Prescriptive standards are useful for houses as contractors aren’t the trained professionals that engineers who build rail infrastructure are. But for engineers, they can design a safe system if you allow them the flexibility to, so descriptive standards just define what safety looks like.

This is a surrender agreement. While it was clear the US lost this war, these terms make it incredibly clear. In some ways, the Iranian regime is better now than before (autocracies don't care about the carnage they incur at home --although we should).

The degenerate gamblers on Polymarket think that Trump is full of shit.

Every journalist knows the goal of headline writing is to use as many words as possible.

Across the US, everyone of all political backgrounds should put aside their differences and come together tonight at 8 to watch massive dudes beat the crap out of each other in a celebration of American greatness. Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final will be on ABC.

So this is what it currently costs to take a Lyft from my home in Jersey City to the World Cup match in the Meadowlands. I’m sure the return trip would be more expensive but really makes the $98 NJ Transit train ticket look like a terrible deal, especially if traveling as a group of 2-4 people.

How far is FIFA going with its brand restrictions? It's the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, not the Levi's Stadium.

"If we were not able to get to your row on this flight, we hope to get to you on the next flight." That's a long time to wait for a Biscoff.

Trump discovering that most countries don't have an equivalent to Fox & Friends because most world leaders don't have time to watch the same TV show every day (and wouldn't get their policy from the show if they did).

We've been on the plane for an hour, the aisle seat is empty, and the guy in the middle seat next to me hasn't moved yet. I can't tell if this is slightly antisocial or excessively prosocial behaviour.

Will the East Wing Ballroom be large enough to host a White House UFC fight? If not, why are we even building it?

Has to be Indiana. (It would be a bit closer if Memphis were the largest metro in Tennessee.)

Trust the science … of historical materialism

Fun fact: The $1,000 Lego Death Star is $900 on Woot right now.

Every now and then a Canadian asks me how Venmo works, and when I explain it to them they look at me like I have a thousand heads. The default in Canada is an "Interac e-Transfer", where you enter the recipient's email on your bank's website and it instantly moves money from your account to theirs.

My take is that you’ll get a lot more hot opinions about Venmo than you’d have gotten if you’d asked about CashApp, because of the demographics of this app

(Taps the sign)

Surely I am not the only one who finds the subject of this piece to be a deeply unpleasant person?

'Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One that the two leaders had “talked a lot about Taiwan”.... “I’ll be making decisions,” he said of the deal, without setting out a clear timeline. “But you know, I think the last thing we need right now is a war that’s 9,500 miles away.”'

Hydro-Québec's rates, especially the heritage pool, are artificially low and act against its own climate goals. They should actually charge market rates domestically, which would increase local energy efficiency and displace even more oil heating and gas-fired electricity in New England and NY.

GameStop shouldn't put an offer in to buy eBay. They should just click the "Buy It Now" button.

There is no compelling reason for the government to bail out Spirit Airlines. It has no assets that couldn't be put to work by another airline and only 7,500 employees. We'd never bail out a struggling retailer, but A&P and Rite Aid both had 4x as many employees when they folded. Why save Spirit?

I dunno. That sounds like quite the escalation to me.

I don't think it's possible for the extra VMTs induced by AVs to offset the safety improvement, as @davidzipper.bsky.social worries. Overall VMTs need to increase many times over to negate the per-VMT safety benefit vs regular cars—even if all transit disappears. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/22/w...

A two-way street can't handle a subway station. You need at least a five-way street, if not a six-way street.

Comrades, rejoice! Due to the great free market Spirit of our President, we will all now share in the prosperity of the People's airline! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Finally, a way to get conservatives to oppose new parking.

Only 36 hours until the American people is liberated from the tyranny of tax preparation ads.

Has anyone asked the Pope what he thinks about land use? Is the Pope weak on building codes? Does Pope Leo believe you can have a single stair to heaven?

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? We can't afford Pope Leo's weak on crime policies. Pope Leo. Wrong for the Vatican. Wrong for America. PAID FOR BY CATHOLICS FOR JD VANCE.

"I had a guy in Oakland that me and all my friends would go to for auto glass after smash and grabs." "That is the most Oakland thing I've ever heard."

Speaking as an involuntary Intel shareholder, it seems pretty clear to me that the President does not at all believe in unregulated capitalism.

I feel like a very easy law to pass would be to not allow delivery and ridehail platforms to offer jobs to drivers while they're in motion, which based on my observations of driver behaviour and humans in general is obviously dangerous.

Losing the war with Iran sets a bad precedent.

I can think of no better argument against a candidate than the candidate having negotiated the taxpayer-fleecing union contracts in Nassau County, New York.

Someone needs to do a study measuring how inflation outrage correlates with proximity to a Dollar Tree. They didn't even have items above $1 until 2021. Now items that were $1 are $1.25, $1.50 and sometimes even $3—and they're already covering the new $1.50 labels to add products that are $3.75.

Something I've been informally following for the past year is the comments section on Fox News articles, and things seem to have taken a pretty sharp turn with Iran. Other actions people here found outrageous were welcomed and cheered (except perhaps Alex Pretti) but anti-war comments now dominate.

Maybe the entire purpose of the war in Iran is Trump's deep desire to enact revenge on John Bolton, who finds himself outside looking in as all the dreams he had for his life come true.

Happy Infrastructure Week to all, even the haters and losers and ayatollahs!

The President seems rather, dare I say, sleepy?

Old people: "Kids these days have no manners!" Also old people: [PLAY VIDEOS ON THEIR PHONES IN PUBLIC AT FULL VOLUME]

What country do you think Trump is going to bomb after Macron gets the peace prize?

(Notably, this is how many DA offices actually work. DAs are generally much more willing than the Feds generally to try to take a marginal case to trial.)

To think that just under six years ago, we were all watching the WTI crude oil April settlement price go negative. It was a simpler, more innocent, more carefree time.

It's so nice to wake up on a weekend morning, stretch, make coffee and turn on the death screen to see what the Mad King is up to now.

Lying on the procedure table and listening to the medical staff talk about how the issue with Raleigh is that the shops and restaurants don't have enough parking, I think to myself "It's a good thing I'm sedated."

I'm just a down-to-earth guy whose grandfather has a 1000+ word page article about his interior design work.