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Will the felon debate the prosecutor? – politicalbetting.com
Vice President Harris: Donald Trump previously agreed to a September 10th debate. It now appears he’s backpedaling. I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. I’m ready. Let’s go pic.twitter.com/tvpfHLZvi4
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Loser.
More importantly, how do we feel about the use/abuse of apostrophes in the chickened out Tweet?
(courtesy of http://www.donaldtrumptranslator.com/ as I don't speak fluent Trump)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-correct-punctuation-of-donald-trump-jrs-name
" He received a Bachelor of Science in marine engineering and nautical science from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, graduating with highest honors in 1986. In 1994, he received a Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kelly#Early_life_and_education
(If elected, Kelly would be the second naval aviator to be vice president; the first was, of course, GHWB.)
The Harris campaign will be absolutely delighted if he runs scared.
I suspect not.
A media which is already telling everyone that she’s the next incarnation of Christ, despite having spent most of the past three years roasting her arse.
This is the place
https://www.booking.com/Share-veYCy9s
What makes it all worse is that - for my ancient fortified suite - I am paying £62 a night. So a bit less than a premier inn
On its way to the love shack.
If it wasn’t trains it might have been airports or motorways or factories or power lines and stations
And it still might be
However certain locations have the potential to cause chaos and it looks to me like they have been chosen using detailed inside knowledge.
For that reason left wing militants are my prime suspicion as the rail staff and militant leftie venn diagram is if not a circle an eclipse, so hiding in plain sight is easy.
The main lessons learned should be resilience that avoids single points of failure.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/29527-b52-inbound-to-blackbushe
I think you make a mistake in assuming the 'liberal media' is particularly liberal in their political coverage.
It's just not very good at its job (assuming that job is journalism).
I have more sympathy with this sort of analysis.
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-editors-of
It does look a bit pokey.
The good journalists are all now on Substack or Youtube, while the “established” US media is dying. There’s an awful lot of this stuff to run in the next few months.
Which would be awkward.
It has been a really powerful start but she still has some difficult questions to answer about covering up for Biden and her role in the border issues. The latter of these can be batted back by her saying (as she already has) what she tried to do was get the bipartisan bill through Congress but it was blocked on the instructions of DJT. The former is a bit trickier, because it goes to her trustworthiness.
If the weather forecast is correct, rain may put a dampener on the opening parade anyway so they could have saved themselves the trouble.
Firstly, not doing infrastructure projects because of the threat of disruption is odd; I mean, why were we building airports after the hijacking started in the 1970s?
Secondly, HS2 does not replace existing services, but adds to them. The old long-distance routes are still available (as is the case - mostly - in France) for diversions or to take passengers if HS2 goes down.
The later plan, also now canned, to extend from Birmingham to Trent Jct and go from there actually into Derby, Notts, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Wakefield and Leeds would be quite sensible and would have helped the capacity problems south of Bedford.
East Coast Line needs a completion of four tracking south of Peterborough and more efficient platform occupancy at Kings Cross (including no more "suburban" trains in the main line platforms).
I haven't been able to find a map of where the fires happened, but *assume* they were geographically well-spread. If so, given the devices seemed to go off at roughly the same time, then it is almost certainly a group, not an individual.
I do hope that these were not diversionary attacks for the games...
How can that place be £62 a night?? In an actual palace with some of the finest river views I’ve ever seen - and in a luscious little medieval town?
£62. That’s less than a travelodge. In Newent
The mad, utterly dishonest plan to try and put faster trains on the MML from East Midlands Parkway would by contrast have totally destroyed capacity, probably eliminating pretty much all local and freight trains between Nottingham and Doncaster.
You can have more trains, or you can have faster trains. You cannot have more and faster trains on a line at capacity without more tracks.
Shapps lied to parliament over that plan. He deserved the vote his constituents gave him.
You couldn't run a Eurostar to Waterloo for love nor money. Track is all there but the paths are not.
See my subsequent post for a better solution than the white elephant eastern leg and why.
https://x.com/networkrail/status/1816808336651608066
https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1816849626139406757
He's really good.
As to midland trains. Rubbish, they would have used existing paths to Nottingham and Sheffield and the Four Track Erewash Valley formation is little used ditto the party dismantled north midland main line to Leeds via Goose Hill.
