@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social My family is watching the inauguration livestream instead of the Times Square livestream for the new year

In the modern day, the three most serious crimes you can be convicted of are stealing mail, counterfeit money, and pointing lasers at planes. Clearly, not even murder is as serious as those, since people can get away with murder all the time.

There is only one useful thing AI can do, and that is making spreadsheet formulas. Imagine a small language model trained only on the documentation for Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. You tell it what you want the complicated formula to do, and it makes it. Any other feature is unnecessary bloat.

Let me show you the most disappointing shirt I ever bought, this Sahara shirt from Hermitcraft Season 6, circa 2019. We got the gray shirt but didn't realize it would be the exact same color as the text on it. Such an epic design fail I hardly ever wore it.

Problems never come by themselves, which is why good solutions should try to solve two problems at once. For example, everybody knows that "too many homeless people" is a big problem nobody's fixed yet, but if you pair that with "not enough bus drivers" their shared solution becomes plainly obvious.

Does anybody like this building in Providence, or would it be OK to demolish it in my high-speed-rail crayon? They annoyingly put it right in the way of moving the rail line back to the original Union Station location, making it harder to reuse the abandoned rail tunnel for my Providence Light Metro

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

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Has anybody other than me ever done the New Brunswick Shuffle (Suburban Transit 100 to NJT NEC to SEPTA TRE), the West Trenton Shuffle (SEPTA WTR to NJT 608 to NJT NEC), the Marble Hill Shuffle (MTA 1 to Hudson Line), or the New Rochelle Shuffle (change between Metro North and Amtrak at NRO) before?

On my big trip last week, I rode 461.53 miles of transit, not counting the GoBuses from Alewife to New York or the Amtrak from New Rochelle to Boston. I think my favorite train I rode was the Hudson Line express train at sunset, and my favorite restaurant I ate at was the pizza shop in Far Rockaway.

MBTA my beloved, it's been like 2 weeks since I've seen you!

Today I gave GAMwolferz a tour of New York for his 30th birthday, and I showed him cool things like the JFK Airtrain, the TWA Hotel, LIRR Rockaway and Atlantic Branches, the G train and a R46 N train on Second Av Subway. We had lunch at Central Pizza in Far Rockaway, and it was delicious and crispy!

You knew the New Haven Shuffle? Well, the New Rochelle Shuffle is the new shuffle to do!

I think the best experience I've had on my entire trip has probably been eating the traditional Christmas dinner (Chinese takeout) on the Hudson Line express train at sunset. It's simply unmatched! The only thing that would've made it better is if I'd had three or four of my closest friends with me.

Fun fact: you can easily save money on Metro North tickets by getting on outside Manhattan. For only $2.90, $11.25 can become $6 if you go to Marble Hill!

youtu.be/x_-mGs7SDc0 This is my favorite Christmas movie. I watch it every year.

Help! I still have two more days left on my trip

In my experience, the best way to get NJT tickets is the app, which usually spends the entire ride buffering, and if you get it past that, the PayPal window also buffering. I have a great idea for a generator that makes a fake animation of the NJT app buffering as if you were trying to buy a ticket.

This stop, Forest Hills. Orange Line and bus connection. Transfer is available to the Long Island Rail Road.

Big news: the Norristown High Speed Line is officially light rail. I asked the driver if it was light rail or heavy rail, and they said definitely light rail, and they were a light rail operator rather than a heavy rail operator. That settles all debate.

From Center Philadelphia to Bala Cynwyd town, A minuscule commuter train just six miles can be found. It's the shortest regional rail route and a rather odd design, It's the one-car Silverliner on the SEPTA Cynwyd Line!

Today I will ride the Cynwyd Line

Another big day today! I went with Honaj on a ferry, a microtransit, and the HBLR to have lunch. He then convinced me to take a bus to New Brunswick in order to Trenton Shuffle my way down to Philly.

One last one of these as a souvenir

Today I met up with a huge group of friends and we rode the Holiday Train a bunch, as well as the 7 out and back (though one guy accidentally took the D to the Bronx). For dinner, Honaj brought us to Upside Pizza, which is one of his favorite spots.

Amtrak Trivia: what Amtrak stations have Solari Boards?

I love cool sunset rainbows

I'm on an intercity bus from Alewife that stopped at Riverside. I wonder if it could be used in an MBTA subway speedrun.

Apparently, I've just gotten the tragic news: the Amtrak Stromboli has fallen, and now billions must macaroni

This was my favorite item in the store I worked, by which I don't mean the things I usually got, but the thing that represents me and what I stand for. The Leap-Year Grain stands for calendar trivia and inventory shenanigans. To thank me, the manager put on a price override to make it cost 29 cents.

And with that, I am now unemployed!

Fun fact: there is a station in Chicago with my name hidden in it!

I have an idea for how my boss can find someone autistic enough to replace me when I leave: ask the last interview question as something only an autistic can answer convincingly, like "Tell me science facts for 2 minutes" or "What would you do if you were in charge of the MBTA with unlimited money?"

Here is how Johnson could have won the Vietnam War: instead of sending in the troops to an unwinnable fight and lying to the public that it was going fine, just don't send any troops but still say it's going fine if asked, then change the subject. The reaction to a fake war would probably be better.

www.youtube.com/@Decopunk1927 I am just a few away from 800

The TTC Finch W Tramway is a walking disaster and the Montreal REM is a runaway success.

I have been waiting for a bus for 30 minutes because of a false prediction it was 15 early, and then it abruptly changed to 15 late instead.

Here's a chart of all the weather Boston's ever had

Connrail is a nationalized railroad run by the Regional Parliament of New England, and it's the whole reason New England has a Prime Minister appointed by its 6 governors to help coordinate regional affairs! In 1959, Connecticut bought the bankrupt railroad without asking the other states it served.

Here is my very informative song about the history of congestion pricing in New York. It is also the world's longest vocal cover of the Link to the Past credits theme. youtu.be/TMHfmWN-uVA

My birthday present to you guys is RRR&R 16/5 and its song youtu.be/EaecMsXbokY youtu.be/TMHfmWN-uVA

Tomorrow is my birthday! On the same day three years ago, I rode the opening of the Green Line Extension from Medford, and tomorrow I will ride it again before having lunch at Kelly's Diner

www.emdx.org/VieuxRoot-20... I have found a very cool old website about Montreal-area transit

not the top-voted reply, but this is a hilarious way to troll white people

The official name of my NYC through running plan is "The Greatest Commuter Rail In The World!"

From my trip to Springfield this week, I think my final opinion on it is: if you really want to visit a non-Boston city you'd usually be better off going to Providence instead because it's way easier to get to.