I recently went on a trip to Italy and my e-reader was the unexpected MVP of that trip. Any downtime at the hotel or on the plane instead of staring at a tiny screen I was reading books and felt refreshed instead of drained afterwards, and it took up less space than if I brought just a single book with me. I also didn't need to charge it once on the entire 10 day trip because eink is so freaking amazing
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But that's assuming it's in horse position and not human position. What if they have both a human dick and a horse dick? Would each have different sperm? I think we might need some more mermaids to fully test these theories out...
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Since I haven't seen it mentioned, I will point out that smoking was extremely common and everything vaguely smelled of cigerettes until public smoking bans started coming into effect in different areas.
I grew up at the tail end of this period and have a core memory of going to a restaurant in an area that hadn't yet fully banned public smoking. The hostess of course asks if you want to be seated in the smoking or non-smoking section, and in the non-smoking section everything still vaguely reeked of cigarettes. Then to go to the bathroom you walk through the smoking section which reeks even more of cigerettes (the sections are just different sides of the restaurant with standard restaurant dividers that are only chest height and intended mostly as sound blocks) and just everything had some amount of cigerette smell to it
This is exactly what I did on a 22 hour train ride. My friends could see where the train was, it didn't cost me any money because it was just using me existing phone and data plan, and it automatically shut off after a set number of hours so there's no forgetting to turn it off.
Actually any kind of road trip my wife and I like to do this with our friends because it's fun following the other person's progress while they do something cool!
Hey good the news is that MSP experience gets you a ton of good experience very quickly for moving into internal IT positions once the job market normalizes. I wouldn't be planning on changing roles right now (but that doesn't mean don't try!) but from what you've described it sounds like you've got a brilliant skill set, plus of you can get on the good side of some higher ups at some of the larger clients you can sometimes turn that into a job offer with them directly
Also holy fucking shit I'm always floored by the level of sexism my feminine-presenting colleagues are forced into wading through. It's completely unacceptable and I don't understand how people go through life thinking this behavior could possibly be even remotely okay
Could be a monthly payment, or a monthly contractor payment (so before subtracting taxes and insurance and whatnot) which would fit for a mid-level role being around 80k/year
Hey man, I get the frustration, but your frustration is misplaced. I presently live in a town of ~10k people, married a woman who grew up on a goat farm outside of a town of 700, I work in an unincorporated community of around 400. I just took a big vacation in which I rode about a dozen different transit systems, and I'm already planning the next one. I'm a freaking model railroader and I've been looking at potential adding a running model bus system to my model railroad as well.
Trust me I get what you're saying, I understand the exact frustrations you've expressed, I just ask you do the same for me
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You get to experience the shift from physiology to physics today!
I feel like guys have begun to level up their game and they now dress nice, shower and take good photos so you cant get ahead just by doing the basics anymore.
From what I've seen of my single friends online dating experience that hasn't caught on yet here. Still like 60% fish pics, 25% truck pics and 5% actually decent photos
Oh yeah it makes perfect sense for very small towns and rural areas, but when a city with a population measured in the hundreds of thousands seriously tries to run a demand response transit system as literally it's entire transit system, it deserves more than this level of derision
They both understand that the rules of engagement are a two way street. You'll never get to finish monologuing if you start interrupting the power rangers while they power up
I recently took my first Amtrak train (which is funny because I've been to countless railroad museums, I've been collecting model trains for most of my life, I've freaking driven a train, but you know the one thing I didn't do before this month? Ride Amtrak.
Honestly it was a super wonderful experience that I absolutely want to do again. Even sleeping in the coach seat was way better than I'd expected! And $80 to go halfway across the country is hard to beat!
It's a bonkers newish form of not-a-bus, often running passenger vans, usually operates where you either book your rides a day or two in advance or book with an app and wait 5-120 minutes for it to show up, and the service runs door to door.
They're ultimately super inefficient in the real world requiring an extremely high driver:passenger ratio to be at all competitive with bus services
Edit to add: it's basically the answer to "what if taxi replace bus?"
Weight is a very big factor for air transport’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels have a very high energy density, which make them great for bringing along.
Fossil fuels also have the benefit of being weight that's shed (burned) as you fly, so an international flight will be much lighter when landing than it weighs when taking off. It's like the rocket equation but much less severe due to much less energy requirement
So the problem is the term "light rail" and "heavy rail" are really technically meaningless. Historically they referred to how physically heavy the actual rails the trains ran on were because freight railroads used a much heavier rail for their mainlines while interurban transit services used cheaper lighter rails because they almost exclusively ran what would now be called an "electric multiple unit" with 1-3 car trains, thereby not requiring more heavy duty rails
Nowadays the actual rail is far from the largest cost and the operational simplicity of using the exact same grade and standards of rail as the freight railroads means they can move their equipment on the freight railroads' tracks and freight can be moved on their tracks as needed. Because this shift happened to occur during the period of railroad disinvestment in the US nobody really bothered to update the nomenclature so now that we're reinvesting in rail it completely makes no sense at all
Personally I like to use the terms "interurban" for frequent local services with equipment tuned for commuters that runs between cities (and I mean "cities" from a functional definition not a legal one. Just because Shuamberg is legally a separate city doesn't mean it isn't functionally part of Chicago. There really aren't any remaining interurban services that fit this definition in the US anymore) "commuter rail" for passenger rail service within a sprawling metropolitan area and runs equipment tuned for commuters, "regional rail" for passenger service that goes further than a simple commute or a quick run to the store/museum, has equipment tuned for passengers spending more than an hour on the train. And "long distance rail" for passenger services that are tuned for travel of greater than 300 miles. To me "metro" refers to a grade separated urban rail transit system (so like Chicago's L or the New York Subway) and "tram/trolley" refers to a ground level urban rail transit system functions like a higher capacity bus, potentially intermixing with car traffic
But this just demonstrates the problem which is that the US has so disinvested in rail transport that there's no clear, consistent definitions in use anymore so people have to define what they're talking about every dang time!
My approach would be to jack up vehicle registration fees. Simply doubling the vehicle registration cost every year over about 5 years would make individual car ownership expensive enough that people will really try to avoid it.
By the fifth year you're looking at about $5k per year just to legally own and operate a car on public roads, which is workable (most people pay more than that per year for their car loans) but it's more than enough to make any family think twice about owning more than one car, and more than enough to make not owning a car and just renting/taking public transit a super attractive option. Plus it's more than the cost of a mid-range e-bike so trading your car for an ebike becomes extremely cost effective with a break-even point measured in just months
5 years is also enough time to get roads reconfigured for the new traffic flow of mostly ebikes, get more buses in the roads and start planning/building out new train routes. There's an incredible rail network still in the US and just putting out more passenger services on the existing tracks that are presently freight-exclusive would make a massive difference
Also average load of the bus being only ~8 people? Like yeah that seems about right when I've ridden the shitty bus before but that's a number that can really be improved upon
So far the only restaurant I've been to that does this was a small one in the center of Naples Italy (they also had absolutely fantastic food!) and it worked out because I could translate the webpage to english (it also was kinda inconvenient because most menu items did not have pictures nor descriptions, so when I ordered some chicken it came breaded which I didn't expect and wasn't hoping for, but was still fantastic)
Which is funny because the quality you want for print is usually like ~75dpi whereas web viewing you want more like ~300dpi so if anything the print version of the menu should be smaller
I upgraded 2 computers with 32GB DDR5 kits and 2 TB SSDs around September of 2025 and started seeing memes about ram prices just a couple of weeks later later and was royally confused