Just makes me thing of this gag from the IT Crowd
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I'm so glad he's in such amazing shape that he can checks notes climb a single flight of stairs
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There might still be an operating wigwag signal at Devils Lake State Park. When I was last there about a decade ago it was still there and operational (and for revenue service no less!)
Otherwise the IRM has a really good collection of railroad signals. Many are actually in use on the mainline (so crews have to be familiar with even the biblically accurate railway signals along with all sorts of fun obscure variations. And if I remember correctly as you first enter and cross the streetcar loop and the steam shop/long barn sidings (long enough to store the entire Zephyr trainset on one track, as well as where quite a few cosmetically restored locomotives are stored including multiple articulated locomotives and a DDA40X) there's a wig wag protecting the crossing
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I'll give you the same advise I recently took to heart and started following for my hobbies: don't wait until you can make it perfect. Start working on the garden you can do right now...er next spring?
If you start small now, you can start enjoying it now, then you can build up your experience, skills and tools, and once you have the time and money for the epic garden you want, you'll also have the skills to absolutely make full use of it!
I'm doing the same thing with model railroading. I've been waiting for the perfect time to start on my first model railroad as an adult. A few weeks ago I finally said "fuck it" and bought a door at the hardware store and some mounting hardware. I'll have a car I can fit a 4x8 sheet of insulation foam into in a couple of weeks so then I can get rolling and start building a nice little starter layout and enjoy that right now. Then later on I can build something bigger and better (plus have more skills and experience under my belt to do it better!)
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The good news is that soon there'll be the California High Speed rail line. I'm hopeful that I can make a good long trip over there once it opens in a few years to check it out. Heck maybe I'll move to California for a year or two? Who knows!
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Those aren't necessarily tracks but services. 3 services can share one mainline and several stops. Makes (dis)boarding easier for longer distances if passengers don't have to change trains after they get out of the peninsula, plus 3 services hitting the same stations means 3x as much frequency along that corridor. Someone going Jacksonville to Miami can pick between the Chicago, LA or New York route and someone going from Miami to LA can just hop into the LA route and stay there until they arrive without changing trains
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The above map basically connects every major city in the country with a high speed rail route, makes it easy to travel by high speed rail from any major city in a region to any other major city in a rrhion and standard speed routes to connect some of the smaller major cities and provide alternate cross connections for less populad itineraries
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By memory this was a group of enthusiasts realistic dream for a high speed rail network. Basically a possible but lofty goal to lobby for.
The grey lines would be standard speed rail service topping out at 87MPH (some match current Amtrak services, and I'm going to assume without verifying that the others match existing rail infrastructure because the Venn diagram between foamers and river counters has quite a large overlap)
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I know it's a shitpost and AI has come a long way but holy cow it still made a ton of mistakes in that image. Rails are only spiked on one side, perspective changes between the foreground and mid-ground, wrong wheel arrangement for Thomas (he's famously an 0-6-0, which is established within the first 30 seconds of the first episode of the TV series) no vacuum breaks which Thomas should have, the white house sign can't decide if it's a station sign or a sign for the building (styled like a British station sign but it's the wrong color, wrong shape and half in the grass)
Honestly I think I'd prefer a shitty image macro of Thomas with a red tie pasted into the Whitehouse lawn
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The California railroad museum is definitely one of the best in the country but if you want to see potentially the largest collection with lots of cosmetically and mechanically restored equipment, you have to check out the Illinois Railway Museum
Of course if you're more into narrow guage the Colorado Railroad Museum is hard to beat. Or if you just want an epic train ride, take your pick of the Durango and Silverton, the Cumbres and Toltec or the Royal Gorge Route
Personally I've been to the California Railroad Museum (back when they were still Orange Empire), the Illinois Railway Museum, the Cumbres and Toltec and the Colorado Railroad Museum. The IRM is great anytime but especially if you come during an event weekend like Labor Day or Memorial Day because they run their mainline and trolley loop at full capacity during the holiday weekends with as many as 8 trains running at once, but they also have enough accessible equipment even on weekdays when they just run a single electric interurban to make it still worth a visit. The Colorado Railroad museum whelmed me when I was there on a weekday, but I'm sure it's far more exciting on a weekend or event day with more going on. It's pretty small but has pretty unique collection (including 3! of the galloping gooses) Cumbres and Toltec was definitely a worthy bucket list ride, and when I was at the California Railroad Museum I joined a tour group, had the entire group split off, so the guide took me off the beaten path and gave me a really in depth tour of literally everything he has keys to and shared a ton of neat information about a lot of the equipment (such as the interurbans that were specifically built to serve one of the college campuses. As he put it "y'know how in Wisconsin bored college kids will go cow tipping? Well here they'd go street car tipping, so they built these to be much heavier so they couldn't be tipped and ran them exclusively at the campus")
