This is emphatically true. I had a delayed flight last week because thunderstorms were going through DIA and the downburst detection was activated. You know where I was happy to be? On the ground, completely safe from downbursts! The delay was merely the visible cost of risk mitigation.

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h ago

also air travel has gotten objectively better yknow what used to happen a couple times a year and no longer happens at all? An airliner would be landing with a thunderstorm within 10-15 miles of the field and the plane would just randomly fall out of the sky

I realize that using a digital medium to document three enduring and insurmountable advantages of the printed page (and e-ink) might seem a bit ironic, but you're welcome to print this article on paper and read it there. My feelings will not be hurt. ⤵️ issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/in-light-o...

In light of the written word

On e-ink, The Onion, and the almost insurmountable advantage physical print will always have in a head-to-head competition with print on a screen

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Ha! I know a fake when I see it: We don't have the technology to build these yet.

Matt Simon@mattsimon.bsky.social · 3d ago

For sale: ventriloquist dummy, never haunted.

For millennia, no degree of power or wealth could buy the simple perfection of a store-brand cheddar cheese cube microwaved atop a Triscuit. I defy anyone to say we're not living better than kings.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

Could someone please explain the logic behind a major tire retailer sending promotional emails *literally* once every three days? No retail customer on the planet needs tires often enough to justify that much contact. Just because email marketing is "free" doesn't mean you have to overdo it.

Not a body temperature. The real-time condition in Des Moines, Iowa. #iawx

For several generations, we’ve been attuned to ideas that made “progress” synonymous with “big, visible technology” -- highways, rockets, and giant buildings. Now it’s time to see and admire the high tech in greener, more incrementalist moves. ⤵️ issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/heat-kills

Heat kills

On Breckenridge, the Dust Bowl, and the need to see the high-tech attraction in softer techniques like green roofs

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The paradox of our safer, easier modern world is that unless we actively create artificial problems for young people to solve, they will end up lacking some of the very experiences necessary for solving the bigger problems of adulthood. issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/be-trouble...

Be troubled at something rather than nothing

On changing tires, 12-year-old apprentices, and the paradox of growing up in an era with fewer basic threats than our ancestors faced

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"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." - Theodore Roosevelt

It's still a decent song, but I think American civic life would be a lot better if millions of people hadn't adopted "We're Not Gonna Take It" as a guiding philosophy. Thanks a lot, Twisted Sister.

I run into this more often than I'd like. Same goes for Bluetooth connections to rental cars. "Leave no trace" is good advice in the wilderness, but it's also good for shared devices.

Lisa Kramer@lisakramer.com · 2w ago

It’s the second time this month that other people weren’t logged out of their streaming services when they checked out of a hotel before my stay. This makes me extra attentive about logging out of my own accounts prior to checkout!

Hypothesis¹: A lot of the turmoil we're seeing inside important institutions² results from people who have grown up with little experience of belonging to institutions where they saw criticism as an act of affection³ for the group. Instead, they act like consumers whose satisfaction is job #1.

We don’t have to be smart to be good, but we would have to be pretty stupid to let the bad get ahead without consequences. issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/decency-ha...

Decency has no barrier to entry

On AI slop, natural curiosity, and the hazard of letting bad people become powerful influencers

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LOL. The "max" in IMAX refers to the dimensions of the screen, not the length of the screenplay.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wait, I thought this was going to be James Joyce's version of the Odyssey. I feel so robbed.

Well, I don't like that.

IEMBOT Des Moines@dmx.weather.im · 3w ago

#SPC issues Day 2 Enhanced Convective Risk at Jul 19, 5:34z for DMX Link

Once in a while, a single post is justification enough to follow an entire account. This is one of those posts.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 3w ago

YOU CAN'T TELL ME NOT TO DRINK FROM THE BROAD STREET PUMP

The whole point of cities is that they agglomerate lots of amenities and opportunities in a single place. The only reason anyone would like a "gritty" city full of dirt and vice is that they want *other* people not to enjoy those same amenities and hope the grit will chase those others away.

Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social · 3w ago

like seriously, the romanticization of "grit" is bad, it's bad for liberalism and it's bad for people and it's bad for families.

Be the kind of person who sets the hotel room clock to the right time.

On S-curves, fire departments, and the mistake that often clouds our judgment looking both forwards and backwards (350 words) ⤵️ issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/the-fallac...

The fallacy of straight-line projections

On S-curves, fire departments, and the mistake that often clouds our judgment looking both forwards and backwards

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Maybe the passengers should be allowed to retaliate.

ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · 3w ago

Air to Ground Message: RAMPERS GOT IN A FIGHT AND DID NOT LOAD BAGS Area: Portland, OR, USA Type: Airbus A321neo A: #a079da25f8d F: #f54e59e7fcc

Any organization is only as good as what its people know. Trying new things, learning from the process, and then applying what was learned isn’t all that complex a concept. But only some institutions are any good at applying it. ⤵️ issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/the-flying...

The flying car will be a Toyota

On joint ventures, lean manufacturing, and the lesson all businesses should take away from watching Toyota try really hard new things

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Right here: archive.org/details/msdo...

Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971...

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Anarchic Squid@leahanelson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Where on the World Wide Web can I find the original version of Oregon Trail? Elle Wood was playing it in Elle (somewhat anachronistically bc that’s set circa 1995 but whatever) and I want to show tween what it was actually like (amazing, perfect).

Ponder this: Revolutionary-Era Virginia produced a huge share of the most recognizable Founding Fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, et al.). But Virginia in 1790 had only 747,610 people, or about the same number as Alaska or North Dakota today. Today's talent pool is so much larger.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 3w ago

I think we would be blown away by how few people there are, comparatively. The Roman Empire in Jesus’s time had a population no greater than 60 million people and was like a third of the global population. England in the 1400s was like two million people.

Very sincerely: Take this advice. Not long ago, I spent a while just staring up at the clear night sky from the Wildcat Hills State Rec Area, a bit south of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. I am not a man prone to epiphanies, but I do not exaggerate when I say the sheer number of stars gave me goosebumps.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3w ago

One aspect of this is why the lunar cycle was so much more important and nobody thinks of it now. Military planners still do, though, for the same reason. But definitely if you're in Wyoming or somewhere like that, go check out the dark skies, it's worth it.

While the strategically (and morally) correct course of action is for allies to pour all the support they can behind Ukraine’s defense, even success by all measurable objectives won’t necessarily stop the Kremlin from desperate and irrational escalation. issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/a-dire-war...

A dire warning

On Finland's bunkers, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and why the world shouldn't overestimate the odds of peace even as Ukraine scores widening victories against Russian aggression

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Were? Make that "are", friend.

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??

Considering all the effort that goes into trying to hunt down AI-generated text, I just want to know where I go to pick up my royalty check. I mean, I've been publishing writing in one place, under my own name, almost daily, for 25 years. Google's scraped it all. www.adweek.com/media/publis...

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

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Voters who want good outcomes have to remember that policy platforms come cheap, but few things cost more than low character in high office. ⤵️ issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/character-...

Character is still destiny after all these years

On Athenian democracy, lucky breaks, and the problem with voting like candidates are merely walking policy manifestoes

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People love to convince themselves that they're voting for policy outcomes, but character really is destiny.

Politico@politico.com · 4w ago

Several of Platner's top advisers pleaded with him to strike a “conciliatory” tone in the announcement ending his Senate campaign. He refused. Instead, he made it a condition of dropping out that he got to assail and blame establishment Dems. 🔗 politi.co/44ENMDX