It was always private companies. Givt gave tgem lots of land and money, looked the other way at incidents like this, and let them merge like rabbits in the 80s-90s.
And took passenger off their backs in the 70s, forming Amtrak.
We need to establish National Trackage Rights for true competition and improved safety.
American railroads are going to have their Boeing days. They richly deserve them, even if genpop doesn’t.
Don’t live near an active track if possible.
This is how the relationship is with them. I moved on 10 years ago, they fought my every step, e.g. suddenly exporting from Drive didn’t work.
Like all toxic relationships, you’re better off without them.
I use Fennec for Firefox. Fdroid can then do updates. I disabled Play Store and Services. plugins work on Fennec.
For reddit, try old.reddit.com with Vivaldi. It is chromium based so works on sites with chrome/blink bias, but also has built-in adblocker (needs to be turned on in prefs). For me, old reddit font scaling is better on Vivaldi than Fennec.
I’m not gatekeeping at all. That’s a simple factual statement. I don’t look down on them, they do good things, so does the Catholic church.
Real Buddhism is not a religion. It has no baggage. It’s a practice. People who do the practices are Buddhists without needing to say. They simply are, you are what you DO. Not what you say.
The entire dhamma could be obliterated and it could be regenned with the practice.
Zen Flesh Zen Bones has an account of that… Monk sees master burning the books… “What are you doing?!”
Master says, “What are you saying?”
Religious people have holy things, practicers don’t.
Try remaking a religion from scratch with prayer.
So religions are what they are, not my cup of tea. Static, unyielding to change. Outdated.
Can’t gatekeep the truth.
How many votes those Plutos got?
Try “11 miles an hour”, I think they’re right on with that one.
But “Elvis’s Rolls Royce”, not so much.
What other band had Ozzy and Mel Torme on the same album? And Mel sang about an accidental strangulation.
What kind of idiot would have hired him in the first place?
We need National Trackage Rights in the USA.
They had no problem deregulating trucking si that any company can serve any customer, let railroads do the same, i.e. Union Pacific can serve BNSF or NS customers.
And large customers, esp hazmat shippers, can run their own trains. The environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio likely woukd not have happened if those chemicals were self-shipped.
Railroads used to have to run their iwn passenger trains, govt formed Amtrak to take the burden off them. We could give successor railroad companies that burden back.
All of them…
Previously admitted
Fuck their fucking cookies.
Owned by IBM.
Maybe have a transportation secretary who has experience in transportation, as opposed to being a consultant and focusing on ticket refunds instrad of aircraft doors coming off and trains exploding…or would that hurt profitability?
Can someone help them be on the fediverse and help set up indy fundraising that way?
All I had go read was they’re from Missouri.
Pelosi is Catholic.
Tibetan Buddhism is the Catholic Church of Buddhism, far off the track, festooned with rituals and beliefs, all the same failures that accompany a religion as opposed to a practice.
Including buying karma, thus Pelosi and a Republican showing up, looking to buy enlightenment but of course not saying that.
The next incarnation of the Dalai Lama has already been chosen, he lives in Indiana so will be safer.
I have compassion for the people in the situation with China, but this is money/power games and won’t help them. Elephants fighting and stomping grasses.
Like Psmith if you’re a Wodehouse reader.
These railroads merged last year, who did absolutely nothing to deter it?