I’ve lived in Syracuse. Parts of it were awful. Most of it wasn’t. Public transit wasn’t great, but significantly better than some better off NE cities. I could bike to work or walk if I had to. The hills kind of sucked in the evening, and I didn’t like one neighborhood I had to go through, but it wasn’t like it was…

Counter-counterpoint: Nothing works, burn it all down.

Yes, Syracuse University, upscale apartment developers (for the upscale students), and SUNY Upstate Medical are all salivating at the chance to expand their turf.

The water table is too high to do that without enormous expense.

Highways fuel suburban sprawl, incentivize living further away from one’s workplace, thus increasing energy wasted on trips to and from work.

Internet memes can’t melt steel beams.

No one is truly sure, but one thing we do know is that Eric... must... feed, soon.

Most underrated post.

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Well, that’s SOME dead wood out of the White House, anyway...

I don’t understand why Sabi would be surprised Nintendo would want to squash them like a bug. Nintendo is one of the absolute worst when it comes to threatening people or falsely claiming copyright on fair-use of Nintendo properties online, and that’s what it does to people who are doing legal things.

A Danish study from 2018 looked at the full lifecycle cost of different materials used to create bags and scored how often they would need to be reused to have an equivalent impact on the various environmental categories:

I wouldn’t be surprised if a rando couldn’t get it over the plate without a hop. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were off center by 5 degrees or so. I would expect a grown ass adult to manage to throw a pitch that doesn’t veer off by 30 degrees ($0.50 above) or 45-60 degrees (OP)!

Oh, thank god! I’m tired of having to treat these bloody poor people as if they were human beings.

Zelda? We named the dog Zelda!

If you live up north, this will not be sufficient for you unless you buy an inline demand heater. My house’s water supply gets down to 4C in winter. Spring for one with a built-in water heater and air dryer, you’ll never look back.

If you live up north, this will not be sufficient for you unless you buy an inline demand heater. My house’s water…

Low production values, thimble-sized map, looks and feels like a game trapped in the mid 2000s (and not in a good way). But, if you’re a fan of the previous games, you’ll probably like this. There are much better choice out there for everyone else.

No, the EUCJ ruled the UK can stay in the EU as long as the decision is made democratically (good luck with those tossers in Parliament).

Someone in my office like to flush and immediately run out of the unisex bathroom, leaving the door flung wide open and not leaving the exhaust fan running. Everyone and everything in this office is no doubt coated in a fine mist of poo fleckles.

I love snuggling up in a used blanket and pillow on a 15 hour international flight while the child behind me is screaming right into my ear. Hopefully, the germs will do their work quickly.