Dominic Lepore

@SanjayNadaraja @justinskycak Exactly! Univ of Maryland has a wind tunnel and a ….. nuclear reactor! Try that at home! (Actually don’t)

@justinskycak There's no way you could afford access to the scientific labs and equipment and research opportunities that use them on your own.

The cost of college is so out of whack that it would actually be cheaper to hire a personal tutor for every hour you’d spend in a college lecture. Seriously, the math works out: Each semester you have, say, 5 classes, each with 3h of lecture per week? 15h/week? For like 16 weeks? So 240h total per semester? So 480h per year? Round up to 500h? You could hire a $50/hr tutor for all that time and it would run you $25k. Or go find a grad student on campus who’s willing to do it for $20 plus a slice of pizza. Now you’re down to $10k. So the sticker price of college tuition at a name-brand private university is $60k for what reason exactly? Really drives the point home that skill acquisition is not the primary value proposition.

@Rabadash2 i suspect it’s politics more than history but Huntsville, Alabama is where we put the German rocket scientists after WW2.

@CNLiberalism is there literally any reason it was put in alabama other than making libs mad or

Very cool that we created a new branch of the Military, and have now spent nearly a decade moving Space Command headquarters and service members back and forth between Colorado and Alabama, instead of actually focusing on operational readiness.

@fabucat @MatthewSitman Oh my! I saw him at Merriweather in 1989 for $17.50. He did “Should i stay or should i go” as an encore. Epic.

@MatthewSitman I saw Tom Petty play for a $1.00 in 1978. You may bow down before me.

Don't cancel me but I've been listening to Petty and the Heartbreakers 1985 album, SOUTHERN ACCENTS, and it goes so hard

You see so much of this: ignorance plus confidence.

@MargRev Capital Bikeshare racked up over 725,000 trips in October, its sixth straight record month. That indicates a measure of success.

Bike lanes are not about bikes marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

@parisa4justice @ARLnowDOTcom @TakisKarantonis No need, just tear down the Key Bridge Marriott.

@BikeGillian lol. I get this reference!

Candidate on bike > bike on sign Vote @TenleyForArl #1 by June 18 All the voting info you need: vote.arlingtonva.gov/Early-Voting

@frjonathan Over 8 million Americans were born through IVF. That is not a small number.

@HousingSpock True! I’m chief gardener for my local community gardens and 10-20% of gardeners drop out every year. The plots are 10’x20’.

@agileschools All user stories are equal but some are more equal than others

Reading Animal Farm for the first time...and can't help but relate it to corporate "transformations".

@allafarce In their (partial) defense, payroll systems for unionized employees are harder due to unique clauses that require customizing software. Customizations drive up cost and drive down quality.

From a "how do we govern govt technology better?" perspective, I want to understand a lot more here. - Why were the many standard existing SaaS offerings not considered? - What went wrong in the RFP requirements? - How many bids were there / how were they scored?

@beyonddc Our Lady of Perpetual Petroleum will always be there. Saint Sunoco looks over that site.

Arlington's mixed-use church+gas station will become a mixed-use church+gas station+740 residential units HT @a_r_marshall Plans: arlingtonva.us/files/sharedas…

@MoCoMikeE @beyonddc I figure many older people need to hold on to their largest asset to make it through retirement. We should probably make housing a little less attractive as investment.

A beautiful Christmas day ⁦@RosslynVA⁩ - pic taken from DC near the Kennedy Center.

@ggwash Amazing stat that 45% of rides are on electric bikes! They are probably no more than 15% of all bikes available. And they cost extra!

Are you one of the 2,947 "Buttigieg Bikers" to earn a pedal medal in November? Learn more: ggwash.org/view/92007/bik…

@beyonddc This is good information. I did not know even though I’m from here. Metro museum? Cool! And, based on the Metro pop up shop selling out two weeks early, Metro retail would do well.

Today would've been a great day to have that pedestrian tunnel from Gallery Place to Metro Center.

It would be funny if Virginia gave a bunch of money to sports teams to lure them to Potomac Yards …. and then WMATA shuts down the Potomac Yards metro due to lack of funding.

@justindotnet You’re half right - closed to cars up to Washington!

Having the 200 block of King closed to cars looks mighty nice as well….. #JustSaying

@BikeGillian @NPSGWMP Lots of inline skaters today too. Path is too narrow for some of them to stay to the right. I saw a cyclist with a baby trailer have to go in the grass to get by.

It was such a lovely day on the trail, but it's not safe to have that many people on a trail that narrow. Gravely Point is particularly dangerous. @NPSGWMP needs to build the Gravely Point by pass asap and in the meantime needs more signage (both to slow down and stay right)

@sam_d_1995 “If we were so lucky! There was 13 of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road!”

it’s sad how many people are trying to dunk on this like “9 minutes is actually good compared to the rest of America” that’s the whole point! 9 minutes is still bad compared to other countries! trains come every 2 minutes in Copenhagen! We need to do better