I grew up stateside, but it blows anything we have in Ohio out of the water. Cleveland is the only city on the state that has am actual light rail, which functions ok (i did get stuck in the downtown station for 45 minutes due to a breakdown while we received zero information from anyone at the station. A lady had to call RTA to figure out what was going on while we sweat it out on a hot and crowded underground stop). Toledo and Elyria have an Amtrak station, Cincinnati has about 4 miles of streetcar rail downtown and a few bus lines, while Columbus only has buses for a metro population of over 2.2 million. Where i grew up, St. Louis, the city wanted to expand rail routes out to the suburbs, but the residents of the suburbs shut it down because the white residents were “worried about crime” coming into the suburbs from downtown. Our systems are absolutely fucked out here.

We aren’t just talking small towns though. Any city that isn’t New York, Chicago, or Boston might as well not have any rail service at all. Houston has 22.7 miles of passenger railway that is only located downtown. Columbus Ohio has a metro of 2.2 million people and doesn’t have a single inch of passenger rail. Cleveland has an OK system by American standards, which i use whenever i go to Cleveland, but the only option for me to take a train into Cleveland from where i live in NW Ohio would take an hour longer than just driving there outright.

Don’t be dogging on Newcastle Transport like that. My grandpa used to be able to get anywhere in the UK by walking to the North Shields station and hopping on the light rail for free to Newcastle station. Just because the southerns ruined their rail systems doesn’t mean the Geordies trashed theirs.

Is rice not white in southern Asia?

Communism lost any actual meaning in the US at least 60 years ago. It’s a purely emotional word like "motherfucker"or “cocksucker”. It simply means people or ideas I don’t like

Idk, plenty of rich assholes are about to lose a lot of expensive beachfront property on Florida

Germany had been trying to provoke a karge European war for a decade before WW1 began. They kept telling Austria-Hungary that Germany would support them of the escalated any tensions in the Balkans.

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbrickening

Sandy Denny said in an interview that “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” is a great song to commit suicide to. One of these days will be the last time i hear that song, and i will absolutely decide it is my time to go.

I don’t even get laid in my dreams

That’s been the entire point drumming up fear about Terrorism since the term was coined. Anything done to disturb the status quo will always be labeled as terrorism by those in power

The guys ranting on about it actually want corporations and C-suite MBA’s running the world. They just think all the bad shit that comes with that is because those suits are Jews, and everything will be fine once business is run by “true white sons” or whatever.

Saw an EAbbot ad before a movie this weekend. They claimed that 42% of diabetics skip insulin treatments “because they are ashamed” in what i can only describe as a blatant lie and misdirection to their profiteering on vulnerable people. People are skipping tretments because they can’t afford it!

Mine will do full on make out sessions grooming each other’s faces, and other times one will grab the other in a headlock and start grooming. Other times they will be cuddling, and one starts grooming the other, who is clearly enjoying it. Then she decides she doesn’t want it anymore and it turns into a slap fight in the bed before becoming another make out session.

Cats are weird sometimes

I was definitely lucky to have a perfect storm where they were just kittens ~ a month apart in age, and i had only had the older one for 2 weeks when i saved the second. Mine are also abnormally social and friendly cats. I’m just saying that even cats that are best friends will still wrestle and rough house with each other, and sometimes even fight, same as kids will fight with their siblings.

Mine were immediately best friends, but they wrestle with each other all the time. They cuddle, groom, explore, and squabble all day with each other

Not pictured is when i gave them some catnip last week, causing Nini to grab Bou bu the harness and start alapping her in the face. They can go from cuddling to wrestling, to cuddling again in an instant. I’m so glad that they immediately became best friends.

It’s always been that way with kids. Victorians weren’t enploying orphans as chimney sweeps or machine operators out of the kindness of their heart.

I like molasses, cinnamon, and raisins in mine. I also love to make my own granola with nuts and other dried fruits. It lasts for months on a jar and smells absolutely delicious when i make it

Never really got into the EU, but i liked a lot of clone wars comics. I was probably reading them at my friend’s house and he filtered out the dog shit for me

I refuse to believe the Cardinals got together to elect a Cubs fan. Absolute nonsense