Chane Wassanasong 🇷🇺

These are internal org charts from the Texas Department of Transportation (public on their own ftp server). What do y’all see?

What are the odds those tiki torch carrying neo-Nazis from Charlottesville would only rally once? Feels like it was an American intel op against Trump. That’s my working assumption.

Just found out that on 9/11, when the United States shut its airspace, 38 planes got diverted to a tiny town in Atlantic Canada called Gander, Newfoundland. The town’s population at the time was around 10,000 people. Overnight, 6,700 strangers arrived. The population nearly doubled in a few hours. Apparently the town just opened up. Schools, churches, and community halls were turned into sleeping areas. Bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to shuttle passengers. Pharmacies filled prescriptions for free. The ice rink at the community centre became a giant fridge because there was so much donated food. People invited strangers into their homes for showers, meals, and a bed. The passengers were only there for four days. Twenty-five years later, many of them are still in touch with their Newfoundland hosts. One flight raised money for a scholarship fund for kids in Gander. It started at 15,000 US dollars and has since paid out over a million dollars to local students. A musical was made about it called Come From Away. It ran on Broadway for five years. When a reporter asked one of the Newfoundland women why they did it, she said, “You don’t turn your back on people in need.”

The West Campus 7-Eleven still runs a predatory booting operation, charging customers $100+ for even brief parking (e.g. 30 seconds to grab pizza from Roppolo's) We tried filming the new Roppolo's intercom warning, and were quickly approached and lambasted by the booter...

This should be a passenger rail line. There’s no need for freight to go through the middle of downtown anymore. It’s actually terrifying to think about how bad this would be if it was hazardous material freight.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn booster for the first time on the NG-3 mission, marking a major milestone in reusable rocket technology after the booster landed at sea following flight.

Rare aesthetic: American educational institutions

If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.

JD Vance: Trump says to Iran: “If you commit to not having a nuclear weapon, we are going to make Iran economically thrive.”

We need to internalize that we are really bad at most stuff related to the physical economy compared to the Asian baseline, only then can we seriously attempt to get better Jerking off about how sick the SR-71 was is unpatriotic at this point, what we need rn is honesty