Steve Holt

Bunch of Silicon Valley motherfuckers out there like "I love how this bold design totally disrupts the status quo and drags Ferrari into the 21st century." Hey assholes, some status quos don't need disruption

I was surprised to discover there are people actually defending that new Ferrari abomination, and not surprised to discover they are all people who passionately hate the entire idea of the automobile

@samstein @AndyKimNJ Don’t be a communist antagonist!

@North2North @Cubs

If you put on mute he looks like a guy that was just caught robbing a bank and now answering questions by area detectives. @Cubs

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

@JBPritzker Guy running for a third term promises to fix the crisis he created

Illinois is facing a housing crisis. It's time to fix it.

Yeah—he’s cooked. If you ever feel stupid, just remember that Dems really thought this guy was going to be their version of Glenn Youngkin or something.

Is this $200+ billion dollar “high-speed” rail a policy failure? Of course. But if the goal was simply to commandeer tax dollars for distribution to politically-connected constituencies then I’d imagine those with that goal are probably quite pleased.

The food down on the Bayou leads to a fart mid interview with Saints head coach Kellen Moore

Teen suspect tied to 12 attacks in chaotic Austin shooting spree identified as illegal alien trib.al/wECWDjr

Sceptics have long known that rising CO2 & Temperature do not correlate. CO2 is not the cause of warming.

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud. The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted CNN said there was "little evidence." Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud Today: $90M busted and 15 charged. IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

@StatisticUrban Right, the 2% of the USAID money that was laundered would have made a huge difference

New from the NYT: The failure to detect the new Ebola outbreak in a timely manner, can, in part, be tied directly to the destruction of USAID.

Teacher reads comments her 8th graders said. They just keep getting better but her demeanor while reading them steals the show.

@BarstoolChief Yes the traffic will suck no matter what. They should emphasize the Metra train stop is already at this location. They should also work with Metra to having extra train service during game days and other planned events. Call it a Bears express train and slap the Bears logo on it

Let me help with this whole traffic study situation... It's going to suck. If you have to go through that area near ORD where 90 and 294 come together its going to REALLY suck. Having said that...it sucks leaving Soldier Field now. It all sucks. I am tired of all of this

🚨🚨 Today - 15 individuals have been indicted for over $90 million in an alleged massive healthcare fraud scheme in Minnesota, after a sweeping FBI investigation with @TheJusticeDept and our Interagency Partners. These charges involve the two LARGEST Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in this district and first-of-their kind charges involving 7 additional Medicaid programs. As alleged, the defendants defrauded Minnesota public healthcare resources for tens of millions, targeting programs such as Housing Stabilization Services, Child Care, Medicaid programs, Individualized Home Supports (IHS), and more. In one case, defendants even developed a scheme worth over $40 million to target the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) – an autism healthcare program - paying kickbacks to parents who fraudulently used autism centers to diagnose children with autism regardless of medical necessity, and billing for services not actually provided. This not only defrauded taxpayers, but robbed valuable resources from families truly in need. President Trump gave this law enforcement team a mandate to investigate and systematically dismantle this exact kind of public fraud in America – which grossly abuses and mismanages money from hardworking American taxpayers - and that’s exactly what we’re doing. Today’s indictment in a massive moment in this effort. More to come. @DAGToddBlanche @VP @FBIDDRaia @SecKennedy @DrOzCMS

“The UN just walked back its climate doomsday models – after BILLIONS were wasted. ‘Every apocalypse is a business model.’ They used fear to grab your cash, your gas stove, your truck, your burger.” Watch this epic takedown of the climate cult from @greggutfeld. “The UN is backing off after calling you a climate denier, as if questioning the faulty models is like denying the Holocaust. But no big apology, no refund check, no "our bad." Because in the end, they got what they wanted. The motive wasn't the environment, it was greed. The instrument was fear. Once panic becomes an industry, there's no incentive to calm people down. That's why every Dem crisis now comes with a consultant, a nonprofit, a celebrity telethon, and a 900-page spending bill. Every apocalypse is a business model. And for the climate change scammers, no business had been hotter than the end of the world.”

Voter ID laws: Controversial only in the U.S. Senate

@BarstoolBigCat Ownership hired this guy, sat back and watched him screw it up for years now. Why hasn’t George McCaskey fired him by now?

You know Kevin Warren is sitting in Halas right now being like “If they would just let me write one more open letter I can get myself out of this mess”

This is buffoonish. The Founders were not "immigrants". A couple were subjects of the British empire and moved from one mercantile, trading post within the empire to another, such as Hamilton Most were settler lords like Washington and Jefferson. Deeply rooted to their lands, their people, their nation, and its ideas they were indubitably American and were from lines that had been American since the first generations arrived as settlers and painfully carved civilization out of a land of primordial woods full on "merciless savages", as they described the Indians By the time of the Revolution, the great men who led it were in fact so deeply rooted to their lands that most were seen as aristocrats of a sort, or at least as close as Americans ever came to that idea. The Virginians in particular were men of such a sort, and were notable for having merged the dignity, refinement, and personal excellence of the British gentry with the rigors and dangers of the frontier None of that is what immigrants do, and to claim the two are in any way the same is utterly mendacious

President @realDonaldTrump beautified DC Give credit where credit is due.