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PhazonLink posted:lol at it still being 2022 and the S horpe problem still being a thing. Was that intentional, or do the forums actually censor oval office?
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Neito posted:Was that intentional, or do the forums actually censor oval office? Yes.
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If the forums censored oval office half of D&D would be up in arms.
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Th3D0Nn posted:I'm pretty sure our freight rail is bad when compared to Europe, as well. Ton of single track, not much electrified, and almost no last mile rail deliveries to factories and stores.
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Neito posted:Was that intentional, or do the forums actually censor oval office? my password is hunter2, what do you think
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OwlFancier posted:Also they should loving bring back those sick yankee trains with the bubble windows on the top, youse had a good idea with those. Dome Cars - also available in Great Dome, Big Dome and Pleasure Dome variants. There was also the Skytop Lounge observation car, which is another example of "Why can't we have nice things anymore?" DaysBefore posted:The best part is that the US (and Canada) did have extensive commuter rail and long distance passenger train networks up until the 50s, at which point we started tearing up all the tracks and building highways. Now the majority of what's left is for freight, but even then the freight is brought to and from trains by trucks anyway lmao. As late as the 1950s nowhere in the state of Iowa was more than 12 miles from a railroad and even in 1980 every Iowan county was served by at least one rail line. Granted even by the mid-20th century a lot of those routes were freight only or, at best, had extremely patchy and run-down passenger services but it's still striking how much infrastructure has disappeared in such a relatively short time.
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BalloonFish posted:Dome Cars - also available in Great Dome, Big Dome and Pleasure Dome variants. There was also the Skytop Lounge observation car, which is another example of "Why can't we have nice things anymore?"  I always ride in the top level if I can, you get a pretty nice view. The corner windows are my favorite. edit: this is totally relevant to the thread, because trains are social media and I am an idiot. Zero_Grade has a new favorite as of 18:41 on Aug 4, 2022 |
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Neito posted:Was that intentional, or do the forums actually censor oval office? What the gently caress?!?
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Prof. Spaceman posted:Huh? Did she think train lines never end like the reverse of the "Ambulances only go TO hospitals" goon? Or does she think trains make rolling stops? The most reasonable way I can think of to be confused by train tracks ending is if somebody thinks tracks were a giant closed loop, like a model train set that just goes around and around.
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Fishstick posted:There's something to be said for how close train stations are to their destination though. No dealing with airport security checkpoints, luggage checkins, rental cars to/from the airport, running to gates. If I wanted to, I can walk 10 minutes to the nearest train station, and hop off in the middle of Paris. Across Europe it's wonderful, I traveled across a lot of Germany using them. In America the difference is hours versus days though, it's less of a nice, leisurely trip across rail and more a grueling multi day tour for the same price as an airline ticket. I love watching Japanese YouTubers who seem to just spend their lives testing out the different cross-country rail options and showing them off. It looks like such a fun way to live, getting to see the country from a train.
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I like going on the London Overground because you can go right to the front and pretend you're driving it and it feels very fast. Like being at the front upstairs on the bus.
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Otana posted:Across Europe it's wonderful, I traveled across a lot of Germany using them. In America, from the coast where I live to the interior where I'm from, I'd take three trains and a bus over three days, including 11 hours of layovers, where a private room would cost over $1,000 and coach is no less expensive than flying.
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Zero_Grade posted:The Tri-Rail in South Florida does something similar. They have a lot of double-decker cars that look like this: Only two rails, 0/10.
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Data Graham posted:I've been waiting for someone's reply to give me some clue as to what exactly Matt thinks he's even saying with this, but I guess I'll have to bite. I'll make this simple for you, imagine the dumbest person ever, then imagine someone dumber than that. Congratulations, you've imagined Matt Yglesias' high school tutor.
