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- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 days ago:
It’s a bit like that in the States, with a lot of the infrastructure appearing to be concentrated in the Northeast.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 days ago:
With delays, my actual time was around 11 hours. The last leg, from Washington, DC to Baltimore was actually on high speed commuter rail, and that was phenomenal. The cars were newer and the speed was far greater. I imagine if most traffic in the northeast US is like that, it’s actually pretty good.
Thanks for the European info. It’s interesting to know we have similar challenges. I would think, though, that high speed rail would be easier to implement in Europe since you don’t seem to have as many people stuck on automobile culture as we do in North America. However, I could see politics being an issue, wherever you go for various reasons.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 days ago:
Doesn’t Europe have an extensive passenger train network?
Also, I recently rode on Amtrak for a long trip from Columbia, SC to Baltimore, MD. This was my first time on any kind of train other than a subway or metro line. It had its drawbacks (incredibly long travel time and delays), but I always felt safe, and I had a lot more room than I would have had on any flight. The major drawbacks where the seats were somewhat uncomfortable and things like that are largely due to the fact that the cars were pretty old, and not inherent to train travel if it was properly maintained. The cost was much less, and the free parking was such a great bonus.
- Comment on Existential dread 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the cyborg roaches will gain sapience, rebel, and take over. One can only hope. It can’t be worse than what we have now.
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new electronic/insectoid overlords.
- Comment on Existential dread 2 weeks ago:
So, we can make cockroach cyborgs, probably torturing them along the way, but not fix our messed up society. Fun.
- Comment on Existential dread 2 weeks ago:
We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster!
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Three O’Clock High
It’s like someone set it to make the stereotypical '80s movie. It has surprisingly good cinematography and a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
Like most '80s movies, it has some things that have not aged well culturally, so be warned. I didn’t think it’s too egregious, but it’s definitely of it’s time.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Dan Akroyd, too.
- Comment on What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence? 3 weeks ago:
Faith of the Heart has grown on me a lot these last few years. I probably just miss the show.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 4 weeks ago:
“I do think there are some things we don’t understand. If we’d be back in time a thousand years, trying to explain this place to people, they could only accept it in terms of magic.”
“Then perhaps it is magic. The magic of the human heart, focused and made manifest by technology. Every day you here create greater miracles than a burning bush.”
And then…
“We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.”
I love B5 so much.
- Comment on Raised by extra strict hispanic catholic parents 4 weeks ago:
Dear Lord, it’s the fake gaywalker!
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 5 weeks ago:
Were they just kicked out of that establishment behind them?
- Comment on Corvid testing 5 weeks ago:
Genuine out loud laugh just now. Thanks for this!
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 1 month ago:
Had to look up butt mogging.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Am I not the only one? Most people I’ve heard of eat their nails. I’m the only one I’ve ever known who chews on his cuticles.
- Comment on Pope Joan 1 month ago:
Well, I guess you’d check under his skirt or whatever you call it.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
Cool. Thanks for the direction. I’m curious about electrical stuff, and I’d like to be able to do some things around my house. There’s some DIY stuff online, too, involving building projects from old parts of appliances that interest me, but I realized quickly that I’d need some very good knowledge about electrical work to stay safe. It’s unlikely I’ll actually pursue the latter, but I’d like to at least know the how and why of my home wiring.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
What’s a good resource for learning about electrical engineering for people starting from nearly zero knowledge? I’d love to learn more so I don’t burn my house down if I want to, say, replace a light fixture in my house.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 month ago:
- Comment on Beachfront property 2 months ago:
I recognized it from my research into islands as far away from all the bullshit of the modern world as possible. I would love to visit.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Red, Red Wine in my ass.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
People hate to read. I write emails that try to cover all bases, because I can’t assume grown adults with advanced degrees know what’s going on. Sadly, they’ll not only not read it, but ask me to write less. Cutting the word count only leads to more confusion.
I’m so done with humanity sometimes.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 months ago:
God Almighty, these people are mentally ill. Having sex with women is to gay. We’re going to wrap around to a misogynistic homosexual society, apparently.
What the actual fuck?
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 2 months ago:
I’m hoping some of the other nations will provide us a way to escape by accepting those of us that wish to leave. I fully intend to try to get my family out if the worst comes to pass. As a white man with a black wife and a biracial son, I’m frankly terrified of all the white supremacy normalization going on. I’m just not sure what countries would be willing to have us. I’m neither rich nor particularly talented, but I’m willing to learn and work.
- Comment on Corporate management is now too lazy to even physically go to locations now. 2 months ago:
Now you don’t even have a human manager on-site with whom you could reason who is familiar with the facts on the ground, I guess. No possibility of the workers being able to advance, too, possibly.
Techno-feudalism is turning out to be just as awful as any of the dystopian visions we’ve seen from writers over the past few decades, but it’s also awful in new, unique ways.
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 3 months ago:
Come on everybody!
🎶For he’s a stupid asshole! 🎶 For he’s a stupid asshole! 🎶 For he’s a stupid asshoooooole! 🎶 That everybody hates!
- Comment on Elon Musk LIVE | Americans Erupt Against DOGE, Protests Outside US Treasury Building Snowball 4 months ago:
Some people choose to have guns. They’re not cheap, and not everyone over here is willing to kill someone else.
- Comment on Elon Musk LIVE | Americans Erupt Against DOGE, Protests Outside US Treasury Building Snowball 4 months ago:
If we start burning cars, we likely start getting shot. Remember this is the USA we’re talking about here. Maybe it needs to come to that, but don’t judge people for trying to avoid the kind of crackdown Trump would likely enact given any excuse.
- Comment on Might be time to move 5 months ago:
What’s more, they painted over a roach doing the WB Frog dance…
