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This is amazing and I absolutely adore it. I will get a lot of use out of this.

For fuck’s sake

Sunset over the Tiber River and the Vatican for #Stunday. #Rome #Photography #Sunset

I bought myself something stupid and unnecessary the other day but look at this shit. The headlights actually work. Game changing.

Like yes the US has a large inefficient and extractive healthcare system, but education and healthcare is also the largest employment sector in the country AND it pays nearly triple on average that it does in a country with universal healthcare. It's extractive because it creates jobs.

200 EUR was worth it for the best roller coaster in Germany.

Let’s go! The cat poles are concrete and the LZB is kicking in. :-)

People keep saying Euro buses ride better than American buses, and this is the second trip in a row I haven’t noticed a difference.

What is it with progressive/leftist movements in the modern west and getting parasocially wedded to increasingly tired and ineffectual geriatric leaders?

This isn't completely wrong, but as a KC native the home I bought 10 years ago has more than doubled in value. My family is contemplating a move to a HCOL metro, and whereas a few years ago I would have blanched at home prices now there is not nearly as much of a difference.

I miss you Germany. :-)

East Germany has a Western European mentality on communism, with quite a lot of Ostalgie, rather than the Polish mentality that communism is basically the Holocaust, which no Pole collaborated with and if you say otherwise you'll go to prison.

We're seeing this in Berlin right now, with people trying to wash the idea of expropriation without compensation as an understandable solution to the housing crisis rather than as an atrocity as anti-constitutional as (say) American Republican anti-14th amendment birthright citizenship arguments.

The Western European mentality that communism is a nice ideal that every under-30 person with a heart should aspire to but just doesn't work in practice is worse than the Eastern European or American mentality that it is an inherently genocidal ideology whose adherents are inherently suspect.

I mean really I think the vibecession is mostly explained by the pandemic causing a psychological reference point in the past for what prices "should be" in a way that has not been the case for any event since WW2

For some reason, I'll always defend this place, and I love it because it's not trying to be some awful attempt at trying to replicate historic train station designs poorly. It's unashamedly modern, and it manages to pump trains through on multiple levels to the rest of the Bundesrepublik.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

There is a certain kind of socialist who is completely unwilling to accept that large sections of society value racism and notions of racial order more than they do their material prosperity

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

youtu.be/Lk1yU3VXS1A interesting documentary on the evolution of French high-speed rail lines, including how financing changed over time and extreme local bickering over details, such as the location of stations (TIL Lorraine TGV is just a 'temporary' station)

Seems relevant. xkcd.com/3290/

i've been thinking lately about how much giving someone a ride is the most underrated love language - picking up someone up from the airport, portaging children across town for soccer practice, whatever. It's implicitly a very loving and caring gesture to promise to get someone somewhere safely.

Just walked past this. Why would I want to hire people to carefully move my stuff if they can’t be bothered to make sure that their company name “In and Out Movers” is not accidentally rendered as “In Nut” on their logo?

Why is your Air Canada count so high? With that said, I’m twenty years older than you, and this is what my stats look like. Guess which airline I have status with? The answer might surprise you. :-)

🧵A blue plaque has been installed at the former home of Asquith Xavier at Ledbury Rd, Westbourne Park, London. He became the first black guard at Euston station in 1966 after challenging an unofficial /1👇 BBC News - Rail guard who won 'whites only' job gets plaque www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No One Translated To Foreign Players Why They Currently In Cornfield

Fashion of the Day - CPU Hair Clip for those interested in making one, this one is made from an i5 processor from around 2011.

The whole K1 visa is nuts. "You're coming get married within 90 days but not to immigrate but you'll adjust your status after you marry to become an immigrant but we won't process it within 90 days so you'll be here illegally but we won't count that as illegal and even let you work—unless we don't."

Hello id like to spend all at once please

The National Nurses Union is very outspoken in support of single payer and I generally wonder what they think will happen to their member’s wages. In CA they make ~$110/hr at straight time rates with annual raises ~4-5%. Do they think that continues??

the strait of hormel, also known as the spam filter

Shame on the train operators. Toilets and timely breaks to use them are really basic rights. Appalling disregard for staff. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

prayed for the first time before having dinner tonight bc the gov cut funding and im about to eat this lettuce

The Position Light: Art's LIRR Archives Online...For Now position-light.blogspot.com/2026/06/arts... #LIRR #RailroadHistory

My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues