like fuck america but also i have nowhere better to go
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like fuck america but also i have nowhere better to go
It's not that I want to join the military or own a gun or anything it's that when they start taking stuff like this away they won't stop
I know it's /not the same/ but AFAIK you can still drink openly on Metro North. I have a very particular memory of a group of NJ Devils fans having their own after party with a whole case of beer on a late night train out of the city.
I wish I could've been on a bar car when it was new because by the time I was there the whole M2/4/6 fleet was real old and shook/bounced horrendously at speed. I really hated riding them once I experienced a brand new M8 and I wish I knew what I had at the time.
i lived in new haven when the bar cars were still in service so i actually do remember
i can't believe CONNECTICUT of all places has happy hours when neither ri or ma has them
The fact that it takes them 8 paragraphs to get to "and this plan will be accomplished by privatizing the NEC" should tell you all you need to know about how dumb of an idea this is.
epic gamer moment
Hang on I have something for this:
[Rodney Dangerfield]: I took my wife to a third space and she said "you're too ugly to unicorn hunt". I get no respect I tell ya.
I can't take the concept of "third spaces" seriously. You can just saying "hanging out in a park" like a normal person and spare me this shit that sounds like an alien half remembering a Jane Jacobs essay.
It's a great compliment to the early Seaboard scheme
truly we live in an even more stupid gilded age
nyt learn the difference between "working class" and "middle class" challenge (difficulty: impossible)
love to do relatable everyman activities like... ummm... wearing shorts? that's what the common man does???
It's a good article right up until "[m]uch about the place feels middle class, sometimes refreshingly so, with everyone running around in shorts and T-shirts." THE IDEA THAT BEING MIDDLE CLASS IS THE DEFAULT IDEAL EXISTENCE IS WHAT GOT US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE
It's still a first generation EMD which means it never breaks. The FL9s were ok-ish once they found lower speed/smaller-consist uses in areas where they weren't running the diesel engines under the wire. But... it takes one P32AC-DM to do the work that 2 FL9s used to do so they still weren't great.
The power plant the New Haven owned needed to be modernized and it was struggling to handle the loads put on it. The solution was to abandon most of the electrification and invest in dual mode locomotives rather than pay to maintain the power plant. History obviously proved this was a bad idea.
One of the few good things Penn Central did was eventually banishing the FL9s from the New Haven main line and transferring them to the old New York Central commuter lines where they were slightly more fit for purpose.
The New Haven management didn't acknowledge the mistake until they went bankrupt in 1961 and shifted back to trying to use the wire they had. By that point it was too late and they were stuck with nearly brand new FL9s that they didn't want.
Sort of. The FL9s were dogshit dual mode locomotives bought for the purpose of abandoning most of the New Haven's overhead electrification. Turns out the FL9s were more expensive to operate and performed way worse than electric locomotives.
Exactly! A lot of American railroads were running real short austere passenger consists in the late 60s because they were all hemorrhaging money but the New Haven held on until the bitter end. Out of the 100s of trains per day only a handful were short and you can easily narrow the options down.
The issue here is identifying the difference between an intercity express train and a local commuter train. My argument is all the available context makes it likely that this is a commuter train but it's impossible to tell v. some guy's argument of "durr commuter trains don't have baggage cars"
In a similar way, the city I live would be world-class if it had rent control and a transit master plan that wasn't from the 1950s. Alas, I too live in America so of course neither of these things will ever get fixed.
This is clearly a Grand Central-bound train on the Park Ave Viaduct, and the lighting suggests it's mid-day in winter. The MU cars appear to be NH rather than NYC cars, so extrapolating from a period timetable, this is like NH 371 from New Haven being followed closely by NH 243 from Port Chester.
The issue is this photo, which a guy claims can't be a commuter train because of the baggage car. Assuming the given date of 1968 is correct, it's likely a Saturday/Sunday train from Springfield, but it could also be commuter train 371 or 381 from New Haven or the Sunday "Mayflower" from Boston.
using my vaccine autism powers to tell a man on the internet that he's wrong and it was common practice for the new haven to run baggage cars on their commuter trains
Lesbian neighbors: 0 gas leaks Straight neighbors: currently averaging infinite gas leaks per day FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR HETERO FEELINGS
GIULIANI BREAKING HIS SPINE IN A CAR ACCIDENT IS NOT A SUITABLE SUBSTITUTE it is funny tho fuck him
Given what we know about tech bros I absolutely wouldn't trust AI with the concept of "whites only".
St. Rat, the patron saint of trans people
you fuckers he's alive I KNEW IT NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS
there is no way that Trump is dead i can't take the rumors seriously don't get my hopes up like that
Honorable Judge D. Fred Maintenance presiding
Santa's Fe is a masterwork dad joke
Tom Clancy's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Amtrak never had any observation cars quite this impressive but they were still running some pretty nice ones up until the early 80s. None of them survived the HEP conversion program.
This would kill a modern day Amtrak exec in the same way a dorito would kill a Victorian child
Every day that we don't get parlor cars back is a day we stray further from God's light
The biggest argument against AI sentience is it continues to generate slop and validate our worst impulses instead of telling us to fuck off.
how much did frank pepe bribe the state for this
mmmm dry food
the box is locked... the lights are on... IT'S ROBOT FROTTING TIME
Good luck ❤️❤️❤️
i had one (1) COVID vaccine and it gave me an encyclopedic knowledge of the new haven railroad's passenger operations c. 1962-1965 damn they got me
pop psychology be like "do you feel weird sometimes??? do you have hobbies??? congrats you're autistic now"
dudes rock
It's beautiful
Hank of the Hill is pretty much burned in my brain forever.
