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los angeles is not known for having a good or even decent public transit system but in the past few years they’ve been expanding the train lines and have been pushing to get people to ride the trains more often, which includes making official la metro merch and, well:
this is a restock because they sold out in less than a week the first time
...we also operate a D train. It only runs twice a day, but that's besides the point.
Uudet raitiovaunut valmistetaan Puolassa. Aiemmat ratikat Kajaanissa valmistanut Škoda Transtech selvittää nyt, mitä sivu suun mennyt tilaus
Päivän raideliikenneuutinen, vaikka ei olekaan VR- eikä edes rautatieaiheinen: Kaupunkiliikenne Oy tilaa pääkaupunkiseudun ratikkaverkolle 63 uutta vaunua sveitsiläiseltä Stadlerilta. Tilauksen vaunuista 33 on kaksisuuntavaunuja Länsi-Helsingin ja Vantaan tuleville pikaraitiolinjoille, 30 on yksisuuntaisia vaunuja Helsingin keskustan verkolle. Jälkimmäisillä korvataan (osa) Valmetin rakentamista NRV-vaunuista, joista vanhimmat ovat jo yli 50-vuotiaita (NVR:iä on kuitenkin 49, joten kaikkia niitä ei 30 vaunulla korvata) . Lisäksi tilaukseen sisältyy optio 120 lisävaunusta.
Mielenkiintosta nähä uudenlaisia vaunuja, mutta Articit olis kyl hienoja ja mukavia, ja lisäksi kotimaista tuotantoa.
Škoda Transtech oli toinen tarjouskilpailun loppuvaiheeseen päässyt toimittaja, mutta heidän tarjoamansa vaunu (mulle kerrotun mukaan jatkokehitetty Artic) ei vastannut kaikkiin tarjouspyynnön vaatimuksiin, joten Stadler voitti olemalla ainoa joka tarjosi mitä pyydettiin. (Pikkulinnut lauloi mulle myös, että Articien pääsuunnittelija sekä ne aikanaan Helsingille myynyt henkilö Transtechilta olisi nykyään molemmat Stadlerin leivissä).
Mutta myöskin! Löysin STT:n versiosta Kaupunkiliikenteen tiedotteesta viimein kunnolliset havainnekuvat vaunuista (jotka valmistaja on brändännyt nimellä Tango Nordic)!
Kantakaupungin linjoille tarkoitettu variaatio vaunuista (kuva: Stadler).
Pidempi pikaratikkalinjoille tarkoitettu variaatio (kuva: Stadler).
Stadlerilla on silleen myös hyvät mahdollisuudet toimittaa Helsinkiin sopivia vaunuja, että heillä on kokemusta kiskokaluston rakentamisesta Suomeen: HSL:n Sm5-paikallisjunat, meidän tulevat Sm7-junat ja parhaillaan toimituksissa olevat Dr19-veturit on kaikki Stadlerin rakentamia.
No eipä voi mitään. Pelkään vaan ettei käy kuten Variotrameille, mutta toivottavasti siitä opittiin jotain. Hyvältä ne myös näyttää, vaikka mulle Artic keltavihreessä kuosissa on ikuisesti paras.
Flirteissä ei oo ollu mitään valittamista, ootan et pääsen kokeilee uudempaa mallia kun ne ilmestyy!
Olettaisin tässäkin hankinnassa annetun hyvin tarkat määräykset siitä, millaisia vaunujen pitää olla. Articithan hankittiin (Variotrameista oppineena) niin, että HKL käytännössä itse suunnitteli rataverkolleen sopivan vaunun ja pyysi tarjouksia nimenomaan siitä. Silloin Transtech oli ainoa joka teki täsmälleen halutun mallisen vaunun.
Tässä hankinnassa oli Kaupunkiliikenteen tiedotteen mukaan noin 1600 erilaista vaatimusta ominaisuuksista ja suorityskyvystä, mikä vaikuttaisi antavan hyvät siihen että vaunut oikeasti toimii.
Toki tässä on vielä hyvin aikaa Škoda Transtechin vetää kilpailutus markkinaoikeuteen, joten jää nähtäväksi kuka nämä oikeasti rakentaa ja milloin...
Markkinaoikeuden päätös on tullut, ja se on kaksijakoinen: 1) Škoda Transtechin sulkemiselle pois kilpailusta ei ollut perusteita, mutta 2) Škoda Transtechin tarjouksessa oli selkeitä, merkittäviä puutteita (törmäysvaroitusjärjestelmä, osan penkeistä jalkatila, osan penkeistä käsitangot, sekä pyörätuolitilan varustelu eivät olleet tarjouspyynnön mukaisia) joten Škoda Transtech olisi hävinnyt kilpailun joka tapauksessa.
Škoda Transtech on kuitenkin valittanut aiheesta korkeampaan oikeusasteeseen, joten päätös ei ole vielä lainvoimainen.
Tähän tuli tänään ratkaisu: KHO ei myöntänyt Škoda Transtechille valituslupaa, joten uudet vaunut tulevat Stadlerilta.
Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenteen hallitus päätti marraskuussa pääkaupunkiseudun uusien raitiovaunujen toimittajaksi Stadler Polskan.
🎶Doesn't seem it's working! Undeterred geese!🎵
i will decide the truth. 🐦⬛
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I love tumblr. I fucking love tumblr. Where else am I going to find shit like this
i love reading gacha game reviews like yeah the devs are super generous with the currency they just made up
mitä jos suutelisimme... senaatintorin kulmalla...
Just woke up from an incredibly vivid dream that there was a new trend on reddit called r/Am I the sinner? where Victorian women asked if they were being sinful. The most viral post was like that:
Am I the sinner for enjoying my marital duty?
