Interesting! I’ll have to check it out next year. Will be sure to go like the first weekend of Oct to avoid the peak as best I can. Thanks for the info!

Ah, yeah I saw no tables at all. It was beautiful though.

+1 for Portland! So incredibly easy — you just go to north station, park yourself on the air conditioned Amtrak, and next thing you know you’re in Portland. Getting from the Portland amtrak to downtown/Commercial St is a bit of a pain (I walked there and back, and my legs dearly paid for it), but by and large it’s a simple trip and there’s lots of fun stuff/vibes in the summer.

I went the weekend after Halloween. Best decision ever. Highly recommend.

Ever year—especially post-covid—this becomes more embarrassing. How many realms of life do you actually need a physical card for nowadays? Credit cards, gym cards, library cards—all of these have been outsourced to digital functionality. It really shouldn’t be that hard for transit to do the same (and it doesn’t even need to be tied to your credit card like NYC—you can just have a virtual card that can be reloaded with funds whenever you want).

I traveled 50 years into the future just looking at this.

The vast majority (if not all) public health professionals I’ve heard have acknowledged that COVID is endemic at this point, much like the flu. The issue seems to be whether we should allow each iteration to continuously demand public policy interventions, despite the free availability of vaccines and the clear centering of hospitalizations around children and the elderly (again, much like the flu).

I wonder how many of these we can expect to get in a given interval of time, say a month. Perhaps λ = 3?

Great shot. Still water makes sunset pics so much more eye popping.

Fascinating stuff. I’m real glad we have this, as opposed to having to bite down on a rag or be knocked out.

This is incredible English! I took a few years of German, und ich niemals etwas so klar in Deutsch schreiben könnte. We welcome you with open arms!

Sounds like some futuristic voice from Wall-E. BRING BACK FRANK!

Lol, just imagining OP innocently arriving at Mass & Cass with a yurt—eager and full of possibilities—only to realize the actual truth of the situation.

At least once a population becomes embedded in secularism, it’s exceedingly hard to revert back. Maybe not governmentally (see Iran 1979) but for the population itself. I don’t think we’ve seen an example of that in history (not least because widespread secularism is new) but I could be wrong. Religion needs parents to propagate down the generations, so once you cut that off, it withers and withers. Most religions throughout history have not a trace left.

Anyway that’s just my philosophical rambling.

Yeah, unfortunately memetics doesn’t work in our favor here. Religions that have ideas condoning spreadability and “till I die”-adherence are the ones that will climb highest in the race for frequency (I could’ve phrased that better but yeah).

Across all those years, I genuinely what their “conversion rate” is. How many people have actually said “you know what, I think I’m called to be a Jehovah’s Witness. Time to turn down a blood transfusion if I ever need it!”

Incredible. We have the benefit of science to know what this is but imagine being a 16th century sailor and stumbling upon one of these. Must’ve been so puzzling.

Glad you found it useful!

That’s my thinking. It’s hard to believe because there’s no adjacent buildings. You just this floating lighthouse out of nowhere.

Such a cool sight.

Interesting! I always imagined the titanic struck the iceberg at night—in the darkness—but I guess I was wrong.

Harvard wants to move to Boston? How’d they do that? Opening up a separate campus and “domiciling” there?

We got our clear day! Here’s a side-by-side.

The smoke from the orange line probably just tainted it into a brown color.