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absolutelyfibulas

Direct Action

#local hero

bobbole

Mike Worrall, Incident on Platform 6

slimetony

The instruction bus came and walked me through everything and now i understand

allthecanadianpolitics

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been cleared of all liability in the Lac-Mégantic, Que., train disaster that claimed 47 lives in 20

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been cleared of all liability in the Lac-Mégantic, Que., train disaster that claimed 47 lives in 2013. Several parties, including the victims and their families, were attempting to sue the rail carrier for its role in the disaster. But the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal after the railway company prevailed in Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

#crazy how you can not maintain your train tracks and have a corporate culture that creates an unimaginable disaster #but still avoid responsibility

hungwy

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

jackalovski

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

acornsinmypocket

Elon Musk not even using the good context aware AI for his propaganda spam

marzipanandminutiae

never forget that the US had incredibly widespread public transit- electrical, in the case of many local elevated rail and trolley systems -by the 1890s

if anyone ever tells you we can't do it because "the country is too big for that" or whatever, they're full of shit. because we not only could, we DID

we definitely could again- but for auto lobbyists, and conservatives taking funding from infrastructure

cocoon2010

"ohhh wahhh the problem with building out america's rail network is that nobody wants to live next to train tracks-" I DO BITCH!!!!!!!! #I<3INDUSTRIALNOISES #SEXWITHATRAIN

moniquill

Nobody wants to live next to a prison, amazon warehouse, data center, or superfund site either and yet there's no problem creating THOSE...

sparrowsarecool

and nobody certainly wants to live next to A FUCKING HIGHWAY.

With a train track the noise comes and goes, but a highway? The noise is constant, and your air is dirtier and highways are ugly.

greelin

they should invent something that you can use to indicate you are turning or switching lanes in a vehicle

jibunbosh

if you think about it, the social contract of the Car largely mirrors antiquated notions of patriarchial chivalry... the Big, Strong Automobile, which inherently has the power to maim and kill, must yield the right of way to the misogynized pedestrian, as a show of the Automobile's power & potential lethality. "ladies first," all in a world where more and more space is carved out day by day for the Automobile... now, contrast this with the locomotive, where all passengers are equal... thus you can see that not having a car is emasculating, having to ride public transportation with other people is emasculating, and women are even derided as being poorer drivers. Men do not like the train because it renders them effectively homosexual; they thrive on the upper end of inequality and feel like nothing without it. Taking the train is essentially lesbian frotting

tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot

nobrashfestivity

Willy Spiller

Hell on Wheels: New York Subway, 1977 – 1985

ploobytumbls

I took a bus to a conference today and the bus driver fully stopped the bus to identify and chastise a person who was playing music out loud on their phone. That is how you get me to actually complete the customer service survey specifically so I can give you top ratings

ploobytumbls

It's days later and I'm still thinking about this man. Full ass bus pulled over to the side of a state highway with the hazards on, stalking down the center aisle intoning "ALL RIGHT. WHO'S GOT IT. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ON SPEAKER." I want to commission a statue of him. a hero. a king.