The capacity constraints on the midland line are Bedford to London and St Pancras Stn.
Let's see what they are next week.
But yes, some good stuff. Here's an extreme demonstration of why I'm sceptical about VP selections 'delivering' their home state.
If JD Vance's popularity in his home region (-16 pts) is any sign, it won't get better for Vance nationally (where he's historically unpopular).
Also, Vance's favorable rating is just 5% with undecideds (i.e. not for Harris/Trump) in the prez race. His unfavorable rating is 29%.
https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1816634155972673795
Mercedes don't seem to have their upgrades sorted, and the Dutch shunt has a grid penalty for a replacement engine.
And Piastri owes Norris one, should it come to it.
AIUI the only non-four track sections of the ECML south of Peterborough are the stretch south to north of Huntingdon, and the Welwyn/Digswell viaduct area. Much of the former is triple track. The latter (Welwyn tunnels and viaduct, I think) does not actually increase capacity that much, which is a big reason why it hasn't been done so far.
And I'm far from convinced that your statement "...that it would have released very few paths," given the way HS2 was structured.
The other point is P and VP is not a Mulder and Scully type partnership, they aren't driving round in the same car all day working on the same things. Harris can say she asked her peeps to ask his peeps and his peeps came back to say everything was AOK. She was deceived as much as the rest of us. This defence is solid unless it emerges that Biden ordered the nuclear obliteration of Newent, Glos back in April and Harris had to countermand it.
https://x.com/lavrovskyi/status/1816609537178370412
If this is genuinely Trump’s plan for Ukraine, I'm ready to buy a MAGA cap and wear it every day until he is elected.
How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-americas-fastest-swimmers-use-math-to-win-gold-20240710/
..Would you believe that we’ve never measured anyone who was more than 60% efficient in the four strokes — freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke? It’s basically impossible. In April, we had Paige Madden wear force sensors, and we modeled the path of her hand as she took a stroke and recovered. We computed that in the first lap of her swim, 59.1% of the force her right hand generated was propelling her in the direction she wanted to go. That is awesome.
But by lap 8, only 42.1% was propelling her forward. Not only was she getting more tired, but her execution was starting to fall apart. So using just these insights from linear algebra, we gave her some cues about how to swim the race differently. And the next day, on lap 8, she was close to 50%. One month later, she swam her personal best.
Our paddles don’t let you lie. We don’t let you fool yourselves.
And this math works the same for all four strokes?
I’ve never been able to get our force sensors to work for breaststroke. There’s too much going on. I get data, but I can’t make heads or tails out of it...
Which would have killed capacity.
They claimed a new signalling system might help. It was a lie. That system was proposed for the WCML in 1998 and it"s never actually worked.
That's really, really easy to grasp.
Your claims do not stack up.
As for stations you do know nobody uses EMP because it's in such a stupid place, don't you?
Edit - for these reasons, it hasn't actually been cancelled. It has been mothballed. The land and the permissions have been retained.
The capacity problem is then Kings Cross Station which would need a big rethink on operatung practice to reduce platform occupation times significantly and get rid of outer suburbans from the main line platforms (as was done when St Pancras (midland platforms) were reduced to Four, with six an hour using them (2 Corby, 2 Notts, 2 Sheffield) same number as intercities frpm Kx but with less than half the platforms.
If you dont believe me compare the number of peak hour trains between Finsbury Park and Peterborough/Cambridge with Euston to Rugby or St Pancras to Bedford. And don't forget the freight too.
Does the Trump campaign really want to talk about "your man was senile"?
Really?
Some people say I made Philip Green look a bit of a cock. Can't see it myself.
https://x.com/MrJakeWalters/status/724995330039791616?lang=en-GB
The border issue is much more dangerous for her.
Though navy aviation record of George Bush the Elder AND Mark Kelly arguably more substantial!
There's no excuse for not bowling 90 overs in a day. I know there occasionally used to be a problem with the final session going on for more than two and a half hours, but if that happens have another 20 minute break, the same length as the tea break, and then continue playing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2gz1p2v12o
I hope that it helps keep it clear of turd-shaped hotels better this time round ...
