@StatisticUrban @sethharpesq I drove past this once and couldn't believe how incredibly bright it was. It didn't even look real sitting out there in the desert.
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John Crouch
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John Crouch
@JCrouchPhoto
✶✶✶✶ Photography. Chicago. Cities. Construction. ✶✶✶✶
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@sethharpesq The US quite literally has one of these in California. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
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To the immiserated proles of the Epstein Empire, this doesn't even look real. In the United States, "advanced" technology is a bumbling Waymo that won't get out of the way, or the Unit 8200 app that scans your face at the airport.
Volcaholic 🌋@volcaholic1
China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures. That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.
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John Crouch retuiteado
hiring is impossible BECAUSE it's so easy to apply
finding a relationship is impossible BECAUSE new dates are a swipe away
getting into university is hard BECAUSE you can CommonApp apply to 50 at once
convenience is washing away friction that actually carried a lot of signal
Tips Excel@gudanglifehack
Claude Cowork can apply to 50 jobs in under 30 minutes. Here's how to set it up.
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John Crouch retuiteado
BREAKING: Center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Chicago Cubs are finalizing a long-term contract extension, sources tell ESPN. Crow-Armstrong, coming off a 30-30 season and a Gold Glove, will get a big payday as the Cubs lock up a franchise-caliber talent.
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12 of my Sweet Sixteen picks advanced.
7 of my Elite Eight teams are still alive.
And my Final Four remains intact.
How'd you do?
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@RelaxingNews @IMAO_ That's all explained in the book, and honestly wisely left out of the movie. This could have been a very exposition heavy film, but they pretty much cut all of that out to great effect.
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Missed that but my largest issue was the close to the speed of light travel all the sudden. We are not even theoretically at 10%.
And the onboard computer. It couldn’t just refresh his memory on the details of the mission? lol.
Especially with AI. He needed a white board and vodka.
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Near the end of Project Hail Mary, I think the computer said it would take four years to get home but I thought he was over eleven light-years away. Did I miss something? Is that some relativity thing?
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@mlb_simulator What does this tell us that wOBA or even slugging pct doesn't?
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What does Est. Bases per Plate App (EB/PA) = 0.75 actually mean?
Example Aaron Judge (2025). Each plate appearance produces 0 to 4 estimated bases:
Strikeouts score 0
Walks/HBP score 1
Batted balls range from ~0-4 (using the in-game model)
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@chrisreedNIU98 @Ecnerwal23 At Hot Doug's I'd get them deepfried and grilled. That was pretty amazing. But generally speaking a grilled dog is 100x the boiled dogs
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@Ecnerwal23 I am with you on this one. One thing I’d add to your “Herb” dog is to grill the hotdog. Grilled hotdogs taste better. Almost anything tastes better grilled.
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Chicago style hot dogs would be better if they took out some/upgraded ingredients
Pickle is unnecessary as there is already a superior version of the pickle on it, neon relish
We don’t want ketchup on it but why is its flavorless father there? No tomato
Grilled not raw onions
Goddess ☁️@sheis_Z
Unpopular opinion about FOOD that’ll have you like this
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@Ecnerwal23 Feels like when I was growing up places had different takes on what their Chicago Dog was. Murphys on Belmont comes to mind here, but over the last 20 years everyone seems to have coalesced. We could use a bit more variety!
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@edwardbrgr If you're going to reshoot the scene, why not re shoot the whole scene to avoid this nonsense?
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The craziest part is I didn’t even notice the editing issue on my first watch in the theater, I only began to notice it when I rewatched it at home while preparing for the Oscars.
From what I understand, the choppy editing comes from the difficulty of blending footage shot by Bryan Singer and Dexter Fletcher. When Fletcher took over after Singer was fired, this was reportedly the only scene he reshot, which likely made the transition even harder to smooth out.
Brooks | 🏳️🌈@brookstweetz
Still amazed that this won Best Editing
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@jc_bradbury It's very good and a good adaptation for the screen. The biggest change is that the science stuff is almost entirely stripped out. It works, but people shouldn't think this is The Martian part 2. It's a human interest story more than sci fi. Something for everyone to love.
