High speed rail has a massive stigma in the US as hundreds of billions have been spent on failed rail projects (embezzled or just abandoned mostly) and 99% of us have never even seen it in existence. It’s like a myth scam sold to us by snake oil salesmen.
Sure, if we fund it again it will really happen this time.
We surveyed 100 cannibals to find the best (and worst) ways to skewer a man. You won’t believe #5!
Broke, poor, and in debt are three different things.
Broke just means no cash on hand. You can have tons of cash flow and assets but at the moment you are lacking liquidity to pay cash for things. You may or may not have debt. You might have just blown all your cash on a big purchase.
Poor means you have little and earn little and can do little. Debt is often a factor here but you can be poor and not in debt.
People in debt owe money. They might not be struggling at all. Sometimes rich people borrow money because it costs them less than the interest they receive on the cash they have. Or it could be the opposite, it could be crippling every aspect of their lives.
Americans carry a lot of debt on average. My only debit is my mortgage plus the last two weeks of credit card spending. I pay off my card in full every month. I only use the credit card because it offers purchase protection and I get rewards. Not all debt is bad debt, but a lot of it is.
Does ejaculation remove micro plastics? Asking for a friend.
I have had an N-64 plugged into the back of my TV for 25 years straight. The TV has changed. My kids were raised on this shit.
I have German heritage, as does my wife. I have lived in Germany. Looking at the Germany of today, I can’t wait to see its power collapse. They might (still) be the most unworthily arrogant people on the planet.
I avoid it only because of its loudest user base.
I don’t drive that far every day. But I have to travel cross country a handful of times a year with quite a bit of gear. And when I do, I drive hard. Sometimes even 2k kilometers in a day. But no, nowhere near every day.
And it’s great they made the city safe for traffic. I’m just saying these wide open spaces with huge distances to travel aren’t anywhere near meeting the same safety standard because cars going 150km/hr will sometimes result in fatalities.
That’s class privilege in my opinion. But I suppose I could consider - why not both?
Our interstates are packed with people driving long distances across the country, even in the middle of nowhere. But no, those high speed limits are not in residential areas, the really high speeds are in empty plains.
I drive cross country pretty often and generally drive at least 1600+ km per day. Unless I’m on a motorcycle, then more like 1300+.
We don’t have a ton of speed cameras, they’re still getting pushback. But it’s more people in cars dying because of high speed crashes than cyclists. You can’t really ride a bike where I live so because nearly no one even tries to ride a bike, there are relatively few cycling deaths.
In my experience the roadkill is way more likely to be the cyclist. You really can’t ride a bike where I live.
That’s honestly great. But it might be worth noting that Helsinki s roads cover 715 square kilometers, and US roads cover 9.8 million square kilometers. It’s hard to keep speed limits safe when people are trying to travel 2000 kilometers by car in a single day.
My first PC was a Timex Sinclair 1000 and I wrote a text-based choose your own adventure game in basic for it and saved the program on audio cassette.
We have skinny curvy roads with high speed limits and crazy heavy truck traffic. There are crosses and bicycles painted white on the side of the road to mark the places where people took the lane.
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I haven’t sailed the seas in decades but when a fist tries to tightly hold the sand, the sand slips out more quickly.
I lost my dog about 8 months ago. This meme has helped me heal and now I have less sadness looking back.
Party in the back brother!
Well I can’t ride a bike in my area at all, so I still wouldn’t be able to move furniture with a bike.
Touchdown!
Yeah I flew for $20 not too long ago. No bags, just a small backpack. I wasn’t subsidizing shit, more expensive seats were subsidizing me.