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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 19h

I believe Utah has also executed several people by firing squad within the last 20 years.

Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 19h

The French were a good one to pick for that. The central principal of French engineering is taking a solved problem and solving it a different way for national pride.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 19h

This happened to me in high school. Except I was a WLB and felt like a stud. I think the QB was trying to touch pass over me but didn't do that. Instead it just felt like I was running the flat.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 20h

Hurts has been better than Herbert in almost every major QB statistical category over the last four years. The only reason to say we should trade for Herbert is that you hate having a black quarterback so you find the idea of a mostly as good white guy appealing.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 20h

Just saw that Solak said we should trade for Herbert and I need to go lie down.

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Required reading for anyone in Philadelphia too

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When the discipline is mostly doing rather than theory, people whose only experience is theory are hard to take seriously on the subject matter. Coworkers with MAs in Urban Planning for example have shared similar frustrations with their programs.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Legal academia would be my vote. It's insane that I had professors who never practiced a day in their lives. They went straight from Harvard, to a think tank, to professorship without ever filing a single motion.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Blanket statement, be very wary of people who don't shower on a regular basis. As a train dweeb, that's a pretty good indicator that someone is trouble.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The fun part about living in the other side of the river is every so often you see a younger yellow tag that is trying to figure out how to pump gas for the first time

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 13/10/2026

everyone pumps their own gas in the sopranos, a show that famously takes place in new jersey, one of the only states where gas station attendants are supported by the government. sure. some of those scenes are supposed to be in brooklyn. but cmon. chase knows what he did was wrong.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The term "Civil Engineer" exists because for a long time engineers made things that killed people!

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Given Russia's historical lack of enforcement of this type of thing and desire to get rid of the physical back-up I suspect we are talking about something that isn't funny unfortunately

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Now this is bombing to win

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think NJM's ads were originally aimed at GEICO but they now feel directly aimed at Liberty Mutual.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm thinking they used raw crime data instead of normalized crime data. In raw numbers New York both has a lot of murders and is also the city on this chart where you are least likely to be murdered.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Given which cities are where I'm willing to be traffic is a heavily weighted data point.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A couple floors in a downtown highrise also do more to sell to your Fortune 500 clients that you understand what they need better than an office park by a mall.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This was part of why my wife's company moved from suburban NJ to Center City. Top brass mostly live in New York and a lot of the employees were already commuting from the city.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We can talk about Daniels laying on the turf for too long but the underlying play call in that situation is baffling.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Even in that situation the play doesn't make a ton of sense. They ran a real play instead of the "get to the other hash" play. The advantage to that play is the receivers don't run down field so everyone is basically back at the line to spike it as soon as it's over.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

one-shot kill by the author, much in the same way a field goal late in NFL overtime would immediately end the game

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I do think there is a sort of survivor bias here. Straight men in happy, healthy, respectful relationships aren't going to go online and complain about how happy or healthy their relationship is. Instead, it's an echo chamber of people who are single for very obvious reasons.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Has Winston ever thrown 54 consecutive passes without a pick before today?

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nick made two decisions off the top of my head that lost them that game. Take the points in the 1st and the final FG doesn't matter and don't do a squib kick at the end.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the Jags suffering a potentially game-losing series of false starts due to the deafening noise of Eagles fans in London, England in a hypothetical Jags home game is an all-timer

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is the worst football game I've watched in a long time

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah, it's not like we were going to accept that penalty if they called it

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

CyberTruck owners:

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

like father, like son

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

now introducing English people to the concept of 2nd-and-40

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this has gotta be the least contested two-point conversion i've ever seen in my life

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I know hahaha. This was more a philosophical question as we made our way from Manayunk to Union game

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why on earth is the soccer stadium in Chester again?

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel bad for the guy that bought our old house a few years ago. He turned around and tried to sell at the end of last year and he ended up selling for $30k less than he paid us for it.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Chip Kelly:

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It has been at least 20 years since I watched that movie so that is entirely possible. Point is, easily impressed teenage me thought that movie sucked.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My vote is View To A Kill. Rodger Moore Bond in its worst and final form.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Then it has to be Never Say Never Again, a remake of the same movie

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's been a while but my memory of View To Kill is that it was derivative Rodger Moore Bond and boring. The other movies in this thread at least have some fun, if ridiculous, element.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If That 70s Show were to debut this year it would be set in 2004

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Seriously, I'm tired of people posting fast food prices from the early 2000s like that isn't the same thing as my dad talking about how much a candy bar cost as a kid when I was growing up

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm genuinely convinced that a big issue in the discourse is that elder millennials still think 2006 was just a few years ago. I'm 35.

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Charles In Charge (of trains) @thecharles1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

46 years ago Bill Clinton. If you went that far back from LBJ the parties looked... Little different.

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