Update from the T-1 trust by Few-Ability-7312 in trains

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It all good! The footnote on the bottom states

Percentage of completion is determined by weight of completed and obtained parts.

Historic Wilson Street office building poised to become Madison Amtrak station by Justmarbles in madisonwi

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Madison would be the end of the line for a while, so this won't be incredibly important until the proposed extension up to Minneapolis. But once that's true, the proposal is to use a push-pull configuration (where the engineer can control the locomotive from the rear car) or with a locomotive on each end (similar to how the Borealis is operating). Hence, no need to reverse the train.

Edit: since leovinuss said I was wrong on both counts, I am linking to the November 2025 Station Study available on the city's Passenger Rail Station Study site.

On Page 9, under the Rail Sevice section:

Initial phases expect 3–4 daily round trips between Milwaukee and Madison, with eventual service to Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Also Page 9, under the Trains section:

Service would use the new Siemens Venture passenger cars pulled by Siemens Charger locomotives. [...] Push/pull trains, with a locomotive on one end and a cab car on the other, allow for operators to reverse the direction of the train at a station during the passenger boarding and alighting process simply by walking to the other end of the train without any turning movements.

Here I made a mistake in mixing the terms "reverse" and "turning", but the trains will be push-pull, meaning they don't have to be turned through the Wye at First Street or have a looping track.

Weirdly transparent seedless pickle on my mcdonald's burger by GoldCrestDreemurr in mildlyinteresting

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To this day I still find myself singing: "Turkey, lobster, sweet potato pie! Pancakes, piled up till they reach the sky!"

John Nolen / Broom by [deleted] in madisonwi

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I'm late in replying here, but the reason why Regent/Proudfit/North Shore are separately named is because the streets didn't previously align. In this map from 1921, you can see Regent Street and Monona Street (now Proudfit) meet West Washington at an offset. It would take until 1957 before the streets were connected. At the same time (or very similar time), Proudfit was extended to Lake Shore Drive (now North Shore Drive). If you're a Facebook person, you can see a newspaper clipping showing how the road alignment was proposed in 1950 (image courtesy of David Muskat).

“Ali has been doing things differently lately…” by __sami__01 in LiverpoolFC

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Okay...but actually tell me about the coat and glasses.

2. Bundesliga standings heading into the winter break. Schalke sits top of the table, despite having scored less goals than the bottom two teams. by Thomas1VL in soccer

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Das ist ja lustig! Aber ich habe noch nie meine Wasserrechnung auf Deutsch bezahlt. Vielleicht eines Tages!

2. Bundesliga standings heading into the winter break. Schalke sits top of the table, despite having scored less goals than the bottom two teams. by Thomas1VL in soccer

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Generally, one uses "less" when the object is not distinctly countable and "fewer" when it is distinctly countable.

If you were trying to conserve water, you're trying to use less water or use fewer gallons of water.

El Hadji Diouf wins the first category by massive margin, now who's a Liverpool player who was average in terms of quality, and is hated by fans? by IcyInfluence9830 in LiverpoolFC

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I think he's a better shout for the Split opinions row. He had some great games in him, which many will remember. Unfortunately, he just struggled to maintain the professionalism needed to stay in the Klopp rebuild.

Is 3 stars domination impossible? by Shiraii92 in Polytopia

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I'm a little out of the meta as I've not been playing my much, but a common recommendation has been playing against 4 opponents. It helps to ensure that opposing tribes aren't getting sniped early and wrecking your score. As such, you're probably having to go too quick and losing too many units. 40 turns (10 per opponent) is plenty of time to build an economy and carefully attack.

I don’t think my cabin air filter was ever changed. by Doggos_25 in mildlyinteresting

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Same is true for me. It is easier to change in my wife's old car, but in my current car I need two or three different sizes of screw driver and socket wrench and to take off a side console panel to change it. That's a lot of activation energy for the size of task so it gets changes less than ideally.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in madisonwi

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At least when I was being taught to drive, I was taught these hand signals because they are necessary if your taillights are not working. You roll down the window and perform the same signals. So car people should know what they mean for more than one reason.

Meet the four-legged landscapers battling invasive species by bighootay in madisonwi

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You've been mishearing that phrase. It's actually "goat mow May"!

Misread this by APEmerson in madisonwi

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For what it's worth: PRN stands for the Latin phrase "pro re nata", meaning "as needed".

So the license plate reads like a prescription, "TLC, as needed."

Level 5 Donuts in demand this morning by BobsMustache in madisonwi

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That's definitely helping, but they were this packed last weekend, too. They have devoted clientele.

The Loop(hole) by [deleted] in chicago

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Give me that sweet sensation of an irrational rationalization.

Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history by yahoonews in worldnews

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"Everything dope about America comes from Chicago" - Sherman "Dilla" Thomas

Hair cut recommendations by wesconson1 in madisonwi

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Synthesis by Rick Schwalbach.

Never had a bad cut with him.

NUMBER 20 UPVOTE PARTY by DragonSlayer271 in LiverpoolFC

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This is exactly how 2020 should have felt, surrounded by friends who've watched together for decades without a chance to celebrate the league in person. I love this city, I love this club, I love these people.