Duke87

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Transportation geek. Classic video game nerd. Engineer brain is autism brain. (He, Lui)

a cobrahead streetlamp by the side of a city street with three small ALPR cameras mounted high up on the metal pole
The famous photo of Andy Card whispering in George W. Bush's ear on 9/11 with superimposed text that says "Sir, a second Mitch McConnell photo has hit the internet"
The agency said Rapp and a fellow bicyclist were riding on a local road when Medina passed them in his car, stopped, and drove his vehicle in reverse. Medina then hit Rapp, and she was pronounced dead after emergency responders brought her to a hospital.
A screenshot of a newspaper clipping from The Simpsons with Abe Simpson shaking his fist at a cloud behind a bunch of smoke. The headline above reads "Old Man Yells At Smoke"
The allegations published yesterday that Senate nominee Graham Platner sexually assaulted a woman are different from the previous scandals. For one, they’re credible, based on Facebook messages from well before Platner entered politics. They’re also the first time Platner has been publicly accused of sexual assault. That crosses a line that tattoos, sexting and Reddit posts just do not. Last month I said of the Platner campaign that “People are done with the clean-cut types who’ve harbored ambitions for political office since they were on high school student council” — I stand by what I said completely. Evidently Maine voters agreed, going on to vote for Platner by a huge margin. But that doesn’t mean they’re willing to look past sexual assault, which again, crosses a line.
MODELS EZ09 EZ12 EZ16 VOLTS 208 / 230 208 / 230 208 / 230 AMPS (COOL) 3.87 / 3.57 5.10 / 4.61 6.68 / 6.11 BTUH COOL (STANDARD RATING) (1) 9,400 / 9,600 12,200 / 12,200 15,000 / 15,200 BTUH COOL (EXTENDED RATING) 6,000 - 11,800 9,000 - 15,400 9,000 - 17,000 WATTS COOL 805 / 820 1,060 / 1,060 1,390 / 1,405 EER(1) (2) 11.7 / 11.7 11.5 / 11.5 10.8 / 10.8 EER Range 12.7 - 10.3 12.0 - 11.1 12.0 - 10.6 BTUH HEAT (STANDARD RATING) (1) 8,500 / 8,800 11,800 / 11,900 13,600 / 13,800 BTUH HEAT (EXTENDED RATING) 5,606 - 11,475 6,995 - 16,187 6,995 - 16,187 AMPS (HEAT) 3.4 / 3.1 4.7 / 4.3 5.5 / 5.1 WATTS HEAT 695 / 720 960 / 970 1,160 / 1,170 C.O.P. (1) (2) 3.6 / 3.6 3.6 / 3.6 3.4 / 3.5 C.O.P. Range 3.66 - 3.58 3.90 - 3.47 3.70 - 3.55 CFM HIGH COOL 420 470 470 CFM LOW COOL/HEAT 290 360 360 NOISE INDOOR/ OUTDOOR (DBA) 42/50 46/52 46/52 SHIPPING WEIGHT (LB) 119 / 106 123 / 110 123 / 110
View out the front window of a subway train just as it's reaching the Court St IND station on the south side track. The station wall is to the left with white tiles and green stripe. The platform is to the right with columns painted bright red.
A photo of the inside of an open gangway R211T subway train operating on the IND Crosstown Local (G) at Court Square
A screenshot of Captain Shang and Mulan from the movie Mulan edited to show them holding a pride flag. Underneath it, text reads "LGBT actually stands for Let's Get down to Business To defeat the Huns"
A meme saying "the myth of consensual ceasefire" as the top text. In the middle the heads of Donald Trump and Ayatollah Khamenei are shown saying "I consent" while the head of Benjamin Netanyahu is shown saying "I don't!". The bottom text reads "isn't fhere somebody you forgot to ask?"
Glyphosate-based herbicides are most commonly associated with agricultural use and weed control. Yet land managers, including the US Forest Service, also spray forests. Roundup is effective for suppressing invasive species, but also any native ones that might compete with commercially valuable conifers, which are less susceptible than broadleafs to the herbicide. Spraying is often done in areas that have recently been logged or burned in wildfires.
The logo of Iarnrod Eirann (Irish Railways) mashed up with the logo of Ironmaiden. It features the green, white, and orange double-arrow shape off the Irish Railways logo and then, to the right, "Iarnrod Maiden" rendered in the Iron Maiden font.
Does that look like spit to you? Burger Punk!
Amtrak Southwest Chief Train 4 stopped in Albuquerque, viewed from the front starboard side from an island platform. To the right is a large adobe-style sign reading "Albuquerque New Mexico Alvarado Transportation Center". The sky is mostly cloudy but a few patches of blue are visible.
An Amtrak Superliner sleeper roomette, with the bedding turned down
An meme saying "the myth of consensual ceasefire" with the heads of Donald Trump and Mojtaba Khamenei saying "I Consent" and the head of Benjamin Netanyahu saying "I don't!". Under all three heads is the additional text "Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?"