My (F23) husband (M42) is trying to conceive an heir and has been laying with me increasingly often. I always lay back and think about God, as I have been taught to, but he is so considerate and gentle that I never feel pain during intercourse and even find myself enjoying it, to the point that I caught myself looking toward our next appointed night together with trepidation. I never initiate intimacy nor do I show any physical affection to my husband outside of our attempts at conceiving and yet I still feel tempted by him, be it day or night. When I catch myself having these thoughts I always pray to God, and I have taken to go confession twice a week for my sinfully lustful thoughts.
Am I the sinner?
Answers:
- NTS, you are doing your duty as a wife and it is natural to swoon when your husband is this considerate with you. May God bless your marriage
- YATS. A woman should stay pure of thought and above base urged such as what you describe. You are sinning with lust and should see a doctor for this is the path to moral decay and hysteria.
-NTS, the wish for a child may cause thoughts that seem sinful at first, but your eagerness to bear an heir for your husband is a holy thought. The feelings that you describe are merely a sign that you are being rewarded for being a dutiful wife. May your union be fruitful and blessed!
Anyway, I should go back to sleep for a couple more hours but I needed to share this dream here.
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That's a fuckin apple mouse
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Howdy, howdy, folks.
For many years (ten now, about which, more soon) McMansion Hell has featured many prominent and diverse atrocities from all over these great United States and sometimes beyond them. However, most of these posts have consisted of houses built during the McMansion Era proper -- from the 80s up through around the early 2010s.
This is for a number of reasons. First of all: I like these houses because they are insane. Second of all, they are indeed quite different from one another -- they represent the owner's idiosyncratic if poorly rendered desires and fantasies. They are heavily psychologically loaded buildings. One family dreams endlessly of Tuscany, another wants to recreate the mall. All interiorize previously exterior forms of consumption.
These houses were also very expensive to build compared to their contemporary iterations: all real, solid wood cabinetry and trim, wrought iron railings, marble floors, elaborate murals - none of this is cheap. This is not to say that I'm nostalgic for the classical McMansion (though many are) only that it, like, most other facets of architectural and everyday life, have become progressively cheaper and more bland.
The McMansion never truly goes away. It merely changes shape over time. One of the shapes it currently takes is a particularly loathsome imitation of contemporary high architecture (specifically the kind of houses architects love to build for celebrities in California) executed in the most wretchedly parsimonious manner possible. It feels cheap to use the word 'slop' but their indiscriminate nature - the way they have no regard for why or how the things they imitate even work - allows it. Of all the building forms that could be generated with AI, this is the most likely. At any rate, behold:
Yes this is a real house. Yes you can buy it for $6 million in, yet again, Barrington, IL. It has 5 bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms totaling 11,600 square feet. But most importantly, it looks like dogshit. Ten layers of Photoshop have been used to gussy it up which makes it appear entirely ersatz. Were it not for the interiors, I myself would have trouble trusting my own eyes. Part of the reason it looks so unreal is because the design itself is absurd, as though someone created four equally ugly vessels and threw them up one by one.
In 2017, in a now-deleted essay for Curbed (RIP - they destroyed the archive) I called these types of houses McModerns, simply because they were McMansions dressed up in modernist garb, which they wore no differently than they would Neo-Tudor or Mediterranean (broadly construed.) These houses don't warrant a new neologism, but they do feel like a degraded or perhaps even gonzo version of even that old concept. Slop works fine too, especially because half of what's in these images isn't real.
Much fascinates me about these houses, however one of the most unique elements vis a vis the last 30 years of building is how overtly and almost hostilely masculine they are. Anything that can be construed as feminized - color, softness, ornament - has been ruthlessly purged. They also rip off tech industry minimalism which only ads to their bro-ey nature. While previous iterations of McModernism (think new builds in Colorado with fake wood exteriors) scream dads with IPAs, these houses scream Reddit to me. They are Elon Musk-adjacent in sentiment.
By the way, this is what that room looks like without the fake furniture. It's basically a sunroom.
Whole Foods would like to call in a robbery.
Because these houses are designed by men, for men, no one involved has learned how a kitchen works. Many are calling this setup the "grindset tiktok video kitchen." This is the kitchen you see in those day in the life of an AI startup founder videos your algorithm forces you to watch against your will.
Virtual staging is actual literal slop. In fact, one can say that they were one of the first iterations of the ontological crisis we now face, one of the first instances where one is forced against one's will to question reality, what one sees with one's own eyes. Beyond that, I think virtual staging is literally a form of lying. You can use it to make a space look bigger or smaller than it is. In this it also has a lot in common with AI. This dining room has nothing to do with the world I'm living in. These chairs are not my problem.
It's actually AMAZING how much of what's in this house, beyond the furniture, is fake. Every single material is fake. The stone is aluminum paneling. The plants are plastic. The concrete is printed on some kind of surface (as evidenced through its repetitive pattern), though it's hard to say from just pictures. I don't even trust the floors!!
Ok if you haven't read Kelly Pendegrast's amazing essay "Merchandizing the Void" about how houses are all like stores now, HERE IS THE LINK. Some ideas never die, they just evolve, king. Like you.
Please, I'm very cold.
Unfortunately there are no pictures of the rear exterior of this house, so this is where we will have to conclude for today. That being said, these houses and their antecedents are developing a design language all their own that will, in time, be as culturally rich to us as the houses of yore. The problem is they are less visually interesting. They are houses made to scroll in and scroll right by. Expect to see more of them here, but only if they have something, anything to say.
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