Edward Distel

@loociddreem @Andrea_Migone @BretDevereaux Pretty sure @romanhelmetguy already explained it - maybe try reading first before responding?

@edwarddistel @Andrea_Migone @BretDevereaux You didn't even make an argument, you just insisted it's clearly this one translation without explaining how you reached that conclusion

Admittedly this is quite funny - fellow runs off to ask AI to prove me wrong, comes back and proudly presents...the AI telling him that "Bret's point stands" and shame-faced is a valid translation. I'm a half-way AI skeptic but...I guess the AI isn't a Bret skeptic? Ok, then!

@Namgal_Sipsclar @Andrea_Migone @BretDevereaux Sorry, what more do I need to explain? That Hephaestus was calling his wife shameless and not the bizarre casuistry Brett is engaged in? Should I email it to you? What part of the text are you struggling with?

@edwarddistel @Andrea_Migone @BretDevereaux Your argument is nothing more than "Nuh uh! You're wrong, actually." How is anybody supposed to engage with that?

Is this a joke? Your/Brett’s argument is (apparently) that Hephaestus was NOT calling his cheating wife shameless; instead some vague academic casuistry that she felt some private secret shame? An argument that contradicts common sense, thousands of years of Greek language history and professional Greek philologist interpretations? Brett’s argument is “well I’m just a Roman historian” and your argument is what exactly? I didn’t staple the counter arguments to your forehead? You contribute nothing to this debate other than vitriol. Just stop.

@edwarddistel @BretDevereaux I still admire your willingness to wade into something you have only the most tenuous of understandings and challenge an expert based solely on what a someone else’s LLM response says. Ballsy, wrong mind you, but ballsy.

@hexane360 @BretDevereaux The text. Have you read it?

@edwarddistel @BretDevereaux What the fuck are you talking about

@Andrea_Migone @BretDevereaux Thanks for such a profound engagement of my argument. Compelling, truly.

@edwarddistel @BretDevereaux Wow… there’s lots of ways to admit you did not read what Bret wrote or you didn’t understand it. You picked doing it very publicly on X; I respect that.

@SolomonforJC @AskTheMayorJC Is this a joke? In 5,000 years of recorded history there’s only ever been one solution to demand: increasing supply. Punishing developers just increases rent. We have another 1,317 days of this clueless administration? God help us all.

It was a pleasure joining David Cruz on @AsktheMayorJC and taking your questions live on the air. Here's my answer to Deidre's great question about how my administration is making developers pay their fair share. Watch the full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=1n9jlK…

@BretDevereaux RHG has a point and I think you should just take the L on this one. Also the constant belittling of him is beneath you. It’s fine to engage in vigorous debate but attacking him or bragging about your degree or reading Ancient Greek does not advance your arguments.

Finally, I must note: the very departments that train these skills are now crumbling as a result of the broad defunding of the humanities in the USA and elsewhere. If we want to still be able to plumb the depths of Greek and Latin, we must support those programs! /end

So this is going to go over RHG's head, but it's a useful point to make: how does a classicist go about digging deep what a word *means* in a given context, or what it might mean? Even to dispute a dictionary? It turns out that we have an established method for this! 1/

@KevinRBing @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams Have you tried searching for an answer in Microsoft Bing? Bada Bing!

35 days ago @Microsoft "migrated" our Teams Phone license. Inbound calls haven't worked since. We're a 79-year-old NJ precision machine shop. Customers can't reach us. Support won't escalate past tier-1. SR# 2603060040006841. Anyone home? @MicrosoftTeams

@BetterBlocksNJ Studying fare evasion patterns via cameras is hardly sentient AI that initiates thermonuclear war to destroy the human race.

All we asked for were full-body fare gates and they hit us with Skynet. PANYNJ is not playing.

@hunterx11 @WillRuckforBeer In what way? a 6:00 min/mile is very different than 6:55 min/mile. You can roughly estimate a person's 5K speed from their marathon times.

@edwarddistel @WillRuckforBeer What on earth are you talking about? Those numbers are all consistent with each other

George W Bush was an avid runner who reportedly ran a 6 min mile so they had to find Secret Service agents who could keep up with him.

@Jack0fAllTradz @WillRuckforBeer No one equates 100m dash with 5Ks and marathons.

@edwarddistel @WillRuckforBeer "If you can run 100m in 11 seconds then you should be able to run a 5k in 9 minutes!" -you

@PrawnFlyer @WillRuckforBeer athlinks.com/athletes/16620… Now let's see yours.

@edwarddistel @WillRuckforBeer Bro, are you really comparing a marathon time to a single mile time or 5k time? Tell me you have never once run a single mile without showing me your pristine 5-year old running shoes

@LizWolfeReason My deepest condolences to you and your family.

King Solomon died yesterday at two and a half months old. We loved him really well, and we don't have any regrets. We got nine days at home with him after 61 days in the NICU. Nine will never feel like enough, but we must accept what is given to us––we were never in control. Let's take stock of all God's mercies, how He worked through people: My OB, who heard my conviction about carrying Sol to term even with his disabilities, and supported it fully, with empathy and respect; the nurses in the Lenox Hill NICU, where he spent the majority of his time, who loved him so tenderly, like he was their own; his physical therapist, who saw extreme hope for him despite his disabilities, and tried to make it so; my mom, who put her own life on hold to come live in New York with us for the whole winter, to watch Zev and keep our household running; Zev, who wanted to wear matching pajamas with his brother each night he was home (and some of the nights Sol was in the NICU), who was eager to come to the hospital with us to play in the lobby even though he wasn't often allowed in the NICU, who chose not to be afraid of hospitals or tubes but to touch and kiss and snuggle his brother whenever he was able; @nwilliams030 and @rSanti97, who camped out at the hospital during Sol's final days so we would never feel alone, who watched Zev whenever our family had to dip back down to Texas; the people who covered us in prayer all over the country. Perhaps most of all, I'm grateful for my husband: He wasn't Catholic or pro-life when we met, but life experience has brought him to these beliefs. They ground us now; his faith is steadfast. He didn't leave Sol's side during those final, hardest days. He doesn't falter. Something tragic happened to our family, but we won't become permanently sad or dark; we really believe in God's promises. We're called to hope, no matter what, and the best we can do is serve our children with everything we've got. That's what we did, and in the process we got to glimpse the goodness of the Lord over and over again.

The policy in those areas is that the stroller must vacate the wheelchair area when a wheelchair user boards. But is that realistic to enforce? Will stroller users actually move? Where to? There's no other space. Is the bus driver supposed to stop the bus? The MTA has a pilot program for a designated stroller area but again it takes NJ Transit about 10 years to replace its fleet for buses. Considering that if I were setting policy for NJ Transit I would protect the wheelchair users as they are the more vulnerable population.

@edwarddistel @NJTRANSIT Many transit agencies around the world allow this. How do they handle it?

Buses in NY/NJ suck for young families. I wish @NJTRANSIT busses were accommodating for strollers, because the rules make you collapse strollers, which is impractical for real families and make bus only areas transit deserts. Two kids, a stroller, 3 hands of shopping. Would waste 10 minutes loading and unloading on a bus and take up 3 seats and be chaos. Compared to rolling onto a train or ferry as-is.

NJ Transit buys the New Flyer Xcelsior XD40, which allows for the space you highlight in this photo. It's not that the Xcelsior doesn't have this space, they do, it's NJ Transit policy. As someone who travels regularly on NJ Transit with a stroller it seems sensible to me - that space is supposed to be reserved for wheelchairs. What happens when a disabled person wants to ride the bus but can't because a stroller is in the way? There are lots of parents with strollers, if strollers were allowed uncollapsed likely people in wheelchairs couldn't ride the bus.

@edwarddistel @NJTRANSIT For the 250 buses we do buy and for the non-coach style buses we do have, allow strollers without collapsing. It's a policy problem, not a funding problem.

@eaconner DC metro shuts down at night for up to 6 hours so let's hold off on handing out awards. Also, Washington DC is really two cities: Washington and DC. The Washington half is very different from the DC half and the Metro mainly serves the needs of the former.

I am frankly envious of how well mass transit works in the Washington, D.C. metro. Not only has WMATA increased its ridership by running more trains, but WMATA and other transit authorities like the MTA are investing in new rail lines. If only PATH and NJT could do the same...

@usatf "We had serious concerns about the long-term precedent that could be set" - why? You plan on mismanaging all your future world qualifying events? It's not possible to hate @Max_Siegel and his 1.1 million dollar salary enough. What a joke! Fire everyone in @usatf leadership.

CEO Max Siegel and USA Track & Field are providing the following update regarding the Half Marathon Championships. Please review the full statement for details: usatf.org/news/2026/upda…