Marvin the Martian from Looney Toons
An image of a couple of missiles being launched from ground-based artillery with overlay text that says "I am not a toy to be abandoned after a month when you get bored. I am a multi-year commitment. Please think before getting someone war for Christmas.
A screenshot of the Amtrak app showing a sale on Auto Train tickets for "as low as $39 plus the cost of your vehicle"
Table of diesel car emissions standards in Europe, all values in grams per kilometer. Summary of Hydrocarbon plus nitrous oxides and particulate matter standards as follows. Euro 1, effective January 1993, max HC+NOx 0.97, max PM 0.14 Euro 2, effective January 1997, max HC+NOx 0.7, max PM 0.08 Euro 3, effective Januay 2001, max HC+NOx 0.56, max PM 0.05 Euro 4, effective January 2006, max HC+NOx 0.30, max PM 0.025 Euro 5, effective January 2011 max HC+NOx 0.23, max PM 0.0045 Euro 6, effective September 2015, max HC+NOx 0.17, max PM 0.0045
A photo of Huntington Street in New London Connecticut, where across the street there are four painted white wooden-sided buildings in a row, each of which has four Ionic columns across the front. The sky is gray and the edges of the street are lined with remnants of melting snow. It's a wide street with double yellow lines down the middle but there is little traffic passing.
A screenshot of The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 9 (Itchy and Scratchy and Marge) with Italian subtitles on. The subtitles on screen show news anchor Kent Brockman saying "Eccovi un esempio del lavoro prodotto ai G & F Studios." & is HTML code representing an ampersand, it is supposed to display as one and not as this code.
A screenshot of the ADS-B website showing a plane with "no callsign" and a photo of Air Force One drawing a portrait of a man wearing a suit and tie with its route trace, off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida This aircraft flight pattern is not actually occurring, someone is broadcasting fake location data to the ADS-B system.
Donald Trump flipping someone off
A photo showing a pedestrian overpass over a four-lane highway, as viewed from the highway. On the overpass people are holding up large white letters on black backgrounds stretching about 2/3 of the width of the highway. The first line reads "RIP RENEE", the second line reads "BELIEVE UR EYES NOT DHS LIES"
A couple members of the National Guard standing around doing nothing next to the McDonald's in DC Union Station
a photo of a black counter which is mostly bare except for two mostly empty baskets of snacks. Below the counter are two mini-fridges full of small water bottles and a bunch of locked faux-wood panel cabinets. Behind the counter is a white wall bare except for outlets and the Amtrak logo. In front of the counter is a yellow speckle tiled floor.
a screenshot of the website of New Orleans RTA showing the realtime position of a 202 bus heading for the airport
Logged travel stats for 2025: - 243 logged travel segments - 37,707 kilometers - 1 country visited - 332 hours in transit - 232 stations or other travel waypoints - 3,703 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions
An image of Homer Simpson drooling with text at the bottom that says "Mmmm... Danish"
A photo of the dashboard of a 2017 Ford Focus with the odometer reading 100,000 miles exactly. It is nighttime so the display and dials are all lit up.
A photo of a round sticker that says "I voted today" in the middle with white stars on a blue background above and red and white stripes below. The sticker is affixed to a red, white, and black plaid flannel shirt.
A BlueSky screenshot showing a reply to a message that simply says "Post Blocked" with no other information provided
A package of Baby Einstein books. On one side, the letters of the name Einstein are jumbled about in black on a white background, all in lowercase. Towards the top of the box, an s, an e, and a t are all lined up, but the stem of the t is cut off by the edge of the box and the letter is oriented such that this makes it resemble an x
A Rugrats screenshot showing Chas looking at a store directory with a bunch of goofy items on it such as "Flies", "Gila Monster", and "Grubs". Visible in the rightmost column in "Vibrato" with the o cut off at the edge of the screen.
A screenshot showing Didi Pickles packing a suitcase for a trip to the Grand Canyon in Stu's home movies
A photo of a sink inside of a train restroom that is completely covered by a flat sheet of metal. Right above the sink is a sign which says, with red letters on a white background, "this sink is intentionally not in service, please use hand sanitizer"
When asked about multi-level schools as a way to reduce land consumption, the architect of a large Midwestern firm specializing in school construction responded: “We don’t believe in three-story schools. Kids can fall on the stairs. So they’re considered a liability.”
In Garden City, a predominantly white suburb on New York's Long Island with a median home value of around $1 million, a typical residential tax bill is around $10,000 to $15,000, property data shows. Down the road in Hempstead, where 88% of residents are Black or Latino, homes tend to be worth less than half that. But the typical tax bill is similar, meaning Hempstead homeowners pay proportionally more in taxes relative to the value of their homes.
The face of a tabby cat illuminated solely by a bright white screen directly in front of it. To the left of the screen, a blue Game Boy Advance SP is somewhat visible. Between all three, a small section of grey bedsheet is also lit by the screen. The rest of the photo is complete darkness.
