started reading Ulysses by James Joyce, and YUP

Right but what I’m saying is having a janky website in 2026 is on purpose. I think it’s purposefully shitty, to discourage train travel.

lmao I go to watch it, and all the “suggested videos” are all about the interview, and the election, except for John Oliver. Good ol’ autistic Oliver talkin’ bout Trains. god lov’em

You say the people in the cult became even more cult-y? wow, go figure.

I s’pose this is also a great way of showing all future democratic candidates, there is literally no point in trying to appeal to these hateful ignorant pricks. Stop trying to go right to appease these nutjobs, you’ll never be right enough for them. Go left instead, and find the majority of the American people waiting for you.

I’d love to take a train, but I think the website is either purposefully made to be shit, or it’s just super shitty. Because trying to book any train ticket is impossible. Every time I’ve searched on their website, it gives me the same alert: "This trip cannot be booked. We do not have any travel options between the stations entered. "

Even though I know they have trains going there. I know the stations, I know the routes, and yet it STILL gives me this error code. It’s like they actively are discouraging you from riding the train. I say this, of course, because I think that’s exactly what they’re doing. Auto makers have captured the railway system, and between them and the monopoly of the current rail system, they’re trying to make train travel as painful as possible so you give up and either fly or drive.

You guys see the route right there in this post, yeah?

Go to https://www.amtrak.com/home and try to find a train ride between any two locations. I bet you $100 it gives you the same message.

A lot of people who are super self-reliant grew up in households where their needs weren’t met, so they learned from a very young age that anything that they wanted they had to do themselves. It’s usually a trauma response.

first flock cameras and ALPR readers, now these? police state.

what a fucking moron. I want revenge you dumb bitch.

Republican Sleeper agents make up the core of the democratic party?

That’s seriously what you’re saying?

Now there’s a face that says “If you came down 60 seconds earlier, you would’ve seen me with my dick out”

“We can sort of win the battle, but we’re going to lose the war. Because in the long run, they’re still going to be able to do what they want to do, which is arrest people and hold them for long periods of time,”

You know, because fascism. Warrantless searches, denial of the right to trial, deporting random brown people to random countries just to appease the cruelest intentions of their cult leader.

Jesus fucking christ go vote.

Have a friend, and we have a complicated relationship. Making friends as an adult is hard, but then life shit happens and even the friends you do end up making can be assholes.

I had just gotten out of a divorce, and wanted to throw a big halloween costume party. Told everyone months beforehand, with plenty of reminders and groupchats, spent over $1000 on decorations, couple hundred on snacks, alcohol, weed I’d have stocked. It was going to be a rager. Well, a bunch of people cancel, because my house is like a 40 min drive, but my best friend at the time, he was, for some reason, not giving me a definite answer. Like, I figure even if nobody else shows up, my buddy and I could still hang. But come the day of the party, he tells me he’s not coming, and it’s just so he can maybe find something better to do closer. And I’m just… So upset. Cancel the whole party via an on-line thing, and just sit there feeling fucking awful.

Shit messed me up so bad, it’s like 5 years later, and some of the decorations I put up for that party are still up. I obviously haven’t even tried to host anything since.

anyway. like, a couple months after that fiasco, my buddies brand new girlfriend texts me, asking me to come to his birthday party. She was putting a bunch of work into it, making it a scavenger hunt thing for him and his friends. I told her immediately, “nope!” Not coming. She asked once or twice more and got the same answer.

But in the end, I was still nicer, because at least I gave a clear answer right away.

Time for lil’ Billy to learn how to slide tackle if he wants the ball!

This guy’s melanin levels is off the chart! It’s over 9000!

“Watch out! He’s got a giant breadstick!”

“He’s comin’ right for us! Release the hounds!”

No, I mean, the “radio announcer” and thus the “news reporter” voice was modeled after the Ohio accent, because it was seen as a non-accent. You’re right that we have one, it’s just so incredibly bland, that it comes across as not one at all.

Here’s an article that goes into further detail

Vizetelly, who established a school for announcers at CBS, was concerned with maintaining the “purity” of American English. In his mind, the Midwest was the place to be—and Ohio in particular.

Vizetelly and other educators felt that broadcasters could evoke trustworthiness and objectivity by imitating the speech of the “heartland.” Eventually, when radio announcers and TV journalists began sounding like they were from the Midwest, the “broadcaster’s dialect” became understood as normal.

Well the company states that the batteries (each 1000kg) are loaded into the wings of the plane, and that the wings will be significantly larger than that of current commercial aircraft, with a passenger count of like 90, and for only 1000km. So you’re right, there’s definitely a limit, however it still seems like a viable technology.

I remember sitting around the table after a thanksgiving dinner with all my conservative relatives, who were making fun of electric cars, and I said the same thing to them that I’ll say to you now. It all starts with a little innovation, that can form a link in the energy chain. Once people prove it can be done, then it will be improved, and improved, until it’s no longer a technological marvel, it’s just a Tuesday. One day we’ll have gas powered crafts purely as collectors items and antiques, and an entire green grid. but you gotta start somewhere.

well, I mean, it’s a lack of any specific American accent. They don’t sound like they’re from the Appalachia, West/East coast, or Boston, or the south etc. etc. A lot of American television news reporters came from Columbus, Ohio back-in-the-day because we just don’t have a regional dialect.

I mean if I had a magic gun that, when fired, put a bullet into the brain of every trump supporter, I’d empty the clip.

So… yeah, I’d use the death note.

plus on billionaires. hoarding ill-gotten capital while buying politicians to ensure you remain at the top is violence. Dismantling institutions for the poor, crafting an america with income inequality at it’s worse since the great depression, 70,000 americans die every year due to lack of access to health care. That is violence, perpetrated against us all, by republicans, and by corporate capitalists. They let you rot and melingure in poverty, dying in shame for having nothing, that’s akin to torture. A swift death via death note is almost too kind for them.

Just keeping an entire population in a big concentration camp, while occasionally bombing the shit of said concentration camp,

people fight back