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Zero_Grade posted:The Tri-Rail in South Florida does something similar. They have a lot of double-decker cars that look like this: I've been on double-decker cars and in the bubble cars as a passenger and while double-decker is nice, it doesn't remotely compare to a bubble car, especially as you're waking up miles from anywhere in the dawn over the boreal forests of Eastern Canada.
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Arivia posted:If the forums censored oval office half of D&D would be up in arms. There's not that many Australians on the forums
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Otana posted:Across Europe it's wonderful, I traveled across a lot of Germany using them. Yeah, there was a time I was living in Oakland and my parents lived in Seattle and a couple of times either them visiting me or me visiting them we looked at trains and it cost exactly the same as a plane ticket and took 24 hours versus a 2 hour flight
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Dabir posted:He's American so it's understandable that he thinks all countries have exactly two cities worth going to and then everything in between is a barren wasteland I assume just San Fran and Manhattan.
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Scaramouche posted:There's not that many Australians on the forums UKPol is the busiest thread in D&D and it gets used there too.
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Scaramouche posted:There's not that many Australians on the forums There is a lot.
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Arivia posted:UKPol is the busiest thread in D&D and it gets used there too. it's because people are pretending to be from the uk to get to say the word, i am sorry to have to tell you.
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HopperUK posted:I like going on the London Overground because you can go right to the front and pretend you're driving it and it feels very fast. Like being at the front upstairs on the bus. is that not the DLR? overground trains have drivers in the way
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Yeah, the DLR is the driverless line with the smaller trains. IIRC the Overground is just a regular trainline they put on the Underground map for some reason or whatever.
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Arivia posted:I've been on double-decker cars and in the bubble cars as a passenger and while double-decker is nice, it doesn't remotely compare to a bubble car, especially as you're waking up miles from anywhere in the dawn over the boreal forests of Eastern Canada.
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Data Graham posted:I wonder what Europeans think when they are confronted by the fact that the storied NYC subway was not built by the City of New York, but by three or more competing railroad companies who all used different rail gauges and tore up different random streets to build tunnels under and that's why the letter lines (A,C,E,etc) can never share cars or platforms with the number lines (1,2,3,etc) Oh, we can tell you all about competing railroad companies. Visit Pontefract, a town of 30,000 inhabitants served by three railway stations established by two different railway companies- Tanshelf, Monkhill and Baghill. On the other hand, there were rare occasions when rivals joined forces to create stations of unparalleled magnificence like Huddersfield.
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Endjinneer posted:Oh, we can tell you all about competing railroad companies. Visit Pontefract, a town of 30,000 inhabitants served by three railway stations established by two different railway companies- Tanshelf, Monkhill and Baghill. That's England, it doesn't count as European. Or arguably people
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Oh yeah I meant the DLR. anyway it's fun and I am an adult for sure
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https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1554785902257442816
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SCheeseman posted:There is a lot.
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Literally the only UK train thing I know is Crossrail, because Mel Giedroyc is obsessed with it and always brings it up on quiz shows. 
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Matt Yglesias is a stupidity elemental.
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These guys are fascists, arent they?
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DreadUnknown posted:These guys are fascists, arent they? I'm gonna give it a better-than-even chance.
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DreadUnknown posted:These guys are fascists, arent they? They're the type of rear end in a top hat who shouts about how nonpartisan they are while being WILDLY PARTISAN. The last thing I heard them mad at was the ban on bump stocks.
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DreadUnknown posted:These guys are fascists, arent they? Worse. COVID deniers.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Worse. COVID deniers. ¿Porque no los dos?
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Seth Pecksniff posted:¿Porque no los dos? Some parallel lines converge a lot sooner than others
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Matt Yglesias is a stupidity elemental. He's an op-ed writer, that goes without saying.
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Love that their lawyer just went “yeah sure we’ll sue them whatever. You guys gotta pay up front tho” and didn’t explain that that’s not how freedom of speech works
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SCheeseman posted:There is a lot. I've conversed with hundreds of Australians, and there is a LOT. I would compare it roughly to being cursed with a serious illness.
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