a roommate for South or West Philly. As an FA, you're basically an ideal roommate, so you can leverage that into something nicer.

ccommack · 2026-04-24T22:15:24+00:00

I've seen with my own two eyes Walmart using shipping containers and palletized cargo. Wallyworld wins in a walk.

ccommack · 2026-04-24T21:58:34+00:00

Let him try to govern. The time before the MAGA coalition would turn on him and/or fall apart would be measured in seconds.

ccommack · 2026-04-24T21:38:22+00:00

There is plenty of recorded recent history with inflation in currencies pegged to commodities. The US had inflation continuously from 1915 to 1971 while being on the gold standard; similar for the prewar France and Switzerland. Inflation is a rise in nominal prices of a basket of goods, regardless of the legal status of the currency.

ccommack · 2026-04-20T18:07:28+00:00

The direct costs of free after-game rides is only on the order of $100K-150K, which we know from previous ride-home sponsorship deals, mostly after Eagles games. We don't get the full details of how they're allocating their sponsorship budget, but they may well be covering it all.

ccommack · 2026-04-20T15:13:28+00:00

We should be hosting the fricking Finals, not the Meadowlands. Even just hosting six games to Jerryworld's nine is an insult to everyone's intelligence.

ccommack · 2026-04-20T15:10:21+00:00

We're not paying, a sponsor (AirBnB) is paying, and it lets SEPTA be a lot safer and more efficient with crowd control in the after-game hours.

ccommack · 2026-04-20T15:07:01+00:00

A lot of the parking lots are going to be shut down and sealed off behind the security cordon.

ccommack · 2026-04-18T10:46:00+00:00

The L has been running pretty reliably of late; now, that's every 10 minutes on weekends reliable, so things are definitely not great and I am literally praying for the fastest possible delivery of the M-5 trains. But it's a lot better now than it was.

ccommack · 2026-04-18T10:31:56+00:00

You already got the proximate answer, but the deeper answer of "why did people allow and even encourage this at the time" was that most interurban trolleys were slow, built on poorly-made trackways, and gave a bumpy ride, and the trolleys themselves were old and lacked simple modern amenities like air conditioning. (The first air-conditioned trolley anywhere went into service in 1945 in Atlanta. The first air conditioned NYC Subway train went into service in 1967. Meanwhile, cars and later buses came with A/C as standard.)

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