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I saw Project Hail Mary in IMAX last night. I read the book when it came out and loved it. Very few changes from the book, and it's an enjoyable film. I recommend.
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@OscarDrTariq After 25 years they should release the vote tallies.
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We’ve been reminded about all the ties in Oscar history. What I would really like to know is how many times someone has won by just a single vote. I’m sure that’s happened multiple times. It would be so fascinating to see that list.
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@McFranchisee @McDonalds When are we getting a McRib McGrddle? Aka the McRibble?
I am actually serious about this.
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🚨 My @McDonalds AMA starts now.
Drop your weird and curious questions below. I’ll answer every non-duplicate serious question (nothing confidential, related to my bank account, or who I am… 🥸).
No DMs - let’s go! 🍔🍟
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@TheCinesthetic Not in my theater. By this point my theater seemed ready for everything to be over and get out of there. It's visually great, but the movie was so terrible that it just lost people's good will after each scene.
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Say what you will about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), but that opening night theater reaction for this moment was insane.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What’s the most epic movie moment you’ve ever experienced in a theater?
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@TheGourdKing @S___Elliott Came here to say the exact same thing. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more faithful adaptation.
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@S___Elliott No Country for Old Men is near-identical to the book. That take makes absolutely no sense.
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Movies are that are better than the book:
No Country For Old Men
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Strangers On A Train
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John Crouch retuiteado
Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.
He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).
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She’s gonna run on “Fix the pensions, build housing, and fuck the CTU” and she is gonna win
Susana A. Mendoza ☮️@susanamendoza10
"One of the greatest threats to public education in Chicago is the union itself and its wrongheaded insistence that CPS focus on political activism over academics. Regular working people have to show up as a condition of employment — so should the CTU." "Reading, writing and math skills are what we’re guessing most parents would prefer their kids’ teachers to emphasize." As any reasonable CPS parent would, I expect my child to be in school on May 1st, learning reading, writing, and math skills.
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@ManaByte It's great but not quite right. Most of the science stuff is stripped out. There are at least 2 scenes that aren't in the book.
I like the choices made for the adaptation, but it definitely has things that were left out.
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Project Hail Mary has everything from the book, plus one small addition that makes it better than the book.
It’s not like The Martian where something like the rover flipping over during the journey across Mars was cut from the adaptation.
Everything is there from the book and it flows great. They added one small scene that the book honestly needed but I understand how it couldn’t have worked in print with how the book was written.
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Their mom left $800,000.
Split equally between four kids.
Simple. Clean. Done.
Except:
One brother had borrowed $60,000 from mom over the years. Never repaid.
One sister had Power of Attorney the last 4 years and managed all the finances.
One brother lived across the country and showed up once.
One sister was there every single week for 6 years.
"Equal" split: $200,000 each.
The one who was there every week got the same as the one who showed up once.
They haven't spoken since the check cleared.
The $60,000 in unpaid loans? "That was a gift," he said.
The sister with POA? Two siblings hired a lawyer to review every transaction.
Legal bills: $90,000.
Net to each sibling after legal fees: $177,500.
"Equal" is a number.
"Fair" is a conversation you should have while you are healthy.
Hypothetical composite example. Not personalized legal or financial advice.
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@pathfinder17m That's not a brick veneer in the traditional use of the word, it's a thin brick that's been sloppily assembled.
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brick veneer is the absolute worst bc it encourages laziness. multimillion dollar bayfront development and they can't be bothered to run the brick to look like an actual arch pattern.
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@AustinTunnell @UrbanCourtyard @pathfinder17m It's 100% thin brick and they've done a poor job of it too. That's atrocious.
You're completely right, most people can't articulate what is off in this image, but they will absolutely feel the imbalance.
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Oh man. I’ve actually never seen this. They either mitered the edges (which would be way harder than laying a normal arch) or it’s thin brick. My guess is thin brick—probably due to buildings themselves not being able to “carry the thrust” of a real arch.
For stuff like this, it would be much better to just build a frame or box beam, or drop in a large lintel, to get the feel.
Most people don’t consciously look at this and understand that it doesn’t actually work tectonically, but they feel it.
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