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I'm in a similar boat. When I moved in there were lovely flowers that kept popping up every time the last ones finished blooming throughout the entire season. Then I went back to college and next thing I knew some sort of fast growing something or other has completely taken over all of the flower beds. It's probably killed everything that isn't hosta already. My new next door neighbors are clearly shut ins like me and their flower beds have gotten overrun as well
So super short version is a conservative dude or three tried to create /c/conservative and were immediately drowned out and made fun of, then they transferred moderation to others who now use it to make fun of republicans
I don't work in healthcare and I have not needed gender affirming care myself so I can only rely on what I hear from the trans folks I know, and none of them had an easy time getting the healthcare they need. Everything I've heard indicates that it takes multiple years to begin receiving any kind of gender affirming healthcare outside of psychological so it's not something people are going to go through on a whim. They have to be feeling a fairly significant amount of dysphoria to go through that much medical gaslighting and reach the first actually medical step of a prescription for HRT. But transgender, just like gender and sexuality is a spectrum. Some folks don't want to do more than socially transition, some folks want to go all in but some will skip some procedures, and some are absolutely 100% and need to completely transition
There have however been actual pushes to try to create discorse exactly matching what you said "I'm not against trans people, I just think it's too easy for kids to permanently modify their bodies for a fad!" And of course the more extreme version "you send you kid to school and they home fully transitioned! And if you try to do anything about it they tell you you're endangering your child!" So definitely don't trust anyone trying to spread this discourse
Y'know what, reviewing your post history, I believe you. You happened to step on a landmine though with your above comment about criminals, because the general problem of overpolicing and excessive force is reinforced by a laws that help perpetuate it.
For an extreme example, if you make it illegal to sleep under a bridge, any homeless person trying to get some rest in a public space that happens to provide a little bit of shelter is now a criminal. But do you think the police are going to hassle grampa who dozed off sitting at a park bench because it's 3pm and he usually has had a nap by now? And when the newly deemed criminal gets upset about being arrested for just trying to get some shut eye that can be determined to be resisting arrest therefore the police can use more force. Maybe that triggers some PTSD and they start fighting back in which case the amount of force escelates.
The law and the criminal justice system are unfortunately designed to perpetuate a cycle of criminalism. Punitive prisons and sentencing make it difficult for anyone who has been arrested to adjust to living in society again. Parole and probation (the supposed support structure provided to people as they leave the prison system) is structured to penalize folks who already have it rough for struggling to make ends meet, and can quickly land people back in prison for offenses as simple as having work schedule them during their mandated parole meetings and needing to choose between potentially losing their job and becoming homeless or potentially being arrested again. Or they might find that they can make an actual living wage working in a black market (drugs, vehicle chop shop, etc.) because having a record excludes them from better paying employment options that offer a better work-life balance. Or maybe they couldn't afford the restitution payments required (fines that were part of their sentence and fees for participating in the justice system) they go back to prison and ultimately come out much later even less able to adjust and the cylce continues until they die in prison, die homeless living in a gutter or die a death related to whatever trade they can pick up with their criminal record (industrial accident, drug overdose, gang violence, take your pick)
So yeah in short, some folks have a tight line to walk so that their existence isn't criminalized
There was an SNL skit a while ago with a similar vibe. A bunch of white nationalists having a meeting and one guys describing his vision for a white utopia and the other guy is like "yeah I just got back from Vermont and it really sounds like you're describing Vermont"
I get some AI generated vibes off of that image honestly, which would definitely explain the funky star alignment if my gut instinct is correct
Nice dog whistle there.
Police have a long history of using excessive force and being excessively punitive against anyone who looks different. Literally the first police force in the country were slave catchers and they never left those roots.
Edit: holy shit did you actually forget to change alts before replying to yourself?! Good job! Bravo!
They also literally end their username in "ss" so it's pretty clear they're a Nazi too
There's an amusing scene in Iron Sky where a 1940s style Nazi meets some neo Nazis and he ends up positively disgusted and calls the neonazis an insult to their race