Okay, but bread is supposed to be baked!

I mean, with meat and dairy and fruits and vegetables there are always situations where it might be legitimate to have them be eaten raw or only partially cooked, but that’s not a thing for bread!

How bad do you have to fuck up to get people sick from bread?!

I appreciated it much more after watching this video analyzing it.

The speed of it is hardly the problem! The real issue is that it’s an entirely made-up fascist witch hunt, that no amount of slow and careful work could ever justify!

There are many parts of the US where highways have chronic congestion because they just can’t scale enough, nor could we afford to maintain them, where intercity rail would be a much better choice.

The examples I can think of chronic congestion are pretty much all intracity (which I consider to include between the central city and its suburbs), not intercity (the long rural stretches between metro areas). Intercity rail is better than freeways (but more importantly, better than airplanes) for efficiency’s sake, but doesn’t necessarily have much to do with reducing congestion. Intracity rail (commuter rail, subways and streetcars) is what’s needed for reducing congestion.

Hexbear is where the r/chapotraphouse people went after they were banned from Reddit.

See also:

https://lemmy.world/post/1084297

https://www.distractify.com/p/chapotraphouse-reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirtbag_left

The Monkees - Last Train to Clarkesville

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia

Edit: also https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/songs-about-trains/

Bonus question: if you’re autistic, what are your opinions on trains? I’m personally ambivalent about trains, but they also feel like they’re my culture, because of how many of my fellow autistic nerds like trains.

Not autistic, but an urbanist and transportation engineer: trains are fucking awesome! Second only to bicycles in terms of efficiency of land-based transportation, and with such high capacity that induced demand actually becomes a positive effect for them (as opposed to a very negative effect when talking about automobiles).

Listen here you little shit.

Metro Atlanta’s only passenger rail station that still exists, a tiny thing on Peachtree Road in Brookwood (just north of Midtown), was originally a commuter stop on the way to the big, beautiful stations downtown. They were all torn down decades ago.

I’ve just realized I don’t even know how many traditional train stations (including ancillary commuter ones, but not including streetcars or the modern subway system) the city/metro area even had. It’s gotta be dozens, at least.

A comedy, sure, but nevertheless it’s one of the best ones too.

Yeah, but it’s still way better than plastic.

Meanwhile, Corelle enjoyers:

It’s a better Star Trek movie than most Star Trek movies.

Occasionally, in my most cynical moments, I have the same thought.

The “relative” peace of the USA during the 1800s is one reason we have so few trains.

No it isn’t. The US was absolutely full of trains by the end of the 1800s. Our map looked a lot like Europe’s until after WWII, when we started ripping them out!

I’m gonna be honest: you fooled me and I almost removed your initial comment as misinformation.

Cities in the US are spread apart because of car-centric zoning. It’s the laws governing land use that drive the infrastructure design, not the other way around.

(Note that I said “spread apart,” not “far apart,” by the way. I’m talking about travel within cities, not between them. Intercity travel has no excuse to not be rail regardless.)

More likely a new map, and the lines you’re thinking of have been shut down since the last time you checked.

(Or you’re thinking of train tracks in general, not specifically ones carrying passenger service, which is what this is a map of.)

Wanna be even more upset, fellow Americans? Take a look at what we used to have:

But downside of a M series is either you run macOS or Asahi Linux and nothing else yet.

I’m OOTL; what is it about Apple Silicon Macs that apparently make them such trouble to support? If one distro can manage it, what’s stopping that code from being upstreamed to the mainline kernel etc.?