Winter 2021 LC Thread—I Want Sous Vide

Light rail goes from downtown Baltimore to BWI, but I don’t think many people use it. I took it once and it was fine, better than paying for parking at the airport for a week.

I suspect most people here will want to say things about the Catholic Church upon reading this story, but my first instinct is to wonder why we aren’t doing this to Republicans.

The Grindr app and similar hookup apps use mobile device location data to allow users to see a listing of other nearby users of the app, to chat and exchange images with nearby users within the app, or to arrange a meeting for the sake of an anonymous sexual encounter.

Commercially available app signal data does not identify the names of app users, but instead correlates a unique numerical identifier to each mobile device using particular apps. Signal data, collected by apps after users consent to data collection, is aggregated and sold by data vendors. It can be analyzed to provide timestamped location data and usage information for each numbered device.

The data obtained and analyzed by The Pillar conveys mobile app data signals during two 26-week periods, the first in 2018 and the second in 2019 and 2020. The data was obtained from a data vendor and authenticated by an independent data consulting firm contracted by The Pillar .

The Pillar correlated a unique mobile device to Burrill when it was used consistently from 2018 until at least 2020 from the USCCB staff residence and headquarters, from meetings at which Burrill was in attendance, and was also used on numerous occasions at Burrill’s family lake house, near the residences of Burrill’s family members, and at a Wisconsin apartment in Burrill’s hometown, at which Burrill himself has been listed as a resident.

LA and San Francisco laugh at your “hard to get to the airport because I had to take two trains wahhh mask hurt faceee”.

How about you get off your precious train and wait for a bus for 20 minutes which then takes another half hour or more to penetrate airport traffic to get you to your gate? Better hope the bus driver isn’t in a super passive mood that day or killing time for whatever reason.

Because we don’t think being gay is bad, or that people who don’t want it known that they are gay should be outed.

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Once they arrived home, Trask got on top of her in their bed and “then grabbed the side of her head and smashed it several times on the nightstand,” according to the affidavit.

She attempted to grab his beard to free herself, and he began to choke her around the neck and throat, according to the affidavit. She ultimately grabbed Trask’s testicles, which ended the altercation, the document notes, and she fled the Oshtemo Township home.

Wait for it…

Aside from his FBI duties, Trask opened a gym at his rural property in Oshtemo Township near Kalamazoo and offers CrossFit training, according to social media posts and state business filings.

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What’s this “we” business? If I win the lottery, I’m funding an opposition research firm.

Great so those traitors are going to somehow get off because of this moron?

At some point, being an ally means that you have to live your values and not just discard your ally-ship when it’s inconvenient.

My values are that ally-ship isn’t a top priority for me.

Getting trains to airports is a super high priority for planners. It seems like every mid size city with one or two transit lines has service to the airport: SFO, StL, Portland, Seattle.

My experience getting to LGA via MTA bus involved me arriving an hour after my flight. I debated whether to mention I thought the flight was leaving 3 hours later and settled on “yes”.

What I drew from Bas Rutten’s self defense video: Never underestimate the kick to the groin

Agreed. There are a decent number of cities where you can take a reasonable form of public transit pretty directly from the airport to, like, a central business district. The problem is that not everyone is going to/from that area and the transit options to other parts of the city may suck (especially with luggage).

This is apparently real

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One mom wrote us this: “I took my kids to the grocery store a few days after we read one of the Tuttle Twins books about free markets. We were walking down the chip aisle when my son pointed to the 18 kinds of potato chips and said Hey, that’s spontaneous order! I kid you not. My kids know economic ideas that I didn’t even understand until we read the book together. So awesome!”

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you can take bart to SFO

Rahm wanted to do high speed Airport-Downtown trains on top of the existing transit because he was impressed with Shanghai’s airport line.

In addition to the ones you said, I think Copenhagen was pretty good, and Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore were all very smooth.

Ease of access from my accommodations back and forth to the airport does tend to be pretty high on my list of criteria when I’m picking hotels, so maybe my experience isn’t representative of the local experience, but I also too the subway quite a bit just to get around those cities once I was there and found that they were easy to use and almost always got me pretty close to where I wanted to go without too many transfers.

yeah TXL was bad, but not horrible, the S-bahn to bus transfer was relatively painless as far as those things go, and the bus service in Berlin is pretty frequent and pleasant (I was pretty surprised at how helpful german bus drivers were TBH).

london is considerably worse. Heathrow “express” is like 400 pounds and it’s slow as shit and it only goes to … paddington? you can take the tube from heathrow but it’s approximately 900 stops between LHR and city of london.

LAX is weird, the train is adjacent but on the terminal is on the other side of the airport.

There is also a secret way to get to the subway from LGA - walking (also sometimes faster than the bus). A better question is how many US airports can you walk to from your home/hotel… I have also done it from San Diego (actually kind of pleasant) and the old Austin airport. I tried to do it once from San Antonio but it turned out to be impossible lol.

Also Bangor and Anchorage.