But my point is a "suburb" can provide all these things while discrete neighborhoods in it's adjacent city do not. What defines a city or urban area isn't necessarily its official municipal boundaries, which makes the concept of "suburb" extremely hard to pin down.
Also every city's geographical boundaries are wildly different so this is super context dependent. There are classic "suburban" neighborhoods within the city I live in while - at the same time - there are extremely urbanized areas not within its boundaries.
PVC is great! It's just very much not latex.
pvc from temu is not latex and i'm begging people to learn the difference REAL FETISH FREAKS CAN ALWAYS TELL THE DIFFERENCE
They've been doing the same shit to Black people, immigrants, poor people, etc. for years and eventually they're gonna run out of people to alienate.
I hope he dies in office but in a way that somehow also takes out JD Vance too.
Maybe my memory is failing but I remember basic desktop PCs being not terribly expensive in the late 90s/early 2000s. Certainly more affordable than a modern smartphone.
I grew up riding LRVs (in my head I can still hear their traction motors whining) so I'm really glad you and the wtyp gang covered this one. It was a good episode regardless of LaserPig and the ladder discourse!
Conditions of the Working Class at Cracker Barrel
Thanks. It's taken a lot of killing the middle class woman in my head to stop punishing myself for not having a master's degree. I don't actually want to be in academia! I just want to be paid more.
getting pushed out of grad school was one of the lower moments of my life
WHO'S EXCITED FOR ONE MAN* TRAIN OPS WOOOO *can't call it "one person ops" because that's dei
I LOVE this song. I slightly prefer the live versions where the high vocal harmony is much more present than on the studio version(s) but every version is great youtu.be/s5-TglwOhR4?...
I would simply make more progress so we can stop talking about the lack of it. Guess I'm just built different.
noooooooo
A refined businessman (businessdog?) blep
i already watched the izzzyzzz video about cal arts style where this gets mentioned please this is the second time in two days im dying
DON'T MAKE ME REMEMBER THIS I'M BEGGING YOU
For real! I remember all the hype in the press and thought that meant they were worth listening to and BOY WAS I WRONG
It's 100% an invention of the 2020s that, like you said, is mixing scenes in a way that they weren't mixed. Also, and I can't stress this enough, no one in the indie scene in the 2000s liked the Strokes! They were industry plants on a major label!
See this is GOOD and INTERESTING and not "we saw that one ViRaL pHoTo of a woman waiting for the Moscow metro in a catsuit and decided to copy that 9,000 times for the algorithm".
imagine a world where bluesky dot com was fun
It's actually fake jello specifically for jello wrestling that doesn't require refrigeration.
lesbian jello wrestling IT'S THE GAME OF GAMES
We're all sisters when we wish ill on JK Rowling together
Maybe if I wish ill on JK Rowling hard enough it will turn into an real threat with material consequences.
Honestly who among us doesn't wish ill on JK Rowling.
Wait did a transwoman really get banned from bsky for posting "I wish ill on JK Rowling"???? What's going on???? If that's true then you can ban me too because I also wish ill on JK Rowling.
You know Hughes Aircraft Co would be posting crazy shit
You can taste the grape immediately, then there's a big burn of alcohol and it has a nice smooth vanilla-y finish. It's not the best brandy/cognac I've ever had but it's cheap and it's good enough that you can sip it straight so that's good enough for me.
I found a liquor store near me that sells ArArAt, the Armenian brandy that the Soviets loved so much they nationalized the distillery. I couldn't afford the 25-year aged variety that apparently was Satlin's favorite so I had to settle for the more proletariat 5-year aged bottle.
CTA [Taylor's version]
God bless him but I fully believe Artie T can disappear a guy
[Ben Shapiro voice]: So let's say, hypothetically, that you're party rocking with a mouse tonight. Let's also say, for the sake of argument, there's a piece of cheese. Does it not stand to reason that you're gonna have a big bite?
The HOA was mercifully vague about what types of lawn ornaments are acceptable
urban crimes georg, who lives in a rent-controlled apartment & commits 10,000 crimes per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I'm back in the "exhausted from surgery" hole so it's time to post old photoshoots for attention
yes... ha ha ha... yes!
Everyone give your Ferrari F8s to me and go buy a purist's supercar
i haven't been slowly feminising and sissifying the man chained in my basement for NOTHING
I meant the hair style but yeah also that style of lighting and editing
i've got at least two projects in the works that the basics aren't gonna like one i'm back on my feet
YUP. I'm exhausted by it.
LOOKS LIKE POSTING'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
That's what I'm saying! It's performance art!
JOKE IS ON THEM because usually big fleet vehicles like this have speed limiters on them to prevent them from being operated at unsafe speeds.
I too have taken the train while in a full fetish outfit because sometimes it's the only good way to get around and it's not the scandalous sexy gear-in-public fantasy internet wants to sell to you. It is in fact just like taking the train at any other time.
You would think the subset of this genre that's "skinny white lady with a blow out in a basic latex outfit BUT THIS TIME she's on the train" would appeal to me but I'm not that fuckin basic. SHOW ME SOMETHING I HAVEN'T SEEN 10,000 TIMES BEFORE PLEASE
Atomage, Skin Two, Marquis, etc. didn't run so this shit could crawl.
I am 100% convinced he's going to lose badly in the general election because he'll split the insane reactionary vote 3 ways with Sliwa and Adams. So every stupid thing he says is only digging himself further into an irrelevant grave.
Wait wait wait what if used a little too much smoothing on her face and she looks a little unnatural wow no one will see it coming