I've always considered the S-trains to be pretty good -- at least in my experience. At least on par with the NYC MTA that I'm used to.

Collapse is the other end of the spectrum. This is an institution whose practices/policies only serve itself instead of its customers/purpose.

It's progress, taken to its extreme. From a certain point of view it's effectively the same as collapse.

What does that even mean? We're talking about an organization that serves billions of riders per year. Their passenger numbers increased 20-30% since 2020 so even if their delays are bad clearly it's not bad enough that most people seek alternatives.

CNC (and maybe some manual) Machining.

Same here. I worked as a sign maker in high school and I always wanted a CNC.

Sandi is also "moderately retired" -- hasn't done a speaking engagement in 5 years -- a blog post in longer...

Sometimes it's nice to just let people rest and get on with life.

I haven't bought a SATA SSD since NVMe became an option...

I actually learned how to do this by playing the aircraft carrier landing simulator game that was at the USS Intrepid. It's a little more fleshed out but the speed range and altitude is roughly the same. The simulator gave you a light indicator to assist with your approach.

So it was pretty much an arcade port of the NES game? The procedure and numbers are so different IRL that I find it hard to believe someone else would have come up with an almost identical minigame.

Different game. I can't really give you more details. Someone else asked about this before without any good leads: https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/10xx0jv/helpmef...

Also there's no longer really any such thing as an American car. Everything now is some globalized mess of parts from brands here and there. Made in factories wherever is most financially convenient.

It's not just west coast jazz. Music journalists snub their nose at anything that doesn't have the "right pedigree". If it doesn't fit their narrative for what jazz should be, it might as well not exist.

That included decades of Japanese jazz musicians, conservatory-trained session wizards without a hard-luck backstory like Michael Brecker, etc.

As much as modern music sharing/streaming has its downsides, the best thing it ever did was make everything discoverable and make the opinions of gatekeeping assholes irrelevant.

You don't need respect. Respect doesn't even pay the bills. You just need listeners and a way to sell to them.

Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization by:

    Argentina
    Australia
    Austria
    Bahrain
    Canada
    Colombia
    Czech Republic
    Ecuador
    Estonia
    European Union
    France
    Germany
    Gulf Cooperation Council
    Guatemala
    Honduras
    Israel
    Kosovo
    Lithuania
    Netherlands
    New Zealand
    Paraguay
    Serbia
    Slovakia
    United Arab Emirates
    United Kingdom
    United States

but calling them terrorists is biased?

They're military and political personnel. Terrorist designation is a made up political thing as Trump has made obvious. Hezbollah has done nothing that Israel hasn't also done.

Military personal wear uniforms, are clearly identifiable in their operations & movements and have standards of behavior in line with jus ad bellum & jus in bello.