chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon likes trains 1 day ago:
Which goes back to the issue of the difficulty of building high-speed rail across long distances.
Higj-speed rail can’t be built at grade like freight rail. You can’t risk a cow getting through a fence or a crossing signal failure leading to a high-speed train collision.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 days ago:
There’s already a lot of passenger rail options in that part of the country. I’ve used it, and it works great.
This post is specifically about using it in place of airlines, which is used for longer-distance travel.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 days ago:
Slave labor.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 days ago:
The cost of dedicated passenger rail lines is staggering, and the US has a LOT of ground to cover.
- Comment on Ok smartass 3 days ago:
Except it’s not. The actual answer is 9:45. It’s a stupid way of describing time.
- Comment on Ok smartass 3 days ago:
Still better than quarter of.
What time is a “Quarter of 10”?
I could see it as 10:15, 9:45, 9:15, or 2:30. It’s stupid, and anybody who uses it is wrong.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 6 days ago:
The thing is, part of the idea of this particular summer day was to distract from the Trump parade.
But then, just one fascist extremist with a gun posing as a cop was able to distract from the efforts of 5 million protestors.
- Comment on It's more economical 1 week ago:
He may be able to tell you where to bury your cat.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 week ago:
I think it would still techically be more hole since a larger total area would be hole.
I would be fewer holes, though.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 1 week ago:
Most of them in my area have disabled that. There is no non-destructive way to mute them.
- Comment on That's a good question 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. And the sacrifice refers not to Jesus’s suffering and persecution, but what humanity gave up in that sacrifice - God’s active, personal presence on Earth.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 weeks ago:
The bill ends the carbon offset income that’s the largest portion of Tesla’s income. Combined with their sales being in the toilet because everybody hates him, and the company very well may not survive.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 weeks ago:
Those socks will get pretty SCSI.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
I think I made the better choice.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 2 weeks ago:
At the equator, that’s like 600 feet.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Did you know you can press “f” to go faster and outrun the Yeti?
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
How dare you leave out SkiFree!
- Comment on what is north? 2 weeks ago:
3000 meters is pretty fucking deep.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
That’s the thing about guns. They’re evil until they’re necessary. But then they’re essential.
We still aren’t at the point where we need to start using them en masse, but we’ve never been closer as a nation, and it’s absolutely time to start learning how to use them.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
You don’t overthrow armies by lining up and going toe-to-toe.
A handgun is concealable. If we need guns, we need to appear anonymous until we’re using them up close.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s absolutely horrible.
Arson, killing and displaying dogs, then murder all because you’re afraid of gay people.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
At a time when our government is increasingly fascist and it’s clear they want to eliminate classes of people, I’m thinking the wrong people have been buying the guns.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
In high school, I got in a car wreck and had to drive without a front bumper for about a year. When the bumper got torn away, it also took the light housings for my blinkers and running lights.
My dad made new housings with zip ties and soda cans cut in half that attached to the back of lenses we bought cheap at the local auto parts store. He drilled slightly undersized holes in the bottom of the cans that held the bulbs in place when they were pushed through, and he’d polished the inside of the cans to act as reflectors.
It worked great! When we eventually got the bumper replaced, the body guy shop was amazed and said he didn’t see any reason why we should spend the money to buy factory housings, and when we sold that car it still had store-brand diet sprite cans as light housings that surely confused the hell out of someone down the line.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 weeks ago:
I still mess up my sister’s spouse. They’re NB, but kept their name, hobbies, etc. To me, they’re the exact same awesome person they’ve always been, so I still screw up and call them by male pronouns.
I 100% support them, but I screw up and it feels bad.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
It’s really not, though. It’s what New York uses for Taxis.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
I drive a NV200 (compact cargo van).
I could be driving warp 7 in a school zone and I swear people would be passing me and flipping the bird. It’s like they see that is not made for speed, so they’re required to treat it as slow.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 3 weeks ago:
Cuddling and massages are pretty much where it ends with me. I was in a relationship for a while, but it didn’t work out timing-wiss with careers and locations. We still keep in touch and hang out a few times a year though.
Nice thing about an Ace breakup is there’s less sexual baggage attached to becoming friends again.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 3 weeks ago:
My grandfather picked up smoking in WWII because non-smoke4s didn’t get any breaks from digging trenches.
It took over 50 years, but WWII still managed to kill him.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 3 weeks ago:
There’s a spectrum of Ace. I got one am a heteroromantic ace, and I’m a dude. So I am attracted to women romantically, but don’t want to sleep with them.
It’s a very frustrating combination that makes dating difficult.
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 3 weeks ago:
I’m in Texas, and our electric provider added a $200/month fee for all accounts for the next 2 decades to pay for the 2021 winter storm. They bought electricity from other providers during the storm for like 1000x the standard rate and passed the cost towards future customers.
And the beauty of that is that those fees also impact solar users who aren’t even using power, since a certificate of occupancy requires that a house be connected to the grid.