PSA: ⓘ is a standard unicode character and it is possible to make text appear Italic also via extended unicode. If you see any posts on any site appearing to be appended with a notification about the user being suspected of something, it's part of the post and not the site complying with fascism.

Controversial opinion: this is a stopped clock moment, they're actually doing something useful, and we should seek to copy this in the US. Environmental review lawsuits are 2% actual environmental protection and 98% NIMBYs weaponizing the law against projects they don't like. Get rid of them.

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

This is Kristi Noem approved pet-friendly de-icer

Rugrats S4E15

An excellent upgrade from 2000 Lee

I wonder if soaking with couches is a thing

An important point regarding recent events (short thread): in any society, there is a practical functional need to have a mechanism in place to take people in positions of power and influence who use those positions for evil and remove them from said positions. 1/

Good news: future deportees may not have to sit in a middle seat.

Okay, who is Delta about to try and buy out that they want to make sure they get federal approval for

Ah, the little things animators slipped into old kids' cartoons (Rugrats S3E11)

Just got home from a week of riding trains. All logged thusly: trainlog.me/public/trip/... An Empire has been Built.

Portland makes for some good for people watching.

Showering on a moving train is an experience

Metra... why is this the sight I'm greeted with after taking a massive shit on one of your trains Hand sanitizer dispenser was empty by the way

One of my biggest beefs with discourse in politics today is that a lot of folks are still using very old mental models of who lives in suburbs. If you don't understand how big of a deal it is that DuPage county has become reliably blue in recent elections, well you should start trying to.

I miss "the program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" Bring back computers talking like that.

Pennsylvania GOP's budget shenanigans potentially claiming another victim

There are some wildcats on the prowl in Canada it seems

Also, ACAB includes speed cameras.

Tangential musing: if you look at traffic death statistics, the US really is only marginally worse than Europe on a per VMT basis. On a per capita basis, however, it's a lot worse. The best way to get the numbers down isn't to police driving harder, it's to reduce dependency on driving.

I see the tankie urbanists are fantasizing about ending speeding through draconian regulations again. Anyway maybe look at the current situation in Washington and consider accordingly why giving the government too much power to micromanage things is bad actually.

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On the Amtrak Pennsylvanian west of Harrisburg, they announce they're opening the cafe car and specify in the announcements "to be in the cafe car you must be wearing shoes" There's a Pennsyltucky joke in there somewhere.

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

Am I the only one who sees people showing up to the bottle return at the grocery store with huge garbage bags full of nothing but empty water bottles and thinks this is utterly psychotic?

Well that wasn't on my bingo card

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

by my estimate: today is the day. it has now been one Duke Nukem Forever dev cycle since the release of Duke Nukem Forever.

Design annoyance du jour: a sheet of paper is 8½"×11", which means if you fold it into thirds each third is 3⅔". But, an envelope is 4⅛" high - significantly different, which makes actually folding a sheet of paper into thirds difficult to do properly because the envelope is a poor guide.

Imagine for a second it's 1998 and Newt Gingrich complains that "this Lewinsky scandal is a distraction from kitchen table issues"

What is it with new laptops having resolutions too high for their screen sizes? My new work laptop has a max resolution of 1920×1080 but it shipped with Windows preset to show everything at 150% size. Why not just have the resolution be 1280×720? This is wasting pixels.

Some dude just walked into the FedEx store and asked "do you take UPS packages here?"

I turned off the lights and noticed my cat sitting right in front of the baby monitor and it looked cool.

Hey Google is the station busy or not?

Well that's one way to be an airplane foamer

Achievement unlocked: I have officially entered or exited the NYC subway system (defined as going in or out the turnstiles) at all 425 stations.

Chris Murphy really needs a louder megaphone

Zofran: used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, radiation therapy, migraines, or surgery Zohran: used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by sexual predators shamelessly running for public office

Oh look, sexual predator endorses sexual predator

We need to unplug the internet to save humanity

Easy solution to this problem: send the Mona Lisa back to Italy where it belongs. apnews.com/article/louv...

Whoever that was doing 55 in the right lane on the Merritt Parkway in a Ferrari... bro, seriously?

Something that should happen, but won't: LAPD, LASD, and CHP being ordered to completely withdraw from any and all activity related to policing protests. The feds want to try to handle this? Fine, let them, see how well they do with no help from the state, county, or city.

Some mood music for tonight

"2025" honestly still kinda sounds like "year futuristic sci-fi story is set in" and not "that's just what year it is right now".

Duke Nukem D-Day has just been leaked. D-Day is a cancelled Duke Nukem game for the PS2 developed by n-Space, which involved travelling back in time to WW2, with this prototype including 12 levels Internet Archive Link: archive.org/details/duke...

Fun fact du jour: in 271 BC the Romans diverted a river over a hillside creating a set of manmade waterfalls. It still exists and, to this day, remains the tallest set of manmade waterfalls in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascata...