Man dies, children injured, in officer-involved shooting on Main Street in Forest Hills [OC]
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QTS presents plans for potential data center at Deforest Village Board meeting
C&NW #1385
C&NW #1385 - midwest.social
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/31405145 [https://midwest.social/post/31405145] > I can see the WSOR trains go by a couple of times a day from my office window. There’s a routine: Send a locomotive out to the west side to pick up the consist of hopper cars, take them out to the east to get filled with gravel or crushed stone, then take them out to the west, often with tanker cars added to the train. Once in a while, they take a train of full lumber cars west. > > Today, I happened to look out and see something completely novel: C&NW steam locomotive #1385 on its flatbed, pulled by a WSOR diesel. The Mid-Continent Railway museum is finishing up a years-long restoration of #1385, and it’s on its way back to North Freedom. > > I am kind of embarrassed to admit how delighted I am to see it, and all of the love the volunteers have lavished on it. I remember seeing #1385 under full steam, pulling the circus train back in the day, so it holds a fond place in my childhood memories. > > There’s a homecoming celebration at the museum this Saturday, and I just had to share.
C&NW #1385
C&NW #1385 - midwest.social
I can see the WSOR trains go by a couple of times a day from my office window. There’s a routine: Send a locomotive out to the west side to pick up the consist of hopper cars, take them out to the east to get filled with gravel or crushed stone, then take them out to the west, often with tanker cars added to the train. Once in a while, they take a train of full lumber cars west. Today, I happened to look out and see something completely novel: C&NW steam locomotive #1385 on its flatbed, pulled by a WSOR diesel. The Mid-Continent Railway museum is finishing up a years-long restoration of #1385, and it’s on its way back to North Freedom. I am kind of embarrassed to admit how delighted I am to see it, and all of the love the volunteers have lavished on it. I remember seeing #1385 under full steam, pulling the circus train back in the day, so it holds a fond place in my childhood memories. There’s a homecoming celebration at the museum this Saturday, and I just had to share.
Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.
Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees. - midwest.social
No, I wasn’t stoned. This thought was inspired by the post the other day about how trees evolved independently from different plants, the product of convergent evolution.
Same candidate, two parties. A Wisconsin lawsuit aims to bring back fusion voting
Same candidate, two parties. A Wisconsin lawsuit aims to bring back fusion voting - midwest.social
A little background information, as I’ve recounted a few times on Lemmy: Back in the '90s, UW-Madison professor Joel Rogers co-founded an aspirational new political party—creatively named the New Party—that tried to revive fusion voting. They endorsed a Democratic candidate for the Minnesota House in 1994, and the Minnesota DFL objected. They took the case to the Supreme Court, which upheld the ban on fusion voting. The New Party lost momentum and fell apart soon afterwards. Progressive Dane, based in Madison, is the only remaining New Party affiliate. It’s not surprising to see the Wisconsin Republican Party objecting to the practice; it will be interesting to see what the Wisconsin Democratic Party thinks. (I recently learned from the Wikipedia page on fusion voting that the Republicans and Democrats used to run fusion candidates to defeat socialists in Milwaukee.) I wish United Wisconsin all the luck.
Authorities believe crash through Illinois after-school building that killed 4 wasn’t targeted
Authorities believe crash through Illinois after-school building that killed 4 wasn’t targeted - midwest.social
I’m very glad to hear that this wasn’t a targeted attack, it was just another instance of routine traffic violence that kills hundreds of people daily. That means that I don’t have to care about the victims. I don’t have to learn their names, or their stories, or see their faces splashed across the news as tragic, sainted victims of a destructive ideology. They’re just more roadkill to be tossed anonymously on the heap of bodies. Thank goodness! There’s a lot going on in the world lately, and the last thing I need is more terrorism victims to wring my hands about. I just don’t have the time or the energy. (/satire, I hope obviously)
Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
