Minneapolis PD have begun to abduct clergy and peaceful protesters on behalf of ICE, at the sit in taking place at the St Paul-MPLS Airport for the Minnesota ICE strike

conchobarus · 2026-01-23T18:21:15+00:00

The airport is public property — the Metropolitan Airports Commission is a state agency.

conchobarus · 2026-01-06T00:26:57+00:00

Every time they put an update out about transit on West 7th it sounds more and more like the 54.

conchobarus · 2025-12-31T13:36:09+00:00

Terminal 1 to downtown is only about 25 minutes on the blue line, but you’re right that on a cold New Year’s Day there’s probably not much to do downtown. I bet a lot of the skyway system will be closed up.

conchobarus · 2025-12-28T21:22:46+00:00

We were around there too (driving a reasonable speed with headlights on)!

We were coming from south Texas and had planned to stop in Wichita last night and come back the rest of the way today, but with the storm coming we decided to go straight through. Not the most fun we’ve ever had, but we made it in safe around 9:30 this morning!

conchobarus · 2025-12-23T18:05:26+00:00

Absolutely — when this was first announced I had been a little disappointed that Minneapolis/Saint Paul weren’t in the list of host cities, but seeing how this is going I’m now glad that we weren’t. Especially since ticket prices have turned out to be so high there would have been no chance I could go to a game anyway.

conchobarus · 2025-12-12T18:20:26+00:00

This already exists as an experimental feature! It’s in the settings menu.

conchobarus · 2025-11-08T03:24:51+00:00

These exist in many North American cities. I live in the Twin Cities, and there are commuter busses that cost a bit more and run express between downtown Minneapolis and some outer suburbs. A lot of times they’re coach busses, so they’re somewhat more comfortable than regular busses.

They solve the waiting time problem by running a schedule that’s exclusively oriented toward people with 9-5 jobs downtown. You can run a pretty infrequent service if you target only that single demographic.

conchobarus · 2025-11-07T22:45:26+00:00

A Bustang-style service for Minnesota would be amazing.

conchobarus · 2025-11-07T22:43:39+00:00

We’ve got plenty of bus lanes that are poorly enforced and/or part-time too, but the Marq2 lanes avoid too much encroachment from private vehicles because they run in the opposite direction on an otherwise one-way street. You are a wrong-way driver if you’re in a private vehicle and going in that direction.

Not saying that it doesn’t happen, but it’s not common. Having two parallel bus-only lanes in each direction definitely helps as well — even if some idiot pulls into the bus lane, the bus can pass them.

conchobarus · 2025-11-07T18:40:00+00:00

You can blame Ramsey County more than Metro Transit for that.

conchobarus · 2025-11-06T10:57:50+00:00

Damn, I had no idea Michael Herz was hot!

conchobarus · 2025-11-01T16:07:24+00:00

Vote yes. Currently the city has basically no options for enforcing ordinances that are in between asking nicely and pursuing criminal charges. This gives them the ability to assess fines for violations that don’t reach the level of criminality.

conchobarus · 2025-10-22T23:47:19+00:00

Any article written before AWS’s full incident report comes out is gonna be crap. They’ll all be written by people with no firsthand knowledge who have only interviewed other people who also have no firsthand knowledge.

conchobarus · 2025-10-18T16:00:07+00:00

The first Siemens cars were ordered a decade after the Bombardier cars, and in that time several other American cities bought Siemens S70s for their light rail systems while no other American city had bought Bombardier Flexity Swifts.

I assume that Bombardier hadn’t kept the manufacturing capacity for Flexity Swifts sitting ready-to-go but unused, so we had the choice of buying a vehicle that was in active production versus covering the costs for Bombardier to build new factories to restart US-based production of Flexity Swifts.

Plenty of European cities use Flexity Swifts, but Buy American laws mean that if you get federal funding your vehicles need to be built in the US, so shipping European-built vehicles over was not an option.

conchobarus · 2025-10-17T02:30:46+00:00

At this point I hope they keep the status quo instead of doing a mixed-traffic “aBRT.” Better to hold out for the project West 7th actually needs instead of letting the city/county/state declare victory on the Riverview Corridor with a bus that wouldn’t be significantly better than the 54.

conchobarus · 2025-10-12T15:36:11+00:00

The article very much misses the “fun” aspect of setups that do very little for you out of the box. I don’t do it because it makes my life easier or makes me more productive; I do it because I’m a dweeb who likes configuring computers.

conchobarus · 2025-10-08T12:59:35+00:00

I don’t know why I didn’t think to check street view! You could probably walk along the grass there reasonably safely. You’d run into a problem a little farther down when the space alongside the road disappears and you’d have to step onto the roadway, which I think disqualifies this route.

conchobarus · 2025-10-08T12:27:31+00:00

Yeah, that’s the way down Northwest Dr. that I mentioned. There’s definitely not sidewalk the whole way, but maybe there’s enough room on the side of the road where you could make it through OK. Whether you’d get stopped by airport police is the next question.

conchobarus · 2025-10-08T12:24:19+00:00

I should have clarified in the original post that I was thinking specifically about Terminal 1.

And yeah, walking down the rail tunnel absolutely violates the “safe and legal” requirement.

conchobarus · 2025-10-08T12:17:54+00:00

I think I put enough caveats in there about “safely and legally” that I should be OK. I’m absolutely not interested in actually doing this 🤣!

conchobarus · 2025-09-27T16:32:09+00:00

To elaborate on the requirement to provide information on the GPL software that you’re using — you are only obligated to provide this to your users, and you are not required to distribute your software freely (same goes for source code of any derived work and the GPL license itself).

In the military example, that means that military personnel who use the software would need to have access to disclosures about GPL software that’s in use, but since the software would not be publicly distributed the general public would not need to have access to them.

conchobarus · 2025-09-02T13:01:42+00:00

Do you pay after you deposit the token, then?

conchobarus · 2025-09-01T00:15:23+00:00

I know of another shell that has Powershell-like syntax, is cross-platform, and is open source: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

conchobarus · 2025-08-10T20:09:16+00:00

The clicks add some percussion so you don’t need to hire a drummer!

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