"Options were examined to four track Welwyn viaduct and tunnels. Although this removed
much of this bottleneck, the mix of services on the fast lines south of Hitchin became the
next constraint which limited the improvement to long distance and suburban which could be
achieved. Therefore no options were taken forward which four tracked Welwyn viaduct,
although an option which partially removed the bottleneck by 4-tracking the tunnels and
station was included in another package. "
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7cd63eed915d63cc65d219/possible-enhancements-to-rail-network.pdf
Basically: there are several reasons for the lack of capacity in that area, and even if you fixed the viaduct and tunnels, you just move the problem on elsewhere given the diversity of services.
You could upgrade the Erewash Valley Line, reinstating the missing 4 track and electrify it without affecting existing services much because very few use it - virtually none in places. Fast Leeds trains could then bypass Sheffield altogether on the currently freight only line to Rotherham Masburough.
From there the choice was reopen the Midland Line to Goose Hill, build the last bit of HS2 to Leeds or run at existing speeds via Wakefield.
The exact plans never got as far as detailed design alas as it rapidly got canned.
The reason that the original HS2 plans would not have released any significant capacity on the East Coast Main Line or Midland Main Line is that most of the existing trains would still need to run to serve Leicester, Derby (City) Nottingham (City) Doncaster, Wakefield, and all the other intercity served places between there and London.
It would have released zilch paths on the midland and at best two an hour on the East Coast south of York.
As to the East Midlands Station it would have been a bigger white Elephant than East Midlands Parkway.
Remember that consultant reports like that don't work in a blue sky, they come up with what you can do with given constraints, which are often stated opaquely in obscure corners of the report, which may well be added in in the first place by the client to get the desired outcome
A far bigger headache is where to park extra intercities at KX. But that can be sorted with smart operation if the will is there, as shown at St Pancras
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/20/jimmy-carter-nuclear-reactor-navy/
Which counts, I think.
Most of the Leeds trains already stop at most of the intermediate Stations Peterborough and North thereof. It would have released the Two Edinburgh/Newcastle paths to be replaced with trains making more stops and that is about it.
..I had applied for the nuclear submarine program, and Admiral Rickover was interviewing me for the job. It was the first time I met Admiral Rickover, and we sat in a large room by ourselves for more than two hours, and he let me choose any subjects I wished to discuss. Very carefully, I chose those about which I knew most at the time — current events, seamanship, music, literature, naval tactics, electronics, gunnery — and he began to ask me a series of questions of increasing difficulty. In each instance, he soon proved that I knew relatively little about the subject I had chosen. He always looked right into my eyes, and he never smiled. I was saturated with cold sweat. Finally, he asked a question and I thought I could redeem myself. He said, “How did you stand in your class at the Naval Academy?” Since I had completed my sophomore year at Georgia Tech before Annapolis as a plebe, I had done very well, and I swelled my chest with pride and answered, “Sir, I stood fifty-ninth in a class of 820!” I sat back to wait for the congratulations — which never came. Instead, the question, “Did you do your best?”
I started to say, “Yes, sir,” but I remembered who this was and recalled several of the many times at the Academy when I could have learned more about our allies, our enemies, weapons, strategy, and so forth. I was just human. I finally gulped and said, “No, sir, I didn’t always do my best.”
He looked at me for a long time, and then turned his chair around to end the interview. He asked one final question, which I have never been able to forget — or to answer. He said, “Why not?”
I sat there for a while, shaken, and slowly left the room...
Swimming - at least at amateur level - is far more about technique than fitness. IMV running is the other way around, with fitness meaning much more than technique for most people.
As for cycling? I dunno. At the top level, like swimming, it'll be both strength and technique. But at a lower level? Would I be better off improving my strength, or getting a more aero bike setup?
Indeed I recall at the time I thought she’d be a great pick (one of my less-optimal predictions!) .
Her problem wasn’t unpopularity out of the gate (she’d not gone full proto-MAGA crazy at that point). Her problem was that it became worryingly obvious that she was too provincial and incurious in her mindset and didn’t show enough grasp of the details to be entrusted with the role.
Outside a few mad tourist areas, that’s the kind of price you pay for a really good hotel room.
“Thailand now has 490,000 unsold EVs, according to the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand (EVAT), equivalent to 63% of all vehicles the country turned out in the past 12 months.”
Thai subsidies for Chinese EV makers wreak havoc..
https://x.com/dunne_insights/status/1816681296518873575