A screenshot of Google Maps satellite view showing two adjacent train icons for the station in Lecce, Italy. One is marked "Less busy than usual", the other is marked "Busier than usual".
The central feature of Project Texas is our work with Oracle to isolate the TikTok services serving U.S. users within Oracle’s U.S. cloud environment as an additional safeguard. Although gateways to the storage infrastructure are strictly monitored and controlled, U.S. users of the TikTok platform can still communicate and interact with global users for a cohesive global experience.
SEC. 203. RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT. No court of the United States may issue a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order against the Federal Government (other than a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order issued in a case proceeding under title 11, United States Code) if no security is given, in an amount proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by the Federal Government, when the injunction or order is issued pursuant to rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure after the date of enactment of this Act. No court may consider any factor other than the value of the costs and damages sustained when making its determination of the proper value of such security, and that determination shall be appealable upon issuance of the preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order under an abuse of discretion standard.
The logo from the defunct retail chain Nobody Beats The Wiz
Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, the company's AI research lab, said in a recent interview that he believes publishers will want to feed their content directly to AI models to facilitate this and some may not bother putting that information on websites for human beings to read. "I think things will be pretty different in a few years," he said.
The cover art to the Rage Against the Machine Album, "The Battle of Los Angeles"
Munich is 29.0% less expensive than New York (excluding rent). Rent in Munich is, on average, 58.7% lower than in New York.
A standard green Miami-Dade Transit EasyCard, an L.A. Metro Tap Card with a 2023 Armenian Genocide Remembrance Design, and a standard blue Bay Area Clipper Card resting atop a protective plastic page intended for storing trading cards. Paper tickets from Minneapolis-St Paul Metro Transit are partly visible at the top of the photo.
a large ad in the gate area of JFK terminal 8 that says in yellow and white text on a dark blue background "JFK can take you places. The 1990s will no longer be one of them". To the right in dark blue text on a yellow background it says "visit anewjfk.com to learn more".
A photo taken from a Metrolink train at a level crossing in Newhall, California. The gate is raised and the lights are dark.
a soap dispenser in an Amtrak Superliner restroom labeled "Foaming Hand Soap"
two black belts of the same brand and same general appearance side by side on a beige carpet, one old and one new. There is less than an inch of difference in length between them in spite of their sizes implying the new one should be 4 inches longer than the old one.
A photo of the inside of a roomette on an Amtrak Viewliner II car. There is a white pillow on a burgundy seat across the way. Window is to the right. The photographer's jean-covered knees are at the bottom of the picture.
A southbound Brightline train pulling into West Palm Beach station as seen from the upper level departure lounge. It is on the right side of an island platform traveling towards the viewer and there is an additional track to the right.
A photo taken from seat 11A on an American Airlines A321EOW. There is just the wall of the plane to the left instead of a window
A photo of the embossed metal moment for Ebright Azimuth. In gold text on a blue background it reads: "The highest bench mark monument in Delaware is located on Ebright Road. This horizontal control mark denotes an elevation of 447.85 feet above sea level. The Delaware Geological Survey through its relationship with the National Geodetic Survey has determined that this bench mark monument is in the vicinity of the highest natural elevation in the state." Immediately behind the monument is a deciduous tree bare of leaves, and a field of brown grass under cloudy skies.
Years cards/pack Pack MSRP cost per card by pack 1951 2 $0.01 $0.0050 1952 6 $0.05 $0.0083 1953-1969 5 $0.05 $0.0100 1970-1973 10 $0.10 $0.0100 1974 8 $0.10 $0.0125 1975-1977 10 $0.15 $0.0150 1978 14 $0.20 $0.0143 1979 12 $0.20 $0.0167 1980 15 $0.25 $0.0167 1981-1984 15 $0.30 $0.0200 1985-1986 15 $0.35 $0.0233 1987 17 $0.40 $0.0235 1988 15 $0.40 $0.0267 1989 15 $0.45 $0.0300 1990 16 $0.50 $0.0313 1991 15 $0.50 $0.0333 1992 15 $0.55 $0.0367 1993 15 $0.69 $0.0460 1994 12 $0.79 $0.0658 1995 15 $1.29 $0.0860 1996 12 $1.29 $0.1075 1997-2000 11 $1.29 $0.1173 2001-2002 10 $1.29 $0.1290 2003-2009 10 $1.59 $0.1590 2010-2018 10 $1.99 $0.1990 2019-2020 14 $2.99 $0.2136 2021 12 $2.99 $0.2492 2022-2023 12 $3.99 $0.3325 2024- 12 $4.99 $0.4158
A photo of a stick of butter slid partway out of the box, held in a man's right hand. The box has Stop & Shop branding, the wrapper on the individual stick has Cabot Creamery branding.
The cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, depicting Battersea Power Station from the south with a pig hovering between the two smokestacks in the foreground under partly cloudy skies in evening light
Footage of an explosion over the Potomac River caused by two aircraft colliding. It is night time. The Lincoln Memorial is brightly lit in the foreground.