There’s also the very muddled announcement that to make it you’ll need to change trains at some small town.
Or, they just decide to not stop at your station, so you get to hop off past your station and ride a train back the way you came.
All that said, it’s still a miracle from God compared to the crap we have in the US.
Okay. Regardless of what it really is or not. I’ve decided I’m not voting for President Biden in the next election. Nor Hunter Biden. They’re both off my list as candidates.
Ah, the replacement mythos, blended with White Fascism and Christian Nationalist chaser. All badness all the way down.
It sounds like Twitter is hosting their services on several cloud platforms or replication services that weren’t blocked by Brazil. So, users in Brazil just hit the 3rd party platforms and kept going like usual.
Is that Twitter’s fault and/or on purpose? Don’t know yet, but services like Akamai need to make sure their hosting Twitter doesn’t get them banned in Brazil across the board.
International relations are often tough to build, especially when one side is quite rude and then wanting special benefits afterwards.
The UK cut the ties, so the EU has more say in how relations are rebuilt. The UK had a ton of special exemptions and their own national identity in the EU then many other members and the UK still freaked out about how oppressed they were.
The EU doesn’t really owe the UK anything that’s not in still existing agreements and if the UK wants a relationship they’ll have to come to the table bringing something, not just hurling demands.
I’m just really glad that the UK leaving the EU didn’t devolve into armed conflict. That’s a pretty normal arc for such a big relations change.
Who would have guessed that she’s corrupt? Strange that she’s acting just like her right wing anti-Constitution bosses on the Supreme Court. I wonder how that kind of corruption trickles down.
The right has been trying to destroy schools since they were founded hundreds of years ago. Secular, public education is an anathema to the racist and religious indoctrination required to maintain right wing communities.
This is very much a two birds, one stone moment for their agenda.
This voting season has a very different feel from 2020. I’ve been trying to understand what’s up.
Because there’s not the same kind of public displays of right wing movements, I feel that it seems like a safer situation on a large scale. The tradeoff is that the right wing nutjobs don’t have the same public visible groups to join and yell about life with. They’re likely going to be much more likely to lash out through terroristic acts and to be more individually violent.
So, while there’s not nearly the same quantity of truck convoys of deplorables driving around waving flags, that same energy is going to be distilled into a more potent sludge of evil under the surface.
Plus the estimated million+ who smartly fled Russia in the first year of the war.
So much of our world is based around women keeping it on the rails without receiving credit for their efforts.
If the government financial trams aren’t already investigating it, then they’re stupid. This is shooting fish in a barrel for financial crimes.
We’re entering the ‘blockchain for every need’ stage. Expect massive money to flow into scams, poor ideas, and outright dangerous uses for a few years .
Before Blockchain we had ‘the web’ itself in the dot com era. Before that? I saw it in basic computing as a solution to everything.
I had a student came into office hours asking why their program got a bad grade. I looked and it didn’t actually do anything related to the assignment.
Upon further query, they objected saying that the CI pipeline built it just fine.
So …yeah… You can write a program that builds and runs, but doesn’t do the required tasks, which makes it wrong. This was not a concept they’d figured out yet.
Und dann das nächste Feld für mehr Parkplätze!
I’m often impressed with Finland. The attitudes and decision making the nation expresses are often very grounded and data driven.
The trams in Helsinki were also phenomenal. I loved getting around town so easily.
Our family visited Germany this past summer. I really wanted to get the 49€ tickets, but the system to buy them is cumbersome and we weren’t around that long.
Now, we did have a visit in summer 2002. We still have our 9€ tickets from that trip. It was a wonder to be able to get around so cheaply.
You mean a proven serial con man light be lying to get people to give him things? News at 11.
Yet another map of the US with nearly the same distribution of different groups. The anti-American band of states from Florida to Idaho strikes again.
I still use wired headphones and earbuds. On the phone it’s got a USBC connector, so I had to find a compact adapter. Fortunately USBC is a tough connector so they’re holding up well enough.
The earbuds themselves are very cheap. They normally only last a few years (3-5 or so). I snagged a couple little zip up pods that hold earbuds from a job fair years ago. As long as I do a quick coil up, it’s easy enough to pack them away and get them out without tangling. They also don’t get hurt living in my satchel.
I’ve considered moving to something wireless, but I have enough battery driven devices to babysit already.
The Amtrak system in the US shares rail, and is low priority, than freight trains. Basically, passenger rail has always been a side business for the train companies the US. It is subsidized and used as a bribe by the federal government to even try to keep a passenger rail service alive.
That means our trains are often kept as slow speeds to stay behind freight trains, and will be stopped to wait for freight trains if some is off schedule. The routes are also mostly only rated for 60mph speeds, so even at full speed you’re barely keeping up with cars on the highway, and then you add in stops at every podunk town that slows it down even more.
Until the US invests in a separate passenger rail network that can support consistent speed and schedules, it will remain on par with similarly under developed nations for rail service.