Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

Meet the Ulas! Thye family that walks on all fours.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/family-that-walk-on-all-fours-have-undone-the-last-three-million-years-of-evolution/ar-AA1q1G3c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=3b1ae552ddfb48b1b9a29fe6f5bd22f6&ei=17

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik That was interesting. I think it is brain damage. I cannot imagine that is more comfortable for them. From the documentatry, it does not seem like there is a physical problem with their back which forces them to do that.

[mark]

Godzilla-Shaped Harp
Bratislava, Slovakia

[mark]

[jon-nyc]

A farmhouse in 1889.

Today it’s 84th and Broadway, Manhattan.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

I had no idea. And I’ve even been there.

[Mik]

I didn’t either. Very interesting. I did notice the airport was busier than passenger traffic would be.

[taiwan_girl]

I know that with Russia airspace not available, a lot of Europe airlines have cut back on flights to Asia because of the added costs because they have to fly longer. Probably effects the Anchorage airport also.

[jon-nyc]

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

I had no idea. And I’ve even been there.

Polar route does make a big difference. During the 90’s we ran weekly drilling, workover and service crew change charter flights out of Calgary and over the Pole into Surgut in Western Siberia. Flight time was 10.5 hours direct. The normal scheduled route was Calgary - Frankfurt - Moscow - Surgut which at minimum totalled 22 hours flight time excluding stopovers and (inevitable) flight delays between Moscow and Surgut or Nizhnevartovsk.

[George K]

[Copper]

I bought one of these today. The old one was about 20 years old, very old for a lawn tractor.

Now they come with a hose attachment that blows water on the blades to clean out the blade housing. I had never seen that before, a great idea.

[jon-nyc]

I don’t think I knew this.

Seems odd. He seems like the most anodyne president we’ve had in my lifetime. Maybe anger at the Nixon pardon?

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Didnt the president of one of the railroads just get fired for having a affair?

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc Didnt the president of one of the railroads just get fired for having a affair?

For having an affair with a subordinate/employee

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/business/norfolk-southern-ceo-fired/index.html

Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw was fired for cause by the railroad’s board for “engaging in a consensual relationship with the company’s chief legal officer,” who was also terminated, the railroad announced Wednesday evening.

A statement from the company on Wednesday said that Shaw had been dismissed “for cause,” which could prevent him from collecting the kind of exit package that CEOs often receive when shown the door.

The company originally disclosed that Shaw was the subject of an investigation on Sunday.

Shaw had been CEO of one of the nation’s four largest freight railroads for just over two years. But it had been a turbulent tenure that included contentious labor negotiations that nearly resulted in an economy-crippling strike, a major derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that released tank cars full of toxic materials into a small Ohio town, sparking health concerns and complaints about continuing symptoms by some residents, and a proxy fight with an activist shareholder group who wanted Shaw replaced.