@mouse_math I remember Ångstroms. I remember when the nautical mile was not a metric unit.
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me myself and iPhone
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me myself and iPhone
@timehack
aka Tom Moloney-Harmon. He/him.
Maryland, USA انضم Mart 2009
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anyone out there old enough to remember when we called Celsius "centigrade"?
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Trump is holding aces and eights and he's feeling lucky.
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Le plus vieux pont de Paris s'appelle le Pont-Neuf.
En 1578, Henri III pose la première pierre d'un pont révolutionnaire. Pas en bois, comme tous les autres. En pierre. Sans maisons dessus. Avec les premiers trottoirs de Paris.
Les guerres de Religion stoppent tout. Pendant dix ans, le chantier dort.
C'est Henri IV qui termine. En 1607 : 238 mètres, 12 arches. Premier pont à traverser la Seine d'une seule traite en passant par la pointe de l'île de la Cité.
Pour la première fois, les Parisiens voient la Seine. Les autres ponts ressemblaient à des ruelles sombres. Celui-ci offre le ciel.
Il tient depuis 419 ans. D'où l'expression : "se porter comme le Pont-Neuf".
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@Ferngully821 @Os_poems Per your definition, EVERY interstate is “intrastate” since it materially lies within one state or another. The only “inter” part are the molecular bonds across the infinitely thin state boundary.
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@Os_poems Last time I checked, I-695 is 100% in Maryland; therefore, it cannot be "interstate" - it would be "intrastate."
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Do you dumbasses forget this bridge is part of an INTERSTATE HIGHWAY
Loong Faht Dhong@LoongFahtDhong
@Os_poems Ah yes because the tax payers in Florida deserve to pay for your fucking bridge. Maybe that should be handled at a state level and get absolutely minimal funding from the federal government!
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@BrentToderian I look at them and I see ALL THOSE CARS that aren’t clogging up the road I am on
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If you’re in your car in traffic and you see people moving smoothly on bikes in a protected bike-lane, or a full bus zooming past you in a bus-only lane, sure you could be mad at them for moving faster than you, or you could be someone who understands geometry and knows that providing mobility choices that take less space makes getting around cities better for EVERYONE.
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Safe, protected bike-lanes are:
Better for business
Better for emissions
Better for air quality
Better for public health
Better for noise
Better for space
Better for equity
Better for affordability
Better for public cost
Better for safety for EVERYONE
Better for oil independence
Better.
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This is the kind of content that keeps me on Twitter
George Marshall@GJMarshy
I promised a Europe vs UK comparison. 👇Here it is 🤯The difference in central density between Paris & London is striking. The other massive stand out is Brussels vs the likes of Manchester/Birmingham.
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@otokyo__ Stay to the right unless passing…and ONLY pass on the left (right-side driving countries only; reverse the rules lfor those of you driving on the wrong side).
Yes, I know, that’s two driving tips (four, arguably). But they are joined at the hip.
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@humantransit Also, everyone I disagree with is in a “cult”
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This critique of bike sharing is the same nonsense that we hear about “empty seats on buses”. There is not much marginal cost to the surplus capacity, and the capacity means we can handle surges. The low cost of surplus capacity is what makes these modes resilient.
Sam E. Antar@SamAntar
On average Citibikes are idle 98% of the time and even when used they can only transport one person at the time. This is what the cult calls “mass transportation.”
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@M_Zagravsky Yabbut even in Beijing you can get “Peking Duck”
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Меню в ноттінгемському пабі. Зверніть увагу на написання назви Києва. Все правильно зробили
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@atrupar @MalcolmNance I believe the Iranians have hired David Dennison to handle their end of the negotiations
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Q: Who is Steve Witkoff speaking with in Iran?
TRUMP: A top person
Q: Who is it?
TRUMP: I can't. I don't want them to be killed
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@warriorsger The Celtics knew where all the dead spots were in the old Boston Garden and would steer their opponents into them in order to steal the ball. Seth would have sussed that out pretty quickly.
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@AlexTran677026 She won me (and perhaps the Oscar) with the “Here’s to the Fools” scene, one of the bravest cinematic performances I ever saw.
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Emma Watson wasn’t cast in La La Land (2016) due to her crazy demands while choosing Beauty and the Beast.
She asked for a raise and wanted rehearsals moved to London — impossible for the Los Angeles production.
Emma Stone took the role instead and went on to win the Oscar.
Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬@AlexTran677026
Best dance scene in movies?
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@Kasparov63 To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, it is difficult to get a person to understand something when their ideology depends on them not understanding it
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People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is?
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@HalfwayPost @wbmosler I’m sorry, its just shitty writing when the plot elements fall together so neatly like this
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BREAKING: An extremely MAGA televangelist from Mississippi who claimed that God was using Donald Trump to start the Iran War so that the Biblical Apocalypse could begin and Rapture up all the Christians just got arrested for running a meth lab in the basement of his church.
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May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.
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