u/VulcanTrekkie45

Just sitting on the platform at Tufts Medical Center, and on the as screens between the tracks are shuffling through their adverts. And I look up to see a picture of a wolf with the caption “You wouldn’t invite a wolf to guard your sheep. Don’t use AI unprotected, stay sovereign. Palantir”

I mean, really? I thought we were basically all in agreement that Palantir was fully evil. I’d rather trust Bye Bye Birdie’s Telephone Hour to protect my data than Palantir. Who exactly is in charge of this and how do we get them to pull this?

Not that Lady Mary is incapable of running the whole show herself. She very obviously is and basically has been for a while by the time 1930 rolls around. But the fact that Lord and Lady Grantham have moved into the Dower House. And the fact that Mary looked around and just saw ghosts of people and events from the house’s past makes me think that her existence as the only adult upstairs makes me think that her existence in such a large house will be incredibly lonely. She is clearly not physically alone, but upstairs the only other people are George and Caroline who are children, possibly a nanny, tutor, and/or governess, who are more in the nebulous between stairs space rather than being any kind of peer for Mary. And then downstairs the staff is haemorrhaging people as technology comes in and the Depression hits. So she’s got all that space essentially to herself. She’s not physically alone but it seems almost a perfect storm to create loneliness.

In my case, after burying Tantalus in a literal mountain of paperwork, senior assistant counsellor of the Hermes cabin, Ned O’Dwyer, is seen by the canoe lake drinking a virgin mai tai, very pleased with himself for making Tantalus’s life at camp a living Hades.

Another younger camper comes up to him, perplexed. “Did… did you bring mai tai mix with you to camp?”

Ned chuckles. “No. But I did lend my copy of the Star Trek The Next Generation Technical Manual to the Hephaestus cabin, and well long story short, camp now has a working replicator. Well sort of.”

What I mean by that is something we consider very old and iconic right next to or contained within something boring and every day. For example some of the ones that spring to mind for me are the Pizza Hut overlooking the Great Pyramids of Giza, the parking garage in central London that has a preserved piece of the Roman wall in it, and the Bertucci's (local Italian restaurant chain) next to Lexington Green, where the American Revolution began.

My favourite by far is the fact that there's a gay bar right down the block from the site of the Boston Massacre. But I wanna hear what your favourites are.

So early on in the series it was spelled out that it was very unlikely for demigods to reach their 20s but later books really seem to walk back that fact, especially with the inclusion of New Rome, an entire city of demigods and their descendants (albeit Roman instead of Greek). And later books have other characters, such as the Stoll brothers and Percy and Annabeth themselves leaving camp in order to go off to college. But that is realistically something that only occupies them between August and May. So when it’s summer and therefore peak CHB season, do older demigods ever come back to visit? I know it’s not been depicted as such in canon, but it doesn’t rule out the possibility. Especially considering that for some campers this was as close to a home as they got. So what do you all think?

Just curious as to whether the fandom had come to an agreement of where the Homestead is since it's rather ambiguous. I'm especially interested since I live in the area and know the whole stretch of coastline from Boston to southern Maine quite well. I found some possible locations such as Rockport and Gloucester, which i think are plausible, especially the former, but some people are suggesting New Hampshire, specifically Seabrook, but that can't possibly the location as the terrain there is too flat. I remember at the time thinking Cape Neddick in Maine. But I wanted to know if there was any more discussion on it.

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So apparently the passenger manifest of the Titanic wasn't even entirely human, which is a weird sentence I never thought I'd say

So I saw that with the Steam release, Railyard is not gonna be supported going forward. Is that still the case? And if so, will we get a Steam workshop for the game where we can upload, download, and generally share mods?

So I'm just watching TransitCore's latest LA video and I feel like I must be doing something wrong. I built the MBTA Orange Line to start off with, and had a day 2 profit of $5 million. TransitCore, who spent about as much as I did to build his early subway lines in LA, was posting a day 2 profit of $90 million. So I'm reevaluating if the Orange Line is the best line to start with. Or maybe that's just the difference between the LA and Boston maps. Who knows? All I know is I'm on day 111 and just finished constructing the Green Line and up to $40 million in daily profit.

So I was curious if anyone else builds out the pre-existing T network before building out expansions and such, and if you've found any specific lines that we should start with as the most profitable.

So at least to my mind, no one in the August 8th cluster reads to me as neurodivergent (and if you think otherwise, I'd love to hear why), so I'm wondering, as someone who is neurodivergent, what the experience of being in a cluster with different neurotypes would be like. Would ND mates be able to borrow energy from neurotypical mates in order to mask more effectively for example? Would a burnout and/or meltdown ripple through the entire cluster?

I thought I'd share this here. Over the last few months, I've created a high-speed rail gravity model inspired by the work of CityNerd.

All you need to do is enter the cities you want to include, along with their geographic coordinates and populations (based on a 27 km catchment radius, which you can find here). The model will generate a list of potential city pairs in the Distances tab, where you'll enter the driving distances (in kilometers). From there, it produces and classifies a list of city pairs where high-speed rail is plausible, calibrated against gold-standard systems from around the world.

I figured people here might enjoy playing around with it. I'm planning to make an animated map video once I finish North America, but in the meantime, have fun with it!

One small request: if you'd like to use the spreadsheet yourself, please make your own copy first, as I'm actively using the original